Tuesday, 8 July 2008
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| IRB are on to it. Ted 17:32:02 |
| | Wonder why IRB haven't changed the world rankings yet!
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| Re: Passing BrritSki 14:24:06 |
| | hamishd wrote:
In the 2nd half, Wulf fielded a kick and ran to toward the centre of the pitch and delivered a PERFECT longish pass to Mils. That is, Mils didn't have to slow half a step, he hit it at speed. The play then looked infinitely more attacking than most others in the game. I then watched passes to see what effect they had. Most other passes were slightly backward causing the player to slow.
That's why so many AB passes are forward. HTH HAND
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| PNC Uncle Bully 13:05:11 |
| | Watching bits of the Tonga/Fiji game on the weekend, both teams perfomed
their hakas, and the Tongans have even incorpoirated a throat slitting
gesture into theirs.
Strangely there was no inquiry into how unfair it was or how many kids lives
were jeopardised by the insanely violent gesture. One has to wonder what
happened to the anti-haka crowd on this occassion? Why do they only care
when it NZ that's doing it?
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| Re: Bok team for next week Greig Blanchett 12:47:47 |
| | On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 22:01:09 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Jul 6, 3:18 pm, Dirk <Dirkblik...@aol.com> wrote: 8. Spies (7Burger, 6Smith) - NO Watson - Kankowski on the bench. If they don't make those changes, they will lose by even more. Come to think of it, they will anyway, with the strategy/coaching/lack of attacking plan - but, as Boyd says "same old.." I don't think they want/need Monty and Steyn at the same time. One or the other.
Percy will freeze - Dunedin will be brass monkey cold next weekend. I
wouldn't be surprised if he tries the old Alan Hewson trick of turning
out in panty hose.
Steyn's a bit handy though. That drop kick was spectacular. And he
looks like a lad who enjoys the game as well - all too rare these
days. Being built like a large baked clay outhouse doesn't hurt
either.
I can't see what Janjies did wrong though - looked confident and did
everything you'd expect a fullback to do yet he got slated by the SA
press. Is it cos he is black?
The back row looks better balanced. Van Niekek was no great shakes
when he was the next big thing, let alone now. He was always a
Skinstadt-lite which would be no mean feat if Skinstad wasn't always
such a Zinzan-lite. Spies looks the real deal.
You guys better hope Matfield, Smit and James are fast learners though
- they looked absolutely out of their depth with the ELVs, let alone
the step up in class from whatever moribund divisions they were
playing in oop north to 3N test rugby.
--
greig
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| Re: Farewell to iconic rugby landmark NIGEL WRITE ME PLS Rugby Dan 00:04:08 |
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Where in Wales are you? I will be going thru in Sept Pls write me direct <rugby...@bellsouth.net>
Nigel Evans wrote:
"Baldoni" <baldoniXXV@gmail.com> wrote in message news:6df4c0F28gshU1@mid.individual.net... That is a nice story and I always liked Ray Gravelle but people forget that New Zealand racked up a score of 90 odd points a few years after that How on earth does any subsequent rugby match influence the quality and importance of one already played ? It seems to me that you are a bit of a fool. I don't think that Ray Gravelle would have liked you very much. You are probably a poster to UK.legal too. Not a lot going for you, is there ? |
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Monday, 7 July 2008
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| Hull FC fined John Turner 20:53:44 |
| | Hull FC have been fined ё100k (of which ё40k is suspended) by the RFL for
fielding an ineligible player (Jamie Thackeray) in early rounds of the
Challenge Cup.
John.
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| Goode > Brive Tim Jesson 20:31:38 |
| | http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/my_club/leicester/7493397.stm
Still aspirational...
It's not news cos you heard it first, ages ago.
Goode has completed 10 seasons at Leicester and he's still only 28.
I missed the one about Lassucq becoming skills coach though. That boy was a
very fine scrummy. Good luck to them.
Cheers,
TJ
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| Hang on. What is going on here? Ted 14:23:02 |
| | http://www.irb.com/newsmedia/mediazone/pressrelease/newsid=2024544.html#tri+nations+match+official+appointments
The relevant info is in the second paragraph.
This is genuine Paddy"s porkys!
