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Well, I’d say we got confirmation that Damon Murphy, the ARs and TMO should never officiate at any level ever again. Wilfully ignoring 2 players down requiring HIAs isn’t just irresponsible, it’s actively malicious.
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Quade Cooper.
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Kicks winning penalty for his national team. Still denied citizenship.
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Who gives a poo poo about Quade Cooper, when you've got BEAUDEN loving BARRETT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4WPhqw2zlY Phwoar
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edogawa rando posted:Who gives a poo poo about Quade Cooper, when you've got BEAUDEN loving BARRETT No doubt BB is terrific and probably best in the world but it’s easy to look good against a clearly inferior team and behind a dominant pack.
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This rabbit team against penrith is wild stuff. Rugby League is so weird
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ilmucche posted:This rabbit team against penrith is wild stuff. Rugby League is so weird Wrong thread. You want this one.
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Duane Vermeulen to Ulster He might be 35 and I might be unreasonably excited by his signing but it'll be great to see him test his mettle in the URC - home of the World Champions Benetton Treviso. Oh, and whatever the European cup's called now as well I suppose.
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Lack of preseason certainly showed for Bristol there. Immense atmosphere for the first game back but ultimately so many wasted opportunities and knock ons
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Wallabies beat the boks back to back. Makes Gatland and the lion's negative and cynical game plan in the summer look even worse in my opinion
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Not counting any dumbshit repeaters and boomerang students, the All Blacks' current tenure with the Bledisloe Cup has gone on longer than all secondary school students in both countries have been alive.
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edogawa rando posted:Not counting any dumbshit repeaters and boomerang students, the All Blacks' current tenure with the Bledisloe Cup has gone on longer than all secondary school students in both countries have been alive. As far as I am concerned the ABs are and pretty much always are the best team in the world. I say that as a Bok fan.
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Argentina will have to go without Pablo Matera, Joaquín Díaz Bonilla, Felipe Ezcurra, Sebastián Cancelliere, Santiago Medrano and Santiago Socino for the final fixture against the Wallabies. Those six players, and a couple of staff, like a octet of fuckwits, decided it would be good and cool to wander across the Queensland-NSW border, to visit Byron Bay. New South Wales is currently experiencing an outbreak of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
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Byron Bay is lovely, TBF.
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bessantj posted:It boggles the mind, why do something so stupid? Athletes are pretty loving dumb a lot of the time. Matera especially. Vaders Jester fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Oct 2, 2021 |
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This thread is mostly dead but I just wanna say BOKKE! Thank you
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Hmmm looks like that win ranks SA as #1 on the rugby union board.
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Great win for SA there.
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Madkal posted:This thread is mostly dead but I just wanna say BOKKE! Seconded. Terrific match for a neutral to watch, I reckon. Some tough calls against Steyn, I thought. We are going to really miss Vermeulen
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therattle posted:Seconded. Terrific match for a neutral to watch, I reckon. As an All Blacks supporter, it was a very frustrating test to watch, and IMO, the Rugby Championships should end any further discussion about Ardie Savea's suitability as captain. They really missed Sam Whitelock, and one he was unavailable, Foster made a major mistake in not appointing Retallick as captain. A really telling stat was that in the 4 tests Savea captained, they only out-scored the opposition in the second half once - the return fixture against Argentina, after a Retallick-led All Blacks side had beaten the same team 39-0 the previous week. The last 30 minutes of the final three tests were infuriating to watch, as the All Blacks just kept retreating into their shells, so once the Boks got their tails up in the second half of the final fixture, they just couldn't deal with it.
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edogawa rando posted:As an All Blacks supporter, it was a very frustrating test to watch, and IMO, the Rugby Championships should end any further discussion about Ardie Savea's suitability as captain. I think that the ABs are so used to winning and being on the front foot that when an opponent manages to destabilise them they don't always know how to respond. SA put them under huge pressure at the breakdown, under the high ball, at scrum, lineouts, and with the rush defence, so NZ wasn't able to establish domination like they usually do. I take your point that a better captain may have been able to turn that around. I still think that they are the best team in the world though, and beating you always feels like it's unexpected, and the sweetest of victories (except maaaybe the Lions).
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Chiefs, Bay of Plenty and Maori All Blacks winger Sean Wainui died this morning in a traffic collision, aged 25. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/453760/sean-wainui-dies-in-car-crash-in-mclaren-falls-park gently caress.
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edogawa rando posted:Chiefs, Bay of Plenty and Maori All Blacks winger Sean Wainui died this morning in a traffic collision, aged 25. drat. RIP.
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Man, that's loving awful. RIP
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HappyCamperGL posted:rufus mclean is pretty good. The step for his second try was very nice.
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Carl Hayman, who was the cornerstone of the All Blacks scrum at tighthead from 2004 to 2007, has been diagnosed with early on-set dementia at age 41. He's joined the class action lawsuit against World Rugby that former players like Steve Thompson and Alix Popham are part of.
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I'm thinking back to when CTE in american football first became widespread news. I was hoping that the lower deceleration speeds in rugby would mitigate the risk of brain damage. Very wishful thinking on my part.
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Plucky Brit posted:I'm thinking back to when CTE in american football first became widespread news. I was hoping that the lower deceleration speeds in rugby would mitigate the risk of brain damage. Very wishful thinking on my part. Yeah with the research suggesting that sub-concussion head hits being damaging as well I think you're right. I don't k ow honestly how you deal with colission sports at all these days. Here's hoping better minds than me can figure it out.
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Rugby may have lower impact speeds but it had the same macho culture of playing on with brain injuries. Still playing even when you already have a brain injury will cause extra problems. Plenty of ex-players have stories of not remembering entire sections of games. How much this extra damage contributed vs the original is unknown but it isn't going to be good. Hell, it was only five years ago I can remember a Welsh player being out cold for a few seconds and he was allowed to play on.
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Owen Farrell's tested positive for COVID, which you'd reckon has to put that whole match in question now.
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