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When the luck is going your way......

O'Connor's been great value off the bench for the Saders, tbf. One stray kick-off apart, he hasn't been the problem for them tonight. MP bossing the breakdown winning lots of turnovers. Crusaders forwards need to start playing with more intensity That's where I had the Saders to win the game :oops:

Gumboot wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 6:55 am O'Connor's been great value off the bench for the Saders, tbf. One stray kick-off apart, he hasn't been the problem for them tonight.

Yeah. Doesn't alter why NZ's leading side/region had to reach for the overseas option.

You can have West "back" if you like

Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 6:51 am
Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 6:36 am What's going on with FHs in NZ? O'Connor in the seat for the Saders....
Kemara has been the regular starting 10 but he is getting a rest this weekend

Questioning the depth. Would have been a horror express if 20 years ago the Saders had to field an Aussie has been.

What's going on with FHs in NZ? O'Connor in the seat for the Saders....

Are you? In an exchange about Russell's goal kicking where at one point you refused to believe he was one of the top goal kickers in France, then having been provided with proof of it you are bemused as to its relevance? I rather think this is a case of goal post shifting on your part. You've also ...

Fair enough, Planet Rugby is a great site with fantastic journalists. I'll say it again, I don't know how any serious rugby supporter can look at the way he played in the 6N and come up with shit like that. He was brilliant V England and France, and pulled the Welsh apart until he went off. I'd exp...

My mistake, I've looked up the post and at that point in the season Finn was overall joint top points scorer and second top goal kicker in the Top 14. He finished that season in second in both categories https://all.rugby/tournament/top-14-2023/ Watching rugby must be a real exercise in misery for ...

Sums the Tahs up. Reserve SH gets charged down and half walks to get back for his error.

I don't think there's a single country in the World who wouldn't bite your hand off to poach Russel as their staring 10. He's that good. But his Fre club was quite happy to off him and given the amount of money sloshing around in T14, no other Fre club picked up his contract? :lol: Hey, as a safa, ...

edit, and I've just seen TOTM state that Finn has been 15/15 for kicks at goal since that Calcutta Cup game, including for Bath today Ramos syndrome. Okay looking great with those sorts of stats when it doesn't really matter but when it come to it really counting... - Ramos v SA RWC - Russell v Eng...

Last game of the weekend, very big crowd at UBB and Toulouse have picked a weakened team. What a shame. I suppose the real shoot out between these two will come much later in the season :lol: That almost came back to haunt you. UBB are so scarred after last year's Brennus that they almost threw awa...

edit, and I've just seen TOTM state that Finn has been 15/15 for kicks at goal since that Calcutta Cup game, including for Bath today Ramos syndrome. Okay looking great with those sorts of stats when it doesn't really matter but when it come to it really counting... - Ramos v SA RWC - Russell v Eng...

I saw a typically ludicrous Daily Express headline after the match fuming that an error by Russell had cost England the championship. :crazy: :crazy: Completely ignoring that his poor performance against Eng (nowhere near as flake as against Fra) got Eng a shot at the title in the first place. :lol...

My friend used to stream the occasional rugby match but none of the streams load any more on Brave browser and the streams are unwatchable with pop ups and new tabs opening using Chrome or Firefox. r Does anyone else have friends in need like I do? Not sure what the problem is here. Firefox or Viva...

The amount of issues that can be resolved by blocking javascript and just enabling it for the sites that require it should not be inderestimated. https://noscript.net/ Trouble with blocking JS across the piece is it will break many sites entirely. I tend to use Greasemonkey with targeted scrip lists.

My friend used to stream the occasional rugby match but none of the streams load any more on Brave browser and the streams are unwatchable with pop ups and new tabs opening using Chrome or Firefox. r Does anyone else have friends in need like I do? Not sure what the problem is here. Firefox or Viva...

Gumboot wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 7:51 am
Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 7:49 am Bonus point win against the old enemy at their ground is a great result
Yep, 42-19 is a proper hiding.

Used to think last year's Saders had to be the worst defending champs ever. Not any more.

Yeah.

I saw a typically ludicrous Daily Express headline after the match fuming that an error by Russell had cost England the championship. :crazy: :crazy: Completely ignoring that his poor performance against Eng (nowhere near as flake as against Fra) got Eng a shot at the title in the first place. :lol:

No like this hasn't been going on forever too and I doubt it is limited to the Jaminet affair. https://www.rugbyrama.fr/2025/03/21/affaire-du-transfert-de-jaminet-le-stade-toulousain-devra-payer-une-amende-de-13-million-deuros-12585619.php And they are not the only ones. Would be hilarious if Racing...

