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Whitelock leads All Blacks after Cane loss

31 Oct 2022

(Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

Sam Whitelock will be New Zealand’s replacement captain for the rest of the team’s northern hemisphere tour, All Blacks forward coach Jason Ryan has said.

Sam Cane withdrew from the squad after suffering a broken cheekbone. Cane incurred two small facial fractures in their 38-31 victory over Japan in Tokyo on Saturday and had to return to New Zealand while the rest of the squad travelled to Europe.

The All Blacks are due to play Wales in Cardiff on Saturday followed by tests against Scotland at Murrayfield on November 13 and England at Twickenham on November 19.

“Sam Whitelock will captain the All Blacks for this northern tour and Ardie Savea and Beauden Barrett will be vice captains,” the New Zealand Herald quoted Ryan as saying on Monday.

“Sam is really experienced and respected in the group. He’s played 100-plus test matches and experienced a lot so he’s the right man for the job.

“It was pretty straightforward and really well supported by the vice-captains.”

The 34-year-old Crusaders lock has led New Zealand has been a replacement captain on a series of occasions and led the All Blacks in September’s Rugby Championship-clinching victory over the Wallabies at Eden Park.

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peter 871 days ago

Should have been the original captain, but returned late from Japan that year.

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K-Bob 38 minutes ago

Peato Mauvaka cops ban for headbutt on Scotland star

Bullsh*t.

Here are the relevant parts of the paragraph:

He didn’t directly criticise a referee(FACT), but the effect of his comments was a huge attack on officials at the Dublin match (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) and citing commissioners cynically (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) phrased to avoid Galthie landing in hot water (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION). He attacked individual players himself (MIGHT BE A FACT) (they are not protected) and the FFR head attacked the officials (MIGHT BE A FACT). The ref has a choice (OPINION) of doing the right thing and red carding the player and risking his own safety (OPINION) and that of his family (STUPID UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION). Or fudging it (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) and kicking it out to the TMO (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION). The TMO, like the ref, pretends (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) its just a poor tackle and leaves it (UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINION) to the citing commission.

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RedWarriors 45 minutes ago

Peato Mauvaka cops ban for headbutt on Scotland star

Again, the paragraph under that line you quoted is the substantiation. Read it and get back. Otherwise you are trolling and will be blocked.

You are the Saffer who came onto a comments section about the France-Ireland match to abuse Irish supporters. Not interested. Talk rugby or Fu** OFF.

Edit: Blocked

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CL 55 minutes ago

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🤣🤣🤣 Roigard better than Dupont…classic chirp. You are a funny man!!!

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CL 1 hour ago

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I have read all the comments and I must say they are great reading. You guys seem way better than the comments I see on the “other” rugby websites. My take on the French touring New Zealand or for that matter, any country that is a Tier One, is simple. Any Tier One team touring to another Tier One Country MUST take their strongest team and that should be the end of it. Fans pay a bucket load of money for test matches. This whole Club verse Country debate should never even be discussed. I personally don’t understand (or want to) why playing for your country does not take precedence over every other game, no matter if it is a URC , Super Rugby or Heineken Cup Final. I know that Clubs pay the salaries for most of the year and all the arguments based around that but playing for your country is the pinnacle of every players career. That is my view, period!

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frandinand 1 hour ago

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frandinand 1 hour ago

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RedWarriors 2 hours ago

Peato Mauvaka cops ban for headbutt on Scotland star

https://www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/discipline

The Press Release and Written Decision for the Mauvaka hearing have now been published. It looks like World Rugby are self sabotaging here, or have completely capitulated to France.

To decide the entry level ban the following criteria are assessed and ticked:

*Head Contact

*Reckless

*Intentional

*Player Injured

*Vulnerable Player

For the Press Release for Mauvaka only ‘Head Contact’ and ‘Intentional’ were ticked! Giving him a low level entry ban.

Here are quotes from the Written Decision directly contradicting the Press Release wrt to ‘Reckless'? and ‘Vulnerable Player’. It shows that four out of five criteria were met and Mauvaka’s entry level ban should be in mid to high range, not low.

*Reckless?

“The Committee found that the player had intentionally propelled himself towards S9. The committee did not find that the player had intentionally struck S9 with his head but rather that the player was reckless in that respect.”

*Vulnerable position?

“Vulnerability of victim – clause 2.5.89 (i) The player was on the ground and was in a vulnerable position.”

Have a read.

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K-Bob 3 hours ago

Peato Mauvaka cops ban for headbutt on Scotland star

evidence: The means by which an allegation may be proven, such as oral testimony, documents, or physical objects.

“The Officials were clearly intimidated by Galthie’s public threats and intimidation“ is an allegation. You make allegations but you do not substantiate them.

And then you take offense when asked to provide evidence of the truth of your allegations.

The depth of your obliviousness never ceases to amaze.

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RedWarriors 3 hours ago

Peato Mauvaka cops ban for headbutt on Scotland star

Do you understand the meaning of the word evidence?

You see the paragraph under the lien you quoted? Thats the substantiation for the line. If you disagree with it get back to us. If you’re here to troll just jog on please.

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