Recent content by drewprint

Back on the bench back rower topic, my hope is that next year it could be Cale. Fully agree it’s a wasted spot having Tizzano there given McReight should play 80.

Yep that and the Valetini penalty right afterwards were insane. Momentum just gifted to the French by Pearce. It implicitly says to Australia ‘don’t compete’. Better teams are more resilient and can ride out those ridiculous moments - we can’t currently and it sucks us out of the game.

What can you do when all the good things you do to remain competitive in the match get pinged anyway. Absolutely rails run for France currently.

Pearce having a hard on for penalising Australia. Legitimate ones go for it. But those couple against Sualii and Valetini are laughable.

You know it’s bad when I find myself missing Marce.

Missing out on the Reds captaincy seemed like the end for Rodda’s Aus career unfortunately. I recall he threw his dummies out of the cot and it all fell away.

To put a crazy positive spin things, we got away with resting a tonne of our frontline team ahead of Europe, and got some valuable experience into a bunch of guys. I didn’t watch the game though. If I did it sounds like I’d be punching holes into my TV.

I get it. I did laugh at the time at him for doing it. But I think overall we need more emotion and narratives in rugby, not less. I’d never advocate for us going full league boofhead, but a level of rivalry and spiciness just adds so much more casual interest.

The other thing he does is start every fifth sentence or so with: “Indeed…” Have a look, you’ll see it everywhere in his articles now! Overall I do actually like Christy though. The more journos writing about rugby the better.

No way, we need this kind of spark and passion. I thought it was great.

Yep this is my main issue with Harrison too. The PR spin talk is infuriating, but he genuinely stifles good conversation too. Constantly cutting others off, or getting weirdly spiky, just when some really good discussions are beginning to take off.

Objectively I thought it was a pretty poor game that just couldn’t get out of third gear. NZ were average, we were poor. Such a shame as a sell out crowd in Perth, and a final Test for Slipper, deserved more. It was nice having Carley out there though - he is leaps and bounds ahead of that...

Word salad. You absolutely were suggesting RA didn’t know about the clash; there is zero chance of this. Some punters in QLD maybe? Sure. The administrators of another sports code as they head into a showpiece match? No. You are wrong. Again and again.

And I don’t think you have any idea about how big the AFL grand final is in Australia. It’s a cultural behemoth. It’s such a well known event that a huge swathe of the country gets a dedicated public holiday for it. RA would have known about when it takes place. You are categorically wrong.

Nah sorry but bullshit. As utterly incompetent as RA have been over the years, there is just no way they didn’t know the AFL grand final would clash. Dan is doing his usual flailing about and seeing what sticks.