Genuinely, if you don't think Carley is shit, you've not watched him much. He is certainly the worst competence wise in the NH. Brace is simply an outright cheat. Brace doesn't deliberately cheat he is just hugely inconsistent as is Fank Murphy. I don't think Carley is anywhere near the worst, Mike...

Chiefs

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:42 pm Genuinely, if you don't think Carley is shit, you've not watched him much.

He is certainly the worst competence wise in the NH. Brace is simply an outright cheat.

Anyone else having problems?

Really slow yesterday and intermittently so today. Somehow ended up posting the same post 3x and then when I attempted to delete, got a warning saying the topic no longer existed.

Gumboot wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 6:21 am Has anyone found a working stream?

https://www.vipbox.lc/rugby/moana-pasif ... efs-1-live
But you need adblockers.

The Chiefs have been fined for cheating. I reckon they should have to forfeit the result. Twice in one game ( a one pointer ) is clearly premeditated. They need to get over the inferiority complex, playing wonderful sparkling rugby and still thinking in the gutter. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/...

I don't especially want to defend Mauvaka in this, if he gets an 8-16 week ban just for sheer stupidity so be it, but it does look more a head brush than but, granted more by luck than judgement. Am still seething at the crass stupidity of it. Expect it of a cretin like Haouas (blame Galthie for th...

Cards (or not) 1) Mauvaka. WTAF? Sure White went all embarrassingly wendyball (another w*nk trend on the up with Lawrence another recent culprit) but irrelevant. I don't think Ramos could have complained if he'd seen yellow for the initial push too. Whatever the extent of head contact by Mauvaka, i...

https://images.ctfassets.net/uiu4umqyl5b5/3uP44AI4u1tfnGV8qmvmDC/4ef72cefa7af0679c36967fdbfa522a5/GM6N-POTCNominee-16x9-EN.jpg?fm=webp&f=center&w=1440&h=810&q=75 Menoncello nominated again 👍 No forwards?! Can’t grow the game by including forwards on social media :lol: Yeah: the mess...

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Mon Mar 17, 2025 4:34 pm That is actually a good idea. Welsh football has bloomed by being in the Premiership; Rugby might go the same way.

How many Welsh clubs in the Prem? They all suffer the same way as every other club does which is not part of the big club cabal.

Re: the old Welsh clubs, I think it’s possible to have rose tinted specs on this. People talk about these vast crowds they used to get but whenever you look it up it’s more like 2-3,000, they’re just small grounds. These are mid-sized towns at best, poor, and with zero hope of being able to compete...

Caught up with the games now so time for a rant. Referees/officials Yeah, my pet hate really. How are there so many bad ones that get intl games? Surely nobody believed Carley was anything other than sh*t and, consequently, cannot be surprised with Saturday's events in Paris? French mentality Ahhh, ...

In one of the ten thousand or so Terminator franchise films, someone opines about how close the human race was to going out. After Saturday, one wonders how close Welsh rugby is to the same. Declared interest: I’m married to a Taff. I have spent decades attending games in Wales from places like Brew...

After Antoine Dupont was forced off last week after a nasty collision at the breakdown, it was disappointing to see yet another breakdown incident result in an injury, this time to Italian lock Dino Lamb. Last time out the citing commissioner did not believe the actions of Andrew Porter and Tadhg B...

I think that's a perfectly fair attitude, I was just disagreeing with the notion that he deliberately set out to injure, which I think is nonsense! I don't know where the line is between reckless endangerment or deliberately intending to injure but POM absolutely is the former. And if you play like...

I think that's a perfectly fair attitude, I was just disagreeing with the notion that he deliberately set out to injure, which I think is nonsense! I don't know where the line is between reckless endangerment or deliberately intending to injure but POM absolutely is the former. And if you play like...

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:05 pm
Torquemada 1420 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:04 pm Embarrassing. Struggled to beat the worst team in the comp.

You really can be a complete wanker at times

Not sure what you are upset about here even though Ire ended up last. The comment was aimed at the Fre selection and attitude towards the game.

Happyhooker wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:46 am
Blackmac wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:06 pm
Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:05 pm

You really can be a complete wanker at times
Yeah. He is very special.
No, he's a complete bellend 100% of the time

Kerrist, where did they dig you up from?

Embarrassing. Struggled to beat the worst team in the comp.

In other news, Ire U20 every bit as sh*t as I had described a week ago.

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