RUGBY LEAGUE

>>157216228
Its called XIII you chud

Do you think los pumas will give the boks trouble? They’re sending quite a strong squad, all things considered

>>157216481
Trouble 100% i dont see a draw or a win for los pumas, and media been destroying contepomi so that might have an effect

>>157218592
That's a lot of rugby

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>>157219789
There is more

how much rugby is too much rugby

>>157219915
It's not soccer at least.

>>157219877
>Sevens
Meme rugby desu

Why are NZ touring SA like they are the British Lions lol

Southland

>>157221615
can you guys beat the turbos this week

>>157221047
They selling it as the greatest rivalry tour, and really old school tours were like this playing both the country and some clubs

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MLR down to 5 teams
Its gonna fucking die 100%

canterbury to win the npc

>>157231571
I watched the highlights and what a game against auckland i didnt know npc was kino

>>157232893
Who?

>>157223606
I watched England play a team in Newcastle Australia when I was really young. Gone are the days

>>157232893
He looked shit against that Russian guy. No chin left.

>>157235173
I watched los pumas vs allblacks as a kid in 2016 and i wish i enjoyed that moment more than i did
>>157235217
He won tho

Bump

>>157232893
Did he die?

rugby just needs to speed up the game so ball in play time is 45+ minutes.

>>157242214
From my time watching league, those 40 minutes fucking fly by, union needs to make it feel like that

>>157242269
League had 100 years of tinkering with the rules to make it easier to watch as a spectator before union turned pro, which is 30 years ago now. If making union better means turning it into league then they may as well join league sooner than later, and it means there may have to be another schism between where amateur rugby stays as it is and pro rugby joins league.
The more I think about it the less sense it makes that union didn’t and haven’t reached out to league about a re-amalgamation

I mean if the whole split was about professionalism in the first place and union is now professionalism then it’s obvious that union has to become league.
It’s like if there’s an empire and a civil war occurs and then there’s still the empire but now there’s also a breakaway republic which thrives for a century and then the empire itself adopts the republican ideology, now everyone is a republican so why not have one big strong republic

>>157242289
Wow dont get carried away, you cant compare nrl to six nations or the world cup dont act like league is bigger its not, it not more viewed either
And i meant maybe copy their clock going down instead of up, or some minor rule change to make it faster not getting rid of scrums or line outs like league

Union only became professional because of the failure of apartheid in South Africa. It’s interesting because league never took hold in South Africa because of apartheid and the refusal of league people to not boycott that system. Because of the isolation in South Africa union was able to operate within a basically closed system, but once apartheid ended and the boycott was lifted there were South African players going to Australia to play league

>>157242309
By the time union went professional league rules were just too different, i dont want them to fuse, i want it to not be code wars and maybe copromote each other, if they fuse someone dies most likely league since union is way bigger

>>157242311
League has scrums you tard and the clock going up or down makes no difference

>>157242342
They have "scrums"

>>157242337
If league was going to die because of union it would’ve happened already. They’ve both been professional for 30 years now and league is unironically stronger now than it was then. You’re overestimating how much bigger union is because you’re focusing on the international stuff which league generally doesn’t care about and doesn’t organise properly.
If you compare the actual club competitions league is much closer to union.
There’s two major professional league competitions; the nrl in Australia, and the Super League in England. Both of those are objectively bigger than anything union has outside of the two biggest club competitions in union; the French pro14, and the English premiership

>>157242347
They have scrums, they have laws pertaining to scrums. The current trend of forwards taking a breather at scrums and not contesting the ball is a gentleman’s agreement. Anyway, union scrums are a fucking joke lately so I don’t know why you’re arguing about scrums when both codes are doing a shit job with them. Lineouts are stupid

>>157242378
adding to this I’d contend that the NRL is the biggest club rugby competition in the world, probably pro14 is next, and then the two English competitions are pretty close to each other

dont watch league coz i'm not an aucklander or australian

>>157242378
The rugby world cup is literally a 1000x bigger than the league world cup, go compare how many countries play union and how many play league,
And yes the nrl is bigger but thats cause its concentrated in one big league, club union is divided in 4/5 top leagues
No superleague is not big

