/rug/ - Return of the Pro12 edition

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>99:55

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*picks jamie roberts*

>lydiate
Dude is done

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*cuddles you*

>>74807300
Am I the only one who rates him? I always thought Warburton should have been dropped.

>>74807231
/rug/ - super rugby edition

Friday 24th of March
7:35pm - Crusaders v Force
9:45pm - Rebels v Waratahs

Saturday 25th of March
7:35pm - Blues v Bulls
9:45pm - Brumbies v Highlanders
11:55pm - Sunwolves v Stormers

Sunday the 26th of March
2:05am - Kings v Lions
4:15am - Cheetahs v Sharks
10:40am - Jaguares v Reds

Byes - Hurricanes and Chiefs

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*becomes GOAT*

I'd pick Ringrose or Henshaw ahead of Joseph Tbh.

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>>74807342
yup. Said it before but ALB is looking in great form especially on defense and Crotty is probably at 12. Best defensive partnership for the All Blacks in a long time

Its one thing to cut apart some drunk scotsmen but another entirely to pick apart the All Blacks. Joseph would get frustrated and become anonymous

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Why is Connacht so cute and adorable?

>>74807503
they have the worst fans in ireland

>>74807515
I bet you work for the IRFU you fuck

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>>74807328
>"super" rugby

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>tfw the Irish are acting cheeky in these threads, but we would have disappeared completely until the Lions tour if England had won because we are such fairweather shits

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>>74807664
> self aware Irishman

>>74807328
>soup or rugby

>>74807642
>a comp for club teams that can beat "tier 1" "nations"
>not super

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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>>74807664
>implying we didn't know what would happen all along
Aside from underestimating the Scots, this was pretty good.

>>74807711
>that time nz lost to munster and llanelli

>>74807735
Reminder that the Welsh National Rugby Union Team traveled to NZ and got absolutely spanked by the Gallagher Chiefs who had more than half their players missing.

Further reminder that after this embarrassing loss the British and Irish Lions tried to back pedal on their contract which has them playing weakened New Zealand Super Rugby teams mid week. They then entered damage control a year before a game was meant to be played saying they players will be over worked and be unable to perform at their usual strength during the tour.

Northern Hemisphere rugby literally shakes in their boots at the idea of playing Club rugby teams, and us Kiwis know a lot about shaking.

>>74807711
>wales
>tier 1
By the way, just so people know, this is the Welsh team Chiefs are so proud of beating.

>Matthew Morgan, Eli Walker, Tyler Morgan, Scott Williams, Tom James, Rhys Priestland, Gareth Davies; Rob Evans, Scott Baldwin, Tomas Francis, Jake Ball, Luke Charteris (c), Josh Turnbull, Sam Warburton, James King

>>74807726
>capping your own post

sad cunt

>>74807748
>Reminder that the Welsh National Rugby Union Team traveled to NZ and got absolutely spanked by the Gallagher Chiefs who had more than half their players missing.

>Further reminder that after this embarrassing loss the British and Irish Lions tried to back pedal on their contract which has them playing weakened New Zealand Super Rugby teams mid week. They then entered damage control a year before a game was meant to be played saying they players will be over worked and be unable to perform at their usual strength during the tour.

>Northern Hemisphere rugby literally shakes in their boots at the idea of playing weakened Club rugby teams, and us Kiwis know a lot about shaking.

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>>74807748
>that fucking backline

>>74807745
>>74807762
Reminder that Super Rugby is falling apart with idiotic restructuring
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/opinion/wayne-smith/super-rugby-teams-pay-price-for-overzealous-expansion/news-story/4cee3ec6dd14beab2aef269fa88b9260

Reminder that its viewership and therefore sponsorships are plummeting
http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/SuperRugby/super-rugby-tv-fan-viewership-plummets-20160704

Reminder that SANZAAAAR are desperately trying to figure out how to get Americans into the sport so they can squeeze shekels from an already sport-saturated market
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11713051

Reminder that the Tri Nations + Argentina is struggling to generate interest and has to move games to Twickenham
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2016/04/05/twickenham-to-host-first-ever-rugby-championship-test-match/

Reminder that more New Zealanders are moving to Europe in their prime than ever before
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/opinion/88117844/Charles-Piutau-is-still-the-king-of-the-ones-that-got-away

Reminder that NZRU are so desperate for money that they're charging other unions extortionate prices to play against them, which they will soon refuse to pay
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/sep/27/england-twickenham-cash-australia-new-zealand

Reminder that rugby has all but fallen apart in South Africa
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/85014912/Springboks-legend-Victor-Matfield-bemoans-state-of-South-African-rugby

Reminder Australia are not far behind
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1012370.shtml

Reminder that 10-15 years from now NZRU will be bankrupt and all New Zealand starters will be European-based

>>74807748
The Chiefs team was all literal "who's" bar an over the hill first five

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Praying for injuries to Retallick, Whitelock, Read and Coles

Only way I can see us winning. Who even replaces Read at 8? Squires not that good

>>74807775
You need to update a fair bit of this lad
Especially the super rugby link in particular. There have been a lot of developments in that area lately.

