RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
I'm at a family weekend in Kent for the Final. I have a choice of watching it with Mrs M's children and young grandchildren (neither are really all that into rugby) or slinking back to the hotel and watching it on my own.
I'm taking a half-bottle of Single Malt and opting for the hotel room.
Been invited to a kiwi mates bar in Ottawa. I know there'll be some dumb shit Canadians with no skin in the game other than for a wind up. I think I'll stay home and sink the remaining out of date Speights I have. I can't contain the rage but at least I can mitigate who sees it.
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@Machpants said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@kiwiinmelb said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
The leaked team also has Brodie staying on the bench
Linky?
Same source on SENZ radio that has got it right the last 5 matches
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@kiwiinmelb said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@Machpants said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@kiwiinmelb said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
The leaked team also has Brodie staying on the bench
Linky?
Same source on SENZ radio that has got it right the last 5 matches
Same starting side as last week , only change being Nepo in for Fletcher
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@voodoo said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
90 hours and 11 minutes til kick-off
You're welcome
Wanted how many seconds too. It’s hard to find a good counter-downer on rugby forums these days.
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Huh, I’m surprised that worked
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@voodoo said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
90 hours and 11 minutes til kick-off
You're welcome
Bastard
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Well, whatever the result, I won't need to turn my phone off like I did in 2003 to stop pricks ringing me up and asking "Did you see the Rugby".
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@NTA said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@nzzp said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@Duluth you're middle aged aren't you
He's a middle aged professional nerd. That's why it has been presented as something sensible and not a tiktok
Also not in portrait
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It's a funny world. It's only a few weeks ago that there was genuine concern we'd lose to Italy. Now we're in the final.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
It's a funny world. It's only a few weeks ago that there was genuine concern we'd lose to Italy. Now we're in the final.
Genuine concern? Maybe from a very small group of doom merchants
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“I'll tell you a quick story,” began Papalii with an ever-so mischievous grin. “I've got a little group happening in the team room at our hotel and we're watching Band of Brothers, [the TV series about] the 101st Airborne and their Easy Company. So, I made a little joke saying, 'you know they've got the Bomb Squad, so we could have the Easy Company. We want to go and finish the job and be in the trenches'. “Talking about the Bomb Squad, man they've proven themselves. They can come on and change a game like that. So, we need to identify whoever is on the bench, and be really screwed on up top and give it hell.” Papalii revealed the All Blacks had not looked to shy away from what was at stake this week. “There were some saying this is probably one of the most important games in All Blacks history,” he said. “[We] went through a hard path to get here – media, friends, family even criticising us, and we stuck together. We weren't even said to be in the final and now look at us. “Different players take it differently and some of the older guys probably were hit a little bit harder, and it was good to see a bit of emotion and the want from them. Seeing that gives us all an extra 2-3 percent to think, ‘OK, we are going to the well’. -
@KiwiMurph said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
“I'll tell you a quick story,” began Papalii with an ever-so mischievous grin. “I've got a little group happening in the team room at our hotel and we're watching Band of Brothers, [the TV series about] the 101st Airborne and their Easy Company. So, I made a little joke saying, 'you know they've got the Bomb Squad, so we could have the Easy Company. We want to go and finish the job and be in the trenches'. “Talking about the Bomb Squad, man they've proven themselves. They can come on and change a game like that. So, we need to identify whoever is on the bench, and be really screwed on up top and give it hell.” Papalii revealed the All Blacks had not looked to shy away from what was at stake this week. “There were some saying this is probably one of the most important games in All Blacks history,” he said. “[We] went through a hard path to get here – media, friends, family even criticising us, and we stuck together. We weren't even said to be in the final and now look at us. “Different players take it differently and some of the older guys probably were hit a little bit harder, and it was good to see a bit of emotion and the want from them. Seeing that gives us all an extra 2-3 percent to think, ‘OK, we are going to the well’.I like hearing them embracing the challenge. They said similar things before the Ireland game. Present, in the moment, face the task head on. Great stuff
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@voodoo said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in RWC Final: All Blacks v Springboks:
It's a funny world. It's only a few weeks ago that there was genuine concern we'd lose to Italy. Now we're in the final.
Genuine concern? Maybe from a very small group of doom merchants
The kernel of doubt was there, which was absolutely unthinkable before.
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