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Harry what’s your take on whether defense or attack is more tiring when you’ve got a team like Ireland building phases, building rucks, getting their runners into position all the time, etc? Opinion seems to be divided among experts/pundits (even coaches).
I was leaning towards defense, after considering how aggressive and active the defensive systems are in big games (eg. rush defense, and the need to get back onside sometimes after employing it) but reading your comments here about ruck resourcing I’m doubting again.
'Two global heavyweights eyeing each other' - who will prevail in Pool B glamour bout between Boks and Ireland?
Saving him a little for the Wales game probably.
This is no time for X-factor: The Wallabies' challenge is to find a structure to out-structure super-structured Wales
Saving him a little for the Wales game probably.
This is no time for X-factor: The Wallabies' challenge is to find a structure to out-structure super-structured Wales
There’s a description of gambling I’ve never heard before – ‘natural and necessary’. I’ll have to try that one on the wife when she catches me losing the rent betting on the ruggers.
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And take note pros with injury woes, and good little’uns looking for the long lost ‘game for all sizes’ – don’t go putting the blame for any of that on the exponential increase in player size/weight since the game turned pro (nor on WR’s willfull ignorance of the link between that and various body/brain traumas in contact sports over the last 20 years) – blame SA with their 7-1 bench split against NZ last week!
Exclusive: Eddie to spring huge No.15 shock to start World Cup as Donno's 'natural game' gives him an edge
There’s a description of gambling I’ve never heard before – ‘natural and necessary’. I’ll have to try that one on the wife when she catches me losing the rent betting on the ruggers.
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And take note pros with your injury woes, and good little’uns looking for a game for all sizes – don’t blame the exponential increase in player size/weight since the game turned pro for any of that (nor WR’s willfull ignorance of the link between that and various body/brain traumas in contact sports over the last 20 years) – blame SA with their 7-1 bench split against NZ last week!
SPIRO ZAVOS: The best team in the tournament, not necessarily the best team, will win the 2023 RWC
I also have reservations about Libbok, especially big match temperament. Stormers lost the URC final because of a huge blunder by Libbok in the closing minutes. I gather he was encouraged to take risk through the season, which could partly explain his blunders, but still, jury out for me and signs so far are not great.
Last chance for NZ's Rennie generation, Boks' edge of experience: Which teams are peaking on 'strong side' of the draw
Harry how much escoffier stock do you put in the chatter about Jones bringing Quade back in through the camp injury back door?
RWC Backs Power Rankings: 'Cohesive, smart' Ireland edge ABs, the glimmer of hope for unproven Wallabies
I’m not doing any ba*ting there (not intentionally at least!). By bayt-ing I’m talking about intentionally annoying fans etc, trying to create polemics, drive clicks, scrolls, comments,etc. Are you referring to my post above, or some other?
RWC News: 'Losing three biggest academies' - Eddie's truth bomb for ABs, Poms' 'horrendous' fear
Fair points. He’s just trying to b-a-i-t people (excuse the hypens everywhere in my posts. The censoprship algorithm keeps blocking weird words). He made that joke a while back on the breakdown. It’s a good joke, but he chooses his moments for these kinds of jokes, eh? He’s lobbing bom*s everywhere at the moment. It was at the RFU today. I don’t think he actually means more than 10% of what he says, just feeding the machine. Can’t see what he hopes to achieve by criticizing the RFU now. I mean, are the players really emotionally invested in the public image of the RFU enough to care? The fans definitely aren’t.
RWC News: 'Losing three biggest academies' - Eddie's truth bomb for ABs, Poms' 'horrendous' fear
Fair points. My main point there is he’s just trying to bait people. He made that joke a while back on the breakdown. Good joke, but he makes these kinds of jokes at just the right time eh? He’s lobbing bombs everywhere at the moment. It was at the RFU today. I don’t think he actually means 10% of what he says.
RWC News: 'Losing three biggest academies' - Eddie's truth bomb for ABs, Poms' 'horrendous' fear
Just trying to rile-up Kiwis, get the comments flowing in. Australia has only 2 fewer foreign-born players in their squad than NZ.
RWC News: 'Losing three biggest academies' - Eddie's truth bomb for ABs, Poms' 'horrendous' fear
You say the bench is primarily for injury cover, but the thing is, it just isn’t. Look at how rugby teams use their bench. Bench subs for tactical reasons outnumber injuries by, what, about 4 to 1? They USED to be for the purposes you mention, but they ain’t anymore!