>>74807788
>Read
Going to go to his house and hit him with a bat lad? He is on sabbatical and not playing until the lions

>>74807748
Some decent individuals there but I don't think any of them even played together.

>>74807788
Steven "if my arms a swingin' don't come a ringin'" Luatua.

>>74807775
http://www.theroar.com.au/2017/03/21/time-pull-heads-sand-admit-australian-rugby-dying/

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>>74807806
>expecting me to pay attention to super rugby news

>>74807784
Lots of up and comers like Webber, Lowe and Seu

>>74807806
> He is on sabbatical and not playing until the lions

oh right fuck. there goes that plan

>>74807808
Luatua we can handle. Read and the others we cant. Those forwards have an insane ability to link with the backs but we just dont have the players to do it

not liking this uk guy with a strong interest in nz Tbh, double agent

>>74807807
Either they were cocky that they could just walk over the Chiefs with literally anyone, or they had practiced together.

Also the Chiefs side had 2 or 3 more players missing from their usual game day squad than Wales did (iirc that squad was ~50% of the side that was playing NZ) so that's not really an excuse unless you are saying a hodge-podge team of random kiwis can beat the second string of a tier 1 nation.

>>74807847
Well yeah, obviously if your the one putting together that post. You kind of have to if you want anyone to take it even slightly seriously

>>74807860
Leinster's Brave Séamus Lú?

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>>74807886
been here for years lad. bloody newfags

>>74807900
That team also included Munster's brave Rís Ní Mhearsealla

>"He (Barnes) told us we were not dominant enough," Maestri told reporters. "Anglo-Saxon referees always talk about fair play but the reality is that they think we're cheats

>ETERNAL ANGLO'd

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>>74807962
>trusting a frog
>EVER

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>>74807300
Dan lydiate
>Dan Leidiot
Man I are such a funneh guy.

OK I just did one whole autism
There were 9 players that played vs the Chiefs that did not also play the all blacks. And that is from the 23 man side to play the Chiefs, so 14 players of the 23 were Wales regulars to play NZ.
Chiefs soon (tm)

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Leinster rugby.
That is all.

>>74808634
They'd also only played NZ 3 days beforehand

What do you think of this guy Rohan Janse van Rensburg?
I am hyped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaqFpWyg-Mg

>>74808705
Should have been blooded last year and I'm glad he'll develop with the Lions. Serfontein was looking quite the prospect too but the Bulls are shit at developing backs so he's been stagnant.

>>74807962
They are cheats.
>1 (one) camera angle for the alleged bite incident
>at stade de france

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>>74808705
A lot of rugby comentators eem pretty obsessed with players' weights.

>>74808725
tbf serfontein has been injured for what seems like forever
>>74808705
>rensburg is the same age as me
it hurts

>>74808698
So? That's has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. I'm dispelling the myth here
>>74807748
>>74807807
These Welsh players had not only trained and played together but the majority were seen as the best picks to play NZ.

Chiefs autism is done. 10 regular first picks out of the 23 man squad.
Any team cohesion excuses for the Welsh are 100% not valid as they apply even more so to the Chiefs. Anything about the strength of the sides is a point for the Chiefs domination of the Welsh being even more impressive.

>>74807775
absolutely seething

>74808753
>rensburg is the same age as me
lucky you
George North is only 9 months older than me and he has 68 int caps. christ.

>>74808826
oh god. embarassing

>>74808746
As am I desu. part autism, part suppressed homo-erotic feelings.

>>74808734
If they'd found anything there'd have been a citation, I'm not denying he was potentially bitten but the citing commissioner reviews all the footage, don't they?

The TMO also would have had access to all available footage at the time and the broadcaster hardly anticipated there'd be a bite at that exact moment.

Scotland

is gay

>>74808921
kek

KEK

K E K

>>74808881
I think he is implying they deleted the footage

>>74808898
So what exactly went wrong vs england?
Genuinely curious, not trying to rile ya.

hyped for zero aussie teams beating other teams this week.

Waratahs make me want to kill myself desu

>>74808952
desu I have no clue
We made considerably more mistakes than usual, like Andy Robinson era tier number and we just looked at little too shaky at the back.
But saying that, we did score 3, nearly 4 trys against England at Twickenham

>tfw you get an emailing telling you to buy AB v Lions tickets
>tfw you have been trying to get them since they first let you try buy them
>tfw the game you could go to only has single seats so you can't go with your mates

Fuck these ticket cunts, all I want is to go to a game with my mates and you stop me even though there is enough seats for us all you sit us separately. Fuck you and your bullshit allocation system

>>74809126
>Andy Robinson era tier
You know, I don't think Scotland drew with England this year. They were actually beaten quite badly if I recall correctly.

Maybe you mean something else by Andy Robinson era tier. It seems like without a BSE coach to guide the way, you can't even manage a draw. Next year when you lose to England and they aren't able to say they've beaten you for 10 years in a row, be sure to give thanks to Andy Robinson.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/8563075.stm

>>74809409
piss off you english twat

>>74809198
its a Lions test mate everyone theres gonna be based as fuck and you can still meet your mates before and after the match for heavy drinking

Cheapest tickets are always by themselves so I always go with mates and we split up for the match. You dont do much talking in the match anyways.