Why does it hurt you, just accept union is bigger, its a fact

>>157244361
I said union is bigger. I also said Superleague is comparable in size to English premiership. Would you agree the French top14 is the biggest club union competition? Would you also agree that the NRL is a bigger competition than the French top14?
The union World Cup is bigger than the league World Cup primarily because international league isn’t organised properly, it’s been shit for the last 30 years. I agree Union is played in more countries but league is also far more popular in most of the countries it’s seriously played in compared to union.
A lot of the reason why union is more popular in many countries is because they don’t yet know rugby league.
Basically my fundamental argument is that union should not be professional as a separate code, if union wants to be professional it should join league

>>157246871
>I also said Superleague is comparable in size to English premiership
Comparable not bigger
>Would you also agree that the NRL is a bigger competition than the French top14?
Yes
>primarily because international league isn’t organised properly
Nope its cause its not played across enough countrys to have a competitive world cup
>league is also far more popular in most of the countries it’s seriously played in compared to union.
Not true for england france or new zealand
>if union wants to be professional it should join league
Not really union is already professional and growing, you know they get paid for the six nations and other international competitions right? And just the six nations is bigger than nrl and state of origin combined

I really like league just to clarify and i want it to keep existing

Bump

>>157251138
>i want it to keep existing
I don't, Rugby is a horrible sport that causes brain damage.

>>157255292
Current rugby union its really safe for the brain, maybe league its a bit more for the upright posture but neither code its anything close to boxing or nfl levels of cte

Last bump if it doesnt make it to fryday so be it

harbour v counties tonight

>>157255612
It's likely a lot more nuances than than. The NFL helmets encourages players to use themselves as missiles and the hits are bigger. I'm sure there's some underreporting going on, too. Guys want to go out there and play. On the other hand between the longer seasons internationals rugby athletes play way more games. They also have less subs and more game time. I don't know enough to know if underreporting is a big thing in rugby.

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>>157261228
There is just less head trauma, pic rel is an average tackle, its below the shoulder line soon the sternun line, there is less speed most times since attacker and defender are closer to each other, only the person handling the ball gets tackled,
And the nfl guys just try to end the play as fast as possible and for the guy to not gain ground, if they did rugby tackles they could fall fowards and the guy gain some ground

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>>157261228
There is been lots of cte cases but rules have changed a lot, that new sternum rule is an example, they check for concussions in field and limit the amount of games of the players

Its curious league tackles are more like nfl tackles, cause of a more upright posture and the stop them gaining ground thing

>>157242289
Baseball is the most traditional sport in America. There was nearly universal disapproval about plans to speed up the game. They introduced a pitch clock. Now there is nearly universal approval for how they sped up the games.

in my country, no one knows what this sport is

>>157262033
what country are you from that has an identical flag and name to mine

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rip counties

>>157262071
Your Aus neighbors have told me it's called Poo Peeland

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>>157255612
>Current rugby union its really safe for the brain
It isn't.
>>157261643
>its below the shoulder line soon the sternun line
It's still bad, the brains of both the attacker and defender hit the inside of their skulls due to forces applied to their heads from the tackle.

>>157263146
based Harbour putting it up the southsiders

why does auckland get 3 teams in the npc

>>157263235
Believe what you want bro, its not even close to boxing and there are boxers that never get cte
>>157263384
Maybe they would be too strong in all in one team?

Saving this thread

taranaki or waikato?

>>157272084
Taranaki based on it having the cooler name only

Can "I" be fucked getting up at 5am on a Saturday to watch a tour match?

>>157263190
also, Snoozy Land

>>157273562
for me staying up until 5 is easier than getting up at 5

>>157273562
I want to say yes, so thread is active tommorow but problably no, save it for the actual boks games or the bulls one could also be kino

>>157218592
People still really look down on JRLO? The best southern hemp players play there (for money ofc) and attenadnce always go above expectations especially for a still developing Tier 1 nation like Japan

>>157218592
this infographic should not mention sponsors because those change all the time, this one is already out of date with "bunnings" npc

>>157273600
Got a mates birthday tonight and there will be nose beers so that's probably the answer.

