What like when he spent 25secs explaining how Brodie Retallick did a draw and pass?

@@jonobarnett4020 exactly these small details change games

awweee shitttt.

It's easy to analyze a game after it's been played he's just explaining it for dummies

@@russellturner1909 you majorly undervalue what he does by this comment.

6 week ban is ok, 8 would have been better. Fletcher Newell did the same thing and didn't even get cited.

6 weeks would be fine only if it starts after the kiwi starts playing again

Maybe he'll kill someone nect. This wasn't the 1st time he lost control.

So our DOR calls out a Ref and gets a year ban. A player deliberately injures another player, effectively ending his career for months and only gets a 6 week ban. Wow. Just shows that a players welfare is not as important as the ego of the refs 💚💛🔥🇿🇦

@@SKid65 I agree I think he should be off for as long and the kiwi is off

I wonder that, but I also wonder if maybe the analysts are ahead of him. I mean to me, Squidge is a genius but maybe the coaches and analysts know more. Or maybe sometimes Squidge sees things that aren't there. There's so much coaches think that they cannot say because they don't want to reveal what they are trying to do or how they are going to counter what they are seeing... So naturally an unbiased analyst will appear to notice more than the coaches do. Either way, I am addicted to watching this guy after every All Blacks game and other major fixture....

@@jamiebanks4939 Also, the coach has to make his plan in advance, try and work a move based on what the other side is going to do, with maybe a couple of options if they go another way. Squidge just has to tell us what happened. It's all there, and thank goodness he is telling me what happened cos I can't even see that.

Isn’t just that rugby is a natural game where true athletes can express theme selves with vim and vigour and much of this stuff comes out of their medulla oblangata (sp!) in other words it’s totally instinctive but played around a general instruction from the coaches. Jason robinson would never have been told to take a step here or there but to go out and express himself just play your natural game …?

@@NZTrumpFan Black Jersey doesn't rate Hooper, that's enough to say he doesn't know Rugby

@@NZTrumpFan 😅😅😅 I can tell you the analysis of every black jersey video… “x made a good play, but if he’d been an all black it would have been better”, “nz should have come out on top but x went against them, and it was unfair”. Black jersey makes some really really good observations but they are punctuated with far too many biases.

Bruh same, i play colts and we can barely do hands down the line🤣

Hmmm yet it looks like a complete mess watching it amazing.

absolutely, i really like this guy, but he really needs to step up his defense game. He is young so hopefully he can learn semi quickly

Now you know how it feels, as a kiwi its been so hard to watch squidge the last couple years with losses to Ireland, France, South Africa, Argentina

@@charlesswain554 That is every year being a wallaby fan

Not in as much pain as Tupaea's knee I bet...

Agree totally. I'm a kiwi living in Salisbury, and he was a local MP in the area. and his achievements are well known and respected in the local area. I think Squidge needs to stick to what he is good at as it does him no credit.

It's depressing when you just know before even typing his name into Google that, in some way, shape, or form, he's been misrepresented. It's a depressing trope and completey bizarre given the attention to detail Squidge puts into his Rugby analysis!

@@NZTrumpFan Yeah. Never see this kind of thing from right wingers at all do you? I’m being sarcastic, you see it all the time. Stop acting like your side of the aisle is perfect.

@@NZTrumpFan Ben Shapiro. Tucker Carlson. Stephen Crowder. Stephen Yaxley. Some well known examples. You for sure though.

Well yes, @'L P' is correct, just because one gains upper class privileges and benefits directly from slavery does not make one super racist, and can even, in the right morally minded person, cause them to become anti-racist. The "psuedo-woke" lefties often make this mistake, putting taints of family racism ahead of actual family class warfare. (Bledisloe was a freemason too, make of that what you will - I do no make anything of it, a big "meh".) But what really matters is that he was an upper class snob, born into privilege not earned, and that's all you need to know he was a douchebag, he coulda' been a very amiably friendly snob too. Y'know, not all conservatives are horrible people and twats, I have conservatives among my best friends. My very best friend is a conservative.

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The replays show that it was, but Foley had already kicked the conversion so they can't go back.

@@ashinch0r They've actually closed that loophole now

@@maverickmak how? That it doesn't matter if the conversion has been taken, you can still overrule the try?

the all blacks have gotten away with those forward passes for years

I believe captains should be given 1 TMO call / challenge per game, to use at their discretion. As per cricket. Unfortunately, the Aussies wouldn’t benefit in this case… and potentially, they would have been out of the World Cup in 2015, with Scotland through.

Rugby's great atm, no one us dominating, a lot of the teams are even which makes for an interesting World Cup

They are definitely worse than their prime years. But then that isn't like that's shocking given the 2015 team was perhaos the best ever. But they are still a good side. So it is the other teams that are developing fantastically to make it hard for them to win.

Absolutely agree and I'm a green eyed kiwi :p

What are you talking about Abs have played terrible all year

@@sandsplasherasmr1865 they've looked pretty awesome in their wins, but many times in their losses the other teams have played brilliantly. So it's not just the ABS being bad, they are fairly decent (even if no where near the amazing 2015 side) but the other sides are playing great rugby and are coached well

Yeah obvious as. Why didnt they check the run of play leading up to that try?

As Sam cane is the captain he should have challenged the reff!! ABz needs a New captain that can speak up

@@kaosrip8913 ahh. He wasn't on the field!!!

@@kaosrip8913 Raynal had asked Foley to delay his kick while that forward pass was checked by the TMO but Foley did not - he qikcly kicked it (didn't take 39 seconds this time ha ha) and so the game went on. Ref should have ruled out Foley's kick. It could have contributed to the Ref not being happy with Foley at the end so it all worked out but YES should not have been a try.