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>>74809126
>in 2009, england beat scotland by 12 points
>robinson takes over and gets a draw, a 4 point defeat and a 7 point defeat in his six nations games against england
>also loses by just 4 points in the world cup pool
>literally within a score of england in every game
>the year that he leaves, scotland are beaten by 20 points
>because he's english, scots shit on him anyway and compare a 40 point defeat favorably to his tenure
Just how eternally asshurt towards the English are you?

>>74809493
>cheapest tickets
I don't care about the price lad, all of want is to go to the rugby with my mates.

The point is
>applied for group tickets at that stage
>Didn't get any
>now they have released single seats
>so there is enough seats for me and my mates (you can buy up to 10 single seats)
>but for some retarded reason they wouldn't give another group or 12 their allocation and shuffle groups slightly to fit them in

It is possible that they could have let us site together but have made it so we can't. Fuck them. They are too retarded to sort this shit out they don't deserve my money.
If I had missed out on group allocation and there was no sale of massive amounts of seats I would be fine 2bh.

>>74809676
Previous games that I applied for I either got the tickets or I didn't. If I didn't they never emailed me rubbing it in saying hey come buy those tickets you wanted all spread out and not together.

I think that's what's ticked me off, it feels like they are rubbing it in "you wanted 6 tickets seated together? We ignored that and are offering you 6 tickets seperatly"
Fuck them.

A

>>74809676
All I'm saying that not physically sitting together in the stadium is not that big a deal. Its a Lions tour whoever you meet will be really cool. Get some based old guy, a group of middle class men completely off their tits or if you're really lucky a couple of qts

Its not like going to a football match here where you're sat next to someone who's homeless, retarded, angry or all of the above.

>>74809409
>>74809588

Scotland won a grand total of 3 games under Robinson in the six nations
Since he's left they have won 8
You basically cherry picked the games where Scotland try harder just to piss off the English

>>74809780
I honestly would rather sit on a couch with my mates and watch it than sit seperatly. We can't take the piss out of each other and joke around at the English lads team loosing if we are 50 seats apart.
If it was an AB v AUS game or really any game other than AB v Lions or England I would probably just go single seats.

>>74809588
also slipped down to 12th in the rankings
also lost to fucking tonga

Wasn't massively robinsons fault desu, playing staff weren't great. the talent vs then and now is like night and day

>>74809788
>win 3 games in 3 years with robinson
>win 8 games in 5 years without him
Oh my, just who can stop this Scottish juggernaut?! And you accuse me of picking favourable data...

The only fair comparison is the three years directly after Robinson left, because the players he had were DOGSHIT. The quality of player that's now coming through Glasgow wasn't there. In the three years after he left, they won *drumroll*... 3 games.

Now who's cherrypicking data.

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>>74810002
Both of us apparently
and my mistake, under Robinson Scotland only manged 2 wins ://
Most people also seem to forget that just a few months after the defeat against Tonga and Robinson's resignation, Scotland finished 3rd in the six nations

Wigan

>>74810296
down right horrendous post lad

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>>74810296

>>74810348
Down forward strong punch post lad.

>>74810205
>just a few months after the defeat against Tonga and Robinson's resignation, Scotland finished 3rd in the worst six nations in living memory
ftfy

Two most hyped games this year will be
> Chiefs v Lions in the SR grand Final
>Chiefs v BIL Lions on tour

>>74812127
False.

It will be 2 NZ teams in the final this year, which teams depends on what the NZ conference ranking ends up being. Other regions are in such decline that it's fairly likely.

The first AB v Lions game will be far. more hyped than the Chiefs v Lions game.

landers vs canes rematch book it

>>74812650
Wrong way round
Canes home final

Hello friends

>>74812949
Hey lad

fuck Ireland
SR thread:
>>74813083
>>74813083
>>74813083
>>74813083

>>74807788
Luatua is the best pick but he's leaving so Hansen will probably use no loyalty card on him while still selecting Cruden and TKB. Hansen is a hypocrite, predictable and a fucking casual when it comes to selection.
Players who can cover 8 are;
Luatua
Messam
Taufua
Shields
Squire

>>74813456
Doesn't matter Read won't be injured and will be playing (first game, no doyd plz). Plus we have other loosies that can fill 8 if really needed like best Savea for example.

>>74809865
Fuck sake, what's with the hard on for your mates?

>>74813566
t. Nigel no mates

>>74813559
Ardie Savea should be playing 8 or 6. He's no openside.

>>74813099
Boooo

>>74813456
Squire and best Savea >>>>>>>>>>>> everyone else on that list including Luatua

*reports thread*

>>74814203
I rate Shields but do agree

>>74814205
>Being this anal about a thread

>>74814234
Your mum got pretty anal last night 2bh

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>>74814205

>>74814302
*reports post*

>>74814203
Savea and Squire are just ball runners and tacklers. Ardie Savea is so overrated.
Todd > Cane > Savea

>>74814343
*furiously flicks router off and on*

>>74807328
>not Chiefs

Great. Now all I can do is masturbate and drink heavily. Watching rugby is the only thing you can do in Hamilton...

