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S H A R K S
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/rug/ is not a dying sport lads

>>75175432
What position you holding down senpai

SR removed franchises should create a new league called XR (Xtreme Rugby)

>>75175355
Please use the correct names next time
It should say

Super rugby round 8

Friday 14th of April
7:35pm BNZ Crusaders v HITO-Communication Sunwolves

Saturday 15th of April
5:05pm St.George Reds v Kings
7:35pm Blues v Hurricanes
9:45pm Rebels v Plus500 Brumbies

Sunday 16th of April
1:05am Toyota Cheetahs v Gallagher Chiefs
3:15am DHL Stormers v Lions
5:30am Vodacom Blue Bulls v Jaguares

Byes: Pulse Energy Highlanders, WA Road Safety Commission Force, Waratahs, Cell C Sharks


Thank you

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Reminder that he is a good Muslim and has done nothing wrong

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>>75175432
It's in an unusual place, wouldn't say it's dying though.
Growing in new countries, hitting some turbulent patches in some established rugby countries. On ballance the situation seems ok.

>>75175543
Por favor usar o idioma correto na próxima vez
Deve ser assim

Super Rúgbi 8ª Rodada

Sexta 14 de abril
4:35 Cruzados x Lobos do Sol

Sábado 15 de abril
2:05 Vermelhos x Reis
4:35 Azuis x Furacões
6:45 Rebeldes x Brumbys
10:05 Chitas x Chefes
12:15 Tempestuosos x Leões
14:30 Touros x Onças

Folgam: Highlânderes, Força, Telopeas e Tubarões

>>75175590
>jumps back to union for the world cup
>gets medal
>fucks off to see whats going on in league
>not much
>fucks off to sevens
>expects gold medal
>gets btfo achilles and no medal
>fuck sticking with sevens, I want some of the lions
Dude is the ultimate glory hunting faggot. Shows up for the big events and tournaments then fucks off.

fuck canterbury to be honest

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>>75175873
Problema?

Love Cricket.

$unni Bill William$ is the greatest All Black, indeed, greatest New Zealand sportsman of all time.

>>75178976
ma$hallah lad

based Johnny C is coming back lads
and i am NOT talking about the rugby player

>>75175590

His best look desu.

Yahoo! Rugby!

"The Lions Song" is some seriously gay shit. It's literally about holding hands with other men lol.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-12/australian-sport-stretch-it-until-it-snaps/8435526

Such a shame that there are too many sports. I have a solution though. Let's introduce a women's competition for every sport so then there are even more teams.

Surely that will fix the problem

>>75180413
I just can't be optimistic about Union in Australia until we go full domestic, or trans-Tasman.

NRL and AFL will be expanding to 18 and 20 teams by 2020 while aus Union will be lucky to have 3 teams.

Being on the bench of a NRL or AFL team pays better than being a fringe Wallaby.

Rygbu.

just had a quick rugby lads

>>75180947

Based.

just had nasty crusaders lads

>>75180980
ew
double flushed I take it?

/force/ desu

ARU can fuck off if they cull >us. Next test match they bring here should either have no attendance or everyone supporting the opposition.

>>75181092
Force are garbage.

>>75181102
but they're our garbage.

Finally got my pc back
Jags!

>>75181092
rebels deserve the cut far more to be frank

>>75181163
Waratahs and act deserve it more. Nsw destroyed the sport and the ACT have been stagnant for years despite them being the strongest team in Aus and their only competition being the Raiders.

>>75181440
Brumbies absolutely
>permanently on the brink of bankruptcy
>not producing high level talent
>basically a dumping ground for NSW
>Canberra market is smaller than fucking Newcastle

the fact that either 4.8m population Melbourne or 2.1m population Perth is going to lose a franchise over 400k population Canberra is just laughable.

>>75181475
This

If Melbourne loses its franchise I am going to be livid.

would not mind if the bulls get relegated tbqh

Suggestion: make a league called Okay Rugby (name pending) and put the rejected teams + pacific island teams + north america if they want in.

