Sat 28th Oct: International: Australia v New Zealand (at AAMI Park, Melbourne) 10.10 am KO

[Futtocks]

Collins gets the first double of his career, and he does it in an international!

[Dunbar]

Good game this for a supposed dead rubber that people have said doesn't matter.

Edited October 28, 2023 by Dunbar

[Archie Gordon]

Was a try for Isaako. Bunker has no understanding of physics.

[DoubleD]

NZ really loose around the ruck and Australia in again. Grant tearing them apart 

Edited October 28, 2023 by DoubleD

[Jonty58]

46 minutes ago, DoubleD said:

Kiwis by 40

[DoubleD]

5 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

Goodness, you're a hard taskmaster if that's bombing a try.

Fair comment, I was just frustrated after he’d done all the hard work. He needed to step off his right foot when he got to Tedesco

Edited October 28, 2023 by DoubleD

[nadera78]

48 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Sky have it on their red button service, apparently.

I've got WatchNRL so no problem for me, but Sky subscribers are being getting a slap in the face from this scheduling decision.

Sky making the decision not to show live sport they own the rights to. Again. And they wonder why people are leaving.

[StandOffHalf]

I found a stream online, but was struggling to get the sound to play, heehee.

Baffling that Sky don't have it, and the red button isn't available in IE.

[Ullman]

46 minutes ago, welshmagpie said:

Sky red button not working for me. Anyone else having similar issues?

Had to go to the non HD Arena channel (866) to get the red button to start with. Appears to be working on the HD channel now.

[StandOffHalf]

I thought that Isaako put-down was much closer than the cursory look at it suggested.

It was one of those ones where the point of the ball came down first. It might have been inside, or it might have been on the whitewash.

50/50 IMO, and deserved closer inspection.

Edited October 28, 2023 by StandOffHalf

[DoubleD]

Rooooonnnnnaalllldo

[StandOffHalf]

Grant is exploiting Kiwi laxness around the ruck.

[DoubleD]

2 minutes ago, Ullman said:

Had to go to the non HD Arena channel (866) to get the red button to start with. Appears to be working on the HD channel now.

It’s not in high definition though annoyingly 

[Futtocks]

4 minutes ago, StandOffHalf said:

I found a stream online, but was struggling to get the sound to play, heehee.

Baffling that Sky don't have it, and the red button isn't available in IE.

Not that we should approve the use of dodgy streams, but both Fox League and Channel 9 are showing this live in Oz, if you're Googling.

Edited October 28, 2023 by Futtocks

[Futtocks]

18:12 at half time.

[Archie Gordon]

2 minutes ago, StandOffHalf said:

I thought that Isaako put-down was much closer than the cursory look at it suggested.

It was one of those ones where the point of the ball came down first. It might have been inside, or it might have been on the whitewash.

50/50 IMO, and deserved closer inspection.

Was a try. Point of the ball had to touch the ground in-play. Impossible not to given its position and trajectory.

[Ullman]

Kiwis back in it right on half time, great stuff.

[StandOffHalf]

Ronaldo leaping like a salmon. A jump that the 'real' Ronaldo would be proud of!

That's a great jump to bring it back to a one-score game.

Edited October 28, 2023 by StandOffHalf

[StandOffHalf]

6 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Not that we should approve the use of dodgy streams, but both Fox League and Channel 9 are showing this live in Oz, if you're Googling.

Good to have Vossy on comms.

He's got more enthusiasm for internationals than the 9 team.

[graveyard johnny]

good game this - both teams chock full of quality - nz need to score next though

[StandOffHalf]

6 minutes ago, Archie Gordon said:

Was a try. Point of the ball had to touch the ground in-play. Impossible not to given its position and trajectory.

Fine margins but I was leaning that way. I didn't hear what the comms said but it seemed to be glossed over from the pictures.

[Dunbar]

Feel like New Zealand are overplaying the drop off line for the edge forwards and would get more value from getting ball into the hands of Manu and Timoko more often.

[Archie Gordon]

Aussies lying behind the PTB so often it's clearly a tactic.

[GeordieSaint]

1 minute ago, Archie Gordon said:

Aussies lying behind the PTB so often it's clearly a tactic.

Same last week from the Tongans. 

[Ullman]

24 minutes ago, DoubleD said:

It’s not in high definition though annoyingly 

Sound and vision (I'll have that tune in my head all day now) are a bit variable. Something of an internet stream about it.