Encore un blessé chez les All Blacks

All Blacks thrash France for comprehensive victory in Wellington

GH 9 minutes ago

Trash, trash, in your dreams! So called pundits told that there would be more than 50 points. Failed again. Morale victory for the direspectful Z team 🤣

France player ratings vs New Zealand | Lipovitan-D July Series 2nd Test

J V 10 minutes ago

These grades are a bit generous, especially for the starting forwards in my opinion. I would agree that our best players today were Le Garrec and Woki. Abadie was really disapointing, he has been one of the best lineout operators of the top14 and he really got eaten alive by the ABs locks today. It might be due to his lack of experience, so I hope he’ll use this opportunity to improve !

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johnz 12 minutes ago

All Blacks player ratings vs France | Lipovitan-D July Series 2nd Test

There was a time, a long time ago, that BB was a run first player. And he was phenomenal. But somewhere along the line, he decided he loved the sight of his own kicks.

All Blacks thrash France for comprehensive victory in Wellington

IkeaBoy 13 minutes ago

Much better from the ABs. Look very settled at 9,10 & 15 along with their benchers.

Meek from France. Utterly rolled.

France push All Blacks to 80th minute in narrow Dunedin defeat

JD Kiwi 28 minutes ago

Premier Sports has a tiny reach in England. Very few people pay the extra to watch it. Even most rugby fans don't have it. It's a joke.

The huge problem we have that it's only the Top 14 that rides roughshod over an international window. It's absolutely ridiculous to say that Italy are sending a B team, 13 players from their last Six Nations match were selected for the African tour. And of course it's mainly the overworked Top 14 players who need the rest and have not travelled. Same with Argentina who are facing England in Lions year.

As for the Lions, it's an established part of the international window, that hugely benefits rugby. Nothing like the Top 14 who didn't need to extend their season my a month when the June window moved to July. Nobody else has.

And the home unions still manage to send a much stronger squad to Argentina, the Pacific etc than the French have because everyone except France is committed to making a full contribution to the international windows.

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DR 36 minutes ago

Darcy Graham sees red as Scotland slip to defeat in Fiji

Maybe Fiji should be starting to get more respect from the media and average punter

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DP 36 minutes ago

Darcy Graham sees red as Scotland slip to defeat in Fiji

Contracts being sent out to a plethora of SA schoolboys as we speak. In all seriousness it’s long overdue to give Fiji the credit the deserve. They were robbed wins against Wales and England at the last World Cup, and were narrowly defeated by Oz a couple of weeks ago. If World Rugby had serious rugby people in charge nations like Fiji would be seeing more investment. More should be done for Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga considering they’re flanked by Oz and NZ.

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J V 37 minutes ago

Have France made New Zealand's forthright pundits come over all sheepish?

Well, there is also the fact that the ABs were stellar today. Extremely impressive at the breakdown and lineouts, with very very nice collective tries as well. Good job to them. I have to say I enjoyed this game despite our team being thrashed. The second half was also significantly more balanced.

All Blacks player ratings vs France | Lipovitan-D July Series 2nd Test

Easy_Duzz-it 37 minutes ago

BB attacking kicks are trash . 1 min in and his first attacking kick lead to instant pressure . he’s the weakest link . 33 min before his attacking kick worked . All Blacks run the ball when he got sent off and we scored . if BB can make his attacking kicks contestable or kick in to space and it’ll be better for us . hopefully he can run first and kick 2nd .. conversions are consistent .

cant wait to get mounga back next year …

Springboks' dominance of the world rankings comes under increased threat

PaPaRumple 41 minutes ago

Ah sorry mate early morning, brain not firing on all cylinders yet. I'm hoping for a better performance against Italy this week. Was a bit worried about the bomb squad performance last week.

Springboks' dominance of the world rankings comes under increased threat

Hellhound 43 minutes ago

I know, that's why I said we don't care as long as the Boks win. I'm a Bok fan too😂

We need to talk about the Springboks' 'Bomb Squad'

Hellhound 44 minutes ago

You can say that again. The two giants of the sport. Rugby might have started in England, but they are not the Kings of the sport. The Boks hosted their first and only ever WC in 1994. WR did it only because of the political scene at the time, trying to milk it for all their own worth. Since then, the Boks competed in 8 WC, and won it 4 times. It's disgusting how rugby treat it's top teams. It's why I'm not opposed to a break away League. There is also rumours that people want a completely new WR. To boycott the current WR administration and start a new WR system. Rumours aren't facts though.

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JD Kiwi 45 minutes ago

Can Les Bleus avoid a Black-wash in New Zealand?

That's great prep, really taking the tournament seriously. Benefits will last for years, these players will know eachother so well.

Kudos to FP too for using his influence so well.

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NB 47 minutes ago

Have France made New Zealand's forthright pundits come over all sheepish?

You mean the severely fatigued team that badly needed a rest? Lucky for you maybe.

Can Les Bleus avoid a Black-wash in New Zealand?

JD Kiwi 49 minutes ago

They've not been sending such weakened teams for 20 years, certainly not to SA and NZ. You're talking absolute rubbish.

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PaPaRumple 53 minutes ago

Springboks' dominance of the world rankings comes under increased threat

I'm a boks fan bro

Springboks' dominance of the world rankings comes under increased threat

Hellhound 55 minutes ago

The Boks won the WC the easy way and the hard way. As long as they win, we don't care. The ranking does need to get sorted, but there isn't an easy way to do that. The best away around the ranking system is just win win win like the Boks

Have France made New Zealand's forthright pundits come over all sheepish?

MC 59 minutes ago

In the end ntamack was injured in too 14 final anyway.

Springboks' dominance of the world rankings comes under increased threat

Hellhound 59 minutes ago

There is that yes, but to grow the game, you can't leave those teams down and out. In any sport, if a team loses, no one will be interested and no new talent will join the game. What is the aim? To grow the sport. Will any sport grow if you leave it unattended? What incentive is there for players and countries to play rugby? To spend money on rugby to grow the sport in your country? Especially if you never can compete against the top teams, not even the top 50 teams? There is no money for the players to play the sport as any other job will provide food, but rugby won't. Those players will stay amateur because they have to work a day job, play for their club and then their countries too, which don't pay much as the sport is not big enough. Those athletes leave sport or go to another sport. Chuck them out, dismiss them, give them no crumbs. Yeah, that's a way to grow any sport isn't it? By ignoring them, you think rugby will grow in those countries? They can't afford proper rugby fields, never mind to pay players to be professional athletes. Why would they encourage a sport that is costly to maintain with no incentive? Who runs a business at a loss? Why even bother to try and grow the game is smaller countries? Especially with that attitude of amateur players? Ever stop to think why they are so average? Why they are still amateur? Unlike the bigger nations, they can't afford to pay professional salaries. Those athletes will always stay amateur because they can't afford to make rugby their daily lives. They have to work to survive. They can't improve themselves on a rigorous training schedule like the top stars. The stars have one job. Rugby. They have 2 to 3 jobs, club rugby, national rugby and then their daily grind jobs, all to survive. Your thinking is wrong about this. It isn't enough to just show someone the sport. That isn't growth. It's lazy thinking.