Scotland

>>75181475
>force
>steal all of Queensland's players, never do anything of note
>game is growing faster in perth than any other region due to saffas fleeing blackpartheid
>no rugby league competition there so the possibility to grow relatively unimpeded
>allows for comfy triple and quadruple headers when they play at home

>rebels
>financially most secure due to private ownership
>have never produced decent players
>lucrative market with only one other rugby team, but a very competitive one
>no one in Melbourne gives a shit about them

>ACT
>tiny market
>consistently strong team
>produced a number of notable players and Queanbeyan punches above its weight
>history

>NSW
>history
>fans are horrible plastics who stop going to games at the drop of a hat
>massive competition from league
>solely responsible for the astronomical fuckup that is the ARU
>second only to Queensland in terms of player production
>if they were kicked out the vacuum created by all the north shore gasping in unison would kill everyone within 50km

>Queensland
>history
>produce 80% of Australia's good players
>have shown a willingness to support the team when it isn't a total dumpster fire, and get more supporters than nsw even when it is
>complete inability to maintain players or achieve the results they should at professional level

>>75181593
>Queensland
>produce 80% of Australia's good players

[citation needed]

*farts loudly*
So that's the power of my butthole

Whoa

>>75181787

Based shitspouter

I fucking hate the Stormers lads

>>75181661
Literally name 4 good players not from Queensland.

>>75181840

Guess what? The Stormers hate you too.

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So this is the power of gatlandball

Another New Zealand rugby player found guilty. This time it's for gang rape.

What is wrong with you mongs?

>>75182014
>Loose forward Grice played for Waikato in the national provincial championship from 2011 to 2013 before heading to France in 2014.

Literally no one should be shocked by this.

>>75182014
another one for the french gulag to be frank

>>75182014
>another southern hemisphere rugby player tainted by French rugby club
Sounds right

Where is Britbro who posts the Kiwi genetics images, I want to see one with both Kiwi and Irish genetics, in commemoration of both that New Zealand and Irish rugby player gang raping a Frenchie

>subhuman coloured trying to "banter with the lads"
KEK

exterminate yourself

>>75182111
>making a post with more than 20 words
Didn't want to read a thesis.

>>75182270
How's the sales for that EP looking Daniel?

>>75182307
:(

>subhuman coloured trying to "banter with the lads"
KEK

exterminate yourself

Which poomunity will subhuman coloured scuttle off to next? I'm betting /hoc/

>>75182580
/afl/

Reminder one south african is worth a thousand kiwis

>>75181092
My dad was mentioning that.

there's talk on just about all forums to boycott the match, and if not then wear black t shirts for the ABs. If they dump the Force theyre going to get a crowd like they did for that terrible Australia vs aArgentina at the Gold Coast match

*fires up welsh proxy*

>spending your month's worth of stolen money on proxies

Imagine...

>>75182590
kek, Ivan monitors both /nrl/ AND /afl/ for even the smallest sighting of the subhuman coloured

>>75182641
There is absolutely zero chance subhuman coloured would set foot in /nrl/

He doesn't have the guts

>>75180952
you surely mean a kiwi

who /pingers/ here?

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This man is about to reach an impressive career milestone of 300 caps for his team this weekend.
Say something nice to him.

>>75181440
>>75181475
>>75181500
melbourne's """market""" is dominated by AFL. literally 10 out of the 18 AFL teams are from victoria. add to that NRL's melbourne storm... WHY THE FUCK would you throw a successful australian team just to try your luck in an over saturated area where no one gives a shit about rugby?

fuck that. let brumbies and force stay. throw rebels, and the dozens of rugby fans in victoria could always drive to canberrra.

>>75183049
ugly specimen

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>>75183049

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>tfw no Copa Libertadores de América equivalent for rugby

The more I read about SBW the more I hate the cunt.
>Oh I'm muslim did I mention that guys? I don't think I did, my religion that I discovered a few years ago is so important to me

>>75185407
how is it different to euan murray deciding not to play on sundays?

>>75185407
He sounds like a half-white mutt LARPing as a third worldist (not the commie kind, the racialist kind)

>>75180112

There was huge backlash after Clive Woodward comissioned it, they didnt even play it at all 3 tests because the fans and player didn't like it.

