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Watch: New Brumbies winger Toni Pulu beats 7 defenders to score improbable try

Ex-Chiefs winger Toni Pulu had the Brumbies management rubbing their hands together after their new signing scored this blistering individual try, beating no less than seven defenders as Counties lost to Taranaki 26-19.

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The American-born winger defied belief on this slicing run, rolling the first defender like a Day 5 pitch before veering infield through the Taranaki defence with many diving tacklers failing to land a hand on him.

The 29-year-old who debuted with Counties in 2012, signed a 2-year deal with the Canberra based Super franchise after three seasons with the Chiefs. He will compete with Henry Speight and Lausii Taliauli for a starting spot, with Chance Peni, James Dargaville and Andrew Muirhead unconfirmed yet for next season.

If he can continue his Mitre 10 Cup form into next year, the Brumbies may have found a nice bargain.

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BA 10 minutes ago
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Jordan not getting starts at 15 always seemed strange to me know there were injuries he had and so on and maybe because we were losing so many games didn’t get the luxury of trying new stuff but jeez am wrong to say it seemed obvious and Will was clearly best 15 in the country for years ?

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BA 14 minutes ago
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Here is a thing that made me bit hoha with Foz it was in his first 2 years a variety of dudes had been tried at 12 David H, QT, ALB and maybe some others none had really gone that well and opinions were expressed that Jordie should be given a go and he had played there for Canes and he expressed his desire to be closer to the action rough stuff Foz said that they do not see Jordie as a 12 injuries happen he gets that start in SA I think and he doesn’t look back was Foz 12 thru to WC and still is, I think that’s how it was correct me if I’m wrong

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JW 19 minutes ago
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instinct he’s a ball carrier

We wish. He always passes the ball away when he has space.

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BigGabe 19 minutes ago
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Springbok rugby still living rent-free in Ben Smith’s head I see.

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JW 20 minutes ago
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Where have the dropped their lip? By using their lips? LOL

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GH 26 minutes ago
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Reading RugbyPass you realize that there is nothing else in the rugby world than some scattered british isles 😉

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JG 31 minutes ago
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Oh my word, for how long are they still going to keep bleating about that try.

The match officials DID explain it at the time, ruling that the ball was knocked out of Bongi’s hand by a NZ player. The ball went straight down (not forward) and Bongi fell on it, thus resulting in the try being awarded.

So it is disingenuous of Robertson to say that it wasn’t checked. If the match officials are confident in their decision, based on what they saw, then they don’t usually go to the TMO - even if requested.

Or else they’ll be going upstairs for virtually every try scored in a match.

Seriously, the Kiwis must now get over themselves. Every time they lose a match by a narrow margin, they find something to go on and on about. It’s almost as if they believe that other teams are “not allowed” to beat them.

Mind you, I think that dates back to a few years earlier when it seemed like the All Blacks were untouchable in the eyes of the match officials at the time.

Maybe Robertson still thinks that is the case nowadays. He hasn’t received the memo about the ABs no longer being unfairly “protected” by match officials.

Let’s face it - there was a time, not too long ago, where players from other teams were almost too afraid to touch or tackle a New Zealand player, for fear of incurring the referee's wrath.

And also, around the same time, NZ captain Richie McCaw was the “golden boy” amongst match officials and even amongst the big brass at the (then) IRB (now World Rugby).

Dont get me wrong, I’m an admirer of McCaw as a player and captain - I think he was great. And I will ALWAYS regard the All Blacks as a great Rugby team.

BUT let’s just be realistic, the New Zealand Rugby fraternity do tend to have this rather large sense of entitlement when it comes to test matches won or lost.

They expect other teams to accept it whenever a dubious decision goes the All Blacks’ way in a game.

BUT they don’t seem willing to do the same.

They'll routinely congratulate their opponents when they lose a match, but will then (for months, or even years afterwards), continue to bleat and “bitch” about a decision or incident that occurred in that match, trying to play the “victim” that was hard-done-by.

Perhaps it’s time for all involved in NZ Rugby to realize and accept that NO team should expect to have the right to always be “protected” or “favoured” in every match they play in.


