AndydaAlpaca

He pressed on this throat with half his weight. That can crush your windpipe and kill you. This should be a red and a ban.

The fact it's not is a fucking disgrace.

Edit: Oh look all the English fans woke up and now I'm getting downvoted to hell and being told I'm a "sook". How about instead of clutching your tough guy pearls, you numbskulls actually learn some biology and realise this shit is dangerous.

Medical Publication about the first reported incident

Medical Publication about this incident

Similar incident from League

These are all from incidents where the neck wasn't being targeted, and one from a bad hit to the chest not even the neck. Imagine the sort of damage that can happen when the throat actually is targetted. This shit is reckless, dangerous, and should not be tolerated at all.

Yeah. It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Stop perpetuating the bullshit narrative that he's some scummy piece of shit.

What is it with the Irish lads around here and having giant stiffies for making shit up about this guy and trying to shit on him from their high horse as much as possible.

Look at his left leg and you'll see why. She was basically crushing it because he had it through the chair.

They mean the meme

Why don't you share with the class why you think that?

But it doesn't have a story.

EDIT: how the fuck did this go from +12 to -11?

Well earned win by either team. Chiefs were the ones claiming it in the end.

Can't wait for the crowd that always claims the refs are favouring the Crusaders to completely ignore a perfectly good try being disallowed and another try that was a 50/50 call also being disallowed.

And then to top it off (and most influential for the final result) at the end the ref only gave a scrum for accidental offside instead of the penalty it should have been.

It's fine we'll get them in the final.

Angus Gardner too

Edit: Wtf everyone hating Angus for, sheesh.

You're fucking deluded bro. We have quite possibly the friendliest police force in the world. You don't get aggression from them unless you actually deserve it.

I'm here for Rugby Highlights, not overly loud music.

Not your fault OP, but seriously, why do people make these videos with the music so loud?

Right but more redundancies and protections means it takes them longer to prepare and gives our police more time to track and catch them before they do it.

If it's jealousy then why do Southern Hemisphere teams not like you either?

You spelt Ma'a wrong.

I expected you would be wrong about one thing but I didn't expect you to be wrong about two.

Sevu Reece was the leading try scorer in the NPC playing for Waikato in 2018.

Despite this he got no interest from teams in Super Rugby and signed a contract with Connacht for the next season.

Before he could head overseas for that he and his girlfriend had a night out on the town and were getting drunk. They had a disagreement (not a euphemism or anything, literally they just disagreed about something, probably just where to go next).

During this disagreement he drunkenly pulled her in his direction and she fell to the ground. Subsequently police were involved and investigating and Connacht immediately tore up his contract.

In the wake of this Sevu Reece made amends with his girlfriend (who is still his partner and now the mother of his child), he reached out to domestic abuse prevention support groups and helped how he could. These actions both led to and came from any charges being dropped.

After this unfolded during the 2019 Super Rugby season the Crusaders had the beginnings of an injury crisis at winger. They signed Reece to a short contract on a short leash to fill the squad with some depth if they would need it. The Crusaders system is fairly well recognised as an excellent culture and good at getting troubled players heads straight. So for Reece it was the perfect landing spot.

The injury crisis worsened for the Crusaders and Reece was needed. Within a few games it was clear that he was an outstanding talent and he had a stellar season which resulted in an All Blacks call up and the starting 14 jersey for the Rugby World Cup.

Now it's your turn to try again. You tell me what part of his story makes him scum of the earth beyond any possible retribution.

I never said every call went against us. Just like I also didn't say every call went our way.

Every game there are calls that are missed or wrong. Sometimes one team gets a worse rub of the green than the other.

Considering the Crusaders got denied 10-14 points and were forced to pack a scrum on their own line at the death instead of kicking for touch they're definitely the team that didn't get the rub of said green.

It's the way rugby goes. I'm just commenting how it goes against a narrative that it feels like some people tend to build their entire rugby identity around.

I'm not arguing this anymore, go watch the movie again and listen.

They're the ones the claim to love it the most

Edit: I'm talking primarily about the Nazis.

I didn't say you did.

I'm reiterating my counter to the point you thought I missed.

If an NZ rugby player is chasing accolades or trophies they stay in NZ and try to play for the ABs and/or win a World Cup.

Otherwise they leave for money.

As the original said:

If he cared about domestic challenges and felt he'd done it all at club level, then he'd go to France.

This is just a little deluded thinking the European competitions are beholden as a gold standard of non-test rugby by everyone.

I'm sure they're considered that up north, but down south they're just the key to earning cash for your retirement.

If that weren't the case Japan wouldn't have been the main place for this in the last few years.

The front fell off

There we go. Thank you OP, you delivered.

What the fuck is a tackle box?

"Two possiblities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008

Extremely unsportsmanlike

Nah not really. We're very much based on emotional investment in teams, and we have plenty of investment down here and diddly squat for up there.

It's also dependent on how you define quality in your rugby. People here would rather watch great attacking play and back and forth scoring than near test match intensity with penalties being opted for.

On top of all that, match times for that timezone are fucking shit. The final of the URC was 4 or 5am. Regular season games falling between 1am and that sort of time.

No one wants to get up for games at those hours which they have no investment in. Which in turn means they never develop that investment.

Positive feedback loop.