Woodward is probably one of the most overrated coaches in rugby and that lions tour proved it.

>>75186976
Read Henson's autobiography and he says Woodward has very little input as a coach.

Kelly Brown is retiring at the end of the season.

Kid who got bullied at school because of his stammer went on to captain Scotland and get 64 caps. Overcame his stammer through learning to sing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh8va4YoX4g

This is him singing the Baywatch theme after a Saracens win.

>>75187102
good lad desu
>Brown is also briefly mentioned on Pottermore, in an excerpt written by J.K. Rowling for the website, suggesting that he is in fact a squib – a wizard-born with no magical powers – masquerading as a muggle, alongside Stuart Hogg and Jim Hamilton
Imagine.

>>75182270
>>75182550
>>75182580
>>75182612
>>75182657
You really need to gtfo

>>75187102
its really weird how people with stutters can manage to sing fine most of the time

How can we stop Waikato rugby players from raping lads?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11836695

>>75188837
From my understanding it's a mental issue rather than a physical one, so when you enter autopilot and just recreate a sound - or song - it's natural for them. The issue comes with formulating words under pressure, which i get because load of people make more speech errors under pressure.

here's another of him singing https://youtu.be/dFMkWpQHPR4?t=139

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Slightly perturbed the OP wasn't Easter-themed tßh lads. Here are the crappy shoops I made last year.

Hope /int/ gets flooded with Easterposting again tbqh

>>75190092
what was that about?

>>75190387
Easter?

>>75187962
>tfw now convinced every sottish fan on here is secretly a wizard

>>75190998
Wizards are hardly secret on here m8

>>75190998
watch from 2:48, we are all wizards

https://youtu.be/VUNelE1IoJU?t=168

>>75189951
sorry lad didnt even think about easter to be honest

>already 15 articles about SBW today
FUCK OFF

>>75194412
Could have just let the sponsors know beforehand so they could release a statement about it, but nah fuck that, maximum headlines for $BW

So has any progress been made to understand the process that is being undertaken by the ARU to decide who is getting the hook?

It looks here as if it is the Cheetahs and Kings. Absolutely certain that the King's are gone, still some uncertainty for the Cheetahs, but if you base it on merit (which they really should) looks like the Cheetahs will fall.

>>75175873
How long did it take you to figure that onr out Sherlock?

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NRL, prepare your anus
http://www.theroar.com.au/2017/04/12/nrl-must-make-perth-club-reality/

>>75186976
Clive Woodward is such a smug, obnoxious little cunt.

>>75195492
Sir Clive to you

reminder rugby poonion is a terrible sport for fat baby boomers called keith who like dadcore bands like pink floyd, it's pretty much just a big muscle show centered around steroids for sad olders pub goers to try to act macho over and project because they're dad bullied them all those years agos , nowhere near as nuanced and cerebral as test cricket

>>75196042
pesäpallo > baseball > cricket

>>75195615
No it's not you potato.

who /left early/ here lads

>>75197314
yeah that me

>>75193523
I'll get over it. Nice thread regardless.

>>75197314
YO

Based comfy cyclone 2bh

>>75197314
>missing out on the easter long lunch meeting
Sad!

>>75197314

Bailed at 11:45. On the way to the pub.

>'the worst storm since 1968'
>bit of drizzle

Got my suede shoes a bit wet walking from the office to the pub lads, will I ever recover?

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South American A Championship

Soon

>>75201229
Does Brazil has an animal nickname for their Rugby team?
You coul call yourselves with one of those hugeass snakes you have in the Amazonas

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>>75201846
Brazilian NT nickname is Tupis, reference to main indigenous group in Brazil, the Tupi group.

>From Wikipedia
For some time, Brazilian national rugby union side was unofficially associated with Walt Disney's character Zé Carioca. Some time later, CBRu, still known as Associação Brasileira de Rugby, or simply ABR, chose Vitória Régia as its official emblem and nickname. However, this nickname was not adopted by fans.