Come on Scott Robertson, quit sinking to the low levels of some of your predecessors who, annoyingly, believed that the All Blacks have some divine, inalienable right to win every match they play.

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fl 32 minutes ago
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Not sure who Borthwick will go with, but if I was selecting I’d go:


1 - Obano

2 - Dunn

3 - Heyes

4 - Ewels

5 - Clark

6 - T. Hill

7 - Pepper

8 - Barbeary

9 - van Poortvliet

10 - Ford

11 - Hassell-Collins

12 - Ojomoh

13 - Hall

14 - Roebuck

15 - de Glanville


16 - George (or Oghre if George stays with the Lions)

17 - Baxter

18 - Opoku-Fordjour

19 - Lockett

20 - Cunningham-South

21 - B. Curry

22 - Harding

23 - W. Porter


backup THP: either Kloska or Fasogbon

backup LHP: Iyogun

backup Hooker: Dan

backup SR: J. Hill

backup BR: Roots, Underhill

backup SH: Carr-Smith

backup backs: Donoghue, Cotgreave, S. Atkinson, Butt, Feyi-Waboso (or Sleightholme if IFW is injured), Steward

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CM 32 minutes ago
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Borthwivk pick the most talented players. Not happened before. Hassell Collins scores mainly at the end of a move he is neither creative or works hard enough to get the ball. Radwan is far better.

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Jacque 50 minutes ago
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Wille & Goosen should get 2.5

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Sam T 51 minutes ago
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Speaking of speed-up Razor needs to find some wingers with true speed. None of the incumbent wingers have express pace. It’s an unusual position for the All Blacks as we’ve been blessed with speed merchants.

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Jacque 52 minutes ago
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Poor by both Brace, who is avg at best & tmo also.

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MM 1 hour ago
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In the full interview Marshall asks him about has he ever lost the plot in the coaches box and this incident he said caused him to lose it. He was mega frustrated that Scott Barrett couldn’t get his point across to the officials before DMac had to kick off!

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SteveD 1 hour ago
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Both of them! Like the FH that couldn’t even stand up taking placekicks.

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SL 1 hour ago
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Dickson is consistently one of the worst referees to manage major games at club and international level. His decision making is poor at best and when it comes to the big ones, he determines the outcomes of games and not the players. That has to be wrong. He has no empathy or understanding of how players move and react, especially when an 18 stone forward is legally trying to charge down a kick and somehow is expected to change his trajectory in mid-air to avoid contact with the kicker. I mean, take a look at yourself Dickson goes out to card players first and foremost and that type of refereeing is killing the game. World Rugby’s directive should be ‘let’s do everything we can to avoid a card’. The way cards are given should be reviewed to acts of deliberate violence or deliberate cheating. Other incidents should be like rugby league and reviewed after and the citing process used to give sanctions like missing games or fines. Try to keep 15 against 15 has to be a priority

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Cantab 1 hour ago
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Suffice to say the Crusaders pack has found its best form at the right time however the Chiefs aren’t too bad themselves and a fierce battle is in prospect. Dmac was outstanding as playmaker for the Chiefs & Jordan was equally superb for the Crusaders. Can’t wait to see which team prevails on this occasion.

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Tommy B. 1 hour ago
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From ‘over the water’ Munster has always struck me as a genuine rugby Province and community team. Whereas, there’s something artificial, constructed and fake about Leinster.

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JW 1 hour ago
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Yes! Be brave, you’re good enough to get these boys winning every game as well. Especially with the talent on display this year.

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Tommy B. 2 hours ago
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Yeah, all those ‘Irishmen’ like Lowe, Barrett, Slimani, Snyman must have been singing rebel songs as they took to the pitch. I think Gibson-Park was away planning the Easter Rising ‘celebrations.’


Perhaps, England should play all their matches in Birmingham and let the ‘spirit of the pub bombings’ wash over them?

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JW 2 hours ago
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What a crock, hard to play away from home my ass.


Losing NL was a major blow but you weren’t in it for 50, you did well for 50 for sure, without that guy, but not in it.

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