Wales and Lions centre Jonathan Davies calls time on rugby career

It did not work when you had been offline as comments only get populated on the threads if the chat service has maintained a connection during any AFK time, and will not working if you haven't clicked the 'more replies' links to make that comment visible.

Basically if you can't manually scroll to find that new post to see it, clicking the link won't work either. It will be under some chat history you haven't expanded.

That's my old undertsanding anyway and still explains exactly what you describe here.

I might be using a browser that is not compatible. All /plus/ articles do not link correctly, it was something I indeed was hoping was fixed with the account change but I now suspect it was wrong of my to expect to see a service/chat change at the same time (software devs would keep them as separate changes).

I'm talking about emails and say when you get a link off NB's profile, you always have to include the domain part rugbypass.com/plus/ it would be indeed be nice to see it work properly and I am only hoping at this point that it will be part of the next batch of improvements/changes theyre supposed to try.

See below for the other explanation.

Sorry John but this is utter tripe. You need to try harder.

He never held down a starting position in any of his seasons playing for the All Blacks.

He was not a starter in any RWC playoff tests in2011, 2015, or 2019.

He was a career backup.

I agree that Gathies personal opinion that it would be best for France if the top 20 were rested, as that means they don't have to miss soo many club games, and the 3 or 4 weeks they gain are consecutive with their off season, would have been the most sensible option. It is much better that say what South Africa'n players have to endure when their "off season" is broken up into like 3 bits. Though that is largely a personal preference thing I have with my own leave.

That's not happening of course, and I have yet to really try to understand the implications of the changes on that topic. Have you?

I myself think there will still be a lot of people in France like Nick Bishop who still want the tours to continue of course, so perfectly reasonable to hear that discussion, I was more stating the obvious conclusion based on your opinion. I don't necessarily think that is the way it would have gone (well it isn't ofc, they've revised their stance).

As it is now, it's all changing in 2027, you can only assume they will be trying to win. Now the French team that tours (for one game only) NZ will also be the same team that goes to Argentina the following week (or wherever). The South has always received the tours, though not always a 3 match tour, and I'm sure the North (even those touring the north) also find plenty to enjoy about receiving a different team each week anyway, so It's not an 'NZ' thing and this is the last year it's going to work this way I think. So as I've said multiple teams, most of this talk is mute (though I still enjoy it).

What happens, and what France do, in the consecutive years following 2027 when the test championship starts, is probably still anybody's guess.

France would be considered no different to the touring English here. Do you have England down as having touring traditions? What did NZ spit the dummy about?