Boks handed fresh concern as Kitshoff suffers season-ending injury

I’m not sure how they benefit from losing hosting rights, and the revenue that comes with?

I’m sure he will be welcomed with open arms in 2026 - by most people (always some haters) :)

The other sports website you left has reduced significantly since you departed :)

Not having a go, just having a laugh :) Not sure of the circumstances, they seem to have wanted more tabloid, Australian focused content. Glad you’re still enlightening us here.

It would be good if Highlander was on this site as well.

I’m the same…most frustrating when I do see them 24/48 hrs late !

My gut feeling is at 10. Winners want the ball. More ball and influence at 10 than 15.

Otherwise your post just reverts to your ‘opinion’

I can timestamp Billys wayward passing.

But the aspect that I return to is that the All Blacks are a product of the New Zealand rugby system. The system works as many people sacrifice their time to make the system work. It’s not outrageous ask the best players (who have benefited massively from the system) to spend their best playing years giving back to the system - while being well paid, agreed not quite as well as overseas.

I hold no animosity to anyone who turns their back on New Zealand rugby (when they have a lot they could give back). It’s just disappointing to miss out on what might have been. Also, the New Zealand rugby system is fragile. The reduction in revenue, from not being the best, could be a significant step in the long term downfall of New Zealand rugby.

All Blacks player wages are difficult to get 100% right. Mo’unga was almost certain to have earnt millions by that point. Being the 10 in Robertson’s All Blacks would be worth about a million a year. Mo’unga still could’ve played in Japan after that in 2028. Nonu is still playing in the midfield in his mid 40s. It’s not like Mo’unga was one head knock or other injury away from enforced retirement.

The Reds couldn’t emulate what confronted them from the Crusaders at breakdown and scrum, and that’s where the match becoming one-way traffic began.

And the Brumbies will have to play their best game to top the wounded Chiefs, no doubt. But the Chiefs strangely played into the Blues hands too, which they surely won’t repeat...