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A good measure then, if it is available, would be to see how many minutes, per game, each player played. This might be a good indicator of how valuable he actually was overall to the team.
The rugby centurions: A pseudoscientific analysis
Reminds me of the guy in the office who makes a bad smell and leaves.
Three areas that cost the Wallabies at Twickenham – and refereeing is not one
What a load of BS. Those black players in the Springboks team sleep fine.
Do you think those corn-fed, middle-class, white boys who get promotions in Australia despite knowing that the brown guy is 20% better than them, but get the job anyway because they’re a better “cultural fit”, sleep badly at night?
The third (or 300th) best doctor often does cure your kid in Australia mate, so get off your pulpit.
Pretend you are the next Springbok coach
8:00 pm AEST (7:00 pm local time)?
you actually mean 8:00 pm AEDT (7:00 pm AEST)
Wallabies vs All Blacks Bledisloe Cup third Test date, kick-off time
Barrett has been pretty average this year, too many nothing chip kicks, wasting possession with only one in five plays coming off. I’m keen to see what Lima Sopoaga can do.
Damien Mackenzie is a flake and the Wallabies should definitely target him.
Wallabies vs All Blacks Bledisloe Cup third Test date, kick-off time
I think Folau aimed high. Anyone who has played rugby can see that he has poor tackle technique.
If Folau was beaten as you say then why was his instinct to resort to foul play? Your comment is probably a reflection on your attitude and the way that you played the game.
Michael Cheika was wrong to defend Israel Folau's hair-pulling tackle
Wow, you really are a drongo.
Nick Farr-Jones talks to The Roar: "We need someone to be a messiah"
You’re dreaming.
Folau is great under the highball, but doesn’t offer enough in defence to be considered for the All Blacks.
Beale is a utility player at best for the All Blacks and Lima Sopoaga, for example, has all the skills and more that Beale offers.
The Wallabies are making Eddie Jones nervous
So wrong. You need to read the rules of rugby union. If you are too lazy to Google it, then, specifically rule 20.9(b), 20.3(f) and rule 20.10(c).
If you still can’t understand that or want to argue it then go back to watching league.
Saturday's Aussie winner was Sydney club rugby, not the Wallabies
That’s funny right there that is. Thanks for the laugh, almost choked on my tea.
Saturday's Aussie winner was Sydney club rugby, not the Wallabies
What about the 3rd game between the All Blacks in the British and Irish Lions? If the referee hadn’t changed his mind after talking to the British and Irish Lions captain, the All Blacks would have won the series.
Saturday's Aussie winner was Sydney club rugby, not the Wallabies
Highlanders had no idea how to play wet weather rugby. Much like the Wallabies they only had a plan A.
Aaron “Shagger” Smith spent the first half kicking away any possession they had, even in the opposition half, which is criminal.
In the second half his teammates did the same. No wonder they lost.
Crusaders hold Highlanders scoreless in Super Rugby quarter-final
Best all black team ever!!!
Just shows that players like Read and the Saveas are window dressing without Retalick and Whitelock.
Credit to the Irish they played one of their better games but this performance from the All Blacks was pretty ordinary.
Without Whitelock and especially Retalick hitting the rucks the All Blacks lost the breakdown contest and the ongoing poor handling pretty much sealed the deal.
Highlights: 111 years in the making, Ireland finally beat All Blacks
it could still be. They don’t have to do the Grand Slam, as long as they beat England at the end they’ll finish the year on a high note. Cheika, the Australian media and the Wallaby cheerleaders will spin it so the Wallabies are world-beaters on the rise and that during the first part of the year was just a blip. After all they are World Cup finalists who won the Rugby Championship in 2015 while one of their coaches has won a club rugby tournament in the northern hemisphere as well as a Super title in the Southern hemisphere. While another coach has won a super rugby title as well as a world cup (albeit not as a coach.)
Wallabies need to go back-to-back: Hooper
Let me start by saying I think in the spirit of the game Speight’s should have been awarded the try.
I would also have loved to see if the AB’s cracked being 17-15 down.
Also appreciate the fact that you have given to the game for 25 years and not to get personal but I know people who have been driving for 30 years and still don’t know the road rule. so your 25 years of refereeing doesn’t cut a lot of ice with me in your argument. It’s nice that you refereed for 25 year but it doesn’t mean you have read and understood the rulebooks better than Nigel Owens and the TMO.
Couple of points that have been done to death. (so one more time can’t hurt)
1. D-Hyphen obviously thought Savea was a chance to tackle Speight’s or he wouldn’t have barged him off the ball.
2. A significant number of people both Aussie and Kiwi think Savea should have been given the chance to catch Speights. We all know that a player without the ball runs faster than a player with the ball. D-Hyphen’s actions mean we will never know.
Nigel Owens and the TMO have nothing to answer for. D-Hyphen robbed us of a little bit of the enjoyment we would have got from a closer contest and a footrace between two speedsters.
