New Zealand Rugby Team Watch

[Brumby Runner]

Viral meningitis is different to bacterial meningitis WOB, which I believe is the more dangerous form.

 

[Brumby Jack]

They're rattled....

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Six props are in the current squad: Joe Moody, Atu Moli, Angus Ta'avao, Ofa Tuungafasi, Laulala and Franks.

Only five will be picked for the World Cup.​

if you'd told me at the start of the year that it's within the realms of possibility Angus Ta'avao could go to the World Cup instead of Owen Franks I would've said you've got cataracts on the brain.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Luke Jacobson says he's over his concussion-like symptoms & hoping to be released to play for Mooloos next week:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/a...cobson-feels-concussion-issues-are-behind-him

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Official IRB Rugby Football Ratings NZ vs Aus Aug 17th 2019.

1. Joe Moody. 7. HE MAY STAY. Total scrum molestation tonite.
2. Dane Coles. 8. HE MAY STAY. if he's back to needlessly fucking people's shit up then he is officially Back In Fucken Business
3. Nepo Laulala. 8. HE MAY STAY. Rogered a bit up at the start but poor ol' huff and puff Owen Franks is rooted now. The scrum suddenly starts fucking people up with only 7 on 8? Wft was Franks doing all those years anyway?
4. Patrick Tuipulotu. 8. HE MAY STAY. OMFG "PT" might not stand for paper tiger after all.
5. Sam Whitelock. 6 hanging in there
6. Ardie Savea. 9. total cyclone.
7. Sam Cane. 8. adjusted well to Ardie.
8. Kieran Read (captain) 8. ffs he's back!
9. Aaron Smith. 10. MOTM. totally balanced the register vs Nic White. ran the show.
10. Richie Mo’unga. 8. not bad for a cantab
11. George Bridge. 9. HE MAY STAY. Rieko might be in the shit now. No smirking pouty prima donna diva bullshit from Bridge or Reece
12. Sonny Bill Williams. 5. still gets lost/disappears. would rather have someone with proper rugby instincts (LAUMAPE) but that SBW try will give Hansen such a stiffy we'll never get rid of him now
13. Anton Lienert-Brown. 7. HE MAY STAY. Fuck Crotty.
14. Sevu Reece. 9. HE MAY STAY. poor Ben from Accounts. he might be fucked now too.
15.Beauden Barrett. 7. this is his position

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ Can there be any praise greater than "not bad for a cantab"?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

RWC squad to be named next Wednesday.

I'm assuming 22 of the 23 from Bled2 will be there plus Lurch, ScoBar, Crotty & Goodhue (hence no Laumape) that just leaves four spots available:

Prop - Franks or Moli
Hooker - Coltman
9 - Webber
10 - Josh Ioane OR
Outside back - Rieko or Bender

If they don't pick JI I reckon they'll still give him some sort of role v Tonga & have him as close as allowable to the squad in case of injury and/ or Mo'unga's shoulder taking longer than expected to heal.

 

[KiwiM]

RWC squad to be named next Wednesday.

I'm assuming 22 of the 23 from Bled2 will be there plus Lurch, ScoBar, Crotty & Goodhue (hence no Laumape) that just leaves four spots available:

Prop - Franks or Moli
Hooker - Coltman
9 - Webber
10 - Josh Ioane OR
Outside back - Rieko or Bender

If they don't pick JI I reckon they'll still give him some sort of role v Tonga & have him as close as allowable to the squad in case of injury and/ or Mo'unga's shoulder taking longer than expected to heal.

I think your maths needs work. 22 + 4 = 26. That leaves 5 spots available (31 man squad).

Rieko and Bender will both go. Josh Ioane looks the odd one out.

I'm also not sure Hemopo will go - I'd suggest someone from outside the Bledisloe2 23 will go instead (Frizell, Squire, Fifita or Jacobson).

