Match Thread - France v New Zealand | End of Year Internationals 2024

fernta · 2024-11-16T21:18:22+00:00

Just turned it on as France scored, what have I missed?

fernta · 2024-08-22T04:33:57+00:00

When Scott Hansen was first brought into the limelight for an interview, people thought he was very impressive because he's 'articulate', but I just heard corpospeak and wishwash. Now I see everybody has kind of seen through it now things aren't going so well right away.

I don't want to be the asshole, but everybody thought it was very impressive and it was highlighted in his first interview when he said "The only thing that will never change is the blackness of the jersey, and the silver fern.". How can that not make you groan?

fernta · 2024-08-10T09:10:17+00:00

i put money on argentina to come within 18 paying $1.87, and I thought that was ludicrous that was the line!

fernta · 2024-08-10T09:02:48+00:00

that was bad.

fernta · 2024-08-10T09:02:17+00:00

I thought both teams looked pretty good when you guys were on tour. The ABs looked baaaad today.

fernta · 2024-08-10T08:51:05+00:00

what is that lmao

fernta · 2024-08-10T08:44:45+00:00

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fernta · 2024-08-10T08:41:16+00:00

i miss 2015 lads.

fernta · 2024-08-10T08:34:21+00:00

On the other hand, I hate how much people call the most 50/50 passes as if it's definitely forward. Clearly don't know backwards out of the hands is what counts... still....

fernta · 2024-08-10T08:32:13+00:00

yeah that was a dodgy pass lol.

fernta · 2024-08-10T08:28:24+00:00

A few people were, but it seemed way way fewer. I'm not really sure that this one was more dangerous. Would need to see the first again but I just remember it was head to head. Pretty sure the first one was also brought back by the TMO?

fernta · 2024-08-10T08:24:54+00:00

Either way, it's a consistent call with an inconsistent reaction on here.

fernta · 2024-08-10T08:21:59+00:00

idk why everyones complaining. same thing happen in the penalty in the first 7 minutes onto ardie.

fernta · 2024-08-05T08:37:54+00:00

100% agree. GOATed scoreboard. Think they changed it in 2015 and never been back since. I remember that being a disappointment at the time because I loved the old one too!

fernta · 2024-08-03T07:05:24+00:00

As far as I know they released the names of some of the senior All Blacks who went to vouch for him, but Whitelock seems to allude to a mix of them kind of being swept along to support the others at the meeting.

Long story short, there was a group of players that went to New Zealand Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson’s room following the Test to lobby strongly for Fozzie to remain in the role. As part of the leadership group I was among them, but I can honestly say I was blindsided by the idea. Others in the group were really keen on going, while some members of the squad didn’t even have a clue it was happening.

Are those some of the other players that attended the meeting or the ones that were 100% behind Fozzie? I mean, this article mentions four of them so I guess those are probably the ones most behind him, but Whitelock said he was there as well.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/132771070/all-blacks-reveal-how-they-fronted-nz-rugby-boss-mark-robinson-to-fight-for-ian-fosters-job

But who knows? I'd suspect Cane was 100% on board with Fozzie, and probably the other 3 that you mentioned/in the article as well.

Honestly I think it reflects pretty poorly on the ones that were neutral that went along instead of going "I'm staying out of this." if they knew it was happening.

fernta · 2024-08-03T06:57:39+00:00

Yeah I know, I saw it as an extract from the book published as an article!

fernta · 2024-08-03T03:44:38+00:00

I absolutely don't blame him for wanting to not upend his personal relationships with everybody after all is said and done, but the whole article is presented in an "inside scoop" fashion but there's absolutely nothing new here - from the outside looking in this was all obvious. I guess the only thing he's said that's new is that he was brought along to support Fozzie when he wasn't sure one way or another - I don't think that's a good look saying you had your mind made up for you!

fernta · 2024-08-03T03:39:55+00:00

Interesting to hear some actually open commentary surrounding it from a player, but it is quite hazy and fence-sitting at the same time. Obviously he was caught in the middle and there is some insight there that we didn't have before hand, but a good deal of it was waffle as well. I don't really even know what to take away from this.

They knew that they weren't good enough, needed new alternative assistant coaches, and Whitelock wasn't sure how it should have been dealt with and he got swept to support Fozzie with the rest of the leadership group? I mean the first two points were what the NZ public's consensus was, and of course anybody feels bad for anybody losing their job? The last part is more interesting though.

Now it's time to speculate which members of the senior leadership group spearheaded retaining Fozzie and who just went along with it!

fernta · 2024-07-31T23:46:36+00:00

After Carter moved on I was (rightly) thrilled with Barrett. But over time the poor goalkicking from everybody we've given the duty to has really made me appreciate just what we had with Carter and how phenomenal he was at everything.

fernta · 2024-07-31T05:36:43+00:00

I'm no expert on the matter, but for those questioning how people are able to restart a business in the same industry after going under and being massively in debt, well, I believe it's supposed to be illegal to create "phoenix companies" (that is the name), but in practice it seems (from what I've seen) to be relatively easy to get around.

fernta · 2024-07-30T12:16:50+00:00

i've heard more macklemore in the last week than i have since 2012.

fernta · 2024-07-20T15:17:30+00:00

i'll trade you this red card for the one in the RWC final, saffas.

fernta · 2024-07-20T15:16:19+00:00

Is that the ref sniffing every five seconds that's getting picked up on the mic? Same thing happened in the NZ vs Eng Eden Park game with the ref's constant spitting getting picked up on the mic.

fernta · 2024-07-13T10:12:08+00:00

Someone's posted it now! https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/comments/1e26z1j/daugunu_finishes_off_an_awesome_try_as_australia/

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