All Blacks vs Boks

pakman

@Milk said in All Blacks vs Boks:

What I don't get about Hames is that he can get pinged off the park 3 scrums in a row, then on the 4th he absolutely wrecks the opposition scrum.

I have watched him before to try and work this out with my backs expertise of scrummaging
What it looks like to me is that he has this technique where, after engaging, he dips then drives up very quickly. If the opposition TH is onto it they catch him on the dip and nudge him down before he gets the drive going. To the ref it looks like he has hinged.

Greenandgold would agree: http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/analysis-wallabies-scrum-issues-against-lions/

Chester Draws

@Rocky-Rockbottom said in All Blacks vs Boks:

Jesus. Look at this guy . Gets pwnd and THIS is his comeback? That is an embarrassingly lame retort for a purported professional journalist. Doesn’t take a PROFESSIONAL WRITER to deduce that it’s pretty much accepted, colloquially, that “not renowned” is synonymous with “shit”.

Too right. The technical name for it is Litotes. It is a huge part of Kiwi speech, and sometimes a thing that can trap foreigners (especially Yanks) who talk more literally. I have no idea what Hinton's excuse is.

Other standard rugby examples include:
"Pretty average" = shit
"Ordinary" = very poor
"Not bad" = very good

Crucial

OK. I'm in Paris for the weekend. Anyone know a place I can watch the rugby that may be open at 0930?

Edit: a suggestion or two in the next eight hours would be good.

Tim

@Crucial Finding a place open at 9:30 am is generally pretty tough.

L'Equipe lists these bars though:

http://ebar.lequipe.fr/matches/Paris/rugby-championship-new-zealand-south-africa-16-09-2017

Tim

@Crucial I used to work near this Saffa bar, and it says it's open.

La Pomme D'Eve – South African Pub – Bar Paris 75005 - Latin quarter

Never actually went for a drink there, but it looked tolerable.

Tim

Café Six might be more civilised.

19 rue Canettes
75006 Paris

http://www.allomatch.com/bar-sportif/paris/cafe-six.html

Crucial

@Tim Cheers. I'm going to give that a go.

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Stockcar86

In memory of Harry Dean Stanton, his 1960's lookalike is singing the Saffa anthem

mimic

DMac with another drop..

Virgil

First of 100 up and unders coming dmacs way tonight

No Quarter

Worst possible start for DMac.

Donsteppa

Dmac continues where he left off...

kiwiinmelb

Going up high for a chest mark with his elbows really wide apart

KiwiMurph

Nothing is Dmacs fault according to the coaches - cant have been his error

broughie

Did not touch it with his hands. That bad. Should not have been a knock on.

nostrildamus

@mimic not renown for anything else. Just scrummaging. So if he isn't known at all, Hinton should have just said that. Gotta agree with others on here, I thought Hinton is either not very well versed in English language usage, a sarcastic bugger, or a prick. Or perhaps a winning combo. Anyway, back to the game..

dingo

Boks have clearly targetting up the middle/one pass off the ruck as the place to make yards against AB defence.

Donsteppa

I see our renowned scrummager has been working on his hands in the inside channels...

The Silver Fern

All Blacks vs Boks