The Silver Fern

@Victor-Meldrew

I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.

@jimmyb

Cotter was super successful at Clermont when the club hadn't been up to much in the Top 14. To my mind coaching Scotland rounded him out.

@mariner4life

From my English mates - Baz etc fired the fielding coach as he sent through too many plans etc. Here is my mate's message below - like me a fan who follows his team so take it as you will -

No fielding coach. No wicket keeping practice. No reserve keeper. No pink ball practice. No alternative opener. Bryson Carse doesn’t open for his county. We’ve lost to their second string bowling attack. He should be resigning.

@Dan54
Dan - this has frustrated me for so long. We want to be the Corinthians of rugby but we just need to be more cynical. As others have said - someone gets hit high make the ref/tmo think about it etc - it's not a great look but most top tier nations do it with some success.

@mohikamo

The NZRU aren't as rich as an epl team but players there on huge locked in contracts get sat down constantly. Why should we be any different - if the player is cooked - stand him down and if he isn't getting better or his replacement is knocking the cover off the ball offer yhe star a present value pay off (plus you are probably replacing him with a player that you have contracted at a lower rate?).

@Grooter
I have also heard that Love had a training ground disagreement with Hansen.

@African-Monkey

I'm not having a go. Auckland FC turned up 2 minutes ago - the Blues/Auckland rugby crowds were poor before then.

@MiketheSnow
Upvote for the DF reference.

Hi NZZP - it's been a little while since I have done this - you can get tickets for internationals by going to EP (always a fun experience) and I recollect that one of the supermarket chains (not Woolworths) sold tickets too. I haven't lived in SA for a while but I suspect that tickets v Aus will be available v close to the time of the match if you don't secure tickets before arrival. Cheers

@Dodge

I think the issue is the cards not issued. We can debate whether Taylor's was merited or not but it set a threshold. For example, I forget exactly when in the second half on the English left wing an English player held on cynically. Sanction pen only. It was an astonishing decision.

@nostrildamus
That's not surprising given the games coming up - see every epl pre match where the coaches supposedly don't like each other.

@nostrildamus
Funny you say that - I was at the game and SB spent a lot of time stretching his back and legs on his own - he also didn't look to me that he was running that freely.

My understanding was that EE came from a pretty tough background in CT and that with his size then was why he had a reputation early on. Some of the SA posters may be able to confirm this?!

Jason Holland back at the Canes as a mentor.

@MiketheSnow

And footie doesn't - my brother has bought tkts for NZ's soccer WC matches - he has no clue where he will be from game to game yet.

@Canes4life

The restack should be announced shortly. The new owners will tidy the Canes up.

@canefan
Neither do I. Yes the Hurricanes will be managed better.

@Dan54
The chair will appoint a new ceo and away we go.

@MN5
Scott Parker should have gone to Everton and not Newcastle - his England career would have been better.

@Virgil

To me Potts was thrown under the bus. No long format cricket since forever.