@Canes4life Apparently he is next year according to our source @Nogusta who hasn't been sighted in a little while.
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@Canes4life Yeah,we saw when Rieko went off against the Tahs that we lost a bit of direction out wide on both attack and defense.
Just having him out there is key to how we want to play at both ends.
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Usually I don't like wishing bad things upon people and try to look at both sides of the story, but not with Paul Kent. One of the biggest hypocrites society has ever seen. This has made my day.
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@Duluth Yup, Akira was a massive loss. His size and strength in contact is key for how we want to play.
He's an underrated leader too.
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@Duluth said in Reds v Blues:
@African-Monkey said in Reds v Blues:
@Duluth I like how Pat Tu'ipulotu didn't even know wh Tim Ryan was haha.
Weird hearing him swear too. He normally is very formal in front of the press
Cotter made some interesting comments about how good SR is and thatβs itβs not promoted well enough.
It is haha, just on a personal level slightly off topic, I went to school with him, he heard me swear once and was shocked as he had never heard me swear before. I've known him since we were 5 year Olds and it's the first time I've heard him swear in his life haha. He's always been a humble, polite person. Random crap story but thought I'd throw it in haha.
Cotter is right, the comp does need better promotion. You do get some very good rugby played, yet hardly anyone cares about it. The gap between the Kiwi and aussie sides is also closing drastically compared to a few years back. The Blues for arguments sake are 8-1 and play great rugby, but people in Auckland would rather watch the 3 from 8 wahs run around and they're one of the most boring sides to watch in the NRL, so yes, better promotion would help.
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@mariner4life I see your boy Kenty getting into a scrap and getting thrown into a tree π
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How we got a draw out of that game I'll never know. Chelsea murdered us all across the park today.
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@Duluth I like how Pat Tu'ipulotu didn't even know wh Tim Ryan was haha.
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@KiwiMurph Thompson stole a crucial lineout in there too. As you said, McWhannell is very good in the collision. We have some good locks at our disposal when it looked like it could have been a problematic area for us over the last year or two.
Was nervous when Nock came on but he did well and kept the tempo up.
Clarke continues to go from strength to strength, how good was he off the bench!
Eklund actually went quite well apart from getting hit by Fa'agase early. Hard to tell who should be in the matchday 23 between him and Vikena, but Eklund was the better one tonight.
Cole Forbes has been a brilliant signing. I didn't know a lot about him, but he's a very well rounded player, does his core roles very well and is very good as a 2nd playmaker and also a good runner of the ball to. There doesn't look like much to him, but he is hard to put down and is very reliable in the air. Scotland should have capped him haha.
Scrum went well , Renata has improved massively under Cotter and Fusitu'a is coming along nicely.
Funaki again, WOW! The guy is everywhere. Am I going over the top in suggesting that he's worth ABs consideration?
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@Damo Exactly. You're making do with what you have and just defeated a team that's just come off giving the powerhouse of the competition an absolute hiding, so yeah, I'd be pretty happy grinding out a tough win, which makes next weeks game in Tonga even bigger.
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Forbes, Funaki, Clarke.
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@Tim They were, cannot believe we got up there.
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@Canerbry Come on mate, you were sort of secretly hoping to use the 'smell ya later Auckland' call weren't ya
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@akan004 Same. I don't think we would have held out.
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Seriously, how good was that! Awesome guts blues.
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@Canes4life Gutsy more like π
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I think the Blues will happily take a bonus point.
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Can't believe we're still in this haha.
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@KiwiMurph Can't argue with that tbh.
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