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>>75183049
I really liked your beard when you had it

my deck is a bit wet lads
should i call the insurance?

>>75202767
If you live in Auckland, yes
If you live in real New Zealand, no.

My life is falling apart.

front row:
canes > blues

second row:
canes = blues

flankers:
canes > blues

halves:
canes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> blues

centres:
canes < blues

wings and fullback:
blues > canes

>>75203450

Based shitspouter.

>>75203501
>He doesn't rate Aso Savea or Barrett

>>75203817
Hope most people don't rate Aso desu.

He's been on the receiving end of a great backline without being too special himself.

>>75203817
duffy is unironically better than both

>>75203839
I'm getting the vibe that you haven't watched many Hurricanes games. Feels like you have just seen the score and that he has scored tries and assumed he didn't put any work in.

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>tfw whoever wins in Rebels vs Brumbies match gets to stay in Super Rugby.

>>75203949
Sheeeit nigga tru lmao bix nood senpai

landers will win the cup

>>75204325
This but unironic and about the Hurricanes.

>>75204038
Fuck off you pathetic retard

>>75204325
the only thing guywankers are winning is my grandads bed pan

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>Sonny Bill Williams will be allowed to continue covering up a sponsor’s logo on his Auckland Blues shirt after the New Zealand Rugby Union agreed to the All Blacks player’s request based on his religious beliefs.

>Williams, a devout Muslim, last week taped up his collar to hide Bank of New Zealand logos as Islamic faith forbids financial institutions charging interest and fees on loans.

this is literally medieval tier, even christians in the middle ages didn't operate banks because they thought charging interest was sinful. I don't even hate muslims but this really feeds into the whole concept that islam is stuck in the past.

most of super rugby would literally operate on borrowed money given how expansionary it is, if he really believed this he wouldn't accept a salary or play in a smaller league with no debt.

>>75204659
Investec is also a bank
If he doesn't cover that too he is a meme

>massive NIB logo
fine

>play for the AIG all blacks
thats fine

>Investec logo
yeah mate thats fine

>playing for the crusaders
fine to be honest

>tiny bank of new zealand logo
OVER THE LINE MUH FAITH IM A GOOD MUSLIM

>>75204696
aren't tats against islam as well kek
how is he going to cover those up?

>>75204721
Changing the creation of God is a single to Muslims

>>75204712
>>75204721
Samoans are dumb. They're all religious and never question anything.

heard there might be some sewerage issues tonight with the storm and you should only flush if you do a Blues Outside Back

>>75204659
desu this can be handled well. khawaja doesn't have the vb logo on his shirt when he plays, but he didn't make a massive stink about it and asked for a shirt without the logo rather than covering it up with fucking tape

this is just SBW being a massive faggot

>>75204857
$BW didn't make a massive stink over it, the media did

>>75204866
why didn't he make the conscientious objection at the start of the season, rather than afterward his first game? if he just had a different logo nobody would have noticed

>>75204873
he made it during his first game of the season

>>75204784
This 'meme' is awful.

>>75204901
but he knew what his jersey would have on it at the start of the year

>>75204913
It's probably something he never thought about before last week

>>75205007
But half the media wank was about how it's in his contract
AKA he knew and thought about it earlier this year

>>75205107
The clause in his contract isn't specifically about BNZ.

It's just a general conscientious objection clause.

>>75205107
It's in the contract of every player signed by the NZRU you numpty.

Got the family tickets for Wasps Saracens for my dad's birthday but I'm going to a drum and bass night the day before
Hope I'm not too monged, that would be p shit

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Makes me think 2bh

Just putting my rubbish on the curb for pickup lads, which south african teams should I stomp in?

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>>75183049
I want to fug your gf

>>75205352
>they're picking up my rubbish on Good Friday
I think you're lying.

>>75205179
>'ey, can't wear that logo on my kit cuz
>banking is bad mana mate, interest is the devil
>no man, i'm still going to keep the wages paid for by that bank's sponsorship
>it's okay when i profit from interest
t. Sunni Bill

>>75205435

I guess my bins will sit outside my house in Parnell and I'll put them back in after my four day weekend in the coromandel. I DGAF when they get emptied.

