2019 Rugby Championship

[Hooroo]

@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@Jaguares4real said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@taniwharugby said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@nzzp yeah unfortunately we have lost many of our 'international' posters over the years, for a variety of reasons

i, for one, blame the cantabs.

That why I'm expecting every Kiwi rugby fan on this forum who doesn't support Canterbury to be supporting the Jaguares tomorrow night

no no, that's not how it works. Internally we bicker and fight, but when some foreign invader comes in, we circle the wagons. We are all honorary Cantabs this week. I'v even blacked out a couple of my teeth in support

I laughed way too hard at this!

[KiwiMurph]

What you have to remember @Jaguares4real is that half the Crusaders players come from the North Island anyway.

:fishing_pole:

[canefan]

@Stargazer said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

If there's a Kiwi team in the final, I'll support that Kiwi team. Easy.

The argies are welcome to attend the post match bbq though

[E African Troll]

@MN5

Good for you

Reece has done wrong in teh past and as far as I;m concerned the matter is resolved

My attitude is live and let live

@mariner4life

Your statement is accurate

High character stiffs don;t appeal to me

You can be a piece of shit off the filed as long as you deliver on the field with a few exceptions

Charles Barkley said it best when ti comes to role models

[JK]

Just saw that big Karl is getting a run for Takapuna tomorrow in the quarter final vs Massey.

Also of interest is the man named at number 6.....the one and only Adam Thomson

[Nepia]

@Jaguares4real said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@taniwharugby said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@nzzp yeah unfortunately we have lost many of our 'international' posters over the years, for a variety of reasons

i, for one, blame the cantabs.

That why I'm expecting every Kiwi rugby fan on this forum who doesn't support Canterbury to be supporting the Jaguares tomorrow night

I would have been if it wasn't for you - you're doing the opposite of your intent (for one person at least). :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_closed_eyes:

[mariner4life]

@canefan said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@Stargazer said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

If there's a Kiwi team in the final, I'll support that Kiwi team. Easy.

The argies are welcome to attend the post match bbq though

they can bring the BBQ, the wine, and the women. Cantabs can bring the trophy #playtoyourstrengths

[taniwharugby]

in TSF shocker, some blurred lines between this thread (TRC) and the Super rugby final (3 doors down)

[Hooroo]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/114030531/all-blacks-sonny-bill-williams-injured-again-in-doubt-for-rugby-championship-test-against-argentina

Now here's a surprise.

Gutted for him though as it sounds though he puts absolutely everything into being an AB. Something Akira Ioane could take a leaf from

[Duluth]

@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

this place has been a dead zone so far this year

Weird perception. Traffic is going nuts, the busiest it's been for years.

Compared to the same period last year we have 50% more unique IPs. Posting is well up too

Last year there was a very clear peak around the England Test. We've reached that level the last four weeks in a row

[reprobate]

it might be horribly articulated - or maybe i'm getting the intent wrong - but jag's point re reece doesn't seem so far off the mark to me.
reece was discharged without conviction. that means not convicted of a crime. we have a court system for a reason.
sure that's a big fucking question mark hanging over his character, but it is only a question mark as far as i'm concerned - unless you have first-hand knowledge of what happened. too many on here seem willing to pass a judgement that a court was not prepared to pass, despite having less information available to them than the court did.

"got off because he's a rugby player" is shit that gets spouted a lot. i'm not prepared to believe that about our court system unless i see some actual proper evidence of it. actual stats, not people going reece +sivivatu=proof.

as to the polly/dr comparison - if you don't see reece as a question mark, then you're seeing him as a wife-beater which is not okay in any way ever - so there are no distinctions. how seriously you take a question mark over someone's character can depend a bit on their role in society, but in this case it's misguided - doesn't really apply to DV (as opposed to e.g. someone a bit dodgy/corrupt being a cop or mowing lawns). i personally think that presenting this situation to a kid as 'reece is a wife-beater, he got off because he's good at rugby, the crusaders and all blacks don't mind' is far more harmful than just going with what the court decided.

