KiwiM
John Solomon (38)
He did score the best Super Rugby try ever vs Crusaders the following year (and kicked the conversion and gave an up yours to the crowd).
Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)
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He did score the best Super Rugby try ever vs Crusaders the following year (and kicked the conversion and gave an up yours to the crowd).
Dan54
Jason Little (69)
Yep Los was not someone to let throwing an intercept pass dent his confidence!
waiopehu oldboy
Rocky Elsom (76)
Dismal Pillock
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Dismal Pillock
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Feel bad for the guy. Always gets his packs going forward. Has all the skills. Great sniper. Unfortunately every 20 minutes he will lose patience and take an incredibly dumb option.
If Barkays Fakatava ran over a cat then Taufi Funaki cooked it and ate it. WFT happened to that poor bugger.
I often suspect these coaches prefer the "school prefect" types (your Luke f*******Jacobsen's etc) and just can't be bothered with the challenge of trying to incorporate the surly non-prefect types (HOSKINS SOTUTU)
Dismal Pillock
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
".....just parachute the mercenary straight back
in, that's who they need in the trenches alongside
them when they're under the kosh versus the boks....."
waiopehu oldboy
Rocky Elsom (76)
Dismal Pillock
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
NZ win both tests: NZ public will be all "meh, that's what you were supposed to do, petals". The boks will be all "fahhhhk, we too olllllllld...."
NZ win the Eden Park test: .....and all the pressure will be released. Job done. AB's will talk the talk about backing it up in Welly but will be mentally as flat as a pancake and will lose with what appears to be only one half of one mailed-in fuck given.
NZ lose the Eden Park test; ...and they will be so shattered they will defo lose both tests and I reckon public pressure will force ol' Supercoach to biff a sacrificial assistant lamb (Ellison/Holland) on the tyre fire of dreams rapidly going up in smoke.
NZ win the Eden Park test: .....and all the pressure will be released. Job done. AB's will talk the talk about backing it up in Welly but will be mentally as flat as a pancake and will lose with what appears to be only one half of one mailed-in fuck given.
NZ lose the Eden Park test; ...and they will be so shattered they will defo lose both tests and I reckon public pressure will force ol' Supercoach to biff a sacrificial assistant lamb (Ellison/Holland) on the tyre fire of dreams rapidly going up in smoke.
waiopehu oldboy
Rocky Elsom (76)
Dismal Pillock
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Dismal Pillock
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Kind of feel sorry for these young kids. The national societal pressure on them is immense. Old git keyboard warriors like myself having a wrenching great cry over it all.
Can easily see how those players of a certain mental disposition would just say, "yeah, fuck all this grief, I'mma piss off to Japan for double the money and 1% of the wailing and gnashing noise."
Can easily see how those players of a certain mental disposition would just say, "yeah, fuck all this grief, I'mma piss off to Japan for double the money and 1% of the wailing and gnashing noise."
Dan54
Jason Little (69)
I hearing that the reluctance to bring in Fakatava ,is it would only be for maybe a test or so on bench, and that would stuff his chances of playing for Tonga at next WC.
waiopehu oldboy
Rocky Elsom (76)
Looks like they'll name Ratima but make a final call as late as Saturday morning.
Dismal Pillock
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
1. Ethan de Groot (34)
2. Codie Taylor (100)
3. Fletcher Newell (27)
4. Scott Barrett (83) (captain)
5. Tupou Vaa’i (42)
6. Simon Parker (1)
7. Ardie Savea (99) (vice-Captain)
8. Wallace Sititi (11)
9. Finlay Christie (25)
10. Beauden Barrett (138)
11. Rieko Ioane (85)
12. Jordie Barrett (73) (Vice-Captain)
13. Billy Proctor (6)
14. Emoni Narawa (3)
15. Will Jordan (46)
BENCH
16. Samisoni Taukei’aho (35)
17. Tamaiti Williams (19)
18. Tyrel Lomax (45)
19. Fabian Holland (5)
20. Du’Plessis Kirifi (4)
21. Kyle Preston *
22. Quinn Tupaea (17)
23. Damian McKenzie (66)
2. Codie Taylor (100)
3. Fletcher Newell (27)
4. Scott Barrett (83) (captain)
5. Tupou Vaa’i (42)
6. Simon Parker (1)
7. Ardie Savea (99) (vice-Captain)
8. Wallace Sititi (11)
9. Finlay Christie (25)
10. Beauden Barrett (138)
11. Rieko Ioane (85)
12. Jordie Barrett (73) (Vice-Captain)
13. Billy Proctor (6)
14. Emoni Narawa (3)
15. Will Jordan (46)
BENCH
16. Samisoni Taukei’aho (35)
17. Tamaiti Williams (19)
18. Tyrel Lomax (45)
19. Fabian Holland (5)
20. Du’Plessis Kirifi (4)
21. Kyle Preston *
22. Quinn Tupaea (17)
23. Damian McKenzie (66)
waiopehu oldboy
Rocky Elsom (76)
Glad they made the call early.
Dismal Pillock
Nick Farr-Jones (63)
Time to go Old Testament on these foreign interlopers.
Let the diesel fumes of the Blues Killdozer waft up off the hallowed turf and flood the fevered brains of those entrusted with this weighty legacy.
To ascend to Valhalla is to go biblical yet to ascend to Eden one must pass through the eye of jesus I hope no one's read this far FFS I talk some bullshit at times
Let the diesel fumes of the Blues Killdozer waft up off the hallowed turf and flood the fevered brains of those entrusted with this weighty legacy.
To ascend to Valhalla is to go biblical yet to ascend to Eden one must pass through the eye of jesus I hope no one's read this far FFS I talk some bullshit at times
Linerunner2023
Syd Malcolm (24)
Little surprised to see holland back to the bench
He and Vaa worked well at 5 and 6
I would have had Parker on the bench still
They had to have both savea and sititi at 7 and 8 so happy with that
One thinks ioane and proctor are on a knife’s edge and lucky to be there