>>75205352
The Crushedsaders and Kangz

>>75205469
Good luck driving in the flood waters you Dumb cunt

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>tfw no PI SR franchise soon

>tfw you will never understand anything brazilbro says

>>75205793
Can't understand anything kiwis say tbf

>>75205810
Based Britbro.

How's the motherland treating you lad?

>subhuman coloured sucking up to britbongs because he thinks they will protect him
KEK

exterminate yourself

>>75205881

You think he would learn after trying the exact same thing with Australians and New Zealanders and failing horribly on both occasions.

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>He thinks South Africans aren't an important part of this community
I bet you don't like based Argie or BrazilBro

Freshie need to lurk a bit instead of making a fool of themselves

*fires up wellington proxy*

>Jonny May
>Not born in May

>Cory Jane
>Not a girl

>>75205954
This is obviously subhuman coloured. How pathetic.

>gary ringrose
>neither a ring or a rose

>jacob stockdale

>darren sweetnham

>Dan Biggar
>is quite small

>Adam Coleman
>not a mustard maker

>Quade Cooper
>has never made a barrell in his life

>Damian McKenzie
>is a person, not an item of food from McDonalds

>Will Skelton
>is fat

stop

> sam whitelock

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>>75206867
>is a white lock

>>75203501
Kaino/Gibson/Luatua > Savea/Gibbins/Shields

>>75189991
see now an avocado would be perfect there

>>75207778
>Arvoman throwing away a perfectly good avocado instead of gobbling it down before the opposition can pilfer it.
wrong

>Leigh Halfpenny
>is rich

>Gray brothers
>Aren't mulattoes

>>75208686
He has many, many half-pennies.

>Mike Brown
>Isn't

>>75209007
He didn't rob a store only to be shot by the police officer he assaulted either. Mike's fucking up

>>75209001
at last, I truly see

>>75209088
The name Leigh means meadow. He has a meadowful of halfpennies.

>>75209007
kek

>>75181475
>brumbies
>australia's second most successful sr team
>one of the three oldest
>average home attendance in 2016 of over 12,000 from a city of 380,000

>rebels
>shit
>not that old
>average home attendance of around 10,500 from a city of over 4,600,000

Hmm, which one would I get rid of?

Either way, they should keep Force. Having all of the times on the east coast would be stupid.

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>>75211352
What if, here me out, what if you merge the Rebels and the Brumbies
>fyi the bottom region is the Rebels and the area just above that is the Brumbies

>>75207534
kaino is shit

>>75211986
That's what I've always thought should happen. South Australia Brumbles anyone?

What are your hot cross buns lads? Did you go traditional or mix it up?

>>75212302
Brumbies chocolate ones desu.

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>>75211986
>5 australian teams
>4 of them play in shades of blue
>2 scottish teams
>both play in black
>4 welsh teams
>3 play in shades of black or dark blue
What kind of autism is this? Jesus fucking Christ. Pic-related, you spergs.

Marketing 101. No wonder all of your teams have shit attendances if you can't even get the most obvious basics right.

>>75207534
>2 over the hill players that should be going to Europe and an average player > 2 up and coming stars and a decent back up player for the AB's
What did he mean by this post?

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>>75212351
We aren't so bad.
>blue and white
>black red and yellow
>yellow and black
>red and black
>blue yellow and maroon

>>75212351
>irish provinces
>don't wearing your franchises with respective flag colours

>>75212487
its blue and gold lad

>>75212957
This is ture, both Hurricanes and Highlanders yellows should be gold but the Chiefs are yellow not gold.

Or are you saying maroon isn't a colour of the Highlanders?

>>75212727
Italy play in blue despite their flag being green, white and red. There are reasons for the colours of each. Leinster's is to do with Saint Patrick's blue and Dublin, and I think Munster's has to do with the British Army (just don't tell Munster fans or they'll Ree hard). I can't remember the reasons for the other two right now.

>>75213266
Leinster used to play in green apparently.

