RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland
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Fair. I just love his energy, accuracy and kicking game.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Fair. I just love his energy, accuracy and kicking game.
He left at about the same time, maybe a bit before the AB selectors fell in love with George Bridge (I believe @dogmeat has specific experience of hearing one of the selectors on this)
I know there are age differences between the two, but Lowe's left boot, established super experience, and energy would have made him an interesting squaddie in 2017 when we were still trying to roll out Savea and Naholo (who weren't going to make the WC) and banking on Ioane (who was injured when it mattered in 2019).
I know who I'd have preferred on the left wing that day in 2019 against England, anyway.
Edit: And BTW, fuck James Lowe. And Aki. Leaving is fine, but turning out for another country is not cool - no free beers from @gt12 if we run in to each other in a pub somewhere.
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@Bones said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
@gt12 the thing which gets me is these fluffybunnies pretending they're Irish now.
Fuck em, they are as far as I'm concerned.
Which means, they wear this shit too.
I loved them for the Chiefs, but I loved beating them in 2023.
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@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
Aki v jordie is a toss up
No it isn’t.
Put a genuine truck it up the guts/“no one comes down our channels eh pretty boy” 2nd 5 outside any of your flyhalves and you become a seriously scary team.
Make it Aki or Esterhuizen or that Scottish bloke who’ve also got good hands and you’re Freddie Krueger as your proctologist terrifying.
Jordie should be on the bench. He covers basically the whole backline at a high standard so you can go 6-2, which instantly improves your forward pack.
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I not sure where the supposed 'hate' thing comes about. I can honestly say hand on heart there is no rugby nation I hate or even strongly dislike. F*** it anyone who plays the game is tops to me. The odd joker will annoy me for a while, but not too much, and more for doing shit or dumb things on field, not winding up someone.
Hell we have mentioned the Gregan thing, and Gregan laughs, it was aimed at Kelleher only, and have heard Justin Marshall say he loved it, as he found it hard to like Kelleher.
And who can ever forget Carlos crossing tryline , running over to the corner to score a try (at Lancaster Park), then banging over the conversion and giving Canterbury crowd the finger! All good theatre. -
I just hate dickheaded-ness in Rugby no matter where it comes from. Which was why the RWC QF was so bloody satisfying - Sexton's tears being the sweetest icing on the cake
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:
I just hate dickheaded-ness in Rugby no matter where it comes from. Which was why the RWC QF was so bloody satisfying - Sexton's tears being the sweetest icing on the cake
I did too up to a point, and realised that dickheadedness comes in may forms, and I wasn't above letting a halfback etc know what I thought of him if I had managed to get him (even if a bit late etc). I know we all kind of have our rules etc, but watching Coles goad Codie Taylor into getting YCed was something I enjoyed.
I also had a former French rugby player billeted with us a few years back in Aus. part of management of a club side we looked after. This man proudly told me that he had marked Colin Meads in a couple of tests, and after a few drinks we had laughed at rugby stories etc of what happened in tests etc that he had played in against not just Abs, but others too. Take y word for it, mouthing off etc would be least dicie thing that was happening.
Same as sledging in cricket, height of dickheadedness or just getting in heads?
