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Recent content by zer0

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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    Wellington started as a property scam and only became the capital so that everyone would be equally unhappy. I'm surprised it's taken this long for the Wellington curse to seep into the All Blacks.
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    Frankly, it seems like Robertson is treading water until Schmidt is finished with the Wallabies. Wildly inconsistent performances. Weird selections. Wanderballz Will looking like he plays for the Chiefs. The question is whether he becomes another sock puppet a la Foster, or we don't bother with...
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    I'm unconvinced by Carter fielding kicks. IIRC he regularly spilled kicks throughout Super Rugby and reached a nadir when he flat out refused to field a kick when the Blues suffocated the Chiefs. That, surely, will not have been missed by the Springbok analyst. Clarke or even Fainga’anuku would've been a...
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    It's never really a competition.
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    Tense stuff. Losing what should've been the final breakdown was terrible execution, however. Taukei’aho was a big improvement over the ghost of Codie Taylor. I recall Lomax's scrummaging being average during Super Rugby so that needs to be sorted, possibly through selection adjustments. i.e., pair...
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    Would've liked to see Fainga’anuku on the bench. It's wet, brisk, the forwards are the best part of the team, and it's being played in Auckland. Which means
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    Sequences of matches and the strength of opponents (specifically and in general) seem both important and unaccounted for.
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    Otherwise, I want to like Proctor at centre but he seems to frequently get beaten on the outside. As much as it pains me to say, I think it's time to go crawling back to Rieko at centre. The attack isn't doing anything anyway so might as well shore up the defence in the meantime. For the...
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    I think some of these comments trying to infer Robertson's coaching ability from interviews are misguided. I don't care for the surf bro aura, but the interview after his first test was well articulated and full of excited detail explaining why decisions were made to do x, y, z (attack a...
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    Outside of the front rowers and Sititi, that bench of Chiefs and he-who-must-not-be-named-at-halfback does not fill me with confidence. Good sized forward pack though.
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    This should become the standard for Super Rugby injury reporting.
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    New Zealand Rugby Team Watch

    Good to see they're giving proper injury explanations and estimates rather than the nonsense the Super Rugby franchises were typically serving up. Should be made the standard for next season.
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    Old man Slipper ain't never seen such bullshit.
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    Melbourne Rebels 2025 and beyond...

    To say nothing of having to work across international borders. Imagine some poor 19 year old from rural northern Queensland being sent to Dunedin. RI-fucken-P.
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    Rugby Championship 2025 (non-Aus matches)

    If he's been performing well at centre in the Top 14 then just slot him straight into the squad for ALB or a winger. Bullying semi-pros/development players in the NPC isn't going to tell you anything insightful. Hardly like he'll be lacking match fitness either.
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