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@DurryMexted said in Hurricanes v Moana Pasifika: I was probably a bit harsh on my first judgement of the team, purely because i saw Enari was starting. Its awesome that we have 4 very decent tight heads and Mafeleo can obviously cover loosehead. 6-2 bench shows we must be looking to beat them through the middle, which is a new Canes approach. Happy for Proctor and Roigard to return from bench, hopefully on early, Also happy to see Fineanganofo preferred over punivai. Frustrating that we have Enari and Cameron combining in the halves. Petaia is a wider squad right? I saw that IWL and Delaney are injured, what of Tom Allen? Allen and IWL should be available for the next match. Higgins would be on the bench if it wasn’t for the 6-2 split. Obviously the Canes are keen to bring the physicality.

@mohikamo said in The State of the Game: With the forward passes the first thing that the officiators should always look at is; is the player making the pass running directly down field at pace. Then check if the ball was passed backwards. If both of these apply; where the ball lands or is caught is irrelevant, because there is a large amount of forward momentum in the ball Made the point in the match threads where you look at where the passer ends up. In Menoncello's case he remained ahead of the ball (even though he slowed after he passed it). (Not so obvious for the Pom as he clattered into defenders.)

Crusaders have posted that Dallas McLeod is leaving at the end of the 2026 season to join the Exeter Chiefs. A guy who probably shouldn’t have been capped by the all blacks but is now cashing in while he can. Good for him.

And predicted we got the follow up Jacomb regret article https://www.thepost.co.nz/sport/360950604/young-chiefs-star-josh-jacomb-opens-looming-super-rugby-pacific-swap-highlanders

@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection: More about having time to properly watch and analyse all the games while not being preoccupied with leading a team to glory. Regardless, wouldn't hurt to have a bit of separation between Joseph and the Highlanders before he has to start selecting his team, just to minimise (perceptions of) bias. Fortunately we aren't loaded with superstar talent. There won't be too many opportunities to accuse JJ of picking his boys. We are only looking at De Groot Jim Tangitau As guys likely guaranteed to make it With Withy Howden JRK Fakatava The outside chances.

@Bones said in T20 World Cup: @W32 said in T20 World Cup: @sparky said in T20 World Cup: And Australia are knocked out of the tournament. https://twitter.com/skycricket/status/2023735183673807265?s=46 This along with Scotland thrashing England has made a good start to the week Ok Virgil [image: DA-pmx9bjkbDQONQARAvFRwofq0cn62-zix7EM36xJ4.gif?auto=webp&s=96f505a73998a6cc4ab61bdf666ef3aa1dacd8d0]

@SUAF94 George Dyer was rumoured but when I asked him after an NPC game last year he said he wasn't leaving

tanking . . . everyone is tanking and then the Mavs come along and get the No 1 with only one fucking ball in the barrell! now that'd have to piss all the other tankers right off! so f'n funny as for the 4Q 3 pointers, I think netball does something similar with the 2 point shot, seems to work ok

In a game where I would like both to lose....I'm going with the puffy poms to make a huge statement.

said in Rugby World Cup 2027 - Tickets: Right, missus managed to get 2 games for me in Perth. Samoa v USA and South Africa v Romania. Now my turn to try my luck. Got tickets to both round of 16 games and the All Blacks v Chile. I think that's enough rugby tickets for the next little while.

@nostrildamus said in Does Super Rugby prepare players for Test Rugby?: @jimmyb said in Does Super Rugby prepare players for Test Rugby?: But also what is desperately needed is a 12 that can break the line. J Barrett is a great player but does not offer the line break ability that is needed. That get out of jail ball to a 12 that can make metres when the pressure is on is needed Quinn Tupaea? Or TT

The Chiefs should pick him up - or maybe the Blues if Perofeta decides to up sticks.

@Smuts said in Scotland v England 2026 6N: @Catogrande since you're helping us remember things, I was hoping you could remind us whether the rabble that got humilificated by the Scots on Saturday England have played the All Blacks recently, and, if so: who won? No sense in looking back. It's the next game that counts. Oh and it was us

@KiwiMurph said in Force v Blues: @Kirwan said in Force v Blues: @KiwiMurph said in Force v Blues: It's pretty hard to excited for this Blues team until they start making some selection changes. Like what? Injuries aside, and the charmed Nock, what changes would you make? An actual right winger instead of Forbes. An ineffective midfield gets another crack Barnes went well past week now benched Yeah Forbes was great in 2024 at 15 but hes a pretty average 14.

@kidcalder said in All Blacks 2026: @reprobate said in All Blacks 2026: @Gunner said in All Blacks 2026: @canefan said in All Blacks 2026: @gt12 said in All Blacks 2026: @canefan said in All Blacks 2026: @gt12 said in All Blacks 2026: I know this is not quite the right thread, but it does link with the difficulty of keeping our best players. Have a look at the quality of restaurants in Castres. Foie gras mi-cuit for a starter then Viande Braisée ou confite du moment at La Foganha is just one of the many fucking cool places to enjoy. I assume most of the ABs can earn better money with less travel and less pressure in places like France? Once you feel you are being treated less than fairly it's probably easy to take the money and run 100% Plus you can have an incredible OE really enjoying the best of Europe. In many ways, it's surprising that we can keep many of these guys for as long as we have. Looking at guys who are on the edges of selection for 2026, you'd have to say guys like Perofeta (for example) may better to bolt this year (when fewer top players are available) if it seems like AB selection is out of reach or you'll end up like Love from last year and essentially be an AB in name only. Perofeta should go. Akira, Hoskins, DP, Plummer, Lam, the Blues are getting gutted That’s a lot of AB standard talent walking out the door. Im still amazed that Plummer and Lam never got a chance. And don’t pull me up about Plummer… I know he got a few minutes, that ain’t a fucking chance. I'll pull you up on Plummer. Not because he got a chance (he didn't), but because he had one good season, made a squad, then fucked off. Plenty of players have had more than one good season and not made a squad (e.g. Lam), so I don't think Plummer was particularly hard done by looking at historical standards. He's also quite a bit younger than BB, McKenzie and Mo'unga - he could have stayed if he wanted to. @gt12 the point about him fucking off because of the fawning over Mo'unga is a good one though. Plummer did well for the Blues but would have been nothing more than a steady stop gap at test level and after a few tests people would have been calling for him to be dropped. Nothing against him but he wasn't the future. Yeah similar to Cory Jane maybe. He wasn't the future either, guy couldn't even get into the wellington team so had to play for Hawkes. A small, relatively slow guy in his mid-twenties with an average kicking game was not the future, should have only been given 2 mins at the end of one test.

@mikedogz said in Athletics: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360938897/kiwi-athletics-star-sam-ruthes-little-sister-daisy-wins-nz-under-20-3000m-race-and-shes-only-14 Good for her, great run at her age and all that - but it's also a bit sad for NZ running that a 9:47 is good enough to win the U20's!

https://super.rugby/superrugby/news/2026-super-rugby-pacific-injury-list-round-two/

@booboo sounds like a booboo problem