Ireland's Rugby World Cup dream dashed as Scotland's lives on

You obviously didn’t know that.

But I see you’ve gone the classic race card/xenophobe route to win an argument. Good on you. Jan Smuts was one famous intellectual. Who despite’s Englands genocide against Afrikaner people worked with the old enemy for a better world.

You don’t seem to be too clued up with regards to history. Or facts. But you do ignorant you!

At least we can agree that Rassie is at least another Afrikaner intellectual - being copied left right and centre by a coach bereft of any original ideas of his own.

A bit like Charles Piutau, he would’ve been great to have in the 2016-2019 cycle.

Imagine if Foster was on these threads😅🤣

I guess only Robertson and Mo’unga really know what went on between them.

Sorrry I didn’t read the article, whats the deal if so?

We'll maybe they’ve also lost their first and only reader now that I think about it.

If someone was to stand out (and I exclude Perofeta as a AB already) I think it could be Love too.

All that link was for was to show that he would have been in talks while ‘sharing’ 10 duties, as apposed to where is commonly though, like in Spew’s arguments, both after he claimed the starting jersey at Cape Town, and when it was obvious Razor was going to be the next coach. The thing I think you’re missing their is that BB wasn’t sharing, if he wasn’t the 10, he was the 15, so 100% as apposed to Richies 50%, ie correlating to a 2 to 1 valuation in their (Richies) contract value as well.

So I can definitely understand why Richie made the call early to seek a big offer from Japan, and who really knows, maybe his performances in August, even against Japan in October were in time to still be able to bump up his value? But you never hear about these signings as theyre done, announcements are scheduled months later more than not (so a December announcement wouldn’t have left much negotiating time).

So a four year (detractors like HHT will round up to 5) AB at the time does not get offered a sabbatical IMO, especially when they were in the process of negotiating one for Barrett (BB ended up signing in Japan with options for longer right, but NZ came to him with a deal to come back, calling it a sabbatical?). All in all and as always, your outlook is tempered and reasonable Chief, I was just sharing my picture for those that try to ‘blame’ either party.