The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas
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@canes4life Both locks were among the best, I thought. W-L showed some speed for a big lump. Two tries, one of which finishing off some great work from Lowe, who was good, too.
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@stargazer Yeah he is part Fijian. The biggest thing I like about Ice 2 is his work rate. He was immense for Wellington.
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@african-monkey He is a big lump aswell, not the tallest but he is really mobile. I can see him and Cridge being a long term lock pairing for the Canes as they are both in their early twenties.
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@stargazer Yeah, the rest of this tour could be worrying from a promoting rugby point of view. Might have been better to send the Heartland Cup team to play the South Americans.
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@machpants said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
ref was pretty one eyed there, that's a deliberate *knock down to me
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Assiming from your post there was no penalty, as there shouldn't if it was down ...
Call me Pavlov's fish
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@stargazer I agree, was very happy with how physical they both were.
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@nepia said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
It’s weird that Sky couldn’t find at least one Maori to be part of this commentary team.
Hames would be good value as he seems to be an intelligent guy judging by his comments.
He would only have to go to the next room to join the Sky commentators.
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@tim said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
Didn't go past horizontal, landed on his back not neck or shoulders ... not sure the problem
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@bovidae said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
@nepia said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
It’s weird that Sky couldn’t find at least one Maori to be part of this commentary team.
Hames would be good value as he seems to be an intelligent guy judging by his comments.
He would only have to go to the next room to join the Sky commentators.
Yeah, he was really good, I'm sure he could have offered something in the commentary box!
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@nepia said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
@taniwharugby said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
dont you need to be able to trace/prove your Whakapapa?
Yep, but it’s a NZ team so you need to be an NZ player - e.g. Quade can’t as he’s an Oz contracted player.
The Maori criteria is contracted to a provincial union and Whakapapa
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@booboo said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
@tim said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
Didn't go past horizontal, landed on his back not neck or shoulders ... not sure the problem
The problem is that it’s rugby, not WWF. No issue with that sort of thing being dealt with. I wouldn’t even classify that as a tackle.
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@act-crusader said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
@nepia said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
@taniwharugby said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:
dont you need to be able to trace/prove your Whakapapa?
Yep, but it’s a NZ team so you need to be an NZ player - e.g. Quade can’t as he’s an Oz contracted player.
The Maori criteria is contracted to a provincial union and Whakapapa
Really? That seems weird to me. Quade should come play some NPC.
Cheers.
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@nepia I guess in theory, as NZM doesnt tie you to NZ, he could, but I suspect there would be somethign in there about NZ eligibility...although someone like Riki Flutely coulda made things interesting if he came back and was upto it
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