>>74814575
You need to get out of there m8

>>74814584
I study here...

Trying to #superbangbang a Chinese girl lads.
It's going reasonably well lads.

>>74807231
Do they have a Super Cup or something where the Champions Cup winner and the Challenge Cup winner face off?

>>74814752
give her the sky remote lad

>>74815046
>sky remote
Is that a metaphor for penis?

>>74815070
a deformed penis perhaps

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>>74815070
I would hope not

>>74815114

>He doesn't have a penis bigger than the sky remote

...I'm so sorry for you lad.

>>74815207
More the shape than size lad

>>74814752
I've never been with a girl who wasn't the same race as me. I can't help but feel like I've missed out on what would no doubt be fondly remembered but entirely mediocre coitus.

>>74815114
>his penis doesn't have a red button that you can press for interactive content

Feel sorry for your missus desu lad.

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>they all laughed at me

Do you think they just nominate Itoje for any award possible nowadays? He's up for 6N player of the tournament but he was pretty shit.

>>74807320
I used to rate him quite a bit, but since refs started pinging chop tackles and he picked up a few injuries he turned to shit remarkably quickly
>warburton should have been dropped
Urine idiot, Warburton is probably our best player

>>74807342
Henshaw with Faz at 12 would work really well I think. Big running threat at 13 with North, Hogg and Liam Williams cutting inside would be great to see, and would still basically fit in the Gatlandball formula

>>74815908
>Warburton is probably our best player
lul

>>74815950
Have you watched any rugby this year? Him and Tipuric are basically the only reason we didn't get BTFO every game.

>>74815288
>coitus

HAHA BAZINGA :P
BIG BANG THEORY LOL XDD
DUDE COITUS LMAO

Just kidding, you should actually shut the fuck up.

>>74816066

Kek

>>74816066
Sorry, I'll translate it in to kiwi so you can understand.

>Niva rooted a chuck who wasn't a pakeha before
>churr, rickon it wide be prutty choice to fuck a Maori, but thin agin maybe not eh cuz?

You scrappy fucking beggar.

>>74814365
Ardie will be a terrifying bench impact player, the guy's explosive athleticism is a handful for any defence.

That is if the AB coaches can make him stop getting yellow carded all the time

>>74816217

Get a load of this Redditor lads.

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Is he, dare i say it, a GOAT?

>>74817047
No that is a man

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>people talk about Finn Russell as le running threat man
>Biggar made more metres than him
>with 13 less carries
Is Scottish genetics man done?

>>74815682
Gotta get some brown faces there somehow.

>>74816339
Yeah bench player. The casuals over here are screaming for him to be starting. They see flair, attacking and try scoring and just get on board. These same retards want Mckenzie over Smith and Dagg over Smith. Steve Hansen is a scrub. Instead of moving Israel Dagg to the wing where he started his International career off the bench, Hansen decides to move the best fullback in the world there. I was losing my shit for so long that he wouldn't put Dagg on the wing.

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terrorists at parliament lads

>all blacks ducking again
>would rather play barbarians than us
wew

Pussy poo pealanders ducking us because they know they'd get their heads caved in

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This man will be the starting fly-half for Ireland next year.

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why are a bunch of whites, samoans, tongans. and fijians dancing like maoris?

>>74818937
Lot of saffas in this 'irish' team

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>>74819497
>whites
Confirmed for not knowing what a Maori in this day and age looks like.
Don't be racist lad, it's not very becoming and is not tolerated in this welcoming, tolerant and open general.

Pic related is a Maori

>>74818937
Poor man's Carbery

>>74819497
They all identify as Maori and it's very transracist of you to say anything about it.

>>74821000
A poor man's carbery is where you get s poor man's roast veef sandwich mate.

>>74821928
Elite, muscular and entertaining SH post. Time for us NH lads to hand the thread over to the true rulers of /rug/

>>74817411
>stands deep so he can run more metres before the defence reaches him
biggar is a genius!

>>74822193
they count metres from when you go past the first defender
The real statpad for metres mate is kick returning, which is why Moriarty made so many fewer metres than other 8s (he doesn't catch kicks)

>>74822572
can you link the site where you're getting all the stats from?

>>74822572
>halfpenny worst metres made of any fullback in the tournament
Just who is catching these kicks?

>>74822763
Depends. Halfpenny usually kicks back when he returns, if they want to run it's usually Biggar that covers them.

>>74822777
Bear in mind I don't think Halfpenny is very good at fullback any more, Liam Williams is much better and we should either straight up drop Halfpenny or move him lver to the wing

Big news for our welsh friends. Welsh international Dominic day has just managed to crack the Rebels bench.

Big news that a welsh lad is now playing on the bench of the worst team in the worst conference in super rugby. They can only improve from here.

>>74822777
these sort of tactics really gets the old noggin' working

>>74822808
He was never good at club level or international level
>move to japan
>play 9 games
>move to australia
>warm bench

>>74822808
>Welsh international Dominic day
3 caps, all off the bench as far as I know
truly a bastion of the Welsh game

How do we fix French rugby lad?

