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To be fair, after reading the details of Sevu's first "incident" - and reading between the lines of the witness reports - I had some sympathy. It seemed quite possibly an innocuous incident, but branded with "domestic violence" and therefore pitchforks out.
But a second incident... not sure I can be bothered reading the details of this one, but one way or the other, he hasn't learned lessons.
Plus he's slower than me, so get him out of the All Blacks anyway.

@SBW1 said in Italy v All Blacks:

I believe he is an actor in the States, his accent is bit of Aussie, American and Kiwi. There is another guy I follow who is based in Mexico. This is Razor at the press conference.

Fuck me - first two minutes of that, with the chick actually insisting on answers to the questions she'd asked - that's a hard watch.
Robertson - avoiding questions, struggling to come up with answers, and resulting to "... we knew it was going to be a hard match"
Barrett - asked about TJP - avoiding the question, but having the self-awareness to realise he was doing so, and obviously... finally just answered it, like a confession.
After that - back to standard sycophantic questions, but even with those... Robertson struggling to do basic bullshit press-conference ramble.
And then - "[after this year] ... you learn about test footy". Possibly the most apt ending.

@Nepia said in All Blacks 2024:

On Razor, yeah, I'm the same, I'm not writing him off after this year, but I'm still criticising him for what I see as poor decisions most especially Sotutu and his wanking on about overseas players just to get an overrated 10 back

Fucking ALL of this.

@nostrildamus said in Italy v All Blacks:

@Kruse said in Italy v All Blacks:

Misleading title.
Zero real analysis.
Unnecessary constant close-up of face
90% wrong
Just... yeah, nah.

If ever the Fern went to podcasting, vlogging, this could be the intro.

Yeah - as I was writing that, I was thinking of the Fern motto, and ... "I could just copy/paste that - and... I guess that means the vid actually fits in quite well - it's the Gen-Z self-aggrandizing vlog love-my-own-face version of TSF"

@MN5 said in Scotland v Australia:

I’m assuming some shit journalist has gone on about how the new winger will be looking at weaving some spells on debut ?

How is it his debut? I'm sure I've already seen some shit jokes about "looking to unleash some magic on the wing".
Maybe at Super-Rugby level? I guess I'll have to think up some "LOL - both your parents were murdered" gags for the test-level arena.

@SBW1 said in Italy v All Blacks:

Sorry if that is you or a mate of yours - but if I had the option of blocking a youtube channel from ever appearing in my awareness ever again - that channel would be on the list.
Misleading title.
Zero real analysis. Unnecessary constant close-up of face. 90% wrong. Just... yeah, nah.

Can somebody start bombarding Beauden's girlfriend with tourism material for Japan?

Can't believe I went through the ignominy of walking in the door of a bar named "The Kangaroo & Kiwi" to watch that shit.

Nope.

@Machpants said in Italy v All Blacks:

@Kruse said in Italy v All Blacks:

Every eyetie offside behind the ref"s back every breakdown. Are we trialling a return to no ARs?

Yeah they are flooding the rucks, which is working, but illegally ask the time

Yep , flooding rucks, WAY offside behind whichever way the ref is facing, means we've only got one way to go, and under pressure.... pretty easy to defend against.

Every eyetie offside behind the ref"s back every breakdown. Are we trialling a return to no ARs?

@akan004 said in France v Argentina:

Thought this game wasn't on till tomorrow and missed it. What's up with these Friday night fixtures?

Right? It's Friday noon for me - and all too easy to forget to skive off work.

I tried reading this to catch up on what had happened.
I gave up about halfway through - still not knowing what the fuck happened.

Australia vs India

Captain Bumrah makes his own rules to spark India to life

Quick bowlers got 0.8 degrees of seam on average on the first day of the Perth Test, but Bumrah was able to do more than just that with the ball

Random drivel - trying to be clever, I assume.

@Canes4life said in Italy v All Blacks:

Someone just posted this team in the Stuff comments (yes I know it's not reliable) but it's interesting.

AB team: Love, Tele'a, Lam, ALB, Clarke, Perofeta, Perenara, Sititi, Cane, Lakai, Holland, Tuipolotu (c), Tosi, Taylor EDG.

Subs: Williams, Aumua, Ofa, S Barrett, Savea, Roigard, B Barrett, Reiko

FFS - I know that Jordan isn't much chop at fullback, but replacing him with the Groot?

@Mauss said in All Blacks v France:

@Kruse To be fair to kiwiinmelb, that's pretty much the gist of it. And you could ask yourself, why write 2,443 words when 47 could suffice?

Then again, I'm personally more of a quantity-over-quality kinda guy.

I love both extremes.
I have heard several times at work somebody reference a "Kruse-style write-up" - meaning an absurd amount of content/explanation/context - informational Shock-and-Awe to prematurely cut off any questions except from idiots.
But also "Kruse-level pith" - usually expressing contempt.

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks v France:

I’m not saying I agree with the decision because I did find it negative and against the usual allblack mindset,

But I just think scoooter felt in his gut the way the game was going ,

Penalties were more likely and easier to come by than tries

Come back to us with a 2,443 word write-up stating the same, we might consider the theory.

How many "round the corner" passes in that try? A tactic to address the rush defence?

@antipodean said in Boxing Thread:

I want my money back.

While these two "fighters" want another 20 million each, so.... points decision, rematch.
Predictable script, with 20/20 hindsight.