All Black Barrett could miss rest of Super Rugby Aotearoa

So the Rugby Championship isn’t a recognised competition? Man you are daft!

'They smelt it': Scott Robertson says Italy sensed All Blacks' vulnerability

Toaster 13 minutes ago

Understand some of the rationale for it but it was too much for some players

We saw Lomax do 75 against the Boks then give away a scrum penalty and then a yellow and that was the game

It’s one thing Razor hasn’t learned

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Johnny 32 minutes ago

Men's 15s World Player of the Year was only a two horse race

As a BOK supporter I hate to admit that Ben is actually correct here! PSDT was the most deserving and made reasonable arguments with an obvious bias but great arguments

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Soliloquin 37 minutes ago

French 7s coach Olympic Gold, Grand Final of the 7s Tour in Madrid, the LA tournament. So that’s 3. Plus 1 silver and 1 bronze medals.

Boks won one official competition and tests, losing 2, including one at home. A test isn’t a competition. Is it? They didn’t win their tour at home.

It’s hard to compare 2 different sports with different competitions.

Pieter-Steph du Toit crowned World Rugby men's 15s player of the year

TI 44 minutes ago

Him, Etzebeth, Kolbe, Savea, Dupont have been consistently the world’s best players for the last 4-5 years.

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TT 57 minutes ago

Doh! Yes my mistake, I was a bit quick. But as you say how a 7s Olympics winner can beat the all conquering Bok coach is hysterical.

Oh well,

French 7s coach 1

Bok coach everything else!

Soliloquin 57 minutes ago

Dupont played 8 games out of the 11 played by France in his 2021 season. That’s over 70%, so not exactly half. And even though it isn’t taken into account, he won the Top14 and the Champions Cup.

DuPont? Who’s that?

Sorry but just Kriel played all the games this year.

Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

Adi03 1 hour ago

Yup! Fat-Finn will ouline an excellent nutrition plan🤣 for Smithy.

He shouldn't even be considered for the Lions

Soliloquin 1 hour ago

Because I know an Antoine Dupont who won 2 out of the 3 biggest 7s competitions this year (and one tournament in LA), plus one medal on another tournament. 3 wins out of 4.

Who’s Du Pont?

Did Dutoit play all international games and was outstanding all year long in 2019? No, he outshone everyone in the most important competition.

Men's 15s World Player of the Year was only a two horse race

JK 1 hour ago

Doris is good at croc rolls and press conferences. Not sure why ppl rate him so highly

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Adi03 1 hour ago

Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

You gotta love "Fat" Finn - he is well over-rated.

TJ Perenara's departing verdict on future of All Blacks No. 9 jersey

Adi03 1 hour ago

You'll be missed TJ

Cortez is not at ABs standard.

Should be dropped completely.

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BB 1 hour ago

Men's 15s World Player of the Year was only a two horse race

Ben Smith makes ludicrous comments to purposely stir up the Bok supporters...it grates him no end they have 4 World Cups yet have an overall losing record to his beloved All Blacks...please ignore his "throwing toys out cot" syndrome...the man needs scapegoats.

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Soliloquin 1 hour ago

Did you know the winner isn’t coaching the French 15s team…? It’s the coach who won the gold medal at the Olympics and the Grand Final of the 7s tour. The Olympics are every 4 years, so it’s fair to see that as something out of the ordinary. Just like SA winning the RWC last year.

SA won the Super Rugby and toured well, although they lost one at home to Ireland.

But these are competitions held every year.

What is strange is not having a separate trophy for 15s and 7s coaches.

Soliloquin 1 hour ago

Yes, I agree, following this logic a Black Fern should’ve won it.

I haven’t followed enough the women’s 7s to state if there wasn’t too many BF players who were sharing the performances, while in the Australian team just one player outshone the others. Just like Savea’s win last year, with too many SA players having great performances.

What might have cost Argentina 7s at least a nomination or the title was that their best player Moneta got injured at the worst moment of the season.

All Blacks player ratings vs Italy | Autumn Nations Series

Adi03 1 hour ago

9.5 for BB? Show some respect to Italy & one would have to go back a decade to even consider such a BB performance.

DMac should be 10 with Roigard who gets to the ruck & plays with speed. For me, when those two are paired, we look threatening. Cortez should be dropped out of ABs & we blood others.

The 12 & 13 is very lost. Caleb certainly grew as a player this year showing a different dimensions in play & wiser decisions. I'd say he has a better ability to adjust to Centre. Reiko is lost & non-effective.

9.5 for BB 🤣🫢🤣 - the ABs need to move past him. He is & always will be at most a bench player. When he had the reins at 10 for RWC & more, he did nothing. This includes Super as well. Mo'unga had his measure all the time. I get tired of constant loyalty. Give those performing a go, as you have in various forwards & see them shine.

We need to use the squads of ABs & ABs XV in tandem to build nice depth is the Boks do

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DP 1 hour ago

Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

Only 7?!!!! 😂

Seven Springboks make World Rugby men’s 15s dream team of the year

Tash 1 hour ago

But you cannot deny that Marcus Smith has been on fire during the November Autumn series, whilst Finn Russel did nothing special