Japan vs All Blacks

[Kruse]

@kiwimurph said in Japan vs All Blacks:

@davesofthunder said in Japan vs All Blacks:

It appears there is still no tv rights holder for this match in the UK?

Any ferners over here know if there is a plan?

A free live stream for UK viewers is being shown here: https://allblackstv.com

Very happy to see they offer it on-demand also... not sure I'm willing to get up at 5:45 to watch All-Blacks-leftovers v Japan.

[Darren]

Is ESPN showing it for N American's? I struggle finding games in their schedule. I can't see this game. I suppose I can VPN and watch the UK stream if necessary.

[taniwharugby]

Unless it's quite delayed, Jack Goodhues insta account indicates he is still in Japan as is Mounga.

[Bovidae]

I think the 23 players only leave tomorrow (Thu).

[taniwharugby]

@bovidae yea I just remembered the English test is next weekend not this one.

[pakman]

@taniwharugby said in Japan vs All Blacks:

@bovidae yea I just remembered the English test is next weekend not this one.

Arriving two days before would make Argentina to S.A. look like a cake walk! :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye:

[taniwharugby]

New jersey coming soon....

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/108240137/new-zealand-rugby-sells-jersey-and-punters-down-the-river

[Bovidae]

No reason to continue to buy the latest AB jersey. Mine has a white collar but it's a CCC jersey circa 1997. I only wear it if I attend a test match though.

[Rapido]

That's a very melodramatic article.

This bit is wrong though. 1994 was when they started selling replicas. The CCC jersey with the red (but small) steinlager logo that Bovidae mentions above.

But, there was no such thing as an All Black replica jersey until 1999 the New Zealand Rugby Union punted Canterbury International - a New Zealand company that made the jersey for most of the 20th century - to get into bed with global giants adidas.

If as bad as it gets is that they remove, and then add-back, the white collar every 3 to 4 years then we don't know how lucky we are.

Spare a thought for Boks fans who had one of their greatest triumphs in this abomination:

[mariner4life]

Dramatic piston wristed gibbons: "Waaaah, it's so shit how we keep losing players overseas"

also Dramatic piston wristed gibbons: "Waaah, it's so shit how the NZRU keep trying to make money off its best asset"

[mariner4life]

oh, and to make it worse, the spud writing the article advises you to buy one, but not an official one so the NZRU gets money, but some overseas company's replica.

Fuck me dead. Who is Tony Smith?

[Tim]

@mariner4life Tony Smith is the worst writer at Stuff, which is really saying something. Everything he's ever written is just moronic. IIRC, he's a halfwit from Canterbury.

[mariner4life]

@tim said in Japan vs All Blacks:

a halfwit from Canterbury.

way to narrow it down...

[taniwharugby]

@tim TBH I didnt read the article, just the headline, as I tend to do on Stuff.

Surely he cant be worse than Treason, one of the other stuff whiners?

[Rapido]

Some of the recent jersey 'evolutions':

[Rapido]

current:

[Bovidae]

@rapido An upvote for Liam.

[canefan]

I don't mind the white collar. The AB jersey always used to have one. I have the 2011 and 2015 RWC jerseys. I like the old school stitched badges on 2011 over the pressed ones on 2015

[sparky]

Classic look, but with no seams so 25% lighter so Beauden Barrett and Reiko Ioane can run even faster

[scribe]

Now just bring back uniform black boots. That was the main reason we won the last RWC.