>>75213025
not a primary colour
i know its southlands colours

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>>75213316
Highlanders colours are blue gold and maroon
If you are excluding secondary and tertiary then Highlanders are just their primary colour which is blue lad.

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>>75213387
Looks just like a leinster scarf, of which my drawers are filled to the brim with heaps of, all of which unworn ofc.

>>75213306
Maybe. They play in green for the GAA. Anything I know about it I was told by some old guy years ago.

I think he said something about Ulster basing their colours off the oldest club in Ireland, but I don't even remember what club that is...

>>75213465
I can't imagine NOT wearing a scarf to games in winter. Sportsground is chilly.

Also handy to have one if bringing a date to games. Jerseys are for children and LARPers.

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>>75211986
Why don't Australia just do this? Give the different franchises the responsibility of overseeing rugby growth in the areas in question. I know there's fuck all people there, but I can't imagine trying to have to set up a rugby club in the middle of nowhere like we did in my hometown without the help we got off the Connacht branch.

Just simple shit like provide them all with balls, maybe balls branded with your team crest or something? Seems like a better plan than just saying, "No, you don't have a team and you never will."

>>75213692
I have a couple of jerseys my family brought me for birthdays and Christmas. Only supporter gear I have brought for myself is a scarf, beanie and a big flag to hang on my wall

>>75213692
All the leinster scarfs look like shit I just wear a normal scarf if it's cold.

>>75213804
You get a free scarf and hat every year as part of a supporter pack with the season ticket. Hat usually looks kind of stupid though. It was lime green and white with a navy bobble last year. Looked ridiculous.

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Also, does this seem like a practical way of dividing up South African teams if Cheetohs and Kangz bite the bullet as expected?

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>>75213874
>Looked ridiculous
Sounds fitting for connacht.

>>75182111
Hey, of those "Irish" lads, one was a Nordie Protestant. Besides, they were witnesses, not participants. Just like Stewie Olding and Laddy Jackson, they did NOTHING wrong.

as a big semi-slow second row would i have potential in playing rugby 7s or would i get stepped all the way

>>75212487
Give us back counties you farming fuckwits.

>>75213971
It won't split up like that though as the Currie Cup teams still exist. The Free State Cheetahs will still exists every week

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>>75214278
>counties manukau is part of the blues
>blues dominate super 12 in the 90s
>lose counties to chiefs in 99
>linger on and win one more tite
>now chiefs are the best team in nz
Is possessing Counties Manukau the key to Super Rugby success?

>>75213658
>I think he said something about Ulster basing their colours off the oldest club in Ireland, but I don't even remember what club that is...

Not sure what criteria you're using but: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_University_Football_Club is oldest extant football club of any kind.

Their first kit resembles Ulster's but I always assumed their colours were based on the Ulster banner or the provincial flag/crest colours.

>>75214370
For Auckland, yes.
And yes, it's in Auckland.

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>>75213692
This is my Auckland Rugby scarf I got from an oppie. Pretty much a treasure.

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Duncan weir's cousin?

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Duncan weir's nemesis?

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Duncan weir's missus?

>>75214249
I would think you'd have a very hard time of it.
7's just seems like a breeding ground for 15's back liners.
Be surprised if you didn't struggle.

>>75214518
Now that's a tasteful scarf, the leinster scarf design department should take note.
>>75214637
Looks like a pokemon irl

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What eggs you gettin lads?
Got a peanut m&m and a mini egg lined up myself.

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>>75214518
The Blues scarf just doesn't stack up.

>>75214706
Don't do eggs anymore, but I just had 4 hot cross buns for brekkie.

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>>75207778
Been done tßh.

>>75214649
That's what i would thought got around 3 months to build up speed and stamina so i think ill be alright

I would like to find thw five home shirts from NZ franchises to buy, but not these current shirts.

>>75214706
Got the gf a Giant bunny and a really nice marshmallow egg. She's away on work till monday so I might just have a cheeky nibble and replace later

>>75215428
trademe.co.nz

>>75215428
http://www.trademe.co.nz/sports/rugby-league/apparel/jerseys/auction-1299545228.htm

I hate poosaders but this is a beaut:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/sports/rugby-league/apparel/jerseys/auction-1302264998.htm

Another beaut:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/sports/rugby-league/apparel/jerseys/auction-1299053211.htm

Have NZ franchises been used Adidas since always?

