RugbyRebels

This is a fabulous confidence builder ahead of the game with France.

Good close contest too.

Do we suck?

Waaaahey! Anuvva yellow bunker spesh.

Cue Fozzie sitting there scratching his nuts with a gormless "wot?" look on his dial.

morepork wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:02 pm Waaaahey! Anuvva yellow bunker spesh.

Just a yellow, high danger but mitigation. Otherwise known as Farrell's First Law.

This has been a proper beating. Bok pack have just absolutely dismantled the ABs. They've had some help from those New Zealanders who appeared to think they were going to get reffed like they were in Auckland in the first 20 minutes or so.

There is a silver lining.

It makes Wales' second string effort last week look slightly less shit.

You've got to hope, for sanity's sake, that Scotty Barrett is going to get cited and banned midweek. It's a horrible cheap shot to the shoulders at best and more likely the neck and head.

...of course, that's not really a silver lining for anyone playing today.

Is there a spaz virus at Twickenham that we somehow missed the vaccine for?

You have to give it to the Boks....thay pinned us down and made angry love to our arseholes for the whole game.

16th man wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:16 pm You've got to hope, for sanity's sake, that Scotty Barrett is going to get cited and banned midweek. It's a horrible cheap shot to the shoulders at best and more likely the neck and head.

It was dirty, I agree.

I reckon the ABs went early at that line out again there. They've timed it right about twice all night.

I know we like to have a laugh at Squidge on here at times, but could he have timed this any worse?

morepork wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:20 pm You have to give it to the Boks....thay pinned us down and made angry love to our arseholes for the whole game.

BBC:
63 mins
Post update
South Africa 28-0 New Zealand
New Zealand have been so far from their best tonight.
They look to move the ball wide again but Richie Mo'unga just loses his grip on the ball in contact.
They will hope this is just a bit of ring rust before the tournament begins in a couple of weeks.

That ring has been sufficiently violated I doubt there's any rust in it.

Ring rust, shitty balls, it's all dirty brown and not black tonight.

A shambles top to bottom, but how can we have a captain that spends 10 minutes resting on the naughty step but still needs to be replaced after 62 minutes?

Ok, 5 more

Boks have lost shape now and are just trying to smash people.

ABs with absolutely zero resilience when things have gone against them.

Genius by Fozzie. Put a full strength team out knowing exactly how the Boks will play, and have us get fucked by the Boks playing exactly how we know they will play. What was the game plan? "Just give away heaps of penalties bro. Some of them will get missed".

16th man wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:29 pm ABs with absolutely zero resilience when things have gone against them.

Not exactly fired up are they?

Flush the dunny. Move on.

Boks look good. There's no doubting that.