2019 Rugby World Cup
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@rotated said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Hansen's reluctance to take a genuine look at Mo'unga at 10/Beaudy 15 combo last year is either total stubbornness or he is intentionally holding it back for this year.
There's an awful lot he's holding back...
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@antipodean said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@rotated said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Hansen's reluctance to take a genuine look at Mo'unga at 10/Beaudy 15 combo last year is either total stubbornness or he is intentionally holding it back for this year.
There's an awful lot he's holding back...
Powder is dry as fuck
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@sparky said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
World Cups are usually won by the team with the best 1-10 on the park with very solid team defence. But each World Cup winner has had at least one game-breaker.
1987 New Zealand: John Kirwan and John Gallagher
1991 Australia: David Campese.
1995 South Africa: Andre Joubert
1999 Australia: Stephen Larkham
2003 England: Jason Robinson
2007 South Africa: Bryan Habana
2011 New Zealand: Israel Dagg
2015 New Zealand: Nehe Milner Skudder, SBW and Beauden Barrett.Even if Beaudy goes down we have plenty of game breakers.
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@hydro11 said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@sparky said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
World Cups are usually won by the team with the best 1-10 on the park with very solid team defence. But each World Cup winner has had at least one game-breaker.
1987 New Zealand: John Kirwan and John Gallagher
1991 Australia: David Campese.
1995 South Africa: Andre Joubert
1999 Australia: Stephen Larkham
2003 England: Jason Robinson
2007 South Africa: Bryan Habana
2011 New Zealand: Israel Dagg
2015 New Zealand: Nehe Milner Skudder, SBW and Beauden Barrett.Even if Beaudy goes down we have plenty of game breakers.
I’m quite triggered SBW was mentioned over Nonu in 2015
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@rotated said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Discipline, good defensive patterns and superior goal/drop kicking does.
Yes, yes, yes and yes.
Every tourney there will be a tight game at knockout stage. For us it was SA last time, and the Froggies in 2011. You have to have the fatties and mental toughness to win those, where the score is close the whole time, and the pressure is on. That's what the 2011/2015 vintage worked so hard on - though I'll argue we choked in 2011 anyway.
The thing with rugby is that motivated physical sides are always a chance. Look at England in 2007 - they went to teh final after playing awful, awful rugby. They damn near won the thing too ... now that would have been an undeserving victory.
I'm hoping our powder's dry and not salty
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@sparky said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Nonu in the knocks out of 2011 and 2015 was so good that he had a traditional role most of time, them popped up as a game breaker too.
Think of him like a boxer who could do Orthodox and Southpaw and MMA too.
I hear that but this effort had "gamebreaker" written all over it.....Marshalls thoroughly professional and totally impartial commentary is a great example to his peers as well.
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my favourite part of that article is the photo. Those two guys are probably sitting out training.
"I've got a bit of a niggle coach"
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@gt12 said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Every Japanese person I've talked to about this is either mad at Kashiwa or thinks they won't get their value.
Well done to the All Blacks though! It'd take about a million dollars for me to spend a week in that shit hole.
The Shibuya of Chiba
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Oh, if it were!
The good news for the ABs though is that if they walk up the road from Roppongi to Nogizaka, they could take one train out to Kashiwa.
Sneak out for the last train, party in RPG or Nishi Azabu all night, then catch the first train back before Shag gets out of bed. Perfect WC preparation.
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@sparky said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
World Cups are usually won by the team with the best 1-10 on the park with very solid team defence. But each World Cup winner has had at least one game-breaker.
1987 New Zealand: John Kirwan and John Gallagher
1991 Australia: David Campese.
1995 South Africa: Andre Joubert
1999 Australia: Stephen Larkham
2003 England: Jason Robinson
2007 South Africa: Bryan Habana
2011 New Zealand: Israel Dagg
2015 New Zealand: Nehe Milner Skudder, SBW and Beauden Barrett.2019: Rieko Ioane, Sevea, Barret's.
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@gt12 said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Oh, if it were!
The good news for the ABs though is that if they walk up the road from Roppongi to Nogizaka, they could take one train out to Kashiwa.
Sneak out for the last train, party in RPG or Nishi Azabu all night, then catch the first train back before Shag gets out of bed. Perfect WC preparation.
Maybe Izzy and CJ could go over and organise the tour?
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No they shouldn’t
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