Blood infections was never a reason for subs…….although blood transfusions might be handy for some for the players in the Barbarian’s matches 😁
Packs Power Rankings: Boks' 'bomb squad' edges France, injured Wallaby who Eddie can't replace
Sounds like the forgotten pommy lovechild of a Roman emperor.
Packs Power Rankings: Boks' 'bomb squad' edges France, injured Wallaby who Eddie can't replace
Great article.
Packs Power Rankings: Boks' 'bomb squad' edges France, injured Wallaby who Eddie can't replace
Have a sniff, but don’t bite mate! (you know what the headline writer was up to). The player was talking up the change of style more than performance.
'We're going to shock a lot of teams': Young gun bullish ahead of Wallabies' final pre-RWC Test against France
'We're going to shock a lot of teams': Young gun bullish ahead of Wallabies' final pre-RWC Test against France
Anyone have a link for this interview or the article? The framing here as ‘bullish’ seems a bit contrived to me, based on what is quoted above. Sounds like he’s talking about the ‘shock’ coming more from the change in playing style rather than the performance he expects them to put in. Could be wrong. Would like to read/watch the interview if anyone has a link.
'We're going to shock a lot of teams': Young gun bullish ahead of Wallabies' final pre-RWC Test against France
Why do you say that about workloads? Could be wrong, but over the course of a career I was under the impression south hemisphere athletes tend to have slightly lighter duty, given the grinding schedule of northern hemisphere domestic competitions.
Springboks make nine changes for Argentina as world champs aim to 'peak at right time'
I don’t think anyone really knows. Apparently quota expectations are more strictly applied the lower down you go in level. Generally SARU mentions in its ‘transformation’ policy that they apply apply positive discrimination in favour of black athletes only where two athletes are adjudged to be of equal talent (‘Merit, with preferential treatment’).
At national level SARU refuse to clarify the policy. Erasmus claims squad is picked on merit, which prima facie seems to contradict with some of SARU’s global transformation policies.
Springboks make nine changes for Argentina as world champs aim to 'peak at right time'
I noticed a while back there’s a notable tendency for Roc Nation players to lose form, or plateau, after getting picked up by the agency (Marcus Rashford, Sbu Nkosi, Aphelele Fassi, Maro Itoje). There’s something about that organisation that goes to the head of some of its athletes. Whatever else is going on their with promotional expectations you mention, I have noticed there is a strong ‘woke’ flavour to their PR, which as an objective point tends to correlate negatively with athletic performance. Think Wales Rugby Union 2022/23, Exeter Chiefs 2021, Wasps 2021, etc. are cases in point there I think, from the rugby world.
Springboks make nine changes for Argentina as world champs aim to 'peak at right time'
So that people have some reason to believe their ‘opinion’ is actually based on anything? To state the obvious, people don’t trust journalists……..
Lending credibility to information/’news’ is time-consuming, and expensive. Journalists (their bosses, really) get around this problem though by making sure they don’t contain much information (of interest). Or that all the information is self evident 😁
No slight meant against this author in particular by the above. Not a fan of this website for various reasons, chiefly the difficulty of making a comment which is politically correct enough to satisfy the mods and bots, but there are some good articles on here in my opinion. I like Harry’s in particular.
Andy's doomed Suaalii stance shows most dangerous place in Aus rugby is in between Hamish and Eddie
The credibility of an ‘opinion piece’ is just a susceptible to a lack of quotes/sources, etc. as other kinds of piece….
Investigative journalism with any kind of informative, democratic function, if it ever really existed, is long dead, even for the important stuff…What are the chances of finding it in an article about Eddie Jones?
Andy's doomed Suaalii stance shows most dangerous place in Aus rugby is in between Hamish and Eddie
What’s the La Rochelle/Bulls rubric Harry?
'Ireland is the new New Zealand': Top dogs and proud of it, the emerald isle is locked in passionate embrace of rugby
Power rankings for all positions pleeeeease Harry!
Power rankings: The top 10 flyhalves in world rugby come from eight countries, but none of them are Aussies
So even if they keep it narrow, in a ball-in-hand type of game carriers still generally more knackered than tacklers as the game progresses in your view?
'Two global heavyweights eyeing each other' - who will prevail in Pool B glamour bout between Boks and Ireland?