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Vagabundo posted:Basically, when you look at several rugby competitions, it's not unusual to see certain naming conventions. Have you just discovered the true source of Australia's current malaise?
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https://twitter.com/brad_weber9/status/986178316716527617 https://twitter.com/brad_weber9/status/986178318994059265
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Vagabundo posted:https://twitter.com/brad_weber9/status/986178316716527617 They'll beat the Waratahs like 50-0 in New Zealand and he can rub Folau's nose in it.
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Schlesische posted:They'll beat the Waratahs like 50-0 in New Zealand and he can rub Folau's nose in it. With Joy Neville and Nigel Owens alternating as the referee.
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Apr 17, 2018 23:48
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One of the best gay rugby clubs in the world (there's apparently a championship for gay rugby union clubs, the Bingham Cup), the Melbourne Chargers issued an invitation for Folau to go to a training session to talk with them about why his comments were so hurtful, would've been a great way for the ARU to deal with it without actually punishing Folau in any way or putting words near his mouth that he was free to spit on at his pleasure. If Folau doesn't stick with the ARU after this year (his contract is up at the end of the year?) this whole mess is gonna come back to bite them in the arse.
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Apr 18, 2018 13:29
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There are several Championships for gay rugby union clubs, there's also the Union Cup.
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Apr 18, 2018 13:40
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Vagabundo posted:https://twitter.com/brad_weber9/status/986178316716527617 Good on the man, it's nice to see players take stands like this.
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I missed this in the Western Mail, since it came within hours of the tweet, but Nigel Owens put it into a fairly terrifying perspective. He also suggests that at least one (current) player could potentially have outted themselves, but felt that the rugby community would reject them... Even before Folau and Bastereaux shared their opinions on the matter  quote:A few years ago I sat down for hours and hours one night with a young lad, who played academy rugby then. He asked me if he could have a chat with me as he was really down and at his wits end because he’d attempted to take his own life.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/43849696 Poor bastard tl;dr - Rob Horne forced to retire due to "life-changing nerve damage to his arm".
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youtube commenter posted:Is Bristol Bears better or worse than Bristol Shoguns™? Worse
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Cardiff won and are on their way to Bilbao for the Challenge Cup final. Now to see if Scarlets can join them there for the Champions Cup.
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Nothing will be as tone deaf as the Exeter Chiefs’ logo/fans
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stavros880 posted:Now to see if Scarlets can join them there for the Champions Cup. Looks like that's a no then.
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Thankfully Ospreys saved Glasgow from the title of worst performance of the week by managing to lose to Zebre.
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Vaders Jester posted:Thankfully Ospreys saved Glasgow from the title of worst performance of the week by managing to lose to Zebre. Glasgow weren't very good today, Price is a bit of a liability when you have so much talent outside him. Glad to see Tommy Bowe go out on a high though, great servant to Ulster over the years.
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Yeah, Price has had a bad slump since the 6N but even then there were so many mistakes by the whole team that it just exacerbated everything.
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Price strikes me as a talented player that is still struggling to maintain firm control over a game. If things don't immediately go his way, he appears to be powerless to wrest control back, and still has a lot to learn about game management. Everyone was pretty quick to talk poo poo about Laidlaw, but it was clear that Laidlaw was far more adaptable, and could get the most out of his backline, and play in a way which emphasised his strengths while compensating for any weaknesses he had.
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Some real home refereeing this Blues game. Not sure how many last chances they got there but it's certainly a new definition of the word last.
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Oh wow. So it's been over 18 months since the last time an Australian team beat a New Zealand team period, but here come the Jaguares. Wow Australian Rugby is hosed. I remember making a World Cup Final at some stage. Guess I'll have to keep that memory locked up tight.
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Bye Tana.
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Blues lose once more - what a shocker. Glad I stopped watching at half-time due to another commitment. I come home to read the result and just shake my head. The thing is that the issues the Blues are having are not new. Changing the coach doesn't patch over whatever the real problems are. Honestly I don't know the issues but I have heard from people involved in North Harbour (coaching and playing) that there are issues with how Auckland rugby is run (but they wouldn't elaborate on details). Whether it is true or not this has become the perception the rest of the country has. Thats part of the reason they find it hard to attract decent players from outside the region but no problem losing players in their region to other teams.
