Beaudy's intercept passes are a technical weakness.
Instead of looking straight ahead with his peripheral vision covering an arc of 120 to 150 degrees straight in front of himself, he is looking backwards towards his backline with a big blind spot on his open side, throwing big loopy passes and getting picked off.
Should be solvable but I'm thinking this is pointing towards Mo'unga @ 10 and BB at 15 in Japan being the way forward, Mo'unga more direct, like Cruden. BFA on one wing.
Why is it that the maul is pretty much anathema to NZ Super rugby and All Black teams.
Down there with the drop goal.
ABs have never been good at the maul.
I love a good maul, an art form, very hard to stop when done well.
Some interesting markets from the NZ TAB as to who will start the opening match of the RWC in each position.
These went up about a week ago, I was overseas so couldn't bet, George Bridge opened at 12, now paying 6, the 12 was very good value, not sure about the 6.
https://www.tab.co.nz/sports/competition/2003/world-cup/outrights
Anything could happen between now and the first game of the cup, injuries could stop one of the nailed on starters.
Owen Franks at 1.22 looks short to me.
Akira fluffers can get on at 17 
Sean Lock is good
Trainer of the 90/1 shot has a string of drug charges against him as long as your arm
https://www.punters.com.au/news/currie-facing-fresh-investigation_175492/
From The Times UK
Peter Boghossian: Professor faces sack over hoax that fooled academic journals
The leading academics Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker have defended a hoaxer who sought to expose politically correct “nonsense” in social sciences.
Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy, faces losing his job at Portland State University in Oregon after he helped create spoof academic papers. These lampooned scholarship in various fields, including the studies of gender, homosexuality and obesity.
He and two collaborators dashed off 20 papers, each deliberately ridiculous and spiked with what the authors later described as “a little bit of lunacy”. Seven were accepted by peer-reviewed journals. One, titled “Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity feminism as an intersectional reply to neoliberal and choice feminism”, was a rewrite of chapter 12 of Hitler’s Mein Kampf with feminist “buzzwords switched in”.
“Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon”, was published under the fake name Helen Wilson in the journal Gender, Place & Culture, which is owned by Taylor & Francis, the British publisher.
Its author described an investigation of the “rape-condoning spaces of hegemonic masculinity” that are public dog-walking parks, which had involved examining “10,000 dogs’ genitals”.
The paper suggested that men should be trained, like canines, to prevent “rape culture”.
“Fat Bodybuilding” showed morbid obesity as a healthy life choice. Another advanced the theory that “it is suspicious that men rarely anally self-penetrate using sex toys, and that this is probably due to fear of being thought homosexual (“homohysteria”) and bigotry against trans people (transphobia)”.
Dr Boghossian and his colleagues said that they were shocked by the ease with which the papers were accepted. “We wanted to see if these disciplines that we called ‘grievance studies’ are compromised by political activism that allows for the laundering of prejudices and opinions into something that gets treated as knowledge,” he added.
An official for Portland State University said that Dr Boghossian had studied “human research subjects” — a reference to the staff and peer-reviewers of the journals— without proper ethical approvals. A further charge relating to the falsification of data is under review and he could lose his job.
Dawkins, well known for his atheist views, wrote to the university: “Do your humourless colleagues who brought this action want Portland State to become the laughing stock of the academic world? Or at least the world of serious scientific scholarship uncontaminated by pretentious charlatans of exactly the kind Dr Boghossian and his colleagues were satirising?”
Dawkins, who is Emeritus Charles Simonyi Professor at the University of Oxford, added: “How would you react if you saw the following letter: Dear Mr Orwell, It has come to our notice that your novel, Animal Farm, attributes to pigs the ability to talk, and to walk on their hind legs, chanting ‘Four legs good, two legs better’. This is directly counter to known zoological facts about the Family Suidae, and you are therefore arraigned on a charge of falsifying data…”
Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist, wrote of the false data charge: “This strikes me (and every colleague I’ve spoken with) as an attempt to weaponise an important principle of academic ethics to punish a scholar for expressing an unpopular opinion.”
Dr Boghossian said: “Portland State University, like many college campuses, is becoming an ideological community and I’ve demonstrated that I don’t fit the mould. I truly hope the administration puts its institutional weight behind the pursuit of truth but I’ve been given no indication that’s what they intend to do.”
Tracy Roberts, publishing director of Taylor & Francis, said: “This was an elaborate, complex hoax which broke all accepted norms of scholarly communication.” The publisher was taking steps to avoid a repeat, she added.
Peter Boghossian: Professor faces sack over hoax that fooled academic journals
The leading academics Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker have defended a hoaxer who sought to expose politically correct “nonsense” in social sciences.Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy, faces losing his job at Portland State University in Oregon after he helped create spoof aca
Seems like a cluster**** as expected!
Where was this hypothetical market posted?
I'd be piling into Schmidt and Gatland at those prices.
Lay Fossie till your nose bleeds at evens.
I'm interested to know what is peak Fossie, what is his best achievement as a coach?
Some good stuff on Wikipedia about two of the candidates here.
Foster is widely touted as the greatest New Zealand rugby player to never have played for the All Blacks.
Scott Robertson (born 21 August 1974) is a New Zealand rugby union coach, former player and professional breakdancer.
ABs paying about 2.3 on Betfair to win the World Cup. Warm favourite.
Ireland next best.
Schmidt is the chosen one for sure.
And they all want to coach the ABs 
I went for Whitelock, BBR and Crotty.
On reflection Read should be in the three, his general play was solid, captaincy was very good.
The call to go for the try rather than the three points in last five minutes of the first half was crucial, fortune favours the brave but what could have been 15-3 at halftime became 15-10.
Big balls!
@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:
and they smacked him with a pretty decent ban as well.
They threw the book at Bowman, three charges and about a month holiday.
McEvoy also got a $3k fine for excessive whip use
@jk said in Rough tips and other bets...:
Hope you have collected it @infidel pre posting that. Seen people post barcodes before and then go to collect and someone has already collected it for them!
Money is in the bank, always good to get a cheque from the TAB.
Good point re the bar code!
Great ride by McEvoy to win the race, huge finish.
Bowman weighed in 1kg overweight which may have cost him the race.
Went ok here, very juicy collect on Caulfield Cup/ Melbourne Cup double, giddyup 
@booboo said in [Japan vs All Blacks]
Oh piss off. ABs by fiddy.
Agree with this.
All the worrywarts in this thread, ABs or NZ A or whatever are paying 1.02 on Betfair to win this game.
That is an attacking backline and solid forward pack, barring catastrophic early injury to Mo'unga, I'm picking a one sided affair.
Withhold running in the Geelong Cup today.
Melbourne Cup price will shorten from 15 if he wins in Geelong.
@jk Big win. V happy he held on.
I have Caulfield/Melbourne Cup doubles going with Best Solution, Red Verdon, Sound Check and Sole Impact.