Recent content by zer0

Given the turnover in the Blues backs going into next season, surely Simpson and Tito-Harris will join Lam and Taele. Simpson has a good punting range. Just needs to learn some of those shallow slicing kicks from Zarn Sullivan. Good to see the Papali'i Punisher (park the openside on the...

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.

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...

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...

It's never really a competition.

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...

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

Sequences of matches and the strength of opponents (specifically and in general) seem both important and unaccounted for.

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...

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...

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.

This should become the standard for Super Rugby injury reporting.

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.

Old man Slipper ain't never seen such bullshit.

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.