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A magnificent performance by the All Blacks in wet and windy conditions. Keeping the Wallabies scoreless was perhaps the most satisfying aspect of the…
McDonald has had the Blues for 3 years. They won the transtasman last year and are on form to win again this year.
Razor is the coach of a franchise that already had the culture, the systems, the rugby academy to get first pick of players and the history behind them. Even Foster could coach the Crusaders and do well.
What McDonald has achieved with the Blues is incredible. Whether the additions to the coaching team made the difference or not is irrelevant (I think they have made a difference, but not so great considering last years form). What is relevant is that McDonald had the wherewithal to actually make those additions. The additions to the AB’s like Joe Schmidt, were forced on Foster. He didn’t ask for them.
With you in that Foster will be there to lose the RWC. And yes, by then, the AB’s will have gone 2 decades with effectively the same coaching team.
Alarm bells should be ringing in NZ
That would imply Foster has something new. Would be the first time he’s brought something new in about 50 years.
Alarm bells should be ringing in NZ
Wait for the intensity of the Super Rugby final before making such wild judgements. You’re comparing the intensity of the European final against round robin rugby against poor opposition. You’re only up for what you’re against.
New Zealands biggest problem is the All Black coach. We had virtually a losing season last year. It will be worse this year because in Foster, you couldn’t find a more mediocre coach.
Leon McDonald should be made All Blacks coach tomorrow. Anyone who can do what he’s done for the Blues should be an automatic national coach.
Alarm bells should be ringing in NZ
Funny, I saw the top of the table clash between La Rochelle & Toulouse.
La Rochelle needed to score in extra time to win and their intensity compared to any NZ Super Rugby team in the same position was literally invisible.
Having said that, the AB’s will not have the same final minute intensity because they have a mediocre coach who has mediocre selections and a mediocre captain.
If Foster was worth 2 cents as a coach, he’d dump Caine for Papalii and make Whitelock the captain.
'The biggest f--- you' or 'Force be damned'? Fans split after Rebels' last play kills Aussie rivals' finals hopes
I am nervous. However, I also have a funny feeling that the All Blacks are going to send a message to the world that’s going to be loud, clear and irrefutable.
Here’s hoping.
England vs All Blacks: Rugby World Cup 2019 semi-final preview and prediction
Disagree. Kerevi put his arm up to stop his face colliding with Patchells head. The distance between the two allowed only a forearm up to stop it. He used this defensive action to act also as a fend in the act of defending himself.
It wasn’t an intentional forearm to the Welshman. I wanted Wales to win and I though it outrageous. A decision that goes against everything I played the game for.
World Rugby and the refs are killing the game
21 – 19 semi final to England. With a NH ref, 5 penalties and 2 drop kicks to England. 3 tries and 2 conversions to the AB’s. Whistled off the park, 4 sin bins and a red card for looking scary.
England demolish Argentina after early red card
I watched as Kerevi was penalised for a fend. Then switched over to the NRL and saw 4 tackles in a row that would have had the players sent off in Rugby.
The once “thugs game played by gentlemen” is most definitely fast becoming a gentleman’s game played by no one as scores of people start switching over to the new “real mans” game.
World Rugby and the refs are killing the game
Not at all. It wasn’t the team that did it. It would be an individual player. Send him from the field, let the team play 10 minutes a player down and then replace him.
Why ruin the game as a contest for an entire team and all of those who payed good money to see a contest for the brain explosion or badly executed actions of one player?
BTW, it would probably do Australia some good if they lost Hooper to injury. He’s not half the player you think he is.
World Rugby and the refs are killing the game
Which one was that? Obviously long ago and far away.
England demolish Argentina after early red card
They will look invincible with a NH ref. I have always maintained that we should have 2 or 3 guest refs from the NH in the Super Rugby comp so SH teams can get used to their pedantic officiating.
England 15 – 14 in the final with Jerome Garces or Nigel Owens reffing.
England demolish Argentina after early red card
They are. They are holding back the ref. You can guarantee a ref will decide this RWC and it will be a NH ref and it will be England who benefit.
Put an undy on England taking the RWC with a 15 – 14 win in the final.
England demolish Argentina after early red card
Because the NRL does it, means that the IRB most surely won’t do it.
