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Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:21 am**

Great try.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:22 am**

Running hard and straight makes it look easy

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:22 am**

Holy shit, Clarke actually scored a try!

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:23 am**

Gumboot wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:22 am Holy shit, Clarke actually scored a try!

Yep but he was blowing out his arse after scoring it.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:30 am**

Good game, Argentina very competetive, think the ref has been excellent.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:30 am**

All Black discipline is just rank.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:31 am**

Decent half of rugby, there isn't much between them at this stage though the ABs have gifted Boff a lot of points with poor discipline.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:42 am**

Thor Sedan wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:30 am All Black discipline is just rank.

Yep, gotta get that sorted pronto.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:45 am**

Gumboot wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:42 am
Thor Sedan wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:30 am All Black discipline is just rank.
Yep, gotta get that sorted pronto.

First tackle in the second half and we give up another penalty

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:52 am**

The numbers on the lines on the pitch keep making me think there is a man down injured

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:53 am**

That's not a tackle off the ball if the player is juggling it?

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:53 am**

That’s a bullshit penalty. Massive Homer call.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:54 am**

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:52 am The numbers on the lines on the pitch keep making me think there is a man down injured

Same.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:54 am**

Biffer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:53 am That’s a bullshit penalty. Massive Homer call.

Agreed, but given what's just happen I guess Arg will take it.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:54 am**

what a score!

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:54 am**

The All Blacks are playing well and looking slick.
But it remains a tight game because this is a very good Argentine side.

We need this kind of opposition to prep us for the World Cup.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:55 am**

Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:53 am That's not a tackle off the ball if the player is juggling it?

Bullshit call. Otherwise anyone who offloads or passes before contact cant be tackled, which is not how you can play rugby

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:55 am**

All Blacks looking like Scotland on the restart there.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:58 am**

All Crusaders tight five destroy the Puma scrum there.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:59 am**

Pumas are pumped up.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:00 am**

Is there a book running on what minute Lavanini gets sent off?

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:01 am**

Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:58 am All Crusaders tight five destroy the Puma scrum there.

Yeah, dominant, but I wasn’t clear what the penalty was for? Didn’t go down or up, didn’t go round, all the bindings were in place and it all still seemed straight. Going backwards isn’t a penalty.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:02 am**

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:00 am Is there a book running on what minute Lavanini gets sent off?

Hasn't he been relatively well behaved since his last crazed sending off?

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:02 am**

Biffer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:01 am
Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:58 am All Crusaders tight five destroy the Puma scrum there.
Yeah, dominant, but I wasn’t clear what the penalty was for? Didn’t go down or up, didn’t go round, all the bindings were in place and it all still seemed straight. Going backwards isn’t a penalty.

I agree with you but loved watching them skate backwards

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:03 am**

Biffer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:01 am
Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:58 am All Crusaders tight five destroy the Puma scrum there.
Yeah, dominant, but I wasn’t clear what the penalty was for? Didn’t go down or up, didn’t go round, all the bindings were in place and it all still seemed straight. Going backwards isn’t a penalty.

I think the ref just called the pen so the ABs would actually do something rather than letting them march forward?

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:07 am**

Watching on my iPad while I assemble some flat pack. Speed of flat pack assemble noticeably slowing as match goes on.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:09 am**

Can we get Taukei'aho back on please?

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:12 am**

Ref is doing his best to ruin a fantastic game with pretty technical calls that don't need to be called.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:14 am**

It is getting to the point where I struggle to even watch the AB's.

Losses I can handle....but the constant errors and penalties get my heart rate into dangerous territory.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:16 am**

freddie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:12 am Ref is doing his best to ruin a fantastic game with pretty technical calls that don't need to be called.

Disagree, i think the ref is having a great game, and a technical penalty, is still a penalty. Cane was lucky not to be carded there, without the ball or arms.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:16 am**

freddie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:02 am
Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:00 am Is there a book running on what minute Lavanini gets sent off?
Hasn't he been relatively well behaved since his last crazed sending off?

Yes. I watch most Argentina games and he hasn't done anything stupid/thuggish in a while.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:16 am**

Flat pack assembly stopped…..

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:17 am**

The fact NZ's captain had to have the penalty explained that he blatantly conceded, and at which he also didn't wrap, should be really worrying for the coaching staff. He should have had his hand up to acknowledge the brainfart.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:18 am**

Thor Sedan wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:14 am It is getting to the point where I struggle to even watch the AB's.

Losses I can handle....but the constant errors and penalties get my heart rate into dangerous territory.

This +1,000

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:18 am**

ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:16 am
freddie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:12 am Ref is doing his best to ruin a fantastic game with pretty technical calls that don't need to be called.
Disagree, i think the ref is having a great game, and a technical penalty, is still a penalty. Cane was lucky not to be carded there, without the ball or arms.

That was clear as day. My post was earlier

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:19 am**

ASMO wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:16 am
freddie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:12 am Ref is doing his best to ruin a fantastic game with pretty technical calls that don't need to be called.
Disagree, i think the ref is having a great game, and a technical penalty, is still a penalty. Cane was lucky not to be carded there, without the ball or arms.

The whole 'technical penalty' thing is such an Antipodean red herring. A penalty is a penalty. Pro players know what they're supposed to be doing and 90% of the time a penalty isn't because the ref is trying to ruin things, but because the laws of the game have been contravened.

We have a better game when players aren't infringing, but if they insist on doing so the ref will keep penalising them.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:19 am**

sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:16 am
freddie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:02 am
Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:00 am Is there a book running on what minute Lavanini gets sent off?
Hasn't he been relatively well behaved since his last crazed sending off?
Yes. I watch most Argentina games and he hasn't done anything stupid/thuggish in a while.

That's good to hear, he's always been a very good player

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:20 am**

It’s a pretty good competition from a neutrals perspective, I have to say.

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:25 am**

Suffocating defense by the Pumas

Posted: **Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:28 am**

Kiwias wrote: ↑Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:25 am Suffocating defense by the Pumas

And disciplined too for the most part. It's no coincidence that they lost the first game against Aus when their tendency to lose their heads and concede rafts of penalties reared it's then won the next - and looking to be winning this one - by keeping their shit together.

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