Hurricanes end Moana Pasifika's historic season in brutal Savea homecoming

Of course a deliberate knock down is not a deliberate knock down, it might be accidental, it might have been supposed to go backwards, not fowards, it might have been reactionary like last week, or it might have been an honest attempt to intercept. Theyre all called deliberate knock downs when it is lost forward on a threatening play.

What Beaudy needed to be asked is where you going for the ball or the man, that’s all that matters. To me, live and on the first few replays I thought it was perfect man timing. Only one of the last replays though he looks to be several meters shy of the tackle and looking at the ball. He may not even realise his arm made a play at the ball until he sees it during debrief.

Of course it was also unclear if it was passed back in the first place, or whether the ball went straight down or forward from BB.

Was a crack up of a start (only watched first 20), crowd was into it (great to see, Kingz country no?) and the scrum kept getting pinged lol. Really cool start to the game but holly heck the officiating has been so poor this international window, he was nearly 2m offside and there ready to catch the ball before it was kicked!

AB passes stuck and ended in beautiful tries, I hope you enjoyed as well,

What is Colombe doing playing at this level? Does he have some part of his game that France is not utilziing?

I was much more scared of your play this time than when they immediately countered with trys last week. Those seemed like soft, easy tries compared to last nights play.

I think for sure last weeks cohesion and underdog fight, it was a very grindy team last week which might have created more pressure on the ABs, yes, but also a bit more polish from AB handling and luck a bigger factor this time. If it was the same team as last week, they would have needed to improve a fair bit to stay close this time anyway, and I’m not sure that team had any improving in them. This team was an improvement in parts (individuals, like AUNZ v Lions, were strong but got trounced), but now a chance for test 3 to combine the best of both and step up again.

I just hope he’s not given the 15 instead. He needs to be Dmacs sub.

It also means “in the primary position”, so includes Dmac at 10 and not Love etc, These guys would surely be retain for the even bigger RC squad. First up is Australia no? He should be looking at it as three games before Eden Park, whats the date we need make sure is free, 9th Sept?

And he can get better. It’s very noticeble how he’s still stumbling at the line, getting set for contact, like a center. But of course there is no contact because he’s a wing, and given space. Once he gets a feel for it back (and does more high ball work) hell be better, but I think he’s still the number 1 center for now.

Should have been playing in the Rugby World Cup Final.