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I’ll have the footage if someone recalls roughly when/which half.

I was at the game so recorded it digitally at home. Went through some of the more controversial bits frame by frame this morning. The contact with Tate was initially upper chest then slid up to neck/head. I didn’t think there was an issue with it. The MK contact was a bit tricky - some angles...

Disgraceful. I want my f@#king money back

Not sure why the pessimism. We outscored the French two tries to one. They hardly looked like scoring but took all their penalties and kept the scoreboard ticking over. We won almost every statistic despite being outplayed at the breakdown and once again left too many points on the park. Improve...

I’d like to see 9. White/Tate 10 JOC (James O'Connor) 12. Paisami, 13 Ikitau, 11 koribete 14 daugunu 15 petaia A few too many reds but I reckon that lineup would outperform last nights backline by a fair margin Much more attacking flair and solid defensively. The breakdown was a bigger issue but I’m not...

Nah it’s a valid point - perhaps with a bad example. There was a noticeable difference on this skill in both games. Gordons passes in close are telegraphed and straight to a forward just waiting to get clobbered. Tate seemed to create half gaps either holding the pass a split second or passing...

Take the 3 you goose. Never learns.

Just need to play for territory and wait for the penalty

You mean the one where he had hands on the ground not supporting his body weight and should have been penalised?

Same clown that had a shocker in the reds hurricanes game IIRC Just not up to it.

Meh Valetini was pretty average Hooper went ok Banks was also pretty average but not sure jock would have done any better Tupou made a big difference when he came on, as did Tate. Hard to argue with any of those statements regardless of where your bias lies

Ain't nothing clever about any of it. Parochial rubbish

Just ignore it - He's the only kiwi on any internet forum anywhere who isn't wholeheartedly ashamed of the plonker in the centre. Just go elsewhere if you want some balanced validation of your impressions. Hopefully there will be some official acknowledgement by removing Doleman as ref for the...

Just got back from the game - credit to the blues who dominated the collisions and had us on the back foot. Thought the turning point was the tackle in the air penalty at the 25min mark. Resulted in a 5m lineout, rolling maul, yellow card and two tries whilst down to 14 men. Game over. Looked...

You’re But you’d know that being smart and all that

I mentioned a few times during the game the rush defence was often thwarted by lazy support runners. The saders ball carriers were running close to the support player who was in turn stopping the rush defender from changing direction or closing the gap. Multiple line breaks were created that...

Petaia will be back soon. Back three of filipo, vunivalu and petaia would pack some punch. Would like to see how Petaia goes at 15. Hegarty and Campbell look a bit out of their depth at the next level.

Who would take legal action against a pub streaming Stan? Surely Stan is unlikely to enforce their terms and conditions if they don’t have a commercial alternative? Would/could a 3rd party bother?

Don’t think anyone’s saying that. Some baffling decisions, but made no difference to the outcome. Brilliant from the saders and very poor from the reds who were comprehensively outplayed. But I wouldn’t like to see him reffing a tight one - just not up to it.