@Canes4life said in Olympics Thread:

T-Mac cleans up in his heat easily beating the former Olympic champ in the Men’s single skulls. Emma Twigg up at 8.30pm.

Is Twigg expected to be a medal chance?

As always, Wellington stacked in the midfield with three former ABs and one current AB to choose from.

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Broncos are done for the year, shut them down

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I hope the Canes have their eyes on Callum Harkin who today guided OBU to the Jubilee Cup. I’ve watched him a couple of times now and he would be a far better option than JGB.

I remember him breaking his leg in a Canes pre season game back in 2019 playing as a halfback. He looks to have come of age as a ten though. Hopefully he starts for Wellington this year.

Welcome Home Dave - 💥 🐴 : 💥
That means we hold both the Men’s & Women’s titles in our 150th season!

@Nogusta that's what I'd heard, then I heard they had Auckland next week...

@taniwharugby said in All Blacks 2024:

@KiwiMurph yep, plenty of us here were critical of the lack of decent minutes Vaai and Lord (when fit) the last couple of years, instead relying on the durability of Whitelock, BBBR and SB, that was pretty durable TBF.

That's true but I don't think anyone was suggesting to start the inexperienced guys without a proven entity alongside them, which is largely the situation NZ are in now.

I'm reading that Finn Fisher-Black is leaving UAE for Bora-Hansgrohe.

Makes sense. A bit like a talented young player who can't make the ABs - UAE is so stacked it's hard for a young rider to get a look in.

@ACT-Crusader said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

@KiwiPie said in Olympic Sevens 2024:

I know the football has to start early to fit in the whole comp with enough gaps between games. But is the Sevens starting early just because of other events coming up in the stadium?

Yes. Basically have to play the men’s and women’s before the athletics start.

Are there no other Stadiums in Paris?

It was a bad day. Fml

@MiketheSnow said in Nations Championship?:

@gt12 said in Nations Championship?:

It’s going to happen with that amount of money.

I would make one change: the 6th ranked team in the South plays the 7th ranked team in the South to see who comes up the Rugby Championship.

Likewise, 6th 6 nations team (Italy) play highest ranked Tier 2 team (Georgia) to see who gets into the 6 nations.

I know this won’t happen.

The 6 Nations is doing just fine than you very much

I love having Italy there purely cos on the whole they’ve made Scotland look less shit for 24 years.

Interesting vid about locating stadiums in cities...

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@darylmitchell said in Crusaders 2025:

@Chris said in Crusaders 2025:

@Landers92 said in Crusaders 2025:

@Chris said in Crusaders 2025:

@Mr-Fish said in Crusaders 2025:

@Chris said in Crusaders 2025:

@Landers92 said in Crusaders 2025:

@Chris Yeah don’t get me wrong, Penny shouldn’t be there. I just don’t think Mainsbridge should shoulder the full blame. A lot more to it.

No not just Mainsbridge but he runs the ship he has to take some heat for decisions.
You protecting your clubman there ?.

Who would you have coaching the Crusaders over Penney?

I would rather they bite the bullet and give it to Tamati Ellison, if we are going to take some pain develop a young coach.

I wonder if the Crusaders had this in mind and were ready to do this but then the gig he landed with the All Blacks came along and threw that whole plan off…

Still possible Tamiti is only involved for Home test weeks.
He will not travel to SA,Australia or the end of year tour.

Really? If true that is disappointing to hear. I think Taimati has more potential as a coach than Rangi and Holland who've had very little success as coaches despite having over a decade of coaching experience.

Ellison has already won 4 titles, 1 as Wellington defense coach, 3 as Crusaders defense coach. I would rather see him full-time in the All Black's environment to support Rangi and Holland, is Razor really only taking 4 assistant coaches overseas @Chris?

Yes Taimati only involved for home tests on a part time capacity.

From the article below
Tamati Ellison, who has been a member of the Crusaders coaching group for the last two years, will also work part-time as a contact skills coach.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350308970/all-blacks-add-corey-flynn-and-david-hill-coaching-staff

@KiwiInLondon said in Otago 2024:

I’ve been told that AF at 10 was atrocious, Hastie was average, Otago in general played like a bunch of ball hogs with no structure, and the kicking from hand was also awful. Sounds about right or harsh?

Very harsh.

96 hurricanes were nothing like a 95 Wellington clone.

Were a proper LNI team. 2nd div players playing super rugby. Such as Cullen, Hewitt, Hansen, Randle, Ranby, Konia, Chresten Davis. In fact Bruiser Hansen might have even been 3rd div

Was awesome.

Looking forward to the Belgium GP. What do you predict the grid will be? who will start from pole?