Watched the Saders/Chiefs game earlier. If players from just those 2 lineups were eligible for Bokke which Saffer other than Biz would make the team? And Carter wasn’t even playing!

Indeed.

Anybody who can be quite so chuffed with himself for being bald should not be trusted.

Peaches, these 2 posts sorta dont sit well next to each other. If you thought Mallet was full of himself, then youre only just getting to know Mitch….

The All Blacks ARE ‘all Kiwis’.

Like Samoa

and Tonga

and England !

I thought this article was about Heavens Game and ExTraball.

or do you classify Zimbabweans as South Africans?

eish… still, I guess one cant expect someone to provide factual commentary on something they have no idea about… ever been to Auckland? seen the multicultural makeup of what is now 2nd and/or 3rd and even 4th generation kiwis of islander descent?

of course not, just another to jump on the poaching bandwagon while remaining oblivious to his own countries shortfalls in that department..

I think that our ship is beyond saving now anyway. A solid showing in a semi-final is the best we can hope for.

If it succeeds they’d all be plucking away at the feather in their cap and saying it was them that did the trick and not PdV. If it fails they’d all abandon any idea of culpability and simply refer to themselves as consultants and that PdV called the shots and PdV would carry the can. If it succeeded the assistant consultant whether it be Mallet, Meyer, White, Plumtree, Mitchell, Jones, or whoever would carry all the plaudits. If it bombed, PdV would carry the entire can.

Carel Dup is the only one with any modicum of quiet dignified humility aligned with a true honest dinkum rugby brain who would not seek to steal or usurp any lime light and would also not turn his back from any blame if it had to fall flat on its face.

If I were a part of Saru or PdV, Carel Dup would be maybe my first calling card, and possibly my last and only one too.

And please, keep the captain till after the WC, Nick, capish?

But i still give PDV his dues he has achieved some amazing feats, B &I Lions, 3N Title, beating ABs twice in NZ also winning the last game ever played at house of pain(D Carter was upset that day). But PDV has also had some disastrous results.

PDV’s tenure will be summed up by swinging from the Sublime to the rediculous and then to mediocrity!

Sir Clive was and embarrassment to himself,
and The Lions he brought to NZ in 2005.

A small minded arrsehole. Thumped 4-0

Not sure if it should be Meyer either. Mallett has said way back he would never work with saru in his life again. Who would?

Think Mitchell was the brains behind Woodward. We could get Mitchell if he wanted to work with saru that is another thing.

After this wc my feeling it will be AC for coach. He should have been when Jake left. Got done in there I think by saru selecting PdV.

De Villiers is probably going to make Smit captain … don’t get me going.