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Ruggamatrix episode 256

The Ruggamatrix boys

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All Blacks and the north lead the way – Former NSW Waratahs CEO Fraser Neill is our co-host this week with Ben on leave. He’s worked with World Rugby and New Zealand Rugby on World Cups and Super Rugby competition structure.

We’ll get his thoughts on the 2023 World Cup bids.
STRIKE ISSUE OF THE WEEK: Should the rest of the world step up to All Blacks standards? This is a theme on message boards and we address it on this week’s show.
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Jacque 14 minutes ago
'New Zealand's going to have a tough time': Erasmus offers early RWC call

Waaaay to long before a WC to even stsrting talking about possibke fixtures

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Eric Elwood 18 minutes ago
The potential route to the Rugby World Cup final for the top 6 teams

For the conspiracy theorists:

Was the 2023 draw different?



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Lou Cifer 18 minutes ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

England definitely have the potential to pull it off and their trajectory is looking solid! They should now concentrate on winning away from home regularly. Lets see how the 6Ns goes…should be a decent indicator and obviously that game against the Boks in mid 2026 too.

The belief that one can pull it all off can be just as important



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DH 22 minutes ago
Scott Barrett's 2027 plan explains everything about his form

His form is crap and he needs to come back and be way better

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DH 22 minutes ago
Scott Barrett's 2027 plan explains everything about his form

Worst caprian since taine randell

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Lou Cifer 39 minutes ago
Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth ban for 'intentional' foul play confirmed

You referring to the French player who had multiple red cards in is career, as well as a previous red card for gouging already? don’t let facts get in the way when comparing to a player with his 1st red card in 140+ tests and what….3 YCs in total🤡

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PaPaRumple 49 minutes ago
Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth ban for 'intentional' foul play confirmed

Ah mate that's nothing you should see your mom when i put it inside.

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cc 57 minutes ago
Bok superstar may exit South African rugby with giant offer tabled

Lol

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CT 59 minutes ago
Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth ban for 'intentional' foul play confirmed

To all the raging screen warriors take a break relax nobody cares about your diatribe

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CT 1 hour ago
Springbok lock Eben Etzebeth ban for 'intentional' foul play confirmed

As you aren't on the committee that made the decision your opinion is irrelevant

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Lou Cifer 1 hour ago
We are at peak 'Bok-flation' in this Rugby World Cup cycle

How can you say “their opposition is just so poor at the moment” when rugby between the top 5 or 6 teams hasn’t ever been so tight like it has been over the last few years. Also, the competition one could rightly argue for the 2010 to 2018 ABs….was extremely poor😉 This is arguably the toughest period to be the best team in the world imo.

Having said all that, the ABs team from 2011 - 2015 or 2010 - 2018 or whatever you want to call it are still the GOATs. I and many others personally feel that the Boks can only overtake them if they do the 3-peat🤞



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fl 1 hour ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

well if there’s two of them jostling for a single position they’re not set in stone are they!

Tom Curry was also a 2025 Lion, and is shunted between 6 and 7. Elliot Daly was a 2025 (and 2021, and 2017) Lion, but has never had one position nailed down. Being a Lion doesn’t mean you have to play the same position every match.



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Tiger 1 hour ago
What written judgement said about Alex Mann's role in gouging saga

No doubt Eben deserved his 12 week sentence for going anywhere near the eye, but all the journalistic hysteria about eye gouging did not help. Definition: “To make a deep dent or hole in something”. One would have thought that photos of Mann's shredded black and blue eye would have surfaced by now and have been used in aggravation of sentence?

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SteveD 1 hour ago
RWC-winning Bok prop explains 'how to counter the South African scrum'

Huge apologies to the sheep. I understand from many many kiwis that they’re really rather nice, if you know what I mean…

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CO 1 hour ago
Everyone knows Robertson is not supposed to be doing the coaching

Hansen or Robertson gone? I'm fine with both exiting as the results been cataclysmically terrible, even in Fosters darkest days were we handed our ass in a sling by the Boks.

Who is CC?



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Ben 2 hours ago
Bok superstar may exit South African rugby with giant offer tabled

When a story sows unease about an unnamed person doing something that, if it were true, would upset you, and there's a picture of two or several people, you can know for sure without reading that 1. The suggested upset is greatly exaggerated and a massive stretch of the definition of said upset, and 2. Given that it is not that much of an upset at all, it could be in reference to either or any of the people pictured, and you wouldn't care, but 3. It is probably about the person you'd care less about, if they were to do it.

Other clickbait formulae that make me sick are “Xyz person gives blunt verdict on Abc person” or “Xyz person hits out at / back at Abc person”.



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NB 2 hours ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

So you’re saying two unproven Test novices in Atkinson or Ojomoh are set in stone but a 2025 Lion in Tommy Freeman is going to be shunted around between three diff spots??

That makes no sense at all.



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JO 2 hours ago
We are at peak 'Bok-flation' in this Rugby World Cup cycle

Bok Flation? You need to go back to being a financial analyst and auditor. Leave rugby alone. Please. Do us all that favour.

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NB 2 hours ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

Before he got injured he won 13 caps at 12. He was in the team at 12 with Slade at 13. That was the ‘status quo’.

When Eng scored their decisive try v NZ he swapped into 12 to provide the scoring pass for Dingwall.



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NB 2 hours ago
How England are building the foundations for World Cup success in 2027

When Marler and Cole were propping together in the second half the Eng scrum started moving forwards again, so I think the key was picking those two plus Jamie George to start.

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