Recent content by Strewthcobber

I don't think there can be any argument that he's breaking a few laws of the game. The refs decision will be if it's clear, obvious and material, and did he interfere with play (ie is it worth penalising?) I could see how the could decide that it wasn't material.

Suspect if Schmidt had his time again then Donaldson would have been selected for this tour. But he had Edmed in the camp, wanted to see what CG can do on potential, and had JOC (James O'Connor) to sub in That's feedback that is so generic as to be meaningless. Every 10 needs to work on their consistency, and...

It's probably how the All Blacks are feeling too edit - with the extra layer of Razor is relying on performances to keep his job

As above - we are getting blown away in the last 10 / 15 mins fairly often at the moment, and often that'd be after the starting 9 leaves the field Someone smart setup a Points for and against while on the field database for every international player

We were only 5 points behind against Ireland at 55mins, we were tied with Italy at 60 mins, we were only 3 points down against England at 58mins, we were only 6 points down against NZ at 69 mins etc etc

I reckon the SA result was a pretty big outlier, which came about because of luck basically. SA were extraordinarily generous with intercepts and turnovers. And now there's no Tom Wright to take advantage of it, and other teams have realized the way to beat us is to pressure our last line with...

Schmidt isn't desperately hoping to keep his job. based on performances by piling pressure on the players. That's the environment where tours go bad. When the desperation kicks in. The reality that we probably don't want to face is not too many people on this tour really care that much how it...

They reached the conclusion that just about everybody except TMO, Tual Trainini, did on Saturday. Shoulder contact first, indirect contact with head which reduces the degree of danger to a yellow card. The TMO still appear to get themselves tangled up in the "no mitigation" thing, when there...

Franco Mostert and Harry Hockings both have their red card rescinded at tribunals overnight. These TMO led red cards are starting to become a real problem for WR (World Rugby). Just use the bunker guys

At some point NZ is going to have an actually poor year, and the reaction from their supporters is going to be a sight to behold.

I heard their new managers have a dark moustache, glasses and is named Sclinton Chifofske

Scotland, Italy and Australia :( would veto any talk of it

It's joint owned by SANZAAR and Six Nations. They probably wouldn't even be able to agree to a possibility of one of their members not being part of it even if they wanted to

Absolutely zero chance that this ever happens

I'm not saying they are good. I'm saying Schmidt (and all coaches) base selection decions on these things to a much greater extent then us punters appreciate. And they analyze each players performance far more than we do too. If a selection seems mysterious, it's probably because it's based on...