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ musta started adding the extras from 23 not 22. So, as you say, room for both Rieko & Bender, and now PT looks a dead-cert due to the Lurch situation I guess there's a good chance they'll take a specialist six rather than a utility. Frizell played lock yesterday, Squire started on the bench & Jacobsen didn't play at all. Maybe if & where they play this weekend will give a pointer to how the selectors are thinking.

 

[zer0]

I'd absolutely take Hemopo ahead of any of Frizell (a #8 with next to no locking experience), Squire (never consistently delivered), Jacobson, Papali'i (neither are covering lock) and most definitely Fifita (just no).

 

[Dan54]

I think Squire will go if available, definitely see the 23 from Saturday go, I had wondered about Jordie, bur belive he will go with as zer0 says JI somewhere handy. The reason I believe why either JI and Jordie had to be there is simply becuase of loss of Damac, we need 3 kickers in squad!

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Fifita a late scratching for Wellys. Frizell listed at 5 & Squire at 6 for Mako, Jacobsen at 8 for Mooloos.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Didn't see either match but according to reports both Squire & Jacobsen had strong games yesterday. Consensus among the scribes at stuff, Hurld & newshub is that Squire will go if he makes the phone call Shag has talked about a coupla times now but if he doesn't pick up the phone then Jacobsen will go.

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Squire will go if he makes the phone call Shag has talked about a coupla times now

Fuck him. You can't play about 1 and a half tests in the last calendar year, get injured on every second hit-up, and yet somehow expect to reduce the All Black coach to sitting by his telephone, literally at your beck and call, awaiting your summoning from upon high. Fucken faux tuff guy can watch on telly with the rest of us.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

According to stuff.co.nz Squire has contacted AB management to advise that he's available for RWC selection.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby...s-all-blacks-management-green-light-for-japan

 

[zer0]

"Thanks, but no thanks".

 

[KiwiM]

According to stuff.co.nz Squire has contacted AB management to advise that he's available for RWC selection.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby...s-all-blacks-management-green-light-for-japan

He'll be picked. Hansen loves him.

I wouldn't. He specialises in carving up against lesser competition and then either going missing or resorting to cheap shots vs tough teams.

 

[Dan54]

He'll be picked. Hansen loves him.

I wouldn't. He specialises in carving up against lesser competition and then either going missing or resorting to cheap shots vs tough teams.

Geez Kiwi, I thought you were talking about Akira then, and read a post or 2 earlier
Personally I would pick him, I actually like the look of Jacobson, but he hasn't any runs on board, and we definitely need a big No 6 for tougher games, we might not get too many packs that the small loosies can boss like they did the Wallabies!!

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

If they select Squire, which I expect they will, does that mean the end of the Savea-Cane-Read trio? If it does then I'd also expect them to not take Todd as you wouldn't really need a third seven, but if Todd goes then that's a pretty good indication that the "small loosies" was an actual plan, perhaps unveiled sooner than intended, rather than a quick-fix solution to the issues exposed v Argentina & moreso SA.

It also seems to me that Squire could potentially play lock v Namibia & Canada so that both Whitelock & ScoBar get a rest.

 

[zer0]

And named from Onehunga High School of all places. IIRC Sky do a piece about the school in the lead up to the naming. Will be interesting to see how they spin gangs, stoned pupils, underage pregnancy, drunk pupils, machete wielding crackheads, stoned drunk pupils and the headmaster being bashed over the head with a bit of 4x2 into something approaching respectability.

Though they did it with MAGS, so who knows.

EDIT: Actually I think it's the RWC team that's named in Onehunga's premier educational institution.

So apparently not anymore. NZR remembered that there's still an old boys wankery deep state network buried within it, so have stolen it and instead sent it to Eden Park. At least Eden Park is better than Ponsonby, which is where some (presumably) Remuera f*ckwit apparently wanted to send it.

F*ck Ponsonby (both club and suburb). And Auckland Glamour, while we're at it.