>>74821000
Carberry lost out to Ross Byrne for the starting out-half position for Leinster. Carberry was average at full-back. He wont make the bench once Johnny and Rob Kearney come back for Leinster.

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>>74822861

>>74822861
Less Pacific islanders, more Saffas.

>>74822908
*fewer

>>74822916
Cheers m8.

>>74822861
Caps on the number of international marquee players allowed per team. Salary cap.

>>74822894
Carbery was injured until a few weeks ago you melon and he was class at fullback. Byrne only got a run because Sexton, Carbery and Marsh were all injured but he's looking better than Blyendaal already tbf.

>>74822897
makes me want to design a 'french rugby starter pack'
or any nation for that matter, someone get the template

>>74822960
No doubt you can find them yourself on reddit.

>>74823047
t. fresh from reddit

>>74822941
I didn't realise Carberry was also short listed for European rugby player of the year like Tyler.

>>74823110
Honestly if you don't use r/rugbystreams you deserve a life of loneliness and misery.

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WeW leinster.

>>74823152
Never reply to me again.

>>74823152
kys

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Once Aki is available for selection, the meme that is Ringrose will finally be finished.

>>74823283
Perhaps, I'd say ringrose would make a better wing than the shite we have there now.

Just off to kill myself lads.

euro rug really is terrible lads

>>74823338
Make your bru picks for the rest of super rugby first lad

>>74823349
Why? What's the point? If I can't use a website that conveniently provides me with HQ streams of rugby games is life really worth living?

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>>74823342
Both have their strengths and weaknesses

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really hate the stench of reddit in here desu

>>74823363
I would agree with this 2bh

>>74823381
>jumping on the Cheetos bandwagon 6 years late

Doth protesteth too much lad

Played touch for the first time in ages tonight lads. Went a good 30-35 minutes straight 4v3. Absolutely dead

>>74823396
i started the cheetohs bandwagon you stupid cunt. have a folder full of cheetohs OC on my old computer

>>74823408
When did you move to England gentleben?

>>74823283
Aki won't be able to adapt to test level defences, doesn't seem to have the mentality Schmidt likes either

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>>74823381
Reddit is a good source for info, here is better for actually discussing nitty gritty or just le epic bantz or laughing at the non irish pro 12 teams.

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>>74823437
>doesn't seem to have the mentality Schmidt likes either
That's a funny way of saying isn't a leinster player.
Pretty surprised he started marmion against england now that I think about it.

>>74823450
>m-muh anti-Connacht conspiracy

Yeah, he never leapfrogged Bealham and capped him when he didn't even start at Connacht

>>74823412
>gentleben was the one that started the YFWDCWDSU
odd post this
>tfw you realise how much of a faggot you were 4 years ago
http://archive.4plebs.org/sp/thread/31243465/#31253734 (first mention of yfwdcwdsu)

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http://www.the42.ie/grenoble-investigation-3300810-Mar2017/

>>74823511
>literally all the gifs in that thread are me

Well I know what I'm doing for the next 2 hours.

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>>74823437
> muh Joe Schmidt mentality
I bet you'd select Joey Carberry ahead of Tiernan O'Halloran if Rob and Jared were out.

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>>74823511
There was some partrician posts in that thread

Seems to be higher quality all round. I blame Avoman

>>74823695
should I trip up again and start spamming cheetohs?

>>74823658
Just referencing how Zebo was treated before breaking into the squad and Aki's tweets after Lam announced his departure etc.

>>74823511
Cut your hair

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>>74823719
the annual player exodus killed my spirit for it Im afraid. Theres that ex-cheetahs XV that floats around that could easily top a SA conference and it just makes me depressed. I'll always remember spamming Goosen and Brussow. We even filled out a match thread for Cheetahs Stormers once

>>74823778
n no.
Finish your masters
>>74823781
cheetahs have been good so far this season though, close loss to the loins, beat the bulls, beat the bumwolves and while the loss to the jaguares was shit it was mainly a second choice team

>>74823781
The incredible thing about the Cheetos is that as soon as the players go to other teams they lose their meme magic and turn to shit.

>“(It) is probably the biggest tournament we’re capable of hosting,” said O’Driscoll. “We’re not going to get an Olympics, we won’t get a soccer World Cup, this is definitely where we’d probably max out, but we could do a phenomenal job at it, I really think that.
I'm not sure I agree here. Ireland are definitely capable of hosting both, a reunified Ireland at least.

>>74823658
>he thinks getting rid of the kearney bros will help
Reminder that Joe picked Tommy fucking Bowe, a 33 year old perma-crock who isn't even starting at Ulster, ahead of O'Halloran, who has the most metres gained in the league this season and absolutely minced Wasps once and Toulouse twice in the European Cup.

I reckon vid-related (https://vid.me/db7j) really meant the end for O'Halloran and Bealham's Irish careers. When everyone else was applauding the skill, Joe was probably autistically shrieking about O'Halloran not setting up a ruck and waiting for some one-out runners.