Remember when there was a push to make penalty kicks less influential by having them reduced to 2 points like in League? Nah, we’ll make tries worth 5 points.
So don’t expect the IRB to have a “on report” function since the NRL already do it. Most effective will be having the red carded player replaced after 10 minutes.
England demolish Argentina after early red card
A red card is a punishment way out of proportion to the offense. It is also highly unfair. An All Blacks team against most teams can live with losing a player. If France losses one against England or vice versa, the game is effectively lost and has been ruined.
I propose a red card offender is replaced by another player after 10 minutes (a sin binning). That way the game isn’t effectively ruined for the team reduced to 14 men. The infringing player is punished by removal from the game and the fans will still have a competition to watch.
England demolish Argentina after early red card
Red cards have far to much impact on a game and are unfair. If the All Blacks lost a player to a red card against Canada, it won’t hurt them to much. But if Samoa lost a a player to a red card against Japan or vice versa, it would effectively end the game for the team with 14 players.
In cases where a player has infringed so badly as warranting expulsion from the game, then he should have a replacement come on after a 10 minute sin binning. That way the team is sufficiently punished without effectively having the game taken off them. The infringing player will be removed from the game and the fans won’t have the game ruined.
World Rugby and the refs are killing the game
So being penalized for fending off a tackler in a way that happens in every tackle, in every game, on every weekend in every part of the world is ok by you? BTW, there were coathanger tackles when I played. They have been rightly and effectively outlawed. There was tackling players in the air when I played. That to has been rightly and effectively outlawed.
Players going into a game know they can’t coathanger or tackle a player in the air and try to avoid that. Because it has been effectively outlawed.
What we are seeing at the RWC is the IRB deciding to outlaw other aspects of play that might be under consideration and are ruining the game in the process. It’s like the cops stopping you for doing a perfectly legal U turn, because the police department wants to make them illegal.
World Rugby and the refs are killing the game
No, Faf was seriously flat. His box kicks were totally ineffective. Too far, to deep, to aimless and to pointless.
Five talking points from All Blacks vs Springboks
I have always said the Giteau law was a dumb law.
Players are busting their guts week in, week out playing Super Rugby for Australian teams. They turn down overseas and League offers in the dream of chasing that Wallaby jersey, only to see some bloke who’s plying his trade offshore get selected with a big wad of cash.
Those players, become disillusioned with the ARU and will start taking those offers from League and overseas. This will in turn mean selecting players of club standard only to play Super Rugby. You’ll have close inter state clashes, but lose by 50 points against any overseas team, including the Sunwolves.
Fans will fall away in droves. Your TV networks won’t have viewers and therefore, wont be buying content. More and more young players will switch to league as they see the ARU lose money hand over fist and can only offer its players bugger all.
You then have clubs not releasing its players. You make it to the world cup. Hooper playing, For Sale, has an “injury” and is “unavailable”. So are all the other flankers you’ve let go (because you know the law will get less and less stringent and more and more players sod off because some bloke overseas keeps getting selected for the Wallabies). So Hoopers replacement will be Shane from Coober Pedy who’s played three Super Rugby games for the South Australian Outbacks.
You will almost become the Brazil of the Rugby world. A great international record (thanks to the firm arm of FIFA), but a broke, second rate local comp. Like Brazil, but without the firm arm of FIFA. (or the international record)….
Get rid of the Giteau Law.
Is it time to scrap the Giteau law?
Excellent piece and very well thought out.
I think the biggest issue is going to be the reffing. When the Boks or AB’s play England in the semi and then possibly the final, which hemisphere will the ref be from?
I have always advocated for guest ref’s from the NH in our Super Rugby to cover that very scenario.
Six paths to hoist the World Cup
They were on the slide before then.
When they lost to England, the entire coaching staff should have been unceremoniously dumped. Because they would have been the only 3 people on the planet who didn’t know England was targeting that game for the previous 3 years.
Instead, they gave Foster the head job and the AB’s continue to tank like a Bitcoin share.
The AB’s didn’t choke in the 2019 semi final, they didn’t turn up. It was a classic example of a team that thought they would win vs a team that believed they would win.
Alarm bells should be ringing in NZ