“The IRB Match Official Selection Committee waited until the outcome of
SANZAR’s discussions as to whether the Tri Nations would be played under
the ELVs before selecting the panel of officials for the Tournament,”
explained IRB Referee Manager Paddy O’Brien.
“As the matches will be played under the ELVs as approved by IRB Council
at its meeting in May, it was important that we selected match officials
with relevant experience of the ELVs that will apply, hence the
appointment of an all southern hemisphere panel,” added O’Brien.
How long has Waynker been part of the "southern hemisphere panel"?
Where is his "relevant experience of the ELVs"?
Me smells a bumboy!
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| Token In charge of Motivation this week Bolix 13:40:14 |
| | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/4/story.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10520391
There are some pearlers in there:
"We just have to become illegal sometimes too," de Villiers said.
"There is a quite positiveness that we lost it rather than they won it."
"We were more disciplined there in playing the new laws rather than
playing the situation under the referee very good."
Can one of you Boneheads do a translation on the last one? I'm just
getting clicking noises.
Bolix
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| Bokke Coaches Bolix 08:26:50 |
| | Were clearly confused
Looked like they were off to a cricket match - what was all that aboot?
Bolix
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| Re: Thorn deserved a weeks ban. Will_s 06:24:05 |
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"Stex" <stex2727@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:a5b50eb9-eea9-41f0-beb8-430b43030ea3@34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
I'm surprised that a few AB fans are defending Thorn. While I'm surprised he did it (having no real history of thuggery) he deserved a ban because it was 1) extremely dangerous 2) premeditated. 3) the player did not have the ball Im all for its a mans game etc, play hard but I dont condone this behaviour. Stex
and a couple of Frogs received 2 weeks
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| Robbie's Wobblies V. 2 Chris Parslow 04:12:10 |
| | 15 A Ashley-Cooper
14 P Hynes
13 S Smallcock...sorry, couldn't help meself...Mortlock
12 B Barnes
11 L Turner
10 M Giteau
9 L Burgess
8 S Hoiles
7 P Waugh
6 R Elsom
5 N Shirker
4 J Horwill
3 A Fuckin' Baxter
2 S Moore
1 Benn Robinson
Bench
16 A Freier
17 B Alexander
18 D Mumm
19 G Smith
20 S Cordingley
21 R Cross
22 C Shepherd
Forced changes in the Tuqiri / Palu replacements (LT and SH) and
unforced in Shepherd and Smith (AAC and PW).
Not a bad team.
CP
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| Hahaha Waynkers back!!! Ted 04:08:16 |
| | This is just about gonna make it worth getting up for.
Waynker in charge of a side line. Atleast the sideline will be straight.
t
http://www.rugbyheaven.co.nz/4609449a22363.html
Oh no! Wayne Barnes returns to haunt ABs
By GREG FORD - Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 06 July 2008
BARNES IS BACK: English referee Wayne Barnes will come face-to-face with
the All Blacks next month.
Brace yourself New Zealand. The country's most hated man, Englishman
Wayne Barnes, is poised to be thrust back into our lives when he comes
face-to-face with the All Blacks next month.
Barnes will police the touchline during the All Blacks' Tri Nations
clash with South Africa in Cape Town nine months after the
whistle-blower incensed Kiwis after missing a blatant forward pass
during the All Blacks' quarterfinal loss to France in the Rugby World Cup.
The sinbinning of Luke McAlister and a catalogue of other errors in
Cardiff made the subsequent fallout all the more vitriolic. The All
Blacks fuelled the enmity as recently as a fortnight ago when lock Ali
Williams slammed Barnes' performance and the New Zealand Rugby Union,
albeit through an independent tournament review, also pointed the finger
at Barnes.
A reunion between the former lawyer and All Blacks was inevitable. But
given the wounds from last year are still raw some are surprised it has
come so soon.
Not so Barnes' boss and staunchest supporter, Southlander Paddy O'Brien,
who appointed his protege to the fixture.
O'Brien went on the attack on Saturday when the wisdom of his decision -
given recent history between the parties - was questioned.
"There is no history between the All Blacks and Wayne Barnes," he claimed.
When offered the chance to revise this answer he declined and had a
pointed message to any All Blacks fans who might be upset with his decision.
"I don't give a toss, to be honest, and Wayne finds all the fuss [in New
Zealand] quite amusing, I think," he said.