>>74822894
He was behind Byrne all the way through at under-age too. In 10 years time "Who replaced Johnny Sexton at fly-half in Ireland's first ever win against New Zealand?" will be one of the toughest pub quiz questions in existence.

>>74824620
>absolutely minced Wasps once and Toulouse twice in the European Cup.
lmao he lost them the toulouse away game

>>74824666
he played fullback tho at underage

Reminder Wales tests against Tonga and Samoa are being played in NZ
Reminder any Lions drop out with injury and Gatland will look straight to his Welsh boys
Reminder Jamie Roberts will mysteriously travel with Wales despite it being seen as a development tour

AGEN
G
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>>74825161
Imagine supporting Ulster, perish the thought lad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEUfmZcScoE

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What's that hamish?
You're not good enough to compete at a high level against people of your own gender?
Just say you're a woman lad.
Easy wins for years my boy.

>>74826811
But she is able to compete against people of her own gender anon, her gender is female.

>>74826811
Seething bigotry from the Irish.
Colour me surprised.

An /rug/ becomes a real cesspit with BSK's aren't around to tell people they are being bigots and rude.

>>74828197
it's an english spastic who moved to ireland for a higher quality of life and more monies

*enters thread*

Our media is retarded
>accidental gun death
>we need to buff up gun laws, they aren't good enough
Closing statement
>if the current laws were followed there would have been no accidental deaths

Geeee who would have thunk it. Lads if you follow laws the things the laws try to stop don't happen.

>>74830019
how the FUCK do you shoot yourself in the head with a shotgun accidentally

>>74830038
Hold it between your feet while you're cleaning it and accidentally pull the trigger with your penis while you're looking down the barrel.

>>74830038
Light trigger, safety off, loaded and dropped it on its butt.

But the most obvious answer is >kid bored playing with a loaded gun.

>>74830079
>>74830085
sounds like a darwin award to be frank

>>74830137
Yes accident deaths shouldn't happen 2bh.
Rule 2 of the firearms code is "always point firearms in a safe direction" surprisingly your head is not a safe direction

>>74830180
>someone tries to kill you
>you can't point your gun at them because it would break the firearm code

What do?

>>74830242
>sitting in a maimai hunting ducks
>this situation
Not exactly comparable, but if you are truly fearing for your life, killing your attacker is "ok".
Put it this way, with how you are legally allowed to store your gun you should never be able to get it in a firing condition if someone was attacking you. You have to store your bolts and ammo in a separate lockable location to your guns.

>>74830290
Whoops I deleted my "but that shouldn't ever happen" between the 2 paragraphs

>>74830242
aren't there approximately three gun owners in Australia

>>74830319
Gun owners per capita
NZ 22.6
Aus 21.7

Why are you talking about guns?
Also, I thought that it was Tasmania that was responsible for gun ownership in Australia being as high as what it is

>>74830379
So New Zealand has 22.6 gun owners in Wellington and Australia has 21.7 gun owners in Canberra. What about the rest of the country? Follow up question; How do you have 0.6 and 0.7 of a gun owner.

>>74830470
fuck, that's a real thinker

>>74830470
First tell us how you managed to write 0.6 of a joke.

>>74830470
Pretty certain those figures he quoted were just from Wikipedia for each country, per 100000 people lad

>>74830491
Pretty sure there's more than 100,000 people in Wellington and Canberra.

2005 Lions v Maori ABs replay 9n sky. BOD looks scared as fuck. Literally BODding his pants.

>>74830500
And I am telling you that it is the increased gun ownership in the state of Tasmania that skews that figure.

Why are you even discussing this?
Gun related crime in both your countries happens like once every blue moon, if even that

>>74830590
>Gun related crime in both your countries happens like once every blue moon, if even that
Except when it does happen in Australia it's the single worse mass shooting in history

>>74830590
>Talking about the Capitals
>Brings up Tasmania

Tasmania would explain the 0.7, I hear they aren't very intellectual over there.

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>>74830590
>once in a blue moon
Funnily pic related is a movie about NZ's worst mass shooting

>>74830603
Just like England. Win the World Cup once and never shut up about it.

>>74830621
I was in an a Capella group in high school called out of the blue. Must be about that.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/bob-dwyer-says-australian-rugby-needs-five-super-teams-and-return-to-core-values-for-games-survival/news-story/c6aac72a205c7db04daa6eecd5b8a05e

>“If you go around the grassroots and ask people ‘do they feel a part of the Waratahs?’ they’ll say ‘not anymore.’
>“Do they feel a part of the Rebels?
>“No, otherwise they would turn up.
>“Do they feel a part of the Force?
>“No, otherwise they would turn up.
>“Do they feel part of the Brumbies?
>“No, otherwise they’d turn up to watch.”

>literally the only Aussie team not named as lacking /heart/ is the reds

Why are the Reds so good and pure and the rest of australia's super rugby teams so shit lads?

So, Kiwi lads.

Do you really think Umaga and Mealamu were legal in what they did to Go... BOD ;) or what??

Memes aside, do you you really think they were within the rules of the law??