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>>75216994
nah use to be CCC

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>>75217096

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>>75217232
Remember when SR jerseys were cool?

>>75217096
>>75217128
>>75217156
>Arlequins wannabes

>>75217232
>Vespas wannabes

>>75217266
>too lazy to do a different design, so copy Canterbuty one

>>75217347
Cool.
Fuck off then.

>>75217347
>too lazy to do a different design, so copy Canterbuty one
That is Canterbury you dumb fuck.

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>>75217457

>>75217347
>modified strips of the traditional home region strips
>wannabes of completely different and irrelevant clubs

Mate

>>75217266
The Hurricanes have never really had a bad strip 2bh
Even their lions strip is one of the better ones

Fuck Wellington 2bh.

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While we're talking shirt designs, everyone Irish agrees that these are the best from each of the provinces, right? It's no coincidence they're all from around 10-12 years ago when the jersies actually had solid, crisp colours.

All the club jersies that come out now are over-designed trash with retarded stylised patterns. Less is more.

>>75212073
He's literally the best 6 NZ has ever had.

>>75218851
He's also literally 34. I don't agree that he's shit, but he's past his peak. I'd be surprised if he starts against the Lions.

>>75218878
Pretty much this, he is over the hill now. No doubt he was great but that's the thing, he was

>>75218832
The munster and ulster ones are fantastic don't like the other 2 though.

>>75214518
My Harbour scarf was $1.

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>>75218934
If you ever go to the Sportsground, around half of the jersies are from the Pro12 win, a quarter are this season, and 20% are still that design. It's easily the most sought after retro Connacht shirt.

I'm not too in the know about Leinster shirts though. All I know is they have some really ugly old ones with loads of hoops, and the horrendous unicorn jizz jersey they won their second Heineken Cup in. Pic-related is pretty nice though.

>>75218962
You got ripped off tßh.

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>>75219116
I have that one :)
Got a belated christmas present of a 50 euro lifestyle sports voucher there the other week so I might pick up one opf this years ones.

Kaino will start again the Lions. He's still the most consistent at what he does. There might be some other players around the country that can have an on day and have the game of their life, but Kaino is more likely to just go out and put out a top tier performance.

>>75219288
>>75219116
Also I have the away version of uicorn jizz one, which I guess is poseidon jizz? Too small for me now though unfortunately.

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He's back and he's hungry for blood, I wonder how many key players he will injury this weekend.

>>75219334
Saving it up for Henshaw (or another innocent Irishman) on the Lions tour. Doesn't want to risk a suspension before then.

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>>75219361
At least in that case we should have another viable option at 12 unlike in dublin that time.
Just look at his stiff ar and closed fist, he wasn't attempting to wrap. At best it's a shoulder charge that went wrong.

>>75219288
If you're getting one, go for the home one they wear in the league. Be careful if you're a fatty though, because that design's going to draw attention to your belly.

Don't bother with anything else though. The Pro12 away jersey has the same problem as the home one and doesn't even look as nice. The European home jersey is a mess and the European away jersey is a disaster.

>>75219361
Which Irish player is going to come back from the tour injured and never play the same again this time around?

My money's on Conor Murray.

>>75219466
Maybe I'll get an irish jersey instead or just wait until next seasons stuff, the thing lasts 12 months so I'm good to wait.

>>75219509
Nah, the tour will probably kill an already half dead sexton.

>>75219533
I actually really like the Irish jersey that's out now. Brother got it for me for me for Christmas. Thought I'd hate the Vodafone logo, but it's a nice shirt.

>>75219569
>implying sexton will be fit enough to go on tour
Besides it's not like there's a one-player limit on how many careers it can ruin. Healy and O'Brien both went downhill after the last tour.

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>>75219680
I'm just saying if I had to put money on a players career to end in the next 6 months sexton would be very high on that list.
Nice to see healey starting to have an upturn in his form again, just when mcgrath is dipping. An interesting time.

