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Rugby Pass Podcast: Who Runs The World?


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This week on the Rugby Pass podcast Scotty reunites with his oldest and best friend Mark Stafford in some godforsaken dark cold corner of New Zealand’s South Island. They talk about the fallout from the grubby Bledisloe Cup test last weekend, and with the Aviva Premiership getting underway this weekend ponder the age-old question: where exactly does the balance of power lie in world rugby?

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The Wallabies found the injuries started piling up under Rennie as well …..

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Lou Cifer 27 minutes ago
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I definitely do! I got the feeling Rassie was holding back quite a bit. We'll obviously know in a weeks time if that is all hot air or not😂

They'll still test your guys under the high ball often, but when the counterattack is on….they'll pull the trigger!



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RugCs 42 minutes ago
All Blacks flyer becomes third South Africa tour casualty

They like their power wingers (brawn but no brains) who can catch a ball and attempt to run over people but have no idea how to catch a high ball. He is not an indispensable loss. I fear clever wingers more than power winger. Reece was a clever winger, Carter is a clever winger.

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TokoRFC 50 minutes ago
Why Rassie will be happier than Rennie with early omens of Greatest Rivalry tour

Do you think they’ll counterattack more Lou?

I think their match against England was going to give the best insights into how they would play against us. But they saw Murley, Waboso and Smith named and decided they’d bomb them all day.



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Blackmania 50 minutes ago
All Blacks flyer becomes third South Africa tour casualty

That’s a shame for him because he seemed to be in good form… but I didn’t see Caleb Clarke as a real game-changer for the All Blacks. Other options are available, and this will probably give Fehi Fineanganofo more opportunities. He’s someone I really want to see against the Boks!

Wishing CC a speedy recovery!



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TokoRFC 56 minutes ago
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@PB yesh pretty much what JW said. The that the «first team» could have thosectwo proper testicular July and then two more outings before the first test where the boks would have had fewer games and fewer hard test matches. The Argentina test was exactly what they needed.

I don’t know I just thought the tour matches could have helped build momentum. But I’m now thinking the 1.5 week rest for most of the 1st test players will probably be beneficial in the long run.



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JW 1 hour ago
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not even that imo, Rennie is starting to do some smarter things I wouldn’t like to think he’d go backwards like that if something happened in the first few tests.

Has Caleb gone down too, or you meant Proctor/Billy?



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JW 1 hour ago
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Yeah Rennie said a few off things, the kind of comments that put Razor offside with the players, I wonder who he was talking to to use that langauge.

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TokoRFC 1 hour ago
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Nick, since some of the South Africans are complaining about being compared to a (very good) all blacks side. You could use the Fijians as an example of thriving in chaos?

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JW 1 hour ago
Dave Rennie teases All Blacks eligibilty update while explaining Mo'unga's recall

It was a shame Richie wasn’t available for the GRT, it’s good to hear he was looking to resign longer in order to make him self available. It’s a very difficult scenario for him, he’s been out so long he won’t know where things are at is it’s sorts suicide to lock yourself into a long term contract.

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Rugby3 1 hour ago
Shifting sands in the game - Kennedy Tsimba’s ‘shift theory’: Part one

I may be biased but ……I think Australia is best suited to this fast moving style because we have such outstanding athletic talent, that hasn’t known whether it is arfa or marfa for years and years, due to truly hopeless coaching. Which is why we are languishing at 8.

We’ve been playing styles woefully ill suited to us.



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TokoRFC 1 hour ago
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It was your article about how the ABs ended a rugby championship with the least tackle breaks, least line breaks and worst of all. But it was the 1, only one!! counter attacking try that convinced me something wasn’t right under Razor.

To take our biggest strength and essentially remove it entirely from our game was nuts.



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TokoRFC 1 hour ago
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This is the kind of rugby journalism that is so hard to come by.

Really looking forward to the rest of the series



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PickOllyMathisForAfricaTour,Dave 2 hours ago
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Good call. We have 4X first fives with Love, Dmac, now Richie, and young fulla Josh Jacomb.

Beaudy pretty much just sux now so can go be an outside back/trainer until retirement. Beaudan is just there if we lose Love and Dmac before the third test, at which point Jacomb should be considered ahead of him by then.



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David Gedye 2 hours ago
Fissler Confidential: Future of two Springbok halfbacks up in air

Saw that too. I mean Durbs is great but come on!

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cnw 3 hours ago
Shifting sands in the game - Kennedy Tsimba’s ‘shift theory’: Part one

Mark Twain put it this way:

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations.”



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cnw 3 hours ago
Shifting sands in the game - Kennedy Tsimba’s ‘shift theory’: Part one

​“The Boks have been marrying SA’s physical foundation with elite transition attack for a while now, so Kennedy's work feels like the natural next evolution in the process, overlaying high-speed transition intelligence right on top of our power.”

Wellington was the exemplar of this right - but have we seen it again since? Perhaps next week? But then there is the risk of what happened last year against Aussie. As chaos leads to catastrophic melt down. And here’s the thing - this AB side is 200% better than the Frankenstein unit that played in Wellington last year. Will Rassie risk playing chaos against chaos? I doubt that very much. Instead we have recently seen the Bok pack get even bigger in all positions (perhaps save for de Villiers). Where does the transition / evolution fit into such a behemoth?



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Clarke is injured and is heading home.

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