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Stormers end losing run to give URC play-off hopes a boost

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Stormers gave their United Rugby Championship play-off hopes a lift with a battling 19-16 win over Bulls in Pretoria.

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After heavy rain and lightning delayed the start by 75 minutes, penalties dominated the majority of the scoring with Jurie Matthee kicking four to David Kriel’s three to put Stormers 12-9 in front.

Ruan Vermaak’s try, converted by Kriel, on the hour mark nudged Bulls in front again only for Wandisile Simelane to go over, with Matthee adding the extras, as Stormers ended a run of three straight defeats.

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frandinand 42 minutes ago
All Blacks pile on 50 points in emphatic Bledisloe Cup win at Eden Park

And some people thought the leopard had changed his spots.

Unfortunately OJohn is a very poor loser and his comments reflect on the rest of us.



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Bazzallina 1 hour ago
All Blacks pile on 50 points in emphatic Bledisloe Cup win at Eden Park

They have a decent shot but injuries in a few positions need to not happen and somebody else stand up at loosehead

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Bazzallina 1 hour ago
Overlooked Du’Plessis Kirifi earns All Blacks call-up amid injury crisis

Workrate Dupes has high involvement both on off ball looking at possible lineups think there is good chance Dupes gears up straight swap with Segner

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JW 1 hour ago
Overlooked Du’Plessis Kirifi earns All Blacks call-up amid injury crisis

I really like the way Wallace gets on the ball and works on the ground but he’s been pinged a few times I’d go straight to Dupes instead for sure.

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TokoRFC 1 hour ago
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I noticed this too, the amount of time the ABs had compared to playing SA was a key difference

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Rugby3 1 hour ago
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Kolbe and LBB are streets ahead of Jordan, slippery eel tho he is.

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Rugby3 1 hour ago
Les Kiss reacts to defeat as Wallabies look to ‘return fire’ in Bledisloe II

When you have a kiwi defence coach like the Wallabies have saying to the Wallabies no no give the All Blacks plenty of space when you are defending because they really hate it, what chance do the Wallabies have ? Zero. No wonder they started to lose faith. They realized they had been conned.

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Lofty 1 hour ago
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Sadly Wayneo you are probably more correct than your obviousy great sense of humour would suggest. And as Unknown says maybe it’s time to clean out the Marmite jar and pour in some honey !

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JW 2 hours ago
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hmmm 🤷 😕

Interesting contrast in the weekend? Carries seemed to get more vital after going into lock.



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JW 2 hours ago
All Blacks pile on 50 points in emphatic Bledisloe Cup win at Eden Park

Hopefully, a lot of them have been mixed bags even if matchwinners before, Dublin and again last night two of his complete performances as AB 10 for sure.

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JW 2 hours ago
All Blacks pile on 50 points in emphatic Bledisloe Cup win at Eden Park

I don’t have quite the rapport with him as you do Ed!

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JW 2 hours ago
Dave Rennie weighs in on All Blacks’ ‘quality performance’ against Wallabies

He loves his direct runners in the face of the D.

Wish Frizell could be dumped on the basis of that one performance but Rennie, nor Barnes have the balls to do that.



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JW 2 hours ago
Dave Rennie weighs in on All Blacks’ ‘quality performance’ against Wallabies

Hope not, neither are better as 15’s for me, but Rennie has switched the focus back to playmaking 15s again, so it’s very slim pickings.

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JW 2 hours ago
Dave Rennie weighs in on All Blacks’ ‘quality performance’ against Wallabies

fair enough Rieko was enough to cover every position in the backline himself but the team is heavily dependent on backline strike power (or intended to be) so it’s sensible to not want to have to shift someone like Lakai into midfield, or a halfback on the wing etc in the advent of a double injruy, but this game proved what a useless selection Moorby was.

That’s whole premise behind why 6/2 benches are so powerful.



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PMcD 2 hours ago
'Rugby needs to be demystified to attract new fans and fresh investment'

I’d say they go to one game (it costs a fortune for NFL) and they probably watch the other. i would be very surprised if they had that much cross over going to both games.

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PMcD 2 hours ago
'Rugby needs to be demystified to attract new fans and fresh investment'

That’s a very valid point but the build up to game day is massive, they literally hype it to pieces all well on podcasts, radio, Instagram stuff - you really can’t avoid it which is where they build the fan base engagement to such strong levels.

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PMcD 2 hours ago
'Rugby needs to be demystified to attract new fans and fresh investment'

The other key issue Ed is that with a state population of circa 5m, they still convince 130k people to pack out both stadiums for all the games. That’s a really healthy level of support in both States.

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BH 2 hours ago
Law quirk may save Wallabies gun after hip drop tackle sidelines Leroy Carter

What part of Rennie’s quote is “dirty”? Or more importantly, why are you upset about a very matter-of-fact statement by the coach whose player was injured by a bad tackle? Get up out of the wrong side of the shed this morning?

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BH 2 hours ago
Law quirk may save Wallabies gun after hip drop tackle sidelines Leroy Carter

Good gracious that is a long spiel. Valetini grabbed Carter around the hips, dropped his body weight to stop momentum, and in doing so he trapped Carter’s ankle between his body and the ground. There isn’t anything to debate here - it’s the very definition a hip-drop tackle. And he’s lucky that he’s done it outside of the ban window set by World Rugby.

It wasn’t a “dirty” tackle by any means. Unlike Sua'ali'i’s blatant shoulder charge on Jordie, which should’ve been a yellow card.



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PMcD 2 hours ago
All Blacks pile on 50 points in emphatic Bledisloe Cup win at Eden Park

I’d say it was a fair contest until about 55 mins and the the floodgates turned.

WB’s were pretty good for the first 55 but were outclassed in the other 25 - but that’s a bench and fitness issues, where the AB’s were under Razor and are finishing games strongly under Rennie.



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