Everyone's third fav
@GAGR
pod.🎙🎧 Seven blokes having a laugh. Hot topic chats and occasional guest interviews. 🏉
Opinions our own, and of varying quality.
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@Nick_Wasiliev
and
@NathJWilliamson
mic up as the Wallabies and Australia XV announce their squads.
Plus, we review the Wallaroos year and their World Cup draw, Super Rugby U16s/U19s, Australia U18s in NZ, Next Gen Sevens, and more.
POD:
If NZ and RSA make the final again this weekend that means between them they would have won the past 5 RWCs, and that they’re been 5 different finalists out of 10.
This is not good for intl rugby, and it’s boring.
Rugby fans from all nations need to assemble like the Avengers to stop Springboks fans sucking out all the joy from rugby.
This is incredibly tedious. All fans like a whinge but this is getting pathological.
👀 Springboks lodge a formal request!
🤜🤛 The Boks weren't pleased with the uncontested scrums and have taken their concerns to World Rugby.
#RugbyChampionship
Omg. SBW slamming Eddie in the post match. Saying half of what
@rugby_podcast
have said without the swearing. And he apologises if he’s gone too far. NO that’s what we need in rugby media. Honest opinions. Transgressive opinions.
And he said this next to RUPA president
STATEMENT
"These views of Jamie Pandaram and/or news limited do not reflect the majority of the Australian Rugby community who are still shit scared of the All Blacks and what they can bring.
"The Dropped Kick Off officially endorses Ian foster as All Blacks coach"
These jerseys are a fucking joke.
Tahs are wearing a white jersey and blue socks and blue shorts. The brums are wearing a white and blue jersey with blue shorts and blue socks.
No wonder the games a billion bucks in debt. They can’t even organise two different colours
#WARvBRU
Sea of Blue really admirable. To turn up and keep supporting rugby in an AFL state, don’t see many wins, and turn up to games wearing jerseys not just business shirts and RMs.
#FORvCRU
No, you can't claim he can get away with this because the ABs used to do this gesture with 'Kapo o Pango'.
NZRU have made it clear the gestures sends the wrong message. There is a reason why they removed it in 2007.
This ain't acceptable.
@StanSportRugby
@SuperRugby
#SuperRound
Honestly don't even know how to feel anymore. Yep, the boys showed up, showed heart, and pushed Ireland all the way despite the injuries. Proud of them.
But the tour is a failure. What side will turn up next week to face Wales? God knows.
It's the hope that kills you.
#IREvAUS
What's with all the pearl clutching in rugby recently?
First it was Savea's throat gesture, then it's Noah shouldn't have a rivalry with Carter Gordon.
What's next? People gonna say Tolu Latu shouldn't take shirtless photos and put it on his gram?? 🙄
Good video, especially highlighting how Eddie has taken his approach to England and adapting it at lightening speed to the Wallabies.
Even more interesting that the Wallabies have picked it up very quickly
Last month, Eddie Jones said the Wallabies WILL win the 2023 Rugby World Cup. We dug into what Eddie doing, whether it can work, and just why, even if you don't believe him, you at least need to take what he says very seriously...
*Tim Horan speaking pre game with Reds coach Les Kiss and Wally Lewis*
TH: “Hi I’m Tim Horan and today I’m joined by Queensland Reds coach Les Kiss and the man who ran away to rugby league after Glen Ella was picked ahead of him in Australian schoolboys”
One thing bouncing around in my mind is, if Eddie wanted to blood youngsters, build a new side for 2027 etc, what’s the difference between doing it during the World Cup vs rebuilding only after the RWC?
Makes no sense except when you account for a coaches ego.
Thoughts?
💭
You know what would be super cool, if every ‘Tier 1’ team linked up 🔗 directly with a ‘Tier 2’ nation, and created a pathway such as the sharing of facilities, fixtures, coaching expertise etc
Ie.
RSA & Namibia
NZ & Tonga
England & Georgia
Ireland & Portugal
France & Italy
Reckon we should start following Uruguay rugby much more, not to mention play them much more. Los Teros have been outstanding 👌
#NZLvURU
#RWC2023
@AmericasOval
Success of the Matildas really proves RAs Wallabies-first strategy is the best one we’ve got.
Which we probably all knew but forgot because the Wallabies have been 💩
#AUSvENG
BREAKING 📢📢
PM has ordered Qantas to pick up & fly Tolu Latu home.
PM: "Finally we'll have a ball-running, pilfering, straight-throwing hooker, and security in the Pacific region we've needed."
Rumoured PM acted after Joe Schmidt told him Chinese were "eyeing off" Latu.
PROOF that Opus Dei, the Bilderberg Group and the New World Order are putting words into Allan Alaalatoas mouth as he LIES that he “wants to scrum” and it’s the “first he’s heard of it”. Real truth he’s not even a prop himself never has been
'Mate, we want to scrum.'
Fair to say, Allan Alaalatoa did not have a bar of claims coming out of South Africa and the Springboks that the Wallabies deliberately went to uncontested scrums.
Tahs down to the 5th choice hooker against the Blues this weekend. Some concreter. We’re fucked. 😭
🎶 they say a hero could save us
I’m not going to stand here and wait 🎶
#WARvBLU
#justice4tolu
Actually feel like we're in purgatory. Of course Gordon hits the post. Of course it is so close, but so far.
For ONCE, can you just get the damn three points?!
Can already see its gonna cost us this game. You can see it from a mile away.
#BledisloeCup
#NZLvAUS
Want to know who the best players of
#SuperRugbyPacific
were from 2023?
