Canterbury piste off over Sonny Bill skiing

Yeh I'm One them haters, he should never got a look in. All Blacks are what they are because they are a Star team willing to put their bodies on the line for each other, Black Jersey and there country. they don't need a guy just looking to increase his next pay cheque. If he wants to be an All Black he should at lest have to do two years, not just the NPC. Be a different story if he had all ready played NPC and Super Rugby gone overseas and comeback, but He hasn't hes just cheapening the Jersey

yes i agree this club rugby level is very poor, SBW is all class, he has nothing to do with ITM cup

I hear he's thinking of going for mayor in Auckland next.

looks like he is full focused on rugby lol

Why would you leave the south of France, making good coin to move to Christchurch on the off-chance you will make it for the Blacks. They lose World Cups all the time anyhow. He should have played for the French.

This is gibberish... If they don't want son to play let him be his own man... this is club rugby rubbish.. sonny should be is the 22 line up for Canturby not Belfast

@Altona .. As mentioned If he "dominates" enough and proves himself, awesome! Stop being such so negative. This guy has the potential to be phenomenal - note, "potential" - and I hope he steps up to the plate. If not, too bad for him, someone better will get the job. Though as I suggest, I reckon his dodgy looking agent had an auto-selection for NH tour clause in there somewhere. You'd hope Ted & Co put some form of required performance in there though. If Nonu went down we need another blockbuster at 12 I say. We have finesse at 13 but 12 is working for us and has done since Umaga. 'cept when Nonu was still a relative newby in 07. I wanna see this guy play and see for real if he has what it takes - despite all the negativity about it. Too many bitter haters out there.;)

you want him to make the NH tour? tell me what real Kiwi should lose his spot for this walking headline

Haha classic.

You would think he should have been at the game supporting the boys but who knows? Maybe with the circus entourage the management didn't want the team disrupted... As it was they botched the job on Tasman anyways. I wanna see this guy make the NH tour but he is gonna need to dominate or the NZRFU will forever be wearing this one. Best guess is his name is already on the squad sheet for October though. (PS: I reckon the Canty boys hate him. )

"Williams has been “reminded of his responsibilities.”" Fair enough - I keep forgetting that he is only about 7 years old, up top. Bit like our bloke - or Parramatta league's bloke - really. It's probably just as well he is so very special and didn't have to sign up for an apprenticeship, like other young adults. He'd never lose his way to the pay office, but he'd be flat out remembering to turn up to his tech classes.

Khoder Nasser is reportedly speaking to the Switzerland Ski Federation about SBW walking out on the NZRU in a few weeks...

Make good decisions away from the field so it would seem.

Skiing while recovering eh? If true this bloke must have s t for brains.

Wow...skier, boxer, union and league player. Is there nothing this guy can't do?

The air time this bloke gets is phenomenal. Probably not the wisest thing to do when you cant take the field.

jesus...storm in a tea cup.

SBW still has family in NZ (including his mum). I imagine he's already copped an earful from her. In any case, SBW's contract only runs for the ITM Cup. If he doesn't wash up, they'll cut him loose after that (or even before!). If he does measure up, they will activate a clause in his contract so that he can play S15. If he does well there then they MIGHT activate his AB clause

Nice!

JF, not without walking away from an existing contract. Oh, hang on....