>>157273646
But would you consider it at the same level as the other 4? Idk i should watch more of it
>>157273658
If i re do it ill change it

/crug/ will never die

>>157215989
>stormers vs all blacks
what? why would I care about that? why would anyone care about that?

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>>157273944
it's a throwback to when sides would tour a country and play all the local teams as well as the national one, see also the 2017 lions tour

>>157273976
True its soulfull as shit
>>157273944
Not really important for the nt but for the club its enourmous, the bulls one its guaranteed kino

>>157273976
>went to five of these games
where the FUCK does the time go lads?

What are these start times? I am not waking up at 5am to watch us beat the poormers

>>157274066
normal kick off time in the local time zone

>>157274089
There’s nothing normal about playing in South Africa
Ban these niggers from the planet

>>157274106
we've been playing them there since 1928

>>157274089
No way sa its that far away that they couldnt make it a good time for both
They problably didnt care and the actual boks games will be a better time for you

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>>157274117
back then the tours were so full of local matches
>>157274118
it's normal to have kick off at the local time, when italy and france and ireland played us here recently we didnt start at weird times for their sake

>>157274117
Then we can play those niggers at a normal start time

I agree with local times for tours. For tournaments like the World Cup there needs to be some concessions for viewership though because of financial considerations. For tours the focus has to be on the local crowd attendance

>>157274118
>the actual boks games will be a better time for you
is 3am "better" than 5am

>>157274146
we do that when they come here

>>157274159
Not good enough

6pm start here
Perfect for post toil beers

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>>157272693
rip

Ngl i thought this was league board

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/361017322/all-blacks-1995-world-cup-victory-statue-goes-sale-oh-wait-minute

kek
KEK

>>157275699
cucked by a burger from suzie

>>157275649
It is. The only union is 6n and some interest in some international matches, and a few kiwis watching kiwi rugby

>>157276282
>>157218592
Yeah no, let it go bro you dont need league to be bigger than union to enjoy it

1 BONG

wonder if this will even be worth watching

>>157278578
Yeah

i think it'll be a fun match

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NKOSI SIKELEL' AFRIKAAAAAAAA

>>157278755
brutal anthem mog

Good anthem, already soulfull seing club vs country

>english ref
fucking hell
sorry lads

>Holly Davison
guilty would

Why is unc Barrett still picked

how's he fucked his knee on flat grass

roids must have cooked his tendons

>>157278830
I started watching rugby cause of him i only played it before, for me let him play until he is 50
All blacks they straight raping

kekkkkkk
stupid bum why did they even call him when they got big jim

my stormies

fuck off tmooo

going to bed because somehow it's 5:30am and i'm still up.
when i wake up i hope to see that the stormers won

>>157278969
Goodnight bro

So leinster or toulouse would heem south africa right?

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Why are the All Blacks not All Black?

western province
none of this 'stormers' nonsense

Pooden Barrett

Sweet caroline?

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nz needs more gingers

STORMIES

Come on man dont do the row

it's stormover...

give me freedom give me fire
give me stormers u19 or i retire

Nice but after this game i am more excited to see the bulls one that one is gonna be good

Penalty try

gg

Kino game

Next game in 12 hours

yellow card penalty try for defending on your own line. i've officially seen it all now.

>>157281887
The ref was kinda gay today, but are you gonna act like it wasnt a forearm to the face in that penalty try?

wellington or auckland

>>157284074
Auckland ill catch the second half

Npc is soulfull dont really like the music choices tho

Good try looks like i was right and auckland will win

>>157284927
nz stadiums like to blast shit music

>>157284074
there has only ever been one (1) smellington fan in rug and he moved to australia

absolute refball almost but Western Springs is a kino ground for npc.

What an ending good game
I almost jinxed them

>>157285163
sucks for him
i was rooting for wellington but only because im a filthy cantab and supports anyone but auckland

>>157285225
was kino the whole time i love back and forth contests they are much more interesting than slaughterfests

>>157285641
I do like Tasman getting slaughtered though thoughever.

rubbish game wtf were tasman up to, happy for hawkes bay fans

hope aussies beat them weebs

>>157273976
>>The worst SR team at the time beat the Lions in the opener.
>>Landers won, Hurricanes drew with them
>>Meanwhile both the Crusaders and the Chiefs got stomped
Strange times it was

how many for suaalii today

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FOR WE ARE YOUNG AND FREE!!!!!!