"New Zealand doesn't rule world rugby. New Zealanders have to remember
that."
But given his testy response it's obvious the appointment will be
controversial and it's hard to imagine the All Blacks being entirely happy.
But O'Brien said there was no chance the appointment would be revisited.
"Wayne is in South Africa to referee a match the week before so it would
be silly of us not to have him involved," he said.
"There is no significance in the fact it will happen on neutral ground
in South Africa. Imagine if teams could overturn what referee they had
each week. The whole process would turn into a shambles. So this
decision will stand, there's no two ways about it."
Aussie Stuart Dickinson will ref the match. Dickinson was in charge of
last night's match in Wellington.
http://www.rugbyheaven.co.nz/4609449a22363.html
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| Re: Bring on the House of PAIN Greig Blanchett 03:59:12 |
| | On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:52:41 -0700 (PDT), Maxx
<scary@executivemail.co.za> wrote:
On Jul 6, 9:24pm, Dave Keegan <ru...@budweiser.com> wrote: On Jul 6, 3:15 pm, Maxx <sc...@executivemail.co.za> wrote: I said if we win won of these two games I'd be happy, and what better place for the Boks to break their NZinNZ run next week? With a different ref, Monty starting to get all our kicks over and a bit more luck, it's all nicely set up. Good on ya for fronting up... Cool, I must say the AB's were the better team on Saturday, which was impressive without Richie. Maybe not having our captain next game will work for us this time 
I reckon it will. Du Plessis looked more at ease with the pace, style
and laws than Smit. He's a good player.
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greig
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| Independent Citing Barry Brown 03:46:23 |
| | Some may recall that disgraceful tackle on O'Driscoll by Umaga and Mealamu.
Key player in the Lions Tour.
Amazingly not considered dangerous.
Strange co-incidence that Smit, also Capt, cops a similar tackle. Boks
performance falls off.
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| Re: This says it all - by Keo Rick Boyd 02:13:11 |
| | Dirk wrote:
A crushing Springbok defeat in New Zealand – and one that was influenced by poor selections, tactical naivety and compounded by the brilliance of All Blacks flyhalf Daniel Carter.
But Dirkhead, that's an honest and objective review of the game. There's
nothing there at all about the cynical cheating, forward passes,
obstruction and other world-class whining that you've been going on with.
This article must seem like hopelessly slanted anti-Springbok slander to
you, surely?
-- rick boyd
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| Planet Rugby in another galaxy Rick Boyd 01:49:34 |
| | I love the thinly-veiled Japie web site "Planet Rugby" that pretends to
be about British rugby.
Reading the article on the first tri-nations game, I wondered if I had
dreamt it all and the Springboks had in fact won.
"All Blacks weather South African storm" says the front page teaser, as
though the All Blacks had squeaked home against a mighty South African
tornado of fury.
Apparently the All Blacks fell over the line after "coming off the ropes
after the Boks had silenced the sodden crowd with a fine first-half
performance" -- the All Blacks were practically out on their feet it
seems. And very lucky to win, by the sound of it.
"Credit must go to the Boks - they matched the All Blacks in every asset
of play."
"They stood toe-to-toe in defence and found more holes in attack than
the Irish and English had managed in three games. "
Which is odd because I don't recall them making a single break worth the
name all night, apart a single Habana trademark opportunistic effort
down the sideline. Not to mention scoring fewer tries as our dear friend
Didds has already pointed out.
Meanwhile, back on earth...
-- rick boyd
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Sunday, 6 July 2008
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| Re: Free Beer for all Ted 15:06:54 |
| | Uncle Dave wrote:
On Jul 6, 11:48 am, Stex <stex2...@yahoo.com> wrote: On Jul 6, 5:54 pm, Uncle Dave <davidco...@t-online.de> wrote: Actually if you read the article theres some interesting points.
Useless Dirtbag doesn't read those sort of articles.
He only looks at the pictures
Hey U Dumbshit!
Paddy admitted Waynker made "a few mistakes" and Henry pointed out what
a waste of refereeing space he was. But I understand "you know all"!
More than them and all of us.
Why are you continuing to back a loser that is the real question?
Get over it will ya!
It's history now - like your cricket captain Collingwoods bad sportsmanship.
We may forgive but we always remember!
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