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Schlesische posted:Oh wow. Mate, Australian Rugby is hosed, but the Jaguares beating the Blues is hardly the symbol of that. The only surprise about the Jaguares is that they're not killing the comp given they're basically the Argentina Test team. The symbol of Australian Rugby being hosed is when the shambles of a team that is the Blues clean sweeps all our teams.
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ElectroMagneticJosh posted:Blues lose once more - what a shocker. Glad I stopped watching at half-time due to another commitment. I come home to read the result and just shake my head. It's two-fold. Auckland Rugby is not struggling to develop talent, but they're struggling to identify and retain talent. You also get players constantly recruited from the schools, and treated like stars with a hypetrain surrounding them, without being seasoned at the provincial level. It's then exacerbated by a culture in which an Auckland-centric selection criteria sees talented players within the Blues catchment area being overlooked because they committed the grievous and horrendous crime of being affiliated with Harbour or Northland, how dare they the loving scum. When you look at the players that are, or were within the Blues system at some point, or within their catchment area and doing well for themselves elsewhere, it puts together 2 things: 1, a pretty decent XV, and 2, a pretty damning indictment of a failure of the Blues to properly ID talent. 1. Chris Eves (North Harbour) - currently with the Hurricanes, played in the 2015 and 2016 finals, winning the latter. 2. Ash Dixon (Hawke's Bay) - formerly a Blue, let go without playing a single game. Played in, and won the 2015 Super Rugby final for the Highlanders, where he has been a regular starter, and is the current Maori All Blacks captain 3. Ben Afeaki (North Harbour) - formerly with the Chiefs, and has had to retire. Played in, and won both the 2012 and 2013 Super Rugby finals, and made the All Blacks from the Chiefs. 4. Brandon Nansen (North Harbour) - Currently playing with Stade Francais on a short term contract, has been capped for Samoa. Apparently not good enough for the Blues. 5. Jarrad Hoeata (North Harbour) - Spent time with the Crusaders as injury cover. Good enough to play for the All Blacks, but not the Blues, apparently. 6. Jack Ram (Northand) - Only used twice by the Blues, capped by Tonga where he was one of their star players at the 2015 RWC. Not good enough for the Blues though. 7. Dillon Hunt (North Harbour) - Ignored by the Blues set-up as a schoolboy. Otago gratefully took him in, and made the All Blacks before he even played for the Highlanders. 8. Dan Pryor (Northland) - Ignored by the Blues, has been a regular for the Highlanders, where he was part of the 2015 champion team. Good enough for the Maori All Blacks, but the Blues are too elite a unit for him. 9. Aaron Smith (Manawatu) - Part of the Blues squad in 2010, was dropped without ever being used. Has gone on to definitely not be one of the best halfbacks in the world, with no accolades like a Super Rugby title with the Highlanders, and most certainly did not win a World Cup in 2015. Nope, nah, never happened. 10. Mike Harris (Toshiba) - A reliable goalkicker for Harbour, and apparently good enough to play for the Wallabies. But because he had the nerve to be from the north side of the Harbour Bridge, this meant he was not good enough for the Blues, a truly champion team that only has not won any international competitions featuring Tier 1 test teams because they've yet to deign to appear in such competitions. 11. Brayden Ennor (Crusaders) - Miraculously made the Blues U18 development side, despite being "not good enough for the Blues." Has since ended up in Canterbury and the Crusaders, two teams that obviously never win anything ever. 12. Michael Little (Sunwolves) - Nominated for the 2016 Mitre 10 Cup Player of the Year award, having been a huge part of the North Harbour campaign which saw them promoted to the top flight. Apparently this was not indicative of sufficient quality to show that he is, perhaps, actually better than, say, TJ Faiane. 13. Malakai Fekitoa (Auckland) - Part of the Blues squad in 2013. 