All Blacks vs Tonga
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@sparky said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
Jordie Barrett is the most exciting young players in global Rugby, fast, rugged and skilful. His versatility and impact off the bench will be great assets for the ABs in the Rugby World Cup.
If that is true it does instantly make it rather more exciting. How many players do you reckon he is?
@Bones said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@sparky said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
Jordie Barrett is the most exciting young players in global Rugby, fast, rugged and skilful. His versatility and impact off the bench will be great assets for the ABs in the Rugby World Cup.
If that is true it does instantly make it rather more exciting. How many players do you reckon he is?
clearly there is two. The one the Hurricanes fans watch, and the one everyone else watches
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@Chris-B Had the chance to call players over by using his voice to number up but failed to do so, hence the overlap which was exploited by the boks. At international level, that was a howler all round from Bridge. It was Mo'unga who was left high and dry because of Bridge.
@African-Monkey said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@Chris-B Had the chance to call players over by using his voice to number up but failed to do so, hence the overlap which was exploited by the boks. At international level, that was a howler all round from Bridge. It was Mo'unga who was left high and dry because of Bridge.
Never a chance. The Boks have brought Pollard looping around late to create an extra man and no-one's picked him up. Good play by them.
George has gone forward to close the space. If Richie goes with him a bit quicker he gets the chance to disrupt the pass out to Kolbe, check him, and the cover picks up Kolbe easily. That doesn't quite happen, but the cover gets to Kolbe anyway.
If that's a howler whoever plays wing at RWC is going to have some absolute shockers and might as well burn their airtickets home and start walking now!
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@African-Monkey said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@Chris-B Had the chance to call players over by using his voice to number up but failed to do so, hence the overlap which was exploited by the boks. At international level, that was a howler all round from Bridge. It was Mo'unga who was left high and dry because of Bridge.
Never a chance. The Boks have brought Pollard looping around late to create an extra man and no-one's picked him up. Good play by them.
George has gone forward to close the space. If Richie goes with him a bit quicker he gets the chance to disrupt the pass out to Kolbe, check him, and the cover picks up Kolbe easily. That doesn't quite happen, but the cover gets to Kolbe anyway.
If that's a howler whoever plays wing at RWC is going to have some absolute shockers and might as well burn their airtickets home and start walking now!
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
If that's a howler whoever plays wing at RWC is going to have some absolute shockers and might as well burn their airtickets home and start walking now!
if this goes as i sort of expect it to, the level of finger pointing on here is going to be fucking epic.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
If that's a howler whoever plays wing at RWC is going to have some absolute shockers and might as well burn their airtickets home and start walking now!
if this goes as i sort of expect it to, the level of finger pointing on here is going to be fucking epic.
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@mariner4life It's a long time since we didn't win a World Cup!
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@mariner4life It's a long time since we didn't win a World Cup!
i joined a few months after the last disaster. So i have yet to see it.
You would think that winning two in a row would lessen the pain somewhat. But the walls are going to go up around provincial lines, and the artillery is going to be concentrated and vicious
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@mariner4life It's a long time since we didn't win a World Cup!
i joined a few months after the last disaster. So i have yet to see it.
You would think that winning two in a row would lessen the pain somewhat. But the walls are going to go up around provincial lines, and the artillery is going to be concentrated and vicious
@mariner4life 2007 was nothing compared to 2003.
Field Marshall Haig would have been quite proud of engineering that.
Can you imagine Nepia being here at the time that Cullen was actually being dropped? There were some Wellingtonians of similar ilk, at the time.
I think their heads actually exploded.
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@mariner4life 2007 was nothing compared to 2003.
Field Marshall Haig would have been quite proud of engineering that.
Can you imagine Nepia being here at the time that Cullen was actually being dropped? There were some Wellingtonians of similar ilk, at the time.
I think their heads actually exploded.
@Chris-B there are a few periods i reckon would have been fucking fun on here
1999
2003
Cantablacks would have been bloody good too.I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
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@mariner4life 2007 was nothing compared to 2003.
Field Marshall Haig would have been quite proud of engineering that.
Can you imagine Nepia being here at the time that Cullen was actually being dropped? There were some Wellingtonians of similar ilk, at the time.
I think their heads actually exploded.
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
There were some Wellingtonians of similar ilk, at the time.
At least one of which was on 6 figures.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
Akin to fishing with dynamite. If we hadn't lost it would have been funny.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
There were some Wellingtonians of similar ilk, at the time.
At least one of which was on 6 figures.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
Akin to fishing with dynamite. If we hadn't lost it would have been funny.