>>75219724
Career-ending? Ya, Sexton's the red hot favourite. I'm not talking about career-ending though, I'm talking career-derailing. In other words, a "nearly always fit" player goes to regularly missing two month blocks like O'Brien and Sexton do now.

Murray's still having niggles from the injury Welsh game (HE'LL RUN IT OFF MATE) and might not be back for another week or two. If he rushes back to fitness for Munster and then has to go straight to New Zealand and play three seriously physical tests, he could easily aggravate something and do permanent damage.

>>75219875
>I'm talking career-derailing
Warburton must be high up there too in that case.

>>75219917
>implying his career isn't already derailed from the last tour
He's a crock

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>>75219963
pls no

Literally how the fuck are we supposed to pick the winner in Jags vs Bulls?

>>75220177
Dead even according to TAB
So I would bet on home team 2bh

>>75214370
counties coach is coaching the blues right now so they should be winning to be franklin

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>>75217393
When I talk on non-current kits, It doesn't necessarily bring us to 90's. Late 00's and early 10's, for example.

>>75220695
It'd be embarrassing to see a Brazilian in a NZ rugby jersey tßh. Please refrain.

>>75219116
only leinster jerseys i have are from the 90's, when esat digifone still existed no less, and mid 00's since im not a bandwagon wanker who switched to leinster from munster when they became successful

>>75217457
Canterbury RFU

what the FUCK do i have for dinner lads

>>75221084
Smoked fish pie with puff pastry and scalloped potatoes.

>>75221084
Have thou any food home?

>>75220903
Nah just FU 2bh

>>75221084
Peas, chips and tuna. To drink, milk with chocolate.

>>75221095

Gonna have ur mums fish pie later m8

>>75221084
6 hot cross buns

>>75221497
got three left
might have them and an avo to be frank

>>75221607

>avos

Look at money bags over here.

Crusaders by 31. Book it.

>>75221678
For the first half? Yeah, I agree.

Does anyone have the current fan power rankings?

>>75221746
>GOAT tier
Crusaders
>decent tier
Everyone else
>SHIT tier
queefs

1. blues fans
2. highlander fans
3. hurricanes fans

POWER GAP

90. queef fans

POWER GAP

9001. rugby league fans

POWER GAP

999999. cumguzzlers fans

>>75221782
blues fans are worse than or equal to league fans

>>75221802

What part of crushedchurch you from lad?

>>75221818
onehunga

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Kits from 00's and early 10's are cleaner and less polluted than 90's ones and some recent mistakeful designs

>>75221818
Craterton, wbu

>>Sunwolves playing an away game
>>Against the Crusaders, who currently tops the NZ conference
>>They are then going to play Highlanders, then the Chiefs

So, how fucked are the Sunwolves by the end of their trip?

>>75222424
Cruzados is overrated and Lobos do Sol is underrated.

Lobos do Sol's problems are the the lack of time for a decent pre-season and they got tired after Top League season, who ends almost immediately to Super Rugby.

>>75222125
a bit bland and the white stripes instead of black are rather gay tbqhwyf

>>75222125
>chainmail
what were they thinking

>>75222424
Could a record-beating defeat tßh.

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are the Melbourne Rebels getting cut lads?

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>>75222541

MRW I only picked the cumguzzlers by 42

>>75222608
reminder most teams start cruising after the bonus point

>>75222588

>88

Kek desu

>>75222461
Sometimes what sounded like a good idea isn't really a very good idea at all

rugby

>Imagine going to the rugby tonight
No drinks!

>>75222915

>Imagine goiing to the rugby

If I lived in shitchurch I would have haved necked myself long ago.

>>75222588
Nice hitler dubs

>>75222915
>No drinks!
why

>>75222921
>He doesn't want to go to the Sunwolves first NZ game

I would probably neck myself if I was you too

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>>75222907

>>75219308
This desu

>>75222929
Good Friday mate. You obviously aren't a good Christian lad.

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TIME

>>Quentin Strange
Crusaders literally have a Marvel character on their team.