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Today { Wgtn } – 5pm
Phoenix : (from) Glen Moss (GK), Manny Muscat, Roly Bonevacia, Michael Boxall, Alex Rodriguez, Nathan Burns, Michael McGlinchey, Jeremy Brockie, Tyler Boyd, Albert Riera, Louis Fenton, Vince Lia, Ben Sigmund, Tom Doyle, Lewis Italiano (GK), Roy Krishna, Andrew Durante (c), Matthew Ridenton.
Perth Glory : (from) Danny Vukovic (GK), Jack Clisby, Brandon O’Neill, Rostyn Griffiths, Dino Djulbic, Youssouf Hersi, Andy Keogh, Nebosja Marinkovic, Richard Garcia, Diogo Ferreira, Chris Harold, Jamie MacLaren, Mitch Nichols, Jack Duncan (GK), Josh Risdon, Scott Jamieson, Michael Thwaite (c), Harry O’Brien.
The media mickey mouse circus with SBW’s is a laugh, fact is we have quite a few players that are better all-round options at 2nd-five than him, with Nonu, Fekitoa, Crotty & heard Kahui could be coming back too, Carter & Ben Smith can play at inside centre as well… can’t see SBW’s starting in the important matches at the WC, would be a good option though to have him in the 22, bring him on in the last 20 minutes when the opposition are starting to tire so he can use his obvious strength of offloading in tackles to put our dangerous backs into space.
Have always found our provincial rugby a top watch… this year there’s being hardly any diif between the Premiership & Championship teams, so may as well just have one Comp of 14.
If Cant. get all their AB forwards back they’ll probably win it again… but if the AB players don’t play in the later stages I’d favour Tasman winning the premiership, with Manawatu taking out the Championship.
Yeah, with our mob going well & the Paki’s in a bit of disarray we have an excellent chance of improving our ranking… when does the 1st test start ? really looking forward to watching some cricket again.
like to have blamed Walsh for Wgtn’s performances this season, but unfortunately I can’t, hahaha… not trying to make excuses, but can anyone think of any other rugby team that has been so pulverised with injuries as wgtn ? { think they used about 45 players this year } rugby in particular is about combinations, loose forward trio, tight five, halfback & 1st five, centre pairing etc, so with all the changes all the time you’re not going to have settled combos, therefore a team will make more mistakes, but it’s never completely just about one thing, thought most of our players attitudes have being piss poor too.
Yeah, yellow cards can really ruin games… very tricky one though as players are still getting away with being offside too much, also coming in from the side & spoiling the ball, very frustrating to watch.
Some replays are a real joke, showing a replay 3 or 4 times, when it was very obvious to tell the first time what had happened, also why go back so many phases to check something ? Christ, there’s enough stoppages in rugby already.
Without doubt the Barnes 2007 thing is a media driven thing, most NZ rugby supporters wouldn’t be holding onto that type of stuff, would just be a waste of energy & time, I hardly take any notice of the sports media, unless it’s a good common sense article etc.
One of the things that annoys me is when a player is say inside his own half & kicks a long ball downfield with an excellent weight & it stays within the dead ball line by half a metre, then the opposition player places his foot over the dead ball line, picks up the pill & play has to go all the way back, in some cases 70 metres or more, same when a player punts the ball miles downfield close to the touch line & again the opposition player places his foot over the line… ridiculous bloody rule, as a player has put in a long accurate or well weighted kick & is been bloody punished for it, plus it’s a time waster with players having to go back from where the ball was kicked.
Disagree, all you can ask from a ref is a fair crack, generally we don’t get that from Barnes, only other ref that I can think of that falls into the same category as that pompous-pedantic-dickhead would be Steve Walsh over the years, don’t know if you’re a Wgtn or Canes supporter, if you are you’d know what I mean about Walsh.
I agree that the media come out with a lot of pc rubbish, NZers aren’t idiots, they know what’s total crap & what isn’t that comes out through the tv, papers etc, also just because we’re a small nation doesn’t mean we are more insecure than larger countries, with Aussie being a much bigger nation can remember them throwing their toys out the cot quite a few times through the years, in fact they’ve also been known to throw out the mattress as well, hahaha
8th Oct – Counties v Auck { Pukekohe } – 7:35pm
9th Oct – Waikato v B.O.P. { Hamilton } – 7:35pm
10th Oct – Otago v Manawatu { Dunedin } – 7:35pm
11th Oct – Wgtn v Harbour { Wgtn } – 2:35pm
11th Oct – Hawke’s Bay v Southland { Napier } – 5:35pm { RS }
11th Oct – Auck v Northland { Auck } – 7:35pm
12th Oct – Naki v Cant { New Plymouth } – 2:35pm
12th Oct – Tasman v Counties { Blenheim } – 4:35pmBeing a Wgtn supporter glad our season is almost at an end, can’t take anymore bloody torture, hahaha, oh well, if you don’t laugh you’d cry.
