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Of course, it’s no coincidence that Finau makes excellent legal tackles time and again. Christie’s coincidence argument is a red-herring that has no relevance to the issue at all.
'Purely coincidental': Chiefs coach defends bruiser after ANOTHER late shot leaves Tah flattened - but was it legal?
The on-field officials deemed the tackles legal, the time lapse after passing is well within the physics of the game.
Finau’s mistake is that he’s too good at it, his technique and timing were impeccable. That he can deliver this over 4 matches is a clear testament to his skill set.
'Purely coincidental': Chiefs coach defends bruiser after ANOTHER late shot leaves Tah flattened - but was it legal?
Dominance isn’t unfair play.
'Purely coincidental': Chiefs coach defends bruiser after ANOTHER late shot leaves Tah flattened - but was it legal?
Fantastic tackling from Finau.
So good and so legal that Christie and his ilk have been reduced to manipulating McMillan into defending the Chief’s unfair dominance. Whether it’s a coaching directive or not is completely irrelevant and McMillan doesn’t need to defend anything.
'Purely coincidental': Chiefs coach defends bruiser after ANOTHER late shot leaves Tah flattened - but was it legal?
The real question is why do the Chiefs need to justify such legal play to anyone in the first place?
'Purely coincidental': Chiefs coach defends bruiser after ANOTHER late shot leaves Tah flattened - but was it legal?
It’s a funny coincidence how many nations had their all-time best teams – Boks, French, Irish, Scotland, Pumas, etc.
How do you explain Foster’s 50% winning percentage over 8 years with the Chiefs? Did his Super tenure also coincide with the best non-Chief teams?
Occam’s razor states that the most logically simplest explanation is usually correct, and Occam thinks Foster is a dud coach.
The forgotten leader Razor must pick for the All Blacks - and why it could change who wears the prized No.10 jersey
Beal was a great player in space but always struggled in the collision zone, whether in defence or attack.
10 years ago there was more space and less bash in the game, but the game has become more and more focused on size, power and the collision zone since.
A young Beal would struggle with the modern international game, 35-year-old Beal won’t cope.
What Joe Schmidt told Kurtley Beale about his Wallabies future
I think your memory has been badly let down by a combination of anti-Kiwi bias and general idiocy.
Pretty much everyone, including Kiwi commenters and fans, thought it was a poor call by the ref at the time.
Five things we learned: One area Gordon must fix to convince Wallabies boss, ABs bruiser should be on notice
TT may have played long minutes 4 years ago but it’s largely irrelevant when you have a glaring elephant in the room; TT’s current weight and fitness, and to have Stiles cast out red herrings as a distraction to the real issue doesn’t help anybody, especially TT.
TT was injured in 2022, 2 years after his heavy workload in 2020, it’s a very long stretch to claim that his injury was a direct consequence of that.
The truth is that TT isn’t particularly injury prone relative to other players. Two significant injuries by the age of 27 isn’t unusual, it’s even normal, so where does the narrative come from that he’s been broken? I see a guy struggling on the field but the obvious reason is because he’s overweight.
'He'd been flogged to death': Rebels GM's scathing Tupou claim as Wallaby battles to reignite his fire
Except Ireland and the Boks were excellent before O’Connell and Brown became involved so your analogy makes no sense. The ABs were horrible under Foster and improved significantly with Schmidt.
In what world does a below average Super coach become a good International coach? Next you’ll be claiming poor club players can become great international players.
Razor's pursuit of 'hard bastard' Sam Whitelock reveals the ugly truth about the modern All Blacks
Razor is highly popular among the NZ rugby public, unlike Foster who is roundly disliked as a self-entitled crony.
Super record:
Razor – 5/5 Super championships, 84% win rate.
Foster – 0/8 Super championships, 50% win rate.
Any comparison between the two is laughable.
Razor's pursuit of 'hard bastard' Sam Whitelock reveals the ugly truth about the modern All Blacks
Schmidt brought it up 70%, under Foster it was more like 60%.
Notice how no professional team has picked up Foster as a coach, he’s a known liability even at club\franchise level as his 50% Super record shows.
Razor's pursuit of 'hard bastard' Sam Whitelock reveals the ugly truth about the modern All Blacks
I think Harry is saying they’re not as athletically gifted as some of their contemporaries. They don’t stand out for their exceptional pace, ball skills, footwork, etc. Obviously they have other talents that have made them great players like tactical smarts, workrate, technique, etc.
Joe Schmidt's search for a 'cold-hearted bastard' - and the issue he'll lose most sleep over
Culturally safe? Religiously safe? Safe from what? Safe from thinking your own thoughts based on your own experiences and observations is what.
The most despicable and oppressive regimes throughout history were and are littered with state-controlled committees for so-called public ‘Safety’.
‘Safety’ being an excuse to suppress any sort of thinking that the political elites don’t like.
Modern medical science is built on rational free thinking and inquiry, cultural indoctrination and conformity are the complete antithesis to this.
Waugh reveals shocking $2.6 million unapproved budget blowout on Eddie Jones' World Cup debacle
Australian rugby had a golden period from the late 1980s to late 1990s. The early 2000s was more a return to normal. The last 7 years has been unprecedented and downright awful.
