Recent content by Sword of Justice

If we cut Henry it is guaranteed that he will do an Aiden Toua and torture us at the Brumbies

Point taken, I remain hearing alarm bells based on this confluence of events, though.

More alarm bells from my viewpoint. A proud rugby nation forfeiting matches.

It’s worth a shot but I don’t think we could expect the same success percentage given you can get much closer to the sticks and slow down the run up in league.

Japan takes on more significance than usual. Not just because we should take it personally with regards to Eddie but because good teams beat Japan by a lot and we purport to be good now.

He played ok for the Force in the AU tournament and did play make quite a bit but I didn’t see anything to suggest his other shortcomings have disappeared. He would need to be carried in defence and does still find himself isolated away from the team’s structures on both sides of the ball.

They also have a special tee for restart kicks. Bizarre.

To be honest, yes. The only thing that mattered at lienout was throwing straight because they didn’t lift until professionalism, scrums were just pushing, breakdowns were self policed to a much greater degree. It was always more complex than league though. The biggest arms race in Rugby is...

Philosophically speaking, Rugby is from another era where new viewers didn’t have tik tok and therefore had the time and appetite to learn something new. Asking for 10 minutes to explain something marks you as a cancer in our society needing absolutely expunging. Yes I’m aware of how old this...

Call me naive but this is why we shouldn’t commit to a smaller ground. It’s not impossible that we recapture those crowds. We got about 45k for the Super Rugby AU final during covid. Punters are looking for reasons to get out.

Mate. 1/4 from the kicking tee, twice missed touch from penalty kicks, twice failed to restart giving away scrums, at least two missed tackles in the lead up to Reds tries. He played well out the back and did get some good runs in but if he didn’t come from Randwick what would you say about all...

Yeah with the current rules around where to place hands I think Pocock would have had about 50% fewer turnovers across his career for not supporting. It’s not realistic to stay on the ball if three 120kg dudes blast you straight offf their feet whilst you’re expected to balance your own weight...

I don’t think some of the names mentioned here were as bad in defence as claimed. We instigated an extremely aggressive rush defence for the first time so it’s to be expected that we gave up some missed tackles. It’s not a carte blanche excuse but we have to consider how close the match was at...

They (NZR) are more than entitled to think ‘who gives a fuck about AFL’ as well as ‘maybe this is why you haven’t beaten us for 20 something years if you care so much about this prancing poodle sport’ and that’s fine but their bigger issue is not being commercially minded with regards to their...

It’s very possible my heart will be crushed twice in the span of an hour but I’ll be watching the Bled with sound and the AFL on second screen because whilst I love watching my Lions play at the pinnacle of that sport I love the sport of Rugby more. A lot more.