The Silver Fern

The dead hand of Rueben Thorne.

@chris said in Wellington v Canterbury:

Wellington by 10 I reckon, until we get rid of the Muppett coaches.Who have really had no game plan , direction and selections and recruitment have been poor,And Get back a bit of pride in the jersey Canterbury will struggle.

As dour and uninspiring as Blackadder only 10 times worse. What idiots reappointed them?

@Wally

Actually should replace Philpott( I know not a SF favourite but was a genuine hard man club lock in the 90s) with Johnny Gray Scotland.

Sydenham

Nepo Laulala All Blacks
Codie Taylor All Blacks
Dave Hewitt All Blacks
Elliot Dixon All Blacks
Adam Parker NZ Maori and Japan
Craig Philpott Canterbury
No 7 ?
Nasi Manu Crusaders Highlanders and Tonga
Aaron Flynn Crusaders
Dion Kerr Canterbury and NZ Maori
Jonny McNicholl Crusaders and Wales
Kieran Flynn Canterbury and Southland
Wiremu Maunsell Canterbury and NZ Maori
Morrie Dixon All Blacks
Darryl Lilley Crusaders.

@shark said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@Bovidae said in Pick Your (or any) High Schools' All-Time Greatest XV:

@shark Sam Harding

http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/schoollist.asp?sl_id=Christ's College&stats_id=71

Nice one. CC really lack any illustrious or notable ABs: it's only Moody and Hobbs really.

Jack Hazlett

@nzzp Sanders is terrible. Try watching him for 5 minutes, zero work rate, walks a lot. Douglas, Jager, Dunshea all useless as well

@Chris-B

It’s a sign of the times when you need a psychiatrist on the coaching team.

The tournament of the coaches. Erasmus > Jones > Hansen > Schmidt > Gatland.

More metres than Moody has run all year.

Journeyman rugby. The Poms will thrash either of these teams.

@fcc

Best analysis ever on the SF

@antipodean

And Ceri Evans (All Blacks performance psychiatrist) hasn’t been at his usual morning gym this last few weeks. Presumably he’s been in Japan also.

@Victor-Meldrew said in Favourite AB tests:

@Billy-Webb said in Favourite AB tests:

In which case it would be the series where NZ picked a boxer in their front row to “deal” with the Boks....

From what I've read, Skinner wasn't just a top-class heavyweight boxer, he was one of the strongest props of his era. According to my Dad, the punch-ups have been over-egged - Skinner simply destroyed the Bok front-row with his scrummaging.

I’ve read various versions of this. The coach of that team (Mcphail?) was quoted as saying “Kevin reckoned he never hit anyone but his hands were so swollen the next day he could hardly hold a beer”.

@Wally

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Itoje very gracious in pod match interview

@Mokey

Absofuckinglutey

I would struggle to think of any AB who outplayed his Pom opposite.

How much better have the Poms been a t the breakdown?

The one silver lining in the cloud is that Foster is gone

J Barrett just lost it for us