The Jackalist

A Guinness fuelled blog about international rugby written by @rbrtdnnlln

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I got through the world cup, but this site is completely busted and I am increasingly at the limit of hateful trash its billionaire owner tries to stuff down my throat.

I'm on bluesky under my real name, but there's not many rugby people there yet. Hmu for an invite code

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Personally Barnes grated on me a bit; a tad too pedantic, and whilst others loved his comms, to me it became a soliloquy consisting entirely of players' first names.

BUT one of the few refs who would make a big call in a big game. Sending Hartley off in that final was elite

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Back to back World Cups is an astonishing achievement

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Hey guys, go easy on Frizzell, he's had a tough time lately #irony

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I mean, he was looking right at that yellow card offence and had nothing to say

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Look Argentina have been utter rot, the All Blacks ruthless - but the difference in tone in how Gardener talks to Argentina and New Zealand is a bit 👀

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Mexican waves whilst watching a man who violently assaulted a woman celebrate isn't really the one is it

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On the plus side, due to World Rugby's stringent copyright practises, no one will ever find out how boring this game is

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Bad enough how dull this game is without having to watch scumbags like that scoring

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On the plus side to this complete non entity, Chieka's breakdown about Gardener's refereeing is gonna be good craic

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All Blacks forwards pointing out oppo defenders being offside, you have to admire the gall of it

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@rpetty80 Theyre s great way to save tax free in fairness

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Good to see so many Kerry shirts in the crowd. Shame to let a little thing like "being knocked out" get in the way of a weekend in Paris

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@TheTargeshield Only team that had two deciding games last and had two weeks off between them anyway. A bounce of a ball and a knee away from winning despite being outplayed. As I say, outcome bias. We go in undercooked vs the Boks and get smoked vs France? Who knows

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"Ireland were tired and should've rotated" is pure outcome bias. People love to mistake failure of execution for failure of strategy

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@Cavisto3 That's a game management issue, not rotation

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@DavidHi58697405 Two weeks off between SA and Scotland though, and the latter game was over by halftime

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@ryanhowaya Nah. Apples and oragnes even before we get to A team that ultimately was still quite far ahead of their opponents vs a do or die situation with no margin for error between two well matched teams. If ireland had just started chucking it around we'd just have lost sooner

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They looked tired 4 minutes into the red, in a game with the highest ball in play count of the tournament having made a record number of passes? Yeah, no shit.

They looked tired because NZ managed the game better than us