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Dave wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2023 4:42 pm A question from the game. Are the players going to have the freshly trimmed look for every game?
You must have been paying more attention to dressing room cam than I was.
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Dave wrote: Sat Sep 09, 2023 4:42 pm A question from the game. Are the players going to have the freshly trimmed look for every game?
You must have been paying more attention to dressing room cam than I was.
I think I'm being misconstrued.
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Why all the cr*p about Akis and indeed Irelands mauling of an Ail standard side? You'd think he was Ma Nonu ffs. Flat track bully with a card in his back pocket.
🤔 hubris is strong down Mexico way.
Lineout malfunkion again, laboured back play against a side patently not professionally fit. Earls and Sexton poor.

This group is wide open for the second spot. SA will walk it.
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Flat track bully perhaps but he certainly flat track bullied.
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The game was made for Aki a below international standard Centres and back row .

Plus the fact being an Islander the weigh distribution makes him harder to tackle low .

His trys come at the expense of meaningful opportunities for the wings .

Thus the below par performances of Lowe and Earls .

But the management will accept the win — how or who doesn’t matter
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CIMANFOREVER wrote: Sun Sep 10, 2023 12:59 pm Earls and Sexton poor.
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Unfortunately its young mans game -- requiring at the highest level extreme fitness which is harder to achieve after injury as you get older -- the body takes longer to repair each time and players start to become aware the next injury could be the last one.
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Has Aki been on the growth hormones?

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big mervyn wrote: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:42 pm
CIMANFOREVER wrote: Sun Sep 10, 2023 12:59 pm Earls and Sexton poor.
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I thought Sexton did alright in his first game for six months.

Earls shouldn’t be in the squad, as we already knew.
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CIMANFOREVER wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 8:46 pm
big mervyn wrote: Sun Sep 10, 2023 8:42 pm
CIMANFOREVER wrote: Sun Sep 10, 2023 12:59 pm Earls and Sexton poor.
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Hands up you've tumbled me Mervyn :bowdown:
There were poor though.
17 out of Ireland's squad of 33 are 30 plus.
Would have been 18 if Healy hadn't got crocked.
It's amazing how quickly players age.

Sure if you're Irish you can play 'til you're 38 no problem!
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That's McCloskey not getting a game then

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Jackie Brown wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 5:39 pm That's McCloskey not getting a game then

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Jackie Brown wrote:That's McCloskey not getting a game then

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Lealifano No 10 for Tonga. Excellent. Good luck to him.
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