AB Test Team v France.
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Can't find the post but someone e said Thompson reckoned they hooked Read to see them without him...I wouldn't agree with that, would be a strange experiment given they never did it with Richie.
Also thought it odd BB took over rather than Whitelock
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Haha mark Watson going off....after the wobbly loss he was demanding an apology now he says NZR is the most well resourced and poorly run organization in the world.
@taniwharugby said in AB Test Team v France.:
Haha mark Watson going off....after the wobbly loss he was demanding an apology now he says NZR is the most well resourced and poorly run organization in the world.
Hearing Mark Watson genuinely makes me pine for Murray Deaker
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Haha mark Watson going off....after the wobbly loss he was demanding an apology now he says NZR is the most well resourced and poorly run organization in the world.
@taniwharugby said in AB Test Team v France.:
Haha mark Watson going off....after the wobbly loss he was demanding an apology now he says NZR is the most well resourced and poorly run organization in the world.
Didn't realise he still had any listeners left. If it was his usual old style vindictive rant (and I have no reason to believe otherwise) then he was probably just throwing it in as a warm up to continue on delivering the ones famously/fanatically throws in the Black Caps and the NZCC (or whatever they call themselves now) direction.
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So I've just finished my read back through the thread, it's always quite entertaining, first half everyones positive in happy, second half it's all this players shit, that players shit etc. I'd be exactly the same but it's fun reading it after the fact.
Gardner is usually my favourite ref but he was a bit all over the place in this match - it was like he decided he was in France so he'd be as confusingly inconsistent as a French ref. I don't think it really benefited one side or the other. He got played by the French 9 though.
I'm in the "they pulled Read on purpose" camp. Also surprised that they went with BB as captain, would have thought they'd have gone with Cane or Whitelock.
I still feel we're playing within ourselves but it's annoying to see some average rugby at times even so. But we're a weird bunch in that we can't be happy our team won by 20 points.
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@stargazer Crotty was due to limp off injured on the 50th minute, so better be safe than sorry?
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They have to sort that scrum-half shit at the back of rucks. Lions were doing it too. Shouldn't be able to role the farking ball up and down like a toy until it's in your favourite position.
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They have to sort that scrum-half shit at the back of rucks. Lions were doing it too. Shouldn't be able to role the farking ball up and down like a toy until it's in your favourite position.
@rancid-schnitzel By jesus yes, that was very bloody annoying.
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Haha mark Watson going off....after the wobbly loss he was demanding an apology now he says NZR is the most well resourced and poorly run organization in the world.
@taniwharugby said in AB Test Team v France.:
Haha mark Watson going off....after the wobbly loss he was demanding an apology now he says NZR is the most well resourced and poorly run organization in the world.
The joy of Mark Watson is that you can miss his show for six months... and when you tune back in the conversation is exactly where you left it...
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Bet South Africa wish they could play like shit yet still win away from home by 20 points against a European side.
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@crash said in AB Test Team v France.:
Why can't the commentators say Ioane properly? Fed up with hearing eyeohniii
Because Euro commentators and pundits don't watch the SH game so their only experience is when Digby Ioane was on the massively on the radar for Australia in the 2011 RWC before he straightened out the pronunciation of his name.
Serious answer, not even being facetious.
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@crash said in AB Test Team v France.:
Why can't the commentators say Ioane properly? Fed up with hearing eyeohniii
Because Euro commentators and pundits don't watch the SH game so their only experience is when Digby Ioane was on the massively on the radar for Australia in the 2011 RWC before he straightened out the pronunciation of his name.
Serious answer, not even being facetious.
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@taniwharugby said in AB Test Team v France.:
Haha mark Watson going off....after the wobbly loss he was demanding an apology now he says NZR is the most well resourced and poorly run organization in the world.
The joy of Mark Watson is that you can miss his show for six months... and when you tune back in the conversation is exactly where you left it...
@donsteppa ha yep I recall one nasty peice just before the 2015;RWC and he was going off at Hansen and Co and even how DC should do the right thing and retire to stop cock blocking the next group of players
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@crash said in AB Test Team v France.:
Why can't the commentators say Ioane properly? Fed up with hearing eyeohniii
For an ignorant piston wristed gibbon like myself, how do you pronounce it properly?
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The SBW PT probably highlighted where that rule is actually wrong.
I can understand its use in foul or dangerous play (although often refs still don't remove the offending player from the equation in thier decision not to award a PT) but in SBW he has done nothing at all to impede, affect or unintentionally hurt someone else, he just made a ridiculously dumb decision through lack of awareness of the rule (not that this is an excuse)
If there had been a contest in the air and SBW thought that was his only option, or he hit him in the air or blocked him, yep YC and PT all day...but in this instance while technically correct that guy would never have got a try but for a brain fart, which IMO doesn't fit the way that rule is written for.
