All Blacks 2021
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@arhs said in All Blacks 2021:
Congrats NZRU for your astute selection of the coaching team. Did not expect us back to number one in the World so quickly or with so much depth across the park so soon.
We're still not number 1. Still reserving judgement until the end of the year, as NZR should have
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@machpants said in All Blacks 2021:
@arhs said in All Blacks 2021:
Congrats NZRU for your astute selection of the coaching team. Did not expect us back to number one in the World so quickly or with so much depth across the park so soon.
We're still not number 1. Still reserving judgement until the end of the year, as NZR should have
Boks
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@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@machpants said in All Blacks 2021:
@arhs said in All Blacks 2021:
Congrats NZRU for your astute selection of the coaching team. Did not expect us back to number one in the World so quickly or with so much depth across the park so soon.
We're still not number 1. Still reserving judgement until the end of the year, as NZR should have
Boks
No idea what that means, looks exciting
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@machpants that, my friend, is some dry powder.
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@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@machpants that, my friend, is some dry powder.
Oh, cool, the all blacks have heaps
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The great Sir BeeGee reminiscing about playing the Springboks -
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@arhs said in All Blacks 2021:
Confirmation of number 1 ranking:
Men's Rankings
Updated: 20 September, 2021
2021
September
Monday 20th
Full Rankings
Position Teams Points
1 (2) New Zealand 91.15
2 (1) South Africa 90.95Interesting we got there by beating Argentina while Boks are left to ponder how Australians drag just about everyone else down
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@bones said in All Blacks 2021:
@arhs booooo. I wanted to take it off them this weekend.
Home game for us this weekend, so I assume they could take it straight back off us? Would that possibly be the shortest lived 1 ranking?
There are a few 1 weeks at top during the last RWC, equal shortest then. Home or away, we're so close in points whomever wins is top, same next weekend, I think
World Rugby are morons, we got this ranking because Australia beat South Africa in Australia, which counted as a home game for SA, the same for Argentina last weekend. There is a neutral venue option for NZ/arg and NZ/SA but nope.
Edit: in fact Argentina and SA never had games at home even planned!
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@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Might have been his best game in black. He did everything that was asked of him and more, without the brain farts that have plagued him in the past
I'm going to allow myself a farking great portion of smug satisfaction. His class was always there but for whatever reason some were willing to write him off age 19. It just goes to show that players mature, develop and improve. Writing anyone off that young is simply idiotic.
It's particularly ironic that of the 2 players who were written off as "shit" very young, one is now the captain and the other played a blinder and saved the game last week.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Might have been his best game in black. He did everything that was asked of him and more, without the brain farts that have plagued him in the past
I'm going to allow myself a farking great portion of smug satisfaction. His class was always there but for whatever reason some were willing to write him off age 19. It just goes to show that players mature, develop and improve. Writing anyone off that young is simply idiotic.
It's particularly ironic that of the 2 players who were written off as "shit" very young, one is now the captain and the other played a blinder and saved the game last week.
was savea written on on here as shit? he started before my time on TSF
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@kiwiwomble said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Might have been his best game in black. He did everything that was asked of him and more, without the brain farts that have plagued him in the past
I'm going to allow myself a farking great portion of smug satisfaction. His class was always there but for whatever reason some were willing to write him off age 19. It just goes to show that players mature, develop and improve. Writing anyone off that young is simply idiotic.
It's particularly ironic that of the 2 players who were written off as "shit" very young, one is now the captain and the other played a blinder and saved the game last week.
was savea written on on here as shit? he started before my time on TSF
Big time.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Might have been his best game in black. He did everything that was asked of him and more, without the brain farts that have plagued him in the past
I'm going to allow myself a farking great portion of smug satisfaction. His class was always there but for whatever reason some were willing to write him off age 19. It just goes to show that players mature, develop and improve. Writing anyone off that young is simply idiotic.
It's particularly ironic that of the 2 players who were written off as "shit" very young, one is now the captain and the other played a blinder and saved the game last week.
I think generally , we( the public ) go too early writing young players off ,
Nonu was probably the one that stands out the most for me , man didnt he prove some people wrong
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@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Might have been his best game in black. He did everything that was asked of him and more, without the brain farts that have plagued him in the past
I'm going to allow myself a farking great portion of smug satisfaction. His class was always there but for whatever reason some were willing to write him off age 19. It just goes to show that players mature, develop and improve. Writing anyone off that young is simply idiotic.
It's particularly ironic that of the 2 players who were written off as "shit" very young, one is now the captain and the other played a blinder and saved the game last week.
I think generally , we( the public ) go too early writing young players off ,
Nonu was probably the one that stands out the most for me , man didnt he prove some people wrong
Doesn't mean that they weren't poke when they weren't liked by the public either. PLayers can improve
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@kiwiwomble said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Might have been his best game in black. He did everything that was asked of him and more, without the brain farts that have plagued him in the past
I'm going to allow myself a farking great portion of smug satisfaction. His class was always there but for whatever reason some were willing to write him off age 19. It just goes to show that players mature, develop and improve. Writing anyone off that young is simply idiotic.
It's particularly ironic that of the 2 players who were written off as "shit" very young, one is now the captain and the other played a blinder and saved the game last week.
was savea written on on here as shit? he started before my time on TSF
Saying he's not as good as McCaw or Cane doesn't mean he was written off.
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@nepia i didn;t write him off or say he had been, i was asking
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@kiwiwomble said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@nepia i didn;t write him off or say he had been, i was asking
Yeah, I know, I was just providing the counterpoint to the belief he was written off.
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@nepia said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwiwomble said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@rancid-schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@canefan said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Might have been his best game in black. He did everything that was asked of him and more, without the brain farts that have plagued him in the past
I'm going to allow myself a farking great portion of smug satisfaction. His class was always there but for whatever reason some were willing to write him off age 19. It just goes to show that players mature, develop and improve. Writing anyone off that young is simply idiotic.
It's particularly ironic that of the 2 players who were written off as "shit" very young, one is now the captain and the other played a blinder and saved the game last week.
was savea written on on here as shit? he started before my time on TSF
Saying he's not as good as McCaw or Cane doesn't mean he was written off.
Which would be nice if that was the way it was argued. Which it most certainly wasn't. It's not a counterpoint it's pure nonsense. He was straight out referred to as shit and not good enough.
"Yeah Ardie's good but not McCaw good." Is an argument used by no one ever.
