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@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2026:
@Frank said in All Blacks 2026:
Ardie seems very concerned with his image. That's a hard pass for me as AB captain.
Roigard or Taylor.
Taylor is 100% AB captaincy material. As in born for the role. Only reason would be if he didn't want the responsibility or it was felt it might infringe on his own game.
He will be 36 by the time of the RWC though - hopefully his body holds up
Why not just allocate the top 6 to pools based on current rankings in a way that looks best like it’ll keep 1 and 2 apart longest, then have a draw for all the rest to make up the pools?
That way we avoid this situation, and still get a chance for a fun lopsided pool with 3 competitive teams that probably weren’t going to make it all the way anyway
It’s absolutely stupid. Rugby hating itself again and again
Sure we are #1 and #2 now and may not be in a years time - but if the draw has to be done now then it’s the best info we have. And every sensible tournament since time began tries to have the best players/teams meet as late as possible, ideally in a final where we get to see the best against the best on the biggest stage.
@nonpartizan said in NBA 25/26:
Mavs upset Nuggets.
Thing I kike about Flagg is his herky jerky style of movement. He doesn't affect a cool style of play he's just limbs all over the place.
He’s super active - and way longer than o realised he was
Nuggs lost Murray for all of the 4th and they got run over. Now on a 4 game road trip
@booboo said in Wales v All Blacks:
@canefan said in Wales v All Blacks:
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@Nepia said in Wales v All Blacks:
I thought the ref was fine
We've certainly had worse.
I didn't blow up at any of her calls in play, so sm iInterested how our Welsh posters saw her given my lack of indignation.
She was bullied out of awarding Jordan's try though.
She'll do plenty more tests.
I thought WJ was held up
Don't agree. She was talked out of trusting the evidence of her own eyes by an inconclusive super slomo.
Not true mate - the TMO showed her the footage and said he couldn’t overrule and she went against her own decision anyway
@bayimports said in All Blacks 2025:
a purple monkey dishwasher event
I have never heard this phrase before, but I plan on using it on my kids at the first opportunity tonight
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:
Just got an email from Allblacks shilling the new Adidas x Marvel universe collab gear.
Fuck off you absolute bunch of wastrels.
Win some fucking rugby matches.
Tossers.
forgot to change accounts bro?
No im just furious.
Look what we have become.
sure, but it's pretty grouse stuff bro - get in!
@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:
@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:
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.
If true, this all comes back to the original squad and Razor taking a giant shit on the form players of SR and instead bringing in the grossly undeserving.
So much for his vaunted man management and motivational skills.
Really?
Firstly, I can't see how this story is true - or if it is, it would have been a super select invite list at Taylors doing, just a couple of close mates, likely spur of the moment or something.
I just can't see the non-Cantab players hating Razor so much that they refuse the chance to honour a bloke like Taylor who has been an awesome AB and seems very well-liked by all.
We all like to hate on Ardie for his game, but can you imagine him saying to Codie "cheers for the invite bro, but fuck that, Razor sucks, I'm not coming"? DMac? Sami?
Just nah
@Bones said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
@Bones said in Wales Vs All Blacks:
Oh good, a club level at best ref.
She'll be better than the terrible ref we had yesterday. (Setting a low bar).
Maybe, but only in the bits where she can keep up.
If we start Reece, Hollie will have to slow herself down to adjust
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA 25/26:
Steph’s probably got a hundred pair of Kobe’s in a secret stash and now he can finally rock them
I have it on good authority that Steph likes to wear LeBrons around his house in private
@mohikamo Joker is top 15 all-time already probably - absolute freak. I still have him behind the likes of Shaq, TD and Hakeem, but I have my biases...
I think you m assively underate SGA. Having a great team is awesome, but he's an incredible enabler of that. At times in the finals when J-Will and Chet looked like deers in headlights, SGA was the man. And we don't mark MJ down for the all-time greatness of his teams, nor Steph for the brilliance of his. No reason to do it here either.
Your reference to the underrated vote whooshed me last time, I follow you now - definitely worthy of some spite from you (and from Hali) - pretty absurd that the NBA has such a public poll, really not suure what they're trying to achieve there.
@ACT-Crusader said in NBA 25/26:
Yeah SGA was always going to win it when OKCs record was so brilliant. I’m more a fan of Joker than SGA and I’m pretty cool with how it played out. Giannis has been phenomenal over the past few seasons too.
Again this season. Sad that he’s just not had the help
The OKC team was the best NBA team since the GSW in 2016, and before that you have to back to the Bulls in the 90's.
They could fit all the great players around him because they were young and cheap.
That situation aint guna last, and the contract that SGA has got now, and the rest of the players needing to be paid, will insure that the team is broken up in the next season or two.The ultra slurping that everyone gave him took away from the outstanding performance of the team, and made me fuckin sick.
I could name half dozen scoring guards that could have done the same job, with that particular team.
And they almost got rolled by a team of no names in the finals.
Led by the most overrated player in the NBA.
Overrated, that made me fuckin sick too.
And none of those weak fluffybunnies who voted him overrated ever fessed up either.
Gosh, I’ve not read a more pathetic and angry take in a while. Sad to be you bro!
Looking forward to hearing about the half-dozen guards that could have done the same thing, and I’ll be especially excited to see you melt down if he wins again!
One of the genuinely saddest and strangest posts I’ve seen here - fun times.
Jokic did win an MVP finishing 6th in the West.
I think Jokic was better than SGA, but I can understand them giving MVP to someone on a 68 win team. No matter who won between the two, there were gonna be a lot of complaints.
Jokic is clearly more important to the Nuggets than SGA is to the Thunder though. Thunder still won 5 of their 6 games without SGA last season. They won those games by an average of 22.6 points. They are loaded compared to the Nuggets.
That year Philly and Bucks only won 51 games too. Suns won 64 but Booker wasn’t worthy.
You have to remember that “MVP” isn’t a literal award -it doesn’t matter that you won 40 games but your team would have only won 12 without you - and there is no “best player of the regular season” award either - so it’s always been a hybrid. Otherwise LeBron doesn’t lose to DRose, Jordan doesn’t lose to Malone etc.
But the golden rule has always been that if it’s even remotely close, then the dude leading the team that is killing the league gets it over the guy sitting mid-table
SGA absolutely worthy last year
Yeah well.
I think any guard would have looked fantastic in that particular team.
It was the "team" that was fantastic.
One of the most dominant regular season teams ever.
And they still got taken to seven by the most overrated player in the league, in what really was a one man team.Lets see how the rest of his career plays out.
I’ll take the overs on SGA’s career if that’s what you’re offering. He’s already the 3rd best SG in history. Amazing scorer. Incredible defender. And a galvanising leader. You’re mad - actually, I’ll rephrase - fucking delusional - if you think that “any guard “ could have led that team to the title.
None of that is to diminish the player that Joker is.
But equally don’t diminish OKC getting over the line for their first title just because Indy were plucky. It’s dangerous ground
Take a look at Joker in the playoffs - stats can really paint a picture:
Joker playoffs
7 years
16 series
10-6 overall
1-6 vs 1-3 seed
9-0 vs 4-8 seed
0-5 vs >50 win teams
10-1 vs <50 win teams
We can all write a story to suit.
