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@NTA And your Australian Tongans are probably Kiwi Tongans anyway!

@Smuts said in Scotland vs Springboks:

Scots:
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Will his number ones consist of a traditional woollen tartan kilt or a floral one?

@pooler-fan Can't you find any in places like Lautoka, Sigatoka, Rakiraki or Lambasa etc?

@Kiwiwomble said in Highlanders 2025:

ok, has anyone heard or know this has been a thing for any other super rugby team in the past?

James Blackwell?

Is this guy eligible for the Kiwis?

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Is this still hit of the year?.

Maybe Australia are feeling the effects of having so many imports in their much vaunted Netball League?

@Bovidae The rumour going round is that he is going back to repeat Year 13 so he might just be the Player Coach!

@KiwiPie Have they got round to floodlighting it yet?

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Just checking the results and await @mariner4life to surface after celebrating his mobs big tonkings of last year's two top sides this week - congrats that man. Will see how accurate those results were when they take on long time heavyweights Perth at home and Sydney away this coming week. Lucky they haven't got Brisbane or South East Melbourne this week where the wheels will probably be square rather than round if they follow their usual form of the past few years!!

So it could be much worse then?

@Toddy Just as expected given the dross my guys have been serving up lately, especially defensively.

@Toddy Oh thanks for that. Probably explains the absence of Wellington posters. No doubt the wheels will probably fall off my guys given how poor they have been since losing the shield.

Has the game started yet? I'm away from television and relying on this board to keep me up to date.

@dogmeat We also faced doctored pitches when playing away so whats so bad about producing a green top when you 100% get nothing other than a bunsen burner in India (for example)? Come to think of it the pitches at the Waca and The Gabba were always fiery and favouring the Aussies as well. It's been a fair while since we have seen a proper "green topper" in NZ with Hamilton, Napier, Eden Park when it was still being used and even the Basin being run fests (NZs infamous batting collapses notwithstanding) on mostly placid pitches.

Some of the stats for the 20s are padded with the never ending times Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (until recently of course!!!) were on the Black Caps fixture list.

@nzzp Slight error as if you are a Crusader then it is 26 games max as the +3 means they somehow find a way to make the playoffs.

Being expected to play so many games up north is obviously a trade off for the big bucks you get paid up there. Some of the English and Welsh clubs, in particular, are financially struggling and even going out of business in at least four instances so it might not be long before the salaries they offer come back down to Super Rugby levels (or lower) and hey presto it becomes less financially attractive for NZ players. There is still France and Japan though but there are only so many places available and presumably not enough spots open to meet the expectations of all those chasing them.

@gt12 said in Sexton's send off:

@Bones

As shown here, Just-a-shit-O'Gara is spouting off at Rieko (7 minute mark) about a minute after the call (5:45 minute mark)

Seems strange for Rieko to be saying back ten after the whistle has been blown.

To put it into context you would expect even someone like the Wests Tigers could have found a way to score a try if they had 37 consecutive tackles.

@brodean You can only win turnovers when the opposition team has the ball hence one of the reasons why the Boks won the least.

@Kirwan I'll give you that, take away the last ten or fifteen minutes and you were right about my guys but six tries to four says it all.

@Kirwan said in Hawkes Bay v Auckland:

Lucky for us, Hawkes Bay are super shit.

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps v Sri Lanka Test Series:

FFS. Latham gone.

Have we got past 26 yet?