YOUNG AND FREE

>>157288164
how FUCKING dare you.
>SBW and Ihaia West were lethal in that Blues backline.
>Reiko was up and coming
>Stephen P was still the journeyman he is now

>>157288245
Just stating the facts, Blues were dead last in the standings that year.
>>Perofeta
NZRU really should've managed him better. They were so risk-averse in the Foster era they simply won't let him have any meaningful test minutes

nips looking spicy

>>157288273
agree that he is one of those great what-ifs. Still got a few years in him to soak up some fat Japanese cheques until he's 40 though.

FIRST BLOOD!

GOD DAMN WHAT A TRY!

corrr
nice try

NIPPON BANZAAIII
AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

MY FATHER WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS POTTER

HARRY POTTER WINS QUIDDITCH

>doesn't catch the snitch
>Japan still wins

send that fucking overpaid nag JAS to the glue factory

>>Nonu will have a chance to play for the Sharks against the ABs at 44 years of age.
Man, what a storied rugby career that man has

is anyone in Rugby Australia taking the decline of the union team seriously.. remember an Australia team that was winning everything and punking north hemp teams its becoming rare now

>>157288481
they all say they only care about league when we bring this up

RAZZLE DAZZLE

THEY STRIKE BACK!

CUT TO RIBBONS

>>157288481
yes. nobody seems to have any idea how to stop it though.

>>157288597
Isn't it kind of true though?

japan is the better side tonight but the wallabies will win because of the usual size and power difference

>>157288836
hence the problem

This Meredith bloke is useless.

>>157288844
Which is presumably why he's been taken off.

>>157288839
brave nippon bonzai are gunna do it sheddy

>>157288856
Never mind

all off an ignored knock on

Japan good or Australia bad?

Owari da

Australia bad.

I'm ashamed Australia needs the ref carry to win this. there was a pretty clear knock in that lead up to Australia's last try.

>>157288931
It's also the awful decision making. 9 points in penalties in front of the posts they could have taken. Got nothing instead.

>>157288907
A bit of both.
Wallabies have better athletes, but they just can't seem to produce consistent, cohesive performances up to their potential
Whereas Japan's don't have the same stock, but they are more disciplined and drilled in their ball handling

wallabies didn't deserve to win that

>les kiss les kiss les kiss
Ok ok I heard ya. I don't even know who he is nor watch union much

>>157288952
Yeah that gets me scratching my head too.

See, if the Boks are playing this Japanese team - they'll just bank the threes, and opt for scrum or maul drive - and by the 50th min they'll probably force the Japanese to concede a yellow - and then they'll go to town spreading the ball wide.
If the Wallabies can use the same strategy - they'd have won by 14 at least.

But it's only Les Kiss' first game, so we'll just have to wait a bit and see where he wants to take this team

>>Pumas don't play the ABs this year, they play the Boks once, and they get the Wallabies twice
What kind of weird arrangement is this?

>>157289420
something to do with this new nations championship thing where the NH and SH teams tour each other

bump i guess
*sighs*

Boks by how much?

>>157290764
26-21

I fucked up i thought the game was right now its actually in 2 more hours

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>>157291151
>>157291338
YOU TRICKED ME

>>157289420
There is no rugby championship this year cause the nations championship so we got the all black sa tour

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15 bings
supporting my cousins

>>157290764
14-88

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NKOSI SIKELEL' AFRIKAAAAAAA

VELEZ KINOOOO

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fuck
literally no one cares about this match except for me and my argie fren
where the FUCK is everyone

>>157292030
They sleeping

corrr the argie anthem singer looks beautiful

>>157292030
Howzit

>>157292039
kiwis will show up, i have faith... its like 7am there now

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>>157292041
Wohhhayyy here he is!
what we drinking saffabro

two cracking anthems them

>>157292058
Just tea now, I'm watching in bed

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Ready for kino

>>157292094
its early hope u are feeling ok brother

>>157292127
Long weekend here just taking it slow

Why are South Africa playing an away test to prepare for a home series :/

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its a mad tour this one

>>157292169
They still got a while till they face the all blacks

TRY TIME

Nicee
I didnt like the whitle when he was kicking tho we truly are monkey like sometimes

Can't believe that scrum from us

>>157292233
Isn't this your B team tho?