Manawatu are looking very good to be in the Premiership next year.
Premiership :
Naki – { p9 } – 37pts
Tasman { p9 } – 37pts
Cant – { p9 } – 30pts
Auck – { p8 } – 25pts
Counties – { p8 } – 19pts
Waikato – { p9 } – 16pts
Wgtn – { p9 } – 2ptsChampionship :
Manawatu – { p9 } – 29pts
Hawke’s Bay – { p9 } – 26pts
Northland – { p9 } – 25pts
Southland – { p9 } – 17pts
Harbour – { p9 } – 17pts
Otago – { p9 } – 15pts
B.O.P. – { p9 } – 13ptsPie Chucker – on Barnes, I’d ‘ never ‘ judge a ref on just one match, I’m basically judging him on all the AB matches he’s refereed the blokes in black never seem to get the rub of the green when he’s involved & on most occasions find him very pedantic.
On McCaw turning down those 2 shots at goal, they were not shocking decisions, at the time the Boks were about 11 points ahead, so we at least needed to score a try anyway & with it being at altitude the Boks were always a good chance to kick a penalty from 60 metres plus therefore getting that 11 point lead back again.
It’s pretty clear when a player is trying to catch an intercept pass, they try to knock the ball up, otherwise they just push it straight through with the hand, intercept passes should hardly ever happen, it’s about players not looking properly where they’re passing the pill, most times just dumb blind passing.
Wouldn’t blame Richie too much, if this had been a decider to win the comp he’d definitely had taken those couple of shots at goal, suppose he thought it was worth a crack to keep the ball in hand, especially with the backs we have.
AB’s were pretty flat in the 1st half, came back well after that though… Barnes is still a giant sized twat, when it comes to the really big calls you know he’s hardly ever going to favour the AB’s, that penalty at the end could of gone either way, which was the winning or losing of the match.
Got to hand it to Moody he’s a better prop than I thought was, he did a great job in the scrums against the Argies who are one of the best when it comes to scrum time, was impressed with Moody’s work rate last week as well, I’ll make sure to get up & watch this one live, should be a ripper ! …bloody strange call to replace Perenara with Kerr-Barlow on the bench ???
Sun – 5th Oct { Johannesburg }
4.05am
Sky sport 1.All Blacks : Israel Dagg, Ben Smith, Conrad Smith, Malakai Fekitoa, Julian Savea, Beauden Barrett, Aaron Smith, Kieran Read, Richie McCaw (c), Jerome Kaino, Sam Whitelock, Jeremy Thrush, Owen Franks, Keven Mealamu, Joe Moody. Reserves : Dane Coles, Ben Franks, Charlie Faumuina, Liam Messam, Steven Luatua, Tawera Kerr-Barlow, Colin Slade, Ryan Crotty.
Springboks : Willie le Roux, Cornal Hendricks, Jan Serfontein, Jean de Villiers (c), Bryan Habana, Handre Pollard, Francois Hougaard, Duane Vermeulen/Schalk Burger, Teboho ”Opua” Mohoje, Marcell Coetzee, Victor Matfield, Eben Etzebeth, Jannie du Plessis, Bismarck du Plessis, Tendai Mtawarira. Reserves : Adriaan Strauss, Trevor Nyakane, Marcel van der Merwe, Bakkies Botha, Schalk Burger/Warren Whiteley, Cobus Reinach, Pat Lambie, JP Pietersen.
Manawatu are playing really well, same can be said for the Naki & Tasman.
Stu Wilson said on the radio the other day, ” if someone had said to me before the comp started Wgtn would finish bottom of the comp I would of laughed at them, that would of been everyone’s thoughts, unfortunately the nightmare actually happened.
Heard Ian Smith say last year that when he was asked to commentate for Sky he thought it was going to be on cricket only, but they asked him to commentate on rugby too, he replied, ” but I don’t know much about rugby ” well, he was certainly spot on there… in the Shield match last night a Wgtn lock was sent to the sin-bin about 3 minutes before half time & Hawkes Bay were about 20 metres out from the Wgtn goal line, H.B. chose to kick the ball about 5 metres out from our goal line, Smith said, ” that’s a brave call ” rubbish ! was a no-brainer to go for a try, kicking the ball out a few metres from our goal line, then set up a rolling maul against a 7 men pack.
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