The Silver Fern

It was a bloody tough start!

@KiwiPie I've got 3 tippi g, fonzie, boof, and bartman. Whatever teams need filling g.

@Winger by accident, I thought game was I hamilton, so home team! Bugger!

@Dan54 yup, my mate fonz and I picked opposite in crusaders game, I was hooting at 80.minutes....

Could be a tough weekend, 0 from 2 so far for me!

All those players that spend more time re-habbing as opposed to battling it out for 80 minutes.
A few obvious candidates, but can we get a full XV?

Blackadder2.0 obviously, misses AB season last year, and still not spotted in 24 thanks to a particularly nasty hang nail, or calf, or well, it's ALWAYS something!

Atu Moli can slot in there too, looked to be the next big thing in 2019, until 604 various ailments they stopped him playing more than 6 consecutive seconds 2020 through 23...

Josh Lord at lock, gets injured pouring his weetbix milk in the morning....

Right, so fill in the gaps....

@KiwiPie bugger that must be fat prop fingers. Oh well.

Did my tips not go through KP?

CLAN 1-8
Brumbies 1-8
Rebels 1-8
Hurricanes 1-8
Crusaders 17+
Drua 17+

None of my margin picks even close, damn you Moana!

Tipping certainly makes watching the rugby more exciting as your margins come and go when points are scored. I forgot how much fun. I was waiting for someone to knock on in the final moments of Canes v Clan. Any score either way was bad!

@booboo said in RWC veterans to be dumped.:

Just really wanted him to be The Man

Yes booboo, he had everything, apart from a heart. The TinMan!

@Crucial said in RWC veterans to be dumped.:

Akira may not fall into the category of veteran but I think he is very much at risk

Yes he's got to be gone. Not even a flat track bully anymore, just vanishes when the hard work is needed!

OK, we have a thread on bolters. How about the other end of the spectrum?

1987 saw Mark Shaw and Gary Knight axed (off the top of my head), . 2011, Sivivatu and Rokocoko. 2019, Owen Franks. And I'm sure there were many more, I just can't be arsed looking them up.

Soooooo, who do ya reckon?

CANDIDATES...? I'll get this started.
Sam Cane? Still has zero ball running chops, tackles like a 6 all day, but that's it.
Dane Coles? If he's not injured, he's just recovered from injury or is about to be injured. Spends more time on physio table then on the field.

Who else?

@Stargazer said in Crusaders v Brumbies:

So the Crusaders are missing Finlay Brewis, Oliver Jager, Fletcher Newell, George Bell, Mitchell Dunshea, Quinten Strange, Sam Whitelock, Cullen Grace, Taha Kemara, David Havili, Jack Goodhue, Sevu Reece and Will Jordan? Or did I forget someone?

I thought you were naming the team there!

@KiwiPie those 2 late tries in Highlanders match would have changed margin results rapidly, think it was good for me anyway!

Goooo the mighty Blues B . Hooo rah!

@KiwiPie . I think I tipped, and posted saying available for any team,but can't find my post...? Lost in space, wrong thread...?

Have just tipped, available for selection in any team, chiefs or Highlanders preference though....

@Chris-B said in Foster:

@ARHS said in Foster:

NZRU might need to extend the trophy cabinet if Foster keeps securing silverware at this rate.

Going purely on results - if Fozzie had won one more against Ireland and beaten Argentina, I think most people would have been happy enough with the results this season in isolation.

2-1 vs Ireland and a shared series in SA vs the World Champions would have been acceptable.

The defeats coming on the back of the EOYT losses - and especially the manner of some of them where we were significantly outplayed put the cat among the pigeons.

I think we're definitely better for the coaching changes, but we've got a way to go before we're anything but outsiders for RWC.

Yes defeats when it never even looks like we're in with a chance of winning are foreign to AB fans of the last 2 decades. We usually lose because we run out of time, not because actually beaten! But in the last couple of seasons we've been beaten, fair and square!

@Victor-Meldrew said in So what did we learn from Bled2?:

@Tim said in So what did we learn from Bled2?:

@mariner4life He's had four blinders in the last five tests. Yet dickheads will just assume that because we aren't making spectacular wide moves, while scoring 40 points, it must because we have a defective centre. Moronic.

I think he's the best option at 13 and has come on in spades, but has some work-on's - e. g. he needs to give his support players/wingers more space. There have been times when he's made a blistering break but edged towards the touchline which cramps his attack options.

Yes perhaps Reiko is currently best option with injuries etc. But needs to learn to put his wingers into space. You know, centre stuff!