I forgive him though and still think he should be in the 15 jersey.
Kafer and Kearns are another matter though. They’re a national embarrassment. Thank God their commentary was only heard in Australia.
Eight talking points: All Blacks vs Wallabies, third Bledisloe Cup Test
I think the Wallabies were huge.
Sekope Kefu had a standout game in the loose.
Despite what everyone here seems to think, i thought Mumm had a pretty good game.
Foley straightened up the attack a lot more than Cooper would have but unfortunately had no one on his shoulder. His goal kicking was off though.
Hodge had a bad game, he got charged down, gave away the Savea penalty and didn’t support Foley well on his runs. But up against the All Blacks, at Eden Park, in his first game at 12 in a Wallaby coach, being prepped by arguably the worst backline coach in international rugby, I can forgive him a lot.
They didn’t win on the scoreboard but had enough possession to win the game and a lot of little things cost them.
They came away from the game with a lot of respect (which is not something the Boks could say two weeks ago.)
I’ll be pleasantly surprised if they do the Grand Slam but i can see them winning at least three and probably four of those games.
Highlights: All Blacks run away with world-record 18th win
Probably because it wasn’t a forward pass.
This year’s clarification of the forward pass rule has been that the pass is not deemed to go forward if the player who threw it remains ahead of the ball which Cruden clearly did.
This is because, for example, if a player is running forward at a relatively moderate 15kph, for the ball not to go forward he would have to throw it backwards at more than 15kph as well as throwing it sideways. If you look at passes when players are running this would not be the case for most of them and so most backline moves would be called back for forward passes. If the letter of the law was applied.
The impact for the Wallabies would be that a player like Cooper, who throws a lot of “flat” passes while moving, would be called back for a forward pass pretty much every time.
Highlights: All Blacks run away with world-record 18th win
ROFLMAO.
I’m pretty sure that it hasn’t taken the gloss off for the AB’s, that’s pure wishful thinking on your part.
They are not going to be cracking one bottle less of champagne (or sparkling white, as the best stuff is now called) because they think it took the gloss off.
Highlights: All Blacks run away with world-record 18th win
This is a basic example of someone with a theoretical grasp of mathematics trying to apply it to an everyday situation and be accurate to the decimal place when the numbers he is using are +/-50%.
If you’re going to provide accuracy you should consider that Speight was between 30 and 40m from the tryline and not running at full speed because he was looking to see if he would need to step anyone to the left of him. (The fact that Hodge who is not a speedster was keeping up with him lends credence to this assumption.)
Hence if you want to show off you should provide a range of velocities as your answer.
Good amateur hit out though, but maybe you should stay off the turps if you are going to post.
Highlights: All Blacks run away with world-record 18th win
Dude, your posts are so hard to understand.
How about investing some time in working on your grammar and spelling, otherwise it’s a mission for anyone to understand what you’re (not your) banging on about.
CONFIRMED: Fijian team to be welcomed into the NRC
You hear stories about when overseas teams do occasionally come to play, the union gets schoolkids to go out on the field the day before the game and pick up as many stones as they can.
CONFIRMED: Fijian team to be welcomed into the NRC
One of the ongoing problems with the Rugby Unions in the islands is that the administrations are corrupt (from a Western viewpoint). There are numerous stories of players not getting paid while administrators are going on first class trips and other junkets.
If World Rugby pumped $10M into the islands the players would be lucky to see it.
People in countries like NZ and Australia don’t realise the enormous respect that islanders have for their chiefly casts. They are taught from childhood not to question anything these people do or say. It is typically people from the chiefly caste who end up in positions of authority in these organisations and they have been raised to think that it is their right to look after themselves well.
A softly softly approach with a big requirement for accountability is the best way forward with funding rugby in the islands.
CONFIRMED: Fijian team to be welcomed into the NRC
Dude, do you have any understanding of international player rules?
Once Folau has played for the Wallabies he is not eligible for any other team.
Remember the Hayne Plane? Once he played sevens for Fiji he became ineligible for any other country in either sevens or fifteens.
No matter how woeful he is in a Wallaby jersey he’s not going to trade the soft training he has here for the hardcore requirements they have in NZ.
He’s shown no inclination to improve his skill set with the Waratahs or Wallabies so why would he want to go to NZ where he will be forced to do that.
In regards to the Kiwi girlfriend, a girlfriend is just that, not a wife. Aaron Smith goes through them like candy.
Be warned Wallabies: Use Israel Folau's brilliance, or lose him
I see your point, Australians can only act like sportsmen if they are winning.
But don’t the Wallabies still beat the Pumas?
Nick Phipps doesn't deserve to be wearing green and gold
Dude??
You do realise that in the June internationals South Africa will be playing England and Australia will be playing Ireland?
Based on this, in which universe is MC going to extract revenge on EJ?
Which teams have the halves to win the next Rugby World Cup?