>BREAKING NEWS: 4.8 earthquake strikes Wellington

SHOOK

>>74831089
4.8 is nothing

I'll take that as you knew they were completely illegal and had to intentionally target the greatest player of q

>>74831116
*all time so

>>74831096
Literally your mum walking down the stairs is a 4.8

>>74831081
Tana is God and walks on water. He can do not wrong.

His biggest scandal was beating up a guy harassing people in a bar with a patrons handbag, which she then sold for a shit ton on trademe.

He has the literal midas touch mate

>>74830765
Slang for out of the closet.

>>74831096
That's not what ur mum says lad.

>>74831081
Don't even remember the laws back then. Regardless the Lions were losing 3 - 0. Anyone who thinks BOD was the difference is a clown.

>>74831161
>le ignore le question subhuman half coconut man

piss off

>>74831182
spastic

Go... BOD ;) was the greatest player of ALL time at the time you retard

>>74831206
Irish delusion. Is this where you tell me Sexton is the best 10 in the world for the last few years?

>>74831206
>was the greatest player of ALL time at the time you retard
He wasn't even the best centre of all time at the time.

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>le Go... BOD ;) wasn't taken out 12 seconds into the first test because he wasn't the greatest player of ALL time meme

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha
least we cloned him

>>74831206
IRB players of the year;

2003 - Johnny Wilkinson
2004 - Schalk Burger
2005 - Dan Carter
2006 - Richie McCaw
2007 - Bryan Habana

>>74822861
13 out of 23 must be French eligible.

as in eligible this very instant to play, not the whole " in 2 years he'll be able to play for France"

>>74831220
ah yes, the clueless southern hemisphere meme

he's definitely been the most consistent and ever present fly-half over the last few years

if you disagree you're certifiably clueless

>>74831242
so who was

i know most of you spastics weren't even alive at the time but no one could have watched Go... BOD ;) at the time and NOT think he wasn't the greatest player of ALL time

Hahaha literally the 6th biggest sporting event in their history is this.

You can't make this shit up.

https://youtu.be/OsXJyDHFKn0

>>74831278
on me phone and can't be arsed watching that

somehow deduct that that is directed towards me

what is it

>>74831276
Honestly if a dislocated shoulder benches you for 6 months you are not even worthy of being thought of as the best player alive let alone all time.

Players at grass roots level have their shoulders dislocated and popped back in and continue to play fine afterwards. Is BOD not even as good as a grass roots lad?
If you can't deal with a little bit of pain you aren't that great 2bh.

A man like Buck Shelford, now that's a man. Literally tears open his nut sack, gets quickly sewn back together and comes out to play on.

Or Richie McGod playing with a broken foot.

Those are real world class rugby players.

>>74831308
Why don't you click [open] and find out you scrub.

>>74831326
I split my sack open in a bike crash. It's not that bad. It's mostly shock when you see the damage because.your tackle is a vital part of you. After all the nut sack is just loose skin.

>le DESPERATELY target the greatest player of ALL time lest you'd lose and spend the rest of time in damage control meme

lol

they can't even rationalize it lol

>>74831308
Its 4 minutes of some Irish guys moaning like the English about a man that couldn't even handle some cheeky banter that in the eyes of the authorities was 100% ok.
It's on a show about the top 20 sporting moments in Irish history at number 6.

How the FUCK do you beat the Brumbies in Rugby 2005?

>>74831349
>It's on a show about the top 20 sporting moments in Irish history at number 6.

so then it's number 1 in kiwi sporting history lol

>le desperately tries to justify how weak their only rugby player of note in history was by claiming he was wronged when no one at the time saw any issue with it

lol

They can't even justify THAT as their only claim to rugby fame.

>>74831278
kek

KEK

>>74831346
We'd been in damage control since '95. We were to be in damage control again from 2007 - 2010/11.

>le overrate EVERY other countries interest in rugby Kiwi meme

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

*makes presence felt in thread*

>le stating exactly how the Irish rated an event in their own show they made is somehow overstating how they think about rugby meme

Ahahahahahahahaha

>>74831352
Use the Blues. Get the overlap and shoot down the sideline with the winger and grubber past the fullback.
England were cunty on that game, 2 - 3 phases at most before a turnover. Nut up on D too against the Brumbies, first up tackles.

How 'we' looking lads?

>>74831357
Nah m9, last time I checked Sir Edmond Hillary was number 1.

it aint good lad

6 Nations is done.
Why are the Irish casuals still loitering.

>>74831423
They're number 3 in the world right now.