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@Chris-B there are a few periods i reckon would have been fucking fun on here
1999
2003
Cantablacks would have been bloody good too.I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
@mariner4life the layout of the fern back in 1999 meant it was easier to miss alot of that stuff....I dont recall alot of 2003 on here, although I was living in the UK so was in a different time zone...2007 I just banned myself for a few weeks.
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@mariner4life the layout of the fern back in 1999 meant it was easier to miss alot of that stuff....I dont recall alot of 2003 on here, although I was living in the UK so was in a different time zone...2007 I just banned myself for a few weeks.
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@mariner4life the layout of the fern back in 1999 meant it was easier to miss alot of that stuff....I dont recall alot of 2003 on here, although I was living in the UK so was in a different time zone...2007 I just banned myself for a few weeks.
IIRC it had those long indented thread things and you had to open them to get all of the comments?
The layout may have changed but the opinions haven't.As for banning yourself in 2007 - I was in a padded cell (again) in Cardiff.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@mariner4life the layout of the fern back in 1999 meant it was easier to miss alot of that stuff....I dont recall alot of 2003 on here, although I was living in the UK so was in a different time zone...2007 I just banned myself for a few weeks.
IIRC it had those long indented thread things and you had to open them to get all of the comments?
The layout may have changed but the opinions haven't.As for banning yourself in 2007 - I was in a padded cell (again) in Cardiff.
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@Snowy they literally were 'threads' and yep, you had to click on the reply to see what Phooey was raging about, rather than baring all as it does now.
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
to see what Phooey was raging about
I didn't need to read Phooey's rants to know what he was raging about.
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@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
to see what Phooey was raging about
I didn't need to read Phooey's rants to know what he was raging about.
@Snowy ok, to see if he was raging about something/someone different than usual
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@Chris-B there are a few periods i reckon would have been fucking fun on here
1999
2003
Cantablacks would have been bloody good too.I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@Chris-B there are a few periods i reckon would have been fucking fun on here
1999
2003
Cantablacks would have been bloody good too.I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
A very amusing thing about the Cantablacks, was that the Fern did a position-by-position poll to pick the team and picked - the Cantablacks!
I know this is correct, because I've pointed it out many times before!
Didn't stop Mitch being hurled into a pot of boiling oil for doing it. Especially when he did it again!
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@Chris-B there are a few periods i reckon would have been fucking fun on here
1999
2003
Cantablacks would have been bloody good too.I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
A very amusing thing about the Cantablacks, was that the Fern did a position-by-position poll to pick the team and picked - the Cantablacks!
I know this is correct, because I've pointed it out many times before!
Didn't stop Mitch being hurled into a pot of boiling oil for doing it. Especially when he did it again!
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@Chris-B there are a few periods i reckon would have been fucking fun on here
1999
2003
Cantablacks would have been bloody good too.I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
A very amusing thing about the Cantablacks, was that the Fern did a position-by-position poll to pick the team and picked - the Cantablacks!
I know this is correct, because I've pointed it out many times before!
Didn't stop Mitch being hurled into a pot of boiling oil for doing it. Especially when he did it again!
fuck off they did. No way Tana wasn't starting at centre.
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@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@Chris-B there are a few periods i reckon would have been fucking fun on here
1999
2003
Cantablacks would have been bloody good too.I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
A very amusing thing about the Cantablacks, was that the Fern did a position-by-position poll to pick the team and picked - the Cantablacks!
I know this is correct, because I've pointed it out many times before!
Didn't stop Mitch being hurled into a pot of boiling oil for doing it. Especially when he did it again!
fuck off they did. No way Tana wasn't starting at centre.
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@Chris-B said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Tonga:
@Chris-B there are a few periods i reckon would have been fucking fun on here
1999
2003
Cantablacks would have been bloody good too.I would have been reading, laughing, and chucking grenades left right and centre
A very amusing thing about the Cantablacks, was that the Fern did a position-by-position poll to pick the team and picked - the Cantablacks!
I know this is correct, because I've pointed it out many times before!
Didn't stop Mitch being hurled into a pot of boiling oil for doing it. Especially when he did it again!
fuck off they did. No way Tana wasn't starting at centre.
Tana was part of the Cantablacks.
Edit: Not Broomhall, though. He was a source of outrage.
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Not sure that many of us had Ben Blair or Caleb Ralph in our squads in 2003 either.
Doug Howlett, Joe Roks, Jerry Collins, though, and a bunch that I might remember later.
@Snowy that guy Carlos, Mils...was Ali a Cantab then or a Blue (Blues, whatever the fark you call someone form the Blues)