0 minutes and 0 seconds of game time was apparently good enough to determine that he was not of sufficient quality for the Blues, whom apparently have far more rigid standards of selection than the All Blacks did in 2014. Good enough to be a World Cup winner, not good enough to be a Blue. 14. Waisake Naholo (Taranaki) - Made a couple of appearances for the Blues, who immediately discarded him. The Highlanders most certainly did not pick him up, make him a huge weapon in their attack, and lead to him being part of the All Blacks and the 2015 RWC winning squad. Nope. 15. Robbie Robinson (Sunwolves) - Joined North Harbour in 2014, after being a big part of the 2012 and 2013 Chiefs champion teams. Apparently this still did not prove he was good enough for the super elite team that is the Blues, a team of champions that are always champions championing forever. I first noticed this when Pat Lam was coaching in 2009, and in a way that resembled Homer Simpson coaching Bart's football team when it came to his Auckland boyzzzzzzzz - exemplified by Taniela Moa and Tasesa Lavea. Moa was having an awful season, where he was out of shape and out of form, while the actually far better Chis Smylie was stuck on the bench. Moa would frequently go missing during games, being MIA half the time when the ball needed to be cleared out, resulting in far too many turnovers caused from his absence, and when he did bother to turn up, his passes would completely miss the first receiver. Lavea was a poor man's Carlos Spencer, without the composure to consistently perform under pressure at 10 and when he was injured, Jimmy Gopperth, then playing for Harbour took over and had a hand in getting the Blues on to a bit of a winning streak. So when they had a game against the Reds at Albany which Lam described as must-win, he dropped the in form Gopperth, kept Smylie on the bench, and watched Moa and Lavea make the same mistakes they'd been making all season. But it was all good, because his Auckland boyzzzzzzzzzzz got to play.
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Pro14 playoffs are set in stone : Leinster vs [winner of Munster vs Edinburgh] Glasgow vs [winner of Scarlets vs Cheetahs] An Edinburgh vs Glasgow final is a real thing, that could really happen o.O Also Ulster playoff against Ospreys for a Heineken Cup spot and £250,000.
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John Muldoon retires with a 100% conversion kick rate. 1 from 1 https://www.balls.ie/rugby/watch-connacht-legend-john-muldoon-kicks-conversion-perfect-ending-387878
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julian assflange posted:After the game Muldoon apologised for the conversion, telling TG4 "it wasn't meant in a bad way." What's the deal with the Irish having such a hard-on for conversion kicks being some sort of sacred ritual? It's totally a 100 year tradition that a retiring player gets a shot to take the final kick of the game. I've even seen it happen in matches where the game was actually won or lost on the prop's conversion attempt. The greatest will always be Bakkies Botha making fun of Dan Biggar while he does it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-cuYvoS6ww
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In the most amazing "gently caress you" to Israel Folau, it looks like The All Blacks will wear a rainbow jersey, when they play Australia in August. So as not to break with the tradition of the kit always featuring black, the jersey is made of a fabric that switches between the regular black. and a rainbow spectrum, whenever part of it is stretched. http://www-154.aig.com/csr-activities-sponsorship/diversityisstrength Whoever came up with this is the greatest hero of our time. I literally cried when I watched the video. Tyma fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Apr 29, 2018 |
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Apr 29, 2018 19:23
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Apr 29, 2018 23:29
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Holy poo poo that is clever and hilarious and amazing and I'm loving buying one.
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If the ARU had any balls, they'd do the same to show that they don't support Folau's views. Of course, they don't have any balls so there's that.
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I want to say gently caress Edinbugh because of rivalry and all that, but really it's more gently caress Glasgow for ineptitude. I'm not sure if Edinburgh necessarily deserved to win, but we sure as poo poo didn't put in anywhere near a good enough performance. Our defence is a joke at the moment and we were severely lacking in attacking ability, the only saving grace being Van Der Merwe, who is just as awesome as he's ever been. A good amount of the Scotland lads need to sort their heads out, otherwise there's no way we're going to win the championship. EDIT: Also could somebody please punch Finn Russell in the head to knock him out of his Lamborghini buying daze.
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