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Official Rugby Thread
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Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
This year has been the ABs worst since 2009. There are some worrying signs
StephenZA
Hall of Fame Member
Poor AB's without one of the greatest classes of AB's ever (if not ever)... now still about 2x better than anybody else rather than 10x better.
Say's the bitter SA fan...
Howe_zat
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Oh jog on, honestly
only beat a decent side away from home by one score, what a tragedy.
Howe_zat
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With Underhill injured there is talk of Itoje playing at 7 this week just so as Robshaw doesn’t have to play 7 and have Eddie Jones go back on his comment early in coaching that Robshaw isn’t one.
It’s so, so dumb. Robshaw is more of an open side than Underhill, Haskell or anyone who has played in the same back row as him.
It’s so, so dumb. Robshaw is more of an open side than Underhill, Haskell or anyone who has played in the same back row as him.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
The 1st Lions test and the Springbok test at Albany are the only tests in which we played All Black standard rugby in the whole year. There is a reasonable chance that we could lose to Ireland and England
StephenZA
Hall of Fame Member
England maybe, Ireland unlikely.... but NZ will do what they always when they do not play brilliant, stay in the game; And then their superior fitness and bench strength gets them across the line. Normally by 2 tries...
England are the only team in World rugby at the moment that have a hope of competing with NZ.
Howe_zat
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Yes, that's how sport works.
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Ireland have only won 1 out of 30 matches against us, while England have won 7 out of 40. However, both are potentially as good as the All Blacks now as they have improved and we have regressed.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
I'd still back NZ to beat anyone anywhere 9 times out of 10. The ABs have lost, what, three times in two years? Once when reduced to 14 men for three quarters of the game, once in a dead rubber Bledisloe and once with the Irish halfbacks in god mode, avenged a fortnight later.
I know they set very high standards for themselves, but the evidence suggests they're probably getting better, if anything. Even yer Boks, the one side who traditionally nearly stood toe to toe, have only won twice this decade.
I know they set very high standards for themselves, but the evidence suggests they're probably getting better, if anything. Even yer Boks, the one side who traditionally nearly stood toe to toe, have only won twice this decade.
