NRL 2024

[Nepia]

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

I can't ever recall us blanking the kangaroos in a test. Real danger of that now

We did it in 2005. 24-0. I knew in the back of my mind there was one, glad that wiki exists.

[Nepia]

I didn't know CNK was god squad.

[KiwiMurph]

@canefan said in NRL 2024:

I can't ever recall us blanking the kangaroos in a test. Real danger of that now

I remember we blanked the Aussies 24-0 over in England one year - 2005 Tri Nations final perhaps?

[Nepia]

JFH's speech wasn't too bad, brevity is a good thing.

[African Monkey]

@KiwiMurph Correct, and we beat them 18-0 in 1985.

[bayimports]

Fun game from a NZ perspective. Our forwards were dominant and our back three made a lot of metres. Guessing biggest winning margin over Australia? and blanking them in a final just makes it better.

Pity about turn out, but awesome for those who did!

[ARHS]

Really enjoyed that game. Thought that was a lovely speech from the amazing CNK.
I have been a Matt Timoko fan for a couple of years now. I suspect there will be thousands more of us after today!

[ACT Crusader]

Tapine was massive for us. Brown’s best game since forever.

Our two wingers just have pace and in fact our back 5 ran any Aussie kicks back with some real venom.

Aussies looked second rate today.

[kiwiinmelb]

I wasn’t able to watch it live had something on, but somehow without really trying managed to avoid the result, and watched a replay last night .

We were very up and full of energy , it was a bit odd , you see it sometimes in nrl but you don’t expect it from the Aussie team . Where the opposition almost concede defeat and say , I don’t think we can match this level of intensity today, and then roll over .

It’s a great kiwi team , it’s rare to have so many difficult players to tackle one on one in the same side .

[sparky]

Great win for the Kiwis!

[Bovidae]

To confirm, it was the third time the Kiwis have blanked the Kangaroos.

The biggest winning margin for the Kiwis over the Kangaroos, and their largest ever test loss.

[booboo]

@Nepia said in NRL 2024:

Missing a good Kiwis performance too.

I guess league taking over in NZ, as the media and social media has been telling me, is a bit premature?

Whilst this is probably true I just don't think Kiwis do live sport anymore.

Apart from the All Blacks and the Wahs bandwagon there's been no crowds since forever (and I suspect the latter will falter if the cop a couple of early losses).

[booboo]

@African-Monkey said in NRL 2024:

@KiwiMurph Correct, and we beat them 18-0 in 1985.

Was that Clayton Friend?

[Nepia]

In other news the Tongans were shown up to be the pretenders they are on their NH tour getting whipped by England. I'm kind of disappointed we didn't get the chance to play them as we would have run up 50+ against them.

Konrad Hurrell is so fat I thought he was Ben Tamiefuna's slightly lighter skinned brother.

[kiwiinmelb]

Not quite a blackout but in the days of 3 point trys and all our players playing in nz we beat them 24-3 in 1971 , was massive at the time . I think it was over another 10 years ( Lowe years ) when we beat them again.

[Kirwan]

Was that expected in any way? Saw the highlights, nice trys

[Nepia]

@Kirwan said in NRL 2024:

Was that expected in any way? Saw the highlights, nice trys

I expected them to win, but not like that.

[bayimports]

@Kirwan said in NRL 2024:

Was that expected in any way? Saw the highlights, nice trys

History shows that any win is unexpected, although we are always hopeful. I think certainly we all expected a better showing than the result from the previous week.

[bayimports]

CNK also played the last two matches with a broken rib

[canefan]

I didn't see the first game. But yesterday our boys just looked bigger and stronger. Aussies played small, serves Mal right for picking a few boys on reputation