[Hooroo]

@reprobate said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

it might be horribly articulated - or maybe i'm getting the intent wrong - but jag's point re reece doesn't seem so far off the mark to me.
reece was discharged without conviction. that means not convicted of a crime. we have a court system for a reason.
sure that's a big fucking question mark hanging over his character, but it is only a question mark as far as i'm concerned - unless you have first-hand knowledge of what happened. too many on here seem willing to pass a judgement that a court was not prepared to pass, despite having less information available to them than the court did.

"got off because he's a rugby player" is shit that gets spouted a lot. i'm not prepared to believe that about our court system unless i see some actual proper evidence of it. actual stats, not people going reece +sivivatu=proof.

as to the polly/dr comparison - if you don't see reece as a question mark, then you're seeing him as a wife-beater which is not okay in any way ever - so there are no distinctions. how seriously you take a question mark over someone's character can depend a bit on their role in society, but in this case it's misguided - doesn't really apply to DV (as opposed to e.g. someone a bit dodgy/corrupt being a cop or mowing lawns). i personally think that presenting this situation to a kid as 'reece is a wife-beater, he got off because he's good at rugby, the crusaders and all blacks don't mind' is far more harmful than just going with what the court decided.

We can put a line under this now.

Let's try and keep this about the 2019 Championship and talk about the pros and cons of thinking about someone as a something in Off-Topic

[SammyC]

@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@Jaguares4real said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@taniwharugby said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@nzzp yeah unfortunately we have lost many of our 'international' posters over the years, for a variety of reasons

i, for one, blame the cantabs.

That why I'm expecting every Kiwi rugby fan on this forum who doesn't support Canterbury to be supporting the Jaguares tomorrow night

no no, that's not how it works. Internally we bicker and fight, but when some foreign invader comes in, we circle the wagons. We are all honorary Cantabs this week. I'v even blacked out a couple of my teeth in support

Aww thats so nice.

I'd support the Jags over every other Kiwi team hate them all

Except for maybe the Blues, because I almost feel sorry for those losers

[SammyC]

@JK said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

Just saw that big Karl is getting a run for Takapuna tomorrow in the quarter final vs Massey.

Also of interest is the man named at number 6.....the one and only Adam Thomson

Heard through the grapevine that Karl had been suffering from meningitis, good that he's over that

[antipodean]

@SammyC said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@JK said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

Just saw that big Karl is getting a run for Takapuna tomorrow in the quarter final vs Massey.

Also of interest is the man named at number 6.....the one and only Adam Thomson

Heard through the grapevine that Karl had been suffering from meningitis, good that he's over that

That would go a long way to explaining why he seemed so unfit.

[antipodean]

So as most of the selected Crusaders won't be going to Argentina, will they put Dane between two Auckland props? A second row of Pat and Retallick? Cane, Savea and Frizell/ Fifita. Smith, Beaudy, Ioane, Laumape, ALB, Smith and Jordie

Or will some of the Crusaders backs be asked to travel?

[Stargazer]

@antipodean Hansen seemed to suggest in the media that some Crusaders players may be on the plane to Argentina.

Some of them haven't had that much game time recently, so it wouldn't surprise me. Particularly, Franks and Taylor. Don't know about backs. Bridge? Ennor?

[Hooroo]

@antipodean said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

Or will some of the Crusaders backs be asked to travel?

Such contempt!!!

[JK]

@SammyC said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

@JK said in 2019 Rugby Championship:

Just saw that big Karl is getting a run for Takapuna tomorrow in the quarter final vs Massey.

Also of interest is the man named at number 6.....the one and only Adam Thomson

Heard through the grapevine that Karl had been suffering from meningitis, good that he's over that

Yeah he was pretty farked and out of action for a good few weeks. We saw him at A&E about 4 weeks ago and he looked toast

[Bovidae]

Franks doesn't need to travel as already 3 other THs in the squad, 4 if you also count Moli.

More likely to be some of the backs like Bridge. Goodhue too with SBW and Crotty out.