>>157292271
Kinda yeah

>>157292271
Still not great, next one was better

does kwagga still play

>>157292334
He gets mogged by Wiese

>Argentina playing at Velez' stadium
Nice

>>157292334
>>157292358
>>157292396
where the FUCK have you guys been

What a game

good half
enjoying this

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>>157292413
trying to find a stream that doesnt look like this

>>157292512
All the aites i know have it in 480p also

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Never knew Pumas could talk

the DJ at this game is fucking killing it

That ref fucking blind?

South africa got serious now

Lets see how it ends but great game the boks b team and us with some debuts and it was kinda close
Good game glad we didnt get squashed

jesus fucking christ

g fucking g

Shit that is gonna hurt him for a while

And South Africa wins again

>>157293131
winning by less than an 8 points margin is actually a loss so it's an another poomas victory

canterbury to win the shield

>>157295694
BOOOOOOOOOO

spectacular first half

wonder if we can keep this /rug/ bumped until next weekend

This one lasted a week i was gonna let it die make a new one with the next schedule and try and keep that one alive

if I were playing in a ranfurly shield challenge I'd simply try to ensure that my team scores more points than the other team

fuck cunterberry

Okay all watch the last 10 before switching to peegue

YES

Whats this shield thing bro? Like the raeburn shield but in npc?

>>157298248
raeburn shield is for redditor fags

>>157298248
>raeburn shield
literally the first time i've ever heard of this
the ranfurly shield is nz's most important rugby trophy

manawatu

manuwapoo

>>157298877
kek gottem

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>>157298877

miracle finish, go turbos

how the fuck did they manage that?

What the fuck have the natal sharks done with that rebrand? They’ve binned the shark altogether

Rugbump

Bumprug

New >>157313197

>New
>250 post in
Por que?

>>157313341
This one served its purpose and its not the same to have the current schedule in the op than me posting it here

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how much brain damage does he have?

>new thread 250 posts early
weaponized autism

>>157311297
I'd feel confident to field this team against the Wallabies.

bump for kiwis vs sharks.... 2.5 bongs

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>>157273976
>British Lions

Shan't be posting in that other thread

this IS the thread

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GOD
DEFEND
NEW
ZEEEEEEALANNNNNND

well isnt that nice
based nonu solo haka

unc Nonu's still got it

sit yo apartheid ass down and listen, a white boy is haka'ing

the shart blacks

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>>157320265
>British Isles

NO TRY

NO TRY AGAIN

sharkiebros… it’s not looking good

oh it is a try

TMO MOTM

BOOMERS ARE RIGHT ABOUT TMO

Which country is the All Blacks club from?

>>157320651
Oh nvm

>>157320660
Peckham I think

It’s moist

FUCK that sharks rebrand. It looks like a generic clothing company, not a rugby club.

corrrr

How often do the club sides score wins over the national teams?

>>157320682
TheSouth African franchises / Currie Cup teams are just weird like that.
>Fidelity ADT Lions
>Airlink Pumas
>DHL Stormers XXIII

>>157320748
Desu I haven't really seen club vs nation done before, but apparently it's something they did often way back when
Should favor the nation most times, unless it's like Japan vs a NZ club for example

Just tuned in wtf poor sharks
>>157320748
Its different that football in rugby national teams play important matches all year so the club doesnt have that advantage

>>157321200
That was a close one the other day. Feel for the guy who dropped the ball at the end

>>157321242
It was a great game

Sharks more like farts

>>157320660
Mordor

>>157320748
Uncommon, club team qualities are a class below the national sides after all. The Barbarians (invitational club comprising mostly of celebrated international players) however do beat test teams often enough

I recall Munster is one of the few club teams to have beaten the ABs on tour

>>157320150
CRISP Viperpost
keep fightin' that good fight brotherman

British Isles' strongest warrior

>>157327961
this brings back good memories

teared up watching nonu kapa o pango by himself