Thought you didn't.
After reading
@stephenjones9
' Dream XV, we decided to create a Nightmare XV designed to annoy the rugby internet.
@TimesSport
you had it coming🤣
🎧FULL POD:
"At some point the NRL has got to say: 'We're not going to be a recruitment ground for rugby union.' "
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Pretty on the money this take.
And folks wonder why we all still hold bitter resentment towards Eddie?
The only good thing to come out of 2023 was a realisation that the systemic issues in Aussie rugby could no longer be ignored.
I don’t feel sorry for Aus. They’re too proud a rugby country to want sympathy or condescension from us.
What I will say is that Eddie Jones really stuffed that side around. Played games with their best players and did little to advance their game. Schmidt has a tough job.
This Fijian crowd is like having an extra two players on the field. LOVE how much it lifts the
@Fijian_Drua
. Can honestly compete with anyone at home.
#DRUvHUR
#SuperRugbyPacific
25 years. Let that sink in.
Screw the fact the Crusaders are underperforming. Its hard to when in CC at the best of times.
Les Kiss' Reds are building something here.
#CRUvRED
Campo is a dumb fuck.
Seriously, how DARE our players have the AUDACITY to be upset that they lost a significant game in rugby's biggest tournament!
Showed to us that despite the performance, they care about this jersey. A lot.
David Campese called players out for crying, stating he had “never cried in [his] life”…
This is as embarrassing as it gets for an ex player in my opinion.
The “back in my day” is still strong in this one.
If you don’t speak Rugby, this will be baffling. If you do, you will recognise it as one of the greatest passages of play in the history of the game. Japan, offered repeated chances to tie with South Africa, risk it all in the final minutes. WC 2015
There’s losing in the quarters, and losing in the final to a try scored because Brodie Retallick tripped over
@drew_mitchell
, allowing Beauden Barrett to run length of the field and score the match winning try
It feels shit, doesn’t it? As someone who went through the exact same a few hours ago, Ireland fans, god it feels shit. Like cold silence invading a part of your heart that held hope and joy. This Irish team have been incredible and you all deserve to feel proud again tomorrow.
A pivotal part of any change required in Australian rugby is GPS schools in Australian pivoting from a results-based focus to a pathway-focus. We don’t have the private school mass to justify Joeys or whoever it is hoarding talent to beat Newington 100-nil.
Not gonna happen tho
Recording today with
@Nick_Wasiliev
and
@NathJWilliamson
. Honestly, we're still so angry we don't know how this pod is going to go.
Like, if the Wallabies actually manage to win against Ireland this weekend, that'll make us even more angry 🤣
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NEW POD📢
@BrumbiesRugby
begin their run home vs. the Canes this week.
@Nick_Wasiliev
chats with the Lord himself,
@LordLaurie58
, covering:
🏋️♂️Overhauling training
🐴Value of club identity
🏉Where the Brums can improve
🤠Why Bucket Hats are best
LISTEN 👇
Yep, we lost. But that gives us a much better sense of where the Reds are going under Kiss. Somewhere good, by the looks of it. Incredible to think it is only game two. They can play better as well.
One day, we'll get a good run of winning close matches against Kiwis!
#HURvRED
Four more years of Tate McDermott at Ballymore. How good!
That good news certainly makes missing the Wallabies squad a little easier to take plus the
@Reds_Rugby
captain speaks on a possible sabbatical in Japan.
@wwos
@StanSportRugby
#SuperRugby
Pod recorded and dropping tomorrow on
@GAGR
!
It's time to talk season and round predictions.
@Nick_Wasiliev
and
@NathJWilliamson
chew the fat on the Wallabies doco, squad announcements, and preview the games the best way we know how:
@SuperRugby
's dodgy tipping % predictions!
France are the real deal. Categorical second half deconstruction. This World Cup is going to a beauty.
All Blacks perfect pool record is finally over, the last team until tonight to hold that record. Took ten iterations of the tournament to get there.
#RWC2023
#FRAvsNZL
It is 2025. Twiggy owns the Force the Rebels and has bailed out the Brumbies. He runs Australian Super Rugby. The Super Rugby trophy resembles a Michelangelo’s Twiggy, if you will, but with a massive pork sword and carved entirely from bauxite ore. The Kiwis are frightened
Freedom Cup trophy (All Blacks vs Springboks), last 10 results.
2013: New Zealand
2014: New Zealand
2015: New Zealand
2016: New Zealand
2017: New Zealand
2018: New Zealand
2019: New Zealand
2021: New Zealand
2022: New Zealand
2023: New Zealand
Feel the Brums didn't play that well tbh, Landers turned up. But if you've got a side that can still win by 16 after not playing your best, that goes alright.
Clean sweep against foreign opposition in RD. 12! Much needed weekend for Aussie fans 👌
#SuperRugbyPacific
#BRUvHIG
One thing we didn't mention is that RA probably does share some responsibility. They should have been aware much sooner of these financial issues. Six years trading insolvent and they didn't know?
Even despite this, they are not the main culprit. The Rebels board definitely is.
Some genuinely good questions asked on this pod. A lot of heat on the actual MR directors. Want to blame someone, blame them. Blaming RA is like blaming the police for someone committing a crime in the first place.
It feels like a squad for the true rugby sickos.
Beale the only big game but rest of new faces are either hungry youngsters or underrated weapons
#Wallabies
Probably the best night for Aussie rugby fans in a while. Goes to show how critical we need Ws, but also how quickly opinion on this comp could turn around if we do.
#CHIvRED
#FORvDRU
#SuperRugbyPacific