1. England
2. New Zealand
3. Ireland

>>74831409
Just a couple of random sporting events I can think of, all of which rate significantly higher than giving an Irish softy a bit of a boo-boo
Back to back RWC
Most RWC
Beating the British lions several times
QT pole vault chick
Walker winning an Olympic gold
All our olympic golds
Underarm bowl with all the salt it comes with
The French forward pass
Going to the Fifa WC that one time and not losing a match
The most dominant duo in rowing history
The winning of the Americas Cup
Scott Dixon

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>>74831443
M80

so lads, seething kiwis are asleep

how do YOU feel about them trying to assassinate the greatest player of all time??

sad how they try to rationalize it, s'pose that it's all they have

Imagine BOD being your GOAT

I would almost rather be a Welsh 2bh

Anglo rapers at it again

>Six Grenoble rugby players including two Irishmen, two New Zealanders and an Australian, were detained Wednesday following a rape complaint, prosecutors said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-4339042/French-police-detain-six-Grenoble-stars-rape-claim.html

>>74831540
Yep some bottom of the barrel kiwis that went North and improves the average skill of both hemispheres allegedly did some naughty stuff

>>74831473
Argies deserve to mount above Wales and SA desu. I hope have a good RC, they can finish 2nd if they keep their fouls at bay

>>74831554
I would say Aus and NZ are out of reach of Los Pumas though they won't loose many if any points to those teams. SA should fall to them and give them some nice points to move up the rankings.
If they can pull a surprise win over NZ or Aus they will jump way up the rankings.

>>74831473
>What is sarcasm

If it was closer to the Chicago Test it would be;
1. NZ
2.IRE
3. ENG

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Name a better coach

>>74831687
ANY coach who didn't take over the All Blacks

Literally like coaching the Kilkenny hurles, e.g. the bestest team

>>74831739
Hansen took over the All Blacks. Rennie is just an assistant that took the Chiefs to back to back Super Rugby titles as head coach.
I don't like Steve Hansen.

>Rennie was coach of the New Zealand national under-20 rugby union team, under whom the team won three consecutive World titles from 2008 to 2010.[3] In 2012 Rennie became the first first-year Super Rugby coach to win a Super Rugby title when he guided the Chiefs to a 37-6 win over the Sharks. Unfortunately, during the match, Rennie's house was robbed and valuables were stolen, as had similarly occurred to Chiefs player Sonny Bill Williams several weeks earlier.

Why is Hamilton such a shithole lads? Can't wait for the team to be relocated to Tauranga

henny > rennie

>>74831605
AUS is definitely within their reach, if they dont get carded. Sure, odds still favour AUS. NZ is def out of reach... even for better nations like France or Aus

>>74831554
Argentina literally lost every autumn game. They don't deserve shit.

BOD
POC
POM
SBW
AWJ
AAC
JDV

Who am I missing?

*must be capped internationally.

>>74832999
a girlfriend

>>74833014
strictly sex with ur mum

>>74833026
>scottish "banter"

Stupid sport, egg toss, rugby fans are stuck up too. A micky mouse sport.

>>74833164
Good to see you bowing to your superiors.

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>>74832999
JOC

>>74823560
Paddys influence spreads across Europe

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>the phonecall that set rugby back decades

Hogg won player of the tournament. Fair?
Personally I'd have gone
1- Launchbury
2- Picamoles
3- Hogg

>>74823560
Treated as suspect according to French media. Police are inspecting them on Gang rape, all of them. Police detained them for three days now, most likely to miss weekends matches. That representative is talking shite of course

>>74831276
>consistent
I like Sexton as a player but he's injured too often to be consistent.
>so who was
Umaga and then Conrad Smith. Rougerie in his prime was definitely up there as well

>>74832999
BHM
LFWRLABM
LAM

>>74833355
Launchbury deserved it, but I'd have Warburton up there as well. Didn't have a bad game all tournament, whereas Hogg was pretty poor against England before he went off.

O'Mahony is Ireland's best forward and both Stander and SOB are overrated memes

>>74833297
That's not BOD calling about head highs and how there isn't enough red cards

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> 10 Barrett 15 Barrett

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> 10 Mckenzie 15 Mckenzie

>>74834715
Forgot one lad
>5 Barrett 10 Barrett 15 Barrett
For the ultimate Barrett meme

>>74834729
S Barretts being pushed to 6 by Hansen

>>74834754
Yes and B Barrett was only considered as off the bench impact
So 5 it is

Irish posters are the most seething fairweather """fans"""" on /sp/

>>74834641
Van Der Flier is a good player as well. As a Wales fan I'd be far more terrified of a POM/VDF/Stander back row with Leavy or Conan off the bench than what they have now.

Lions refs

Provincial Union XV v Lions, June 3 - Angus Gardner (Australia)

Blues v Lions, June 7 - Pascal Gauzere (France)

Crusaders v Lions, June 10 - Mathieu Raynal (France)

Highlanders v Lions, June 13 - Angus Gardner (Australia)

Maori All Blacks v Lions, June 17 - Jaco Peyper (South Africa)

Chiefs v Lions, June 20 - Jerome Garces (France)

New Zealand v Lions, June 24 - Jaco Peyper (South Africa)

Hurricanes v Lions, June 27 - Romain Poite (France)

New Zealand v Lions, July 1 - Jerome Garces (France)

New Zealand v Lions, July 8 - Romain Poite (France)

Which players will NZ try and injure this time lads?

I think Sexton

>>74834641
SOB only starts because of Joe's favouritism. Stander's performances makes a good case to drop Heaslip with POM coming back from injury.

>>74836271
>No reddit welshman
what did they mean by this?

>>74835379
Keep preaching.

>>74836378
No refs from the countries involved obviously. They are missing 2 of the top 5 refs because they are kiwis