@@JoeTheLion60 thats the refs fault, he can check it until kick off

Bit similar to James Lowe when he first came into the Ireland squad? Might take him a few more games to start making correct decisions, he's such a high potential player it's probably worth sticking with him to iron out the flaws.

Yeah he does Just like his old Man

That pass was more forward than a horny guy at a bar!

Squidge has been a paid schmuck by World Rugby and never ever criticised any on-field ref calls since World Cup 2019 after they tried to cancel him at the start of the year. Big refreshing change from all the crisis farming MSM analysts but still feels ingenuous sometimes.

It's worth noting on Saturday the ABs took every penalty kick for touch *obnoxiously* quick haha

When you see Foley's teammates screaming at him in the background to kick while he stands there away with the fairies getting his derp face on, it's really hard to be sympathetic. It was a ballsy call because it was the 79th minute on the 5m in a 36-34 game in reverse of the momentum toward which was probably going to be a steady line-out and touch kick for the win. But the call isn't surprising nor is it controversial. The ref cautioned 3 times, even stopped the damn clock, cautioned again about time and then blew the scrum. They took like 2 minutes to take that kick. It'll be interesting to see the different ways NH and SH teams adjust to the refereeing.

You are not the only one bro....Clarke needs to learn to read the game but for some reason I feel that gift can not be taught. Either have it or not.

He is still young, and will probably learn with experience. I mean look at Rieko Ioane a couple years ago, his defence was not nearly as good as it is today.

I was at the game too, and in my kiwi fan section the crowd was screaming about time wasting from the moment the penality was won by the Wallabies. It felt like the ref heard the crowd when he called the timewasting and reversed!

Foley's folly

And how no one has beaten the all blacks there in what is it 28 years and 49 games something like that

You can NEVER ignore the fact that even then ... the All Blacks COULDVE won the lineout and scored a try, which is unlikely, but that outcome is always there. They werent guaranteed their win even if they kicked it out, but it was a better chance to concede the ball 40 metres out than 5 metres out lol Silly Foley

yeah nah fair enough, although i'm fair gutted by the call, and reckon australia should've copped the w, that controversial call in the long run will hopefully help the game sort out its convoluted list of rules and stop shit that slows the game down (nic white in most cases)

"I must cheat because those guys screaming at me to kick haven't enough breath left to chase." Is that what you mean?

@@ProTantoQuid the back line are screaming at him to kick, the forward pack are clearly unprepared for a kick. You can see that he wants to kick but wants the team ready. He has wasted time, but I wouldn't call it cheating. Cheating implies deliberate malice, but he is clearly earnestly waiting for the forwards

@@georgelane6350 "Cheating implies deliberate malice." No it doesn't . To cheat, as any competent dictionary tells us, is (for example) to gain advantage by breaking rules. It is irrelevant in what state of disorder his forwards were. The arbiter of action is the referee and the referee told Foley 5 times that he must play. Foley chose to ignore the referee. He was punished. That did not change the score. What changed the score and won the game for the ABs was those indisciplined Aussie forwards and those focused AB forwards. And I'm a neutral with no dog in this fight.

@@ProTantoQuid your definition implies deliberate malice. It uses the active verb 'break'. I see that Foley failed to follow the rules due to indecision caused by his team mates. To fail to follow is a passive action.

A bit of a home and away match if you will 😂

He did okay. But Ardie would've been a superb at that. Obviously.

Will have to disagree with you. Seeing the Aussie defense drifting across, I feel it was the right option. He straighten his line and committed those players to him. Had the speed and size to go over

Pending 6nation results, I feel like Ireland and France are the favourites despite no previous victories. And then you have the juggernauts in NZ, Eng and SA, with rapidly improving Aus. Yes they are still the usual suspects, but now the odds are more even

Nz, SA, England, Ireland, France, wales and Australia all have a legitimate chance it’s definitely going to perhaps be one of the best world cups ever potentially

Copped a water bottle for making a brave call in the face of relentless time wasting and refusal to abide by the referee's instructions? And did you throw a water bottle at Swain for his disgusting assault on the head and knee of an opponent? And did you throw a water bottle at the ref for the gratuitous missed forward pass (9:48) that led to a try?

I played both codes to Rugby on Saturday and league on Sunday lol I even played Basketball on Friday nights and touch on Thursday arvo.. now I can my run the 100m without gasping for air like my life depended on it 😂

It was a bad call. Whilst,he was within his rights to do so the ref had other options (like stopping time until the ball is kicked or adding time on) that were less controversial. By making this decision the referee made the game about themselves. Terrible call

@@sambobly controversy is irrelevant, the refs job is not too worry about controversy. His job is to make the right call which he did. If a team wants to play with fire in the dying minutes that's on them. If we want refs to start thinking about controversy when making calls then we are actually asking them to be biased which is just fucked up.

Stopping the time until the ball is kicked is not an option as you can't play the ball while time off, as neither is adding time which ai.ply doesn't exist. He stopped the time to warn Foley, which was already nice from him. Foley didn't take it seriously enough, well bad for Aussies. With the time remaining, at least one play should have been played, they tried to deny that and it did not work.

James Lowe has improved for Ireland but is still too unaware of his basic defensive role

Yep Koribiti has some huge defence weaknesses as well

i tend to agree but people are very quick to condem Caleb but are the first to appoint WJ as the best full back in the country despite his defence.if you read the stats Will missed 5 tackles against aussie.

@@lordJordNorg agreed. Will got exposed in the rugby championship. Again he’s young and world class so I can’t imagine we won’t fix it

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