You can’t maintain standards when a significant number of players don’t deserve to be there, and those that do, end up conforming to the new normal.
'Our talent is spread too thin': Ex-Wallabies captain urges Rugby Australia to cut Super teams
It’s not lazy analysis.
There’s been a clear and consistent decline in Australian Super teams and the Wallabies since the introduction of a 4th and then 5th team.
It didn’t happen overnight but it has happened. You can cherry pick outliers but the pattern is clear to see.
When the Australian squads went from consisting of majority super or international level players and became majority club level payers it was inevitable that standards would drop.
The theory was that opportunity would lead to excellence, this is a fallacy, competition and survival of the fitness leads to excellence.
The Wallabies are now ranked 9th, the AU Super teams have an abysmal record against NZ teams over the last 7 years. Nothing in the old 3 team era remotely compares to these lows.
You can argue that a lack of investment in grassroots rugby lead to this demise and not the number of Super teams, but Super teams are hugely expensive and the horribleness of their performances has systematically eroded AU rugby’s marketing appeal. There’s a good argument that over commitment to Super rugby has been a significant factor in undermining Australian rugby.
'Our talent is spread too thin': Ex-Wallabies captain urges Rugby Australia to cut Super teams
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Australia chose to sow it’s limited talent over infertile rugby fields in the optimistic hope that this would lead to a bumper harvest in the future.
This was clearly a fallacy, in effect they merely dumbed down the standard of their rugby by flooding their squads with the culture of club-level players. The few elite Australian players in each squad actually went backwards as they conformed to the new culture.
Now you want NZ rugby to follow suite and offer up it’s talent to be dumbed down in a similar manner.
It’s human nature to conform and it’s easier to conform to the lowest common denominator than the highest. The only way standards lift is when the talent exceeds the opportunities. Australia got it the wrong way around and created more opportunities than they had talent.
Don’t expect NZ rugby to fall for the same fallacy.
The Wrap: Opening round of SRP a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same
Yes, it’s a self-entitled and small-minded attitude.
Australia dumbed down it’s rugby so NZ should follow suit to make Australian rugby feel better about itself.
Super rugby as a whole should be striving to match the standards of the Crusaders and Chiefs, Australia can only do this by going back to 3 competitive sides.
There’s already a looming danger that the best NZ sides are falling behind the NH clubs.
The Wrap: Opening round of SRP a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same
Australia’s woes started when they diluted the quality of their teams to the point where they were simply uncompetitive. There’s absolutely no attraction for fans in seeing your sporting teams inevitably beaten. Not only did Super suffer, but so did the performances of the Wallabies as a result of the general decline in professional standards; To little talent, spread to wide, means no real stimulus for player self-improvement. It’s human nature that the elite drag the rest of us up.
The answer is not to dilute your talent even further.
No potential international player will stick around to play in a poor comp. The standards of NRC will barely be above club level, the leap from NRC to Test rugby will become insurmountable and the Wallabies will become entrenched as a 2nd tier team. NPC rugby is struggling for relevance in NZ and it has far more history behind it and established professional standards than NRC will ever have.
Poaching NZ coaches won't solve the Wallabies' woes - the real solution is a lot less sexy
Gamble and Browne are Kiwis who couldn’t make a NZ Super squad but have done well or even dominated in Australia. They’re hardly supporting evidence for the claim that Australia has plenty of talent at 7.
Wallaby signs with English giants in new setback for reeling Rebels
True, it certainly wasn’t a particularly good AB side, but without Schmidt it would probably be 0 from 4.
Given you believe that there were improvements in the ABs, I don’t see an evidential basis for disregarding Schmidt but praising Ryan. Ireland were widely acknowledged to have best breakdown and ball control in world rugby but the ABs outplayed them and I think some credit should go to Schimdt. Coles obviously believes Schmidt was an important contributor.
Meanwhile teflon man Foster, walks away with his millions and his sense of self-entitlement intact.
'Something we needed': Coles says ABs would not have made RWC final without Schmidt - and why Wallabies stand to benefit
Hansen reveals self awareness isn’t a concept that’s disturbed the workings of his mind too much.
I’m sure there’s slugs in my vege patch who have a better grasp of irony.
Rugby News: 'Doesn't seem right' - Mack urges RA to avoid Kiwi coach, Clive tells Poms to ditch 'ridiculous' ban
It is the same unless you want to create a whole new round of racial antagonism.
A what point do you say, hey it’s all square now, time to start behaving yourselves. 50 years, 100 years?
The root of the problem is the collective them versus us mentality and the answer should be to reject such thinking not justify it.
England's Curry accused Bongi Mbonambi of vile racial insult - but Boks fans have alternative explanation
I’m not following your logic.
Results clearly improve under Schmidt and Ryan but because they don’t reach dizzying heights this somehow excuses Foster’s poor results?
Why are you holding Foster to such a low benchmark but others to a higher?
I think we all know why.
'Mature, clinical and getting better every time': All Blacks time run perfectly as they hone in on fourth title
‘most of those hits would be penalized in the northern hem. I don’t doubt that.’
I do not doubt that your unprovable and hypothetical scenario would conform to your bias.
'Purely coincidental': Chiefs coach defends bruiser after ANOTHER late shot leaves Tah flattened - but was it legal?