Serial cheater.M'cheat
Acknowledged by all. Even himself I think.
Game's better without Dickieboy.
Serial cheater.M'cheat
Acknowledged by all. Even himself I think.
Game's better without Dickieboy.
They say you are stupid and fair play you are going out of your way to demonstrate why.....
BTW, Cruden cleared of any structural damage to his neck so that's good.
Probably unlikely to play the third Test though.
Nice to see Australia getting hammered. Brings a tear (of joy) to my eye.
Even better to see them eating humble pie: Moore : England deserved to win both Tests - Super Rugby | Super 18 Rugby and Rugby Championship News,Results and Fixtures from Super XV Rugby
For those of you into the egg chasing rather than the proper sport on tonight, the World U20 Rugby Semis are on today.
Pikies vs Argies.
Engerland vs Jaapies.
Will be on a stream somewhere I'm sure.
In the U20's the pikies crushed the argies, and EngerlandEngerlandEngerlaaaaand crushed the jaapies.
So England vs Ireland is the final, on Saturday 25th at 7pm UK.
It's on Sky Sports UK and SuperSport SA so there will be streams available for sure.
Of course that's the same time as Wales kick off in the Euros, so you may find your local full of leek and daffodil waving mental cases singing hymns.
Last edited by harrybarracuda; 21-06-2016 at 06:08 PM.
Harry's post in Engerlish.
England reached a fourth successive World Rugby Under-20 Championship final by beating South Africa in Manchester.
The hosts scored two tries within seven minutes through Yorkshire Carnegie's Max Green and Worcester's Huw Taylor.
Harlequins' Sam Aspland-Robinson, London Irish's Johnny Williams, Saracens' Max Malins and Carnegie's Max Wright also scored in a 39-17 victory.
Ireland had earlier beaten Argentina 37-7 at the same venue to reach their first ever final.
England, who have won all four of their games so far, were beaten 21-16 by New Zealand in the final in Italy last year, but had won the previous two tournaments.
Bit of depth there for the national coach to chew on.
Springbok assistant coach Matt Proudfoot sings Lions No 8 Warren Whiteley's praises - Times LIVE
Warren - one of the kings of the game. And he doesn't need to cheat to prove his worth. Just an all-round quality player.
So the debate in the press this week was whether Hansen & Co. would go for continuity and combinations ahead of the Rugby Championship or take the opportunity to give squad members a go, particularly the new ones to see if they are up to it.
He has gone for the latter with Dixon, Squire and Tu'ungafasi in and recalls for George Moala and Lima Sopoaga.
Sopoaga is well deserved in my opinion, he was great on debut and did everything that was expected of him in a tough match and environment. Moala is completely left-field though, not sure what the thinking is there.
Mid-field is starting to look problematic actually. Crotty is stop-gap at best, Ngatai's ongoing concussion issues are a worry, and with Moala now in you've got to wonder when a settled combination is going to be built.
All Blacks squad
1. Joe Moody (13)
2. Dane Coles (38)
3. Charlie Faumuina (35)
4. Brodie Retallick (49)
5. Samuel Whitelock (74)
6. Elliot Dixon
7. Sam Cane (33)
8. Kieran Read - captain (86)
9. Aaron Smith (49)
10. Beauden Barrett (38)
11. Julian Savea (42)
12. Ryan Crotty (17)
13. George Moala (1)
14. Ben Smith (50)
15. Israel Dagg (50)
16. Codie Taylor (4)
17. Wyatt Crockett (47)
18. Ofa Tu'ungafasi
19. Luke Romano (23)
20. Liam Squire
21. Tawera Kerr-Barlow (20)
22. Lima Sopoaga (1)
23. Waisake Naholo (5)
Originally Posted by AntRobertson
Haha fuck off I'm not agreeing!
Just saying that it's an odd selection given that you'd think they'd be more keen to bed a new partnership in at this stage.
We've got our new Kiwi 7 playing Saturday (and another Kiwi on the bench, a centre BTW... ).
Nice to see the England captain in the Hall of Fame: http://www.rbhs.school.nz/archfame/1rbh2.pdf
Edit to add: no rugby league players on the bench, my mistake.
England: Mike Brown; Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, Owen Farrell, Jack Nowell; George Ford, Ben Youngs; Mako Vunipola, Dylan Hartley (captain), Dan Cole, Maro Itoje, George Kruis, Chris Robshaw, Teimana Harrison, Billy Vunipola
Replacements: Jamie George, Matt Mullan, Paul Hill, Joe Launchbury, Courtney Lawes, Jack Clifford, Danny Care, Elliot Daly
Last edited by Bettyboo; 23-06-2016 at 06:55 PM.
Cycling should be banned!!!
R.B.H.S. is my alma mater
Little bit of trivia for you...
Chris Grinter, the current principal, was credited by Jonah Lomu as being instrumental in getting him involved in rugby when he was working at Wesley College at the time.
OPTA FACTS: ALL BLACKS V WALES, THIRD TEST
-New Zealand might have won their last 10 Tests on the trot, but in only one of their last four have they managed to go into the half-time break with the lead.
-New Zealand have now won their last 40 consecutive fixtures on home soil, 10 more than their next best streak in Test history.
-Wales have conceded only 28 points in the opening half of their last three Tests against New Zealand combined, never trailing at the break in any of those fixtures (leading once, level twice); however they have conceded 81 second half points in those three games.
-New Zealand have won all three Tests they've played at Forsyth Barr Stadium, though they've never won a game there by more than 10 points. This will be their second fixture against a team from the Northern Hemisphere at the venue.
-New Zealand are nine points shy of their 1,000th against Wales, only against three other nations (Australia, South Africa, France) have the managed to notch four figures.
-Kick off on June 25th will mark 1,302 days since New Zealand last lost a Test match against a Northern Hemispheric team (v. England, 38-21).
-Wales have scored 43 points in their last two away games against New Zealand; they'd managed just 46 in the seven previous iterations of this fixture.
-Wales remain winless away from home from five games in 2016 (D1, L4), should they fail to win on the road in 2016 it would be the second time in the last three years that Wales were winless away from home in a calendar year.
-Waisake Naholo has made 309 metres in this series so far, more than 50 metres more than the next best tally (Liam Williams – 243m).
-Both sides have 100% success rates at the scrum so far in this series, New Zealand winning 12/12 on their own feed and Wales 14/14.
Another good weekend of rugby!
My mother on the opening ceremony of the 2nd test.
"What the fuck is this?"
"What a load of bollocks"
The Australian ones? They both had some indigenous people making a speech; never seen anything like it before, but Australia is changing and becoming very sensitive...
Yes. Last week I watched it with my sister. And she is pretty "oz". But even she said "what a load of shit"
It all struck me as rather awkward and forced. The Aussies simply aren't used to intergrating native culture like Kiwis are.
Your not wrong there. Nobody, else seemed to complain at the game.
But I sensed the general consensus
With the exception of the South Africans. I think the Aussies are the most reluctant to embrace their heritage.
But to be honest the Abbos are not a scratch on the Maoris.
I reckon England to win by 12.
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