WR U20 Championship 2025

[AmberArmy]

Horrible performance, poor skills, poor coaching? Maybe they could put a bit more effort into actual game training and less into haka practice

[Mauss]

@African-Monkey said in WR U20 Championship 2025:

About the only positive I can see out there.

Frank Vaenuku is pretty good. That's also... something?

[booboo]

Score?

[AmberArmy]

@booboo 14-5 to us

[Mauss]

@booboo said in WR U20 Championship 2025:

Score?

14-5 to the Baby Blacks. But the real losers are all of us watching this game.

[booboo]

Final score or still playing?

Can't find a live score anywhere.

[sparky]

One of the worst Rugby teams I've ever seen to represent New Zealand. If this is the future of All Black Rugby, we're fucked!

[African Monkey]

@Mauss said in WR U20 Championship 2025:

@African-Monkey said in WR U20 Championship 2025:

About the only positive I can see out there.

Frank Vaenuku is pretty good. That's also... something?

Yeah he does look good. Nice hit he put in earlier.

[AmberArmy]

@Mauss it really is shocking to see this sort of lack of skills at this level isn’t it?

[Mauss]

Please Randall, I just want to go do something else, why are you like this?

[Victor Meldrew]

Baker looks like a clear Red on an off-field review (not that it matters)

[Victor Meldrew]

What an utterly shit performance

[Dolamite]

This team can’t even do this basics like catch a pass. Scrum got destroyed, they seem to have a fetish for only sending 2 players to every ruck and lost a lot of ball. Terrible coaching job

[Mauss]

@AmberArmy said in WR U20 Championship 2025:

@Mauss it really is shocking to see this sort of lack of skills at this level isn’t it?

I'd like just one U20 tournament where the ball isn't a sweaty lump of soap. Don't get me wrong, the NZ U20s absolutely need to do better but it would be nice, that's all I'm saying.

Maybe then the rugby would be a bit more watchable.

[sparky]

All over.

But, good God, that was a shit performance from a really bad team.

[cgrant]

This is the poorest NZ team I have ever seen.

[African Monkey]

I like how the Italian captain let off about 10 F bombs in the post match interview

[Mauss]

@cgrant said in WR U20 Championship 2025:

This is the poorest NZ team I have ever seen.

The 7-8 loss to Wales in the 2019 U20 tournament was worse, in my opinion. Pretty comparable games, just error after error, with the added insult of actually losing the game.

[Mamuka]

Can't believe it's the NZ team

[SouthernMann]

Just going back to the 2019 squad. Which finished 7th. Plenty of players have developed well out of it. Poor performance at U20s level doesn't mean guys should be totally written off.

admin_hland  /  May 8, 2019  /  RugbyHeartland News

NZ Under 20 squad named for World Rugby Under 20 Championship - RUGBY HEARTLAND

New Zealand Under 20 squad named for World Rugby Under 20 Championship