Posts by Yamis
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There's more to it than just money though Kyle.
Otherwise why is the rugby world cup coming to NZ in 2011? Why did fifa give us the boys WC in 99? and girls WC last year or fiba give us the junior basketball this year?
You go to play in the PI's because you are playing a good side that deserves to get some football once in a while.
That the ABs haven't ever played tests in Samoa and Tonga is nothing short of a national fucking disgrace. You can bold it, underline it and quote me on it.
Not to mention there's something called TV rights.
Compare the likely TV audience to a Samoa v AB test in Apia with the TV audience to Tasman v Wellington on a Thursday night.
I know where they are likely to generate more revenue from and it's not the match being played in front of 3,000 in Blenheim.
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The thing is that people use the "no money in it" argument for not playing the PI sides but we play one of Tonga, Fiji or Samoa most years in a test so what difference would it make?
Forget tests in Christchurch between the ABs and Italy.
Give me the Boks v Pacific Islanders in Nukualofa!!! Get the hospital beds ready.
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Interesting development re Argentina and definately a step in the right direction. The french won't be happy. They have just about the entire side playing for their domestic teams and will now be faced with losing a lot of them.
But it won't be "a truly Southern Hemisphere Championship" until we get a Pacific Island team in there. Once we do that we could make it one match per team ala the 6 Nations which would alleviate some of the repetition we get now.
That will be another positive out of this, we only play the Aussies and Springboks twice instead of three times (I HOPE) and then the tack on test v Aussie each year will make a bit more sense for Bledisloe Cup purposes.
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Agree with your on selecting somebody going well at second five from the ANZC though Tom. It was obvious this messing round with Donald business was going to fail and all we got out of the weekend was confirmation when we could have had a look at a guy from our good domestic comp in form in their preferred position.
Instead we watch Donald who only plays well in about 50% of domestic games and poorly more times than not for the ABs make a goose of himself.
More rocket science stuff from the coaches/selectors.
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Tom, that South African team has played Super 14 as well, and many of them went right to the final with the Bulls and cleaned the comp out.
They followed that up with some brutal Lions tests and have now wiped the floor with Aussie and NZ.
Our ABs do not play too much, they just play too dumb.
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With our lineout we are always going to struggle against the South Africans simply because they have a brilliant lineout player in Matfield plus the rest are pretty handy too.
But, the thing which disappoints me is that now and then our lineout goes quite well for half a game or sometimes most of the game (though usually it's awful) and it's because we are MIXING IT UP. Throughout the ANZC you see awful lineout throwing and jumping so it's a problem through our game but there are ways you can at least win more than you otherwise might through tactics.
Going to the front or middle of the lineout in a straight contest for the ball is suicide. We have Isacc Ross who's just starting his career calling our lineouts which is idiotic and the fault of the coaches. He wanders up at snails pace along with the rest of our forwards, spends a few seconds tying a ribbon around our lineout and then Hore casually throws it straight to Matfield or out the back of the lineout, or over our jumper to the waiting S African.
If you want to win SOME lineout ball against better lineouts you run to the lineout, make your call on the way and chuck the thing in as quickly as possible. And you call short lineouts regularly, and heck you can actually use the tactic of throwing it out the back so long as your loosies know about it.
This is all obvious stuff and yet we decide week in and week out to go head to head against better, jumpers, lifters and throwers.
I've played at lock a fair bit and some weeks you win them all because you're up against a dysfuntional lineout, then the next week you get it nicked off you all the time. But that's because you've more often than not never seen the opposition before.
These coaches know exactly who they are playing and how good they are and yet they attempt to take them on every bloody week and just hope that it works. it' doesn;t because they are better than us so devise ways to mix it up.
I used to hate playing teams that call quick lineouts or short lineouts, or had lineout moves that would completely throw you.
The Saffers are big men and run out of gas, f with their heads. Play the game the way they don't want to play it.
If we can't start winning at least 40% of our lineouts then we will continue to lose big tests and under Hansen we see the same dorkish rubbish and get the same lame soundbites week in and week out and nothing happens.
But they won't get rid of him because he's part of the crew and so we reap what we sow.
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And let's not forget why the All Blacks are called the All Blacks.
Or that useless cricket team named the Blackcaps.
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i asked Spiro, John Roughan and Mr Boock if they had thought about the rugby fight in terms of the non-acceptance of violence within other sports. They already thought that I was a wanker but that unfortunately perhaps sealed it for them.
There's also some good ones in league, soccer and basketball as well, plus baseball has some beauts.
And I've seen some ridiculous punchups in the boxing ring.
Basically any team sport where the teams touch each other or throw something at each other has issues for some reason ;)
Women seem to have it a bit more under control though our school girls rugby team had an almighty all in punchup two seasons ago involving spectators.
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That question above is one I understand perfectly.
I do have a proposal though. If we are going to allow parents to hit their children when other options have failed I suggest this...
when somebody is caught speeding they are issued a ticket. And then if that doesn't work and they are caught speeding again the police officer calls home, and gets their elderly parents down pronto with a bloody great wooden spoon and serves up a sound thrashing on the road side. Other options have failed you see and if it works for kids it should surely work for adults as well.
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Sorry guys but the "wouldn't work" argument is ridiculous. There is no reason whatsoever that Hawkes Bay wouldn't be playing in this 'champions league' style comp.
The idea is that the ANC would become the main competition in NZ each year (in times of length) just like the premier league is. England pick their world cup football squad out of the entire EPL, not just the handful of teams that go into the champions league.
The Champions league style comp would run at the start of the season and be over before the ANC kicked off. The ABs would play their rugby after the ANC and be picked from this competition. NZ has been doing that for decades remember. The Super 12/15/15 is a relatively new competition and is possibly starting to pass its use by date.
What you guys are arguing for is essentially exactly what we already have.
Super 14 teams with a few provincial unions making it up and they pick the best players and draft in other players that other sides don't want. THAT IS THE CURRENT SUPER 14. Glad you enjoy it.
My main point at the end of all this is...
Make the ANC the dominant comp in NZ each year and make the international comp a scaled back version.