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Well, 1995 still stings, but in retrospect I couldn't be more happier than to see such a wonderful human being and immense man of state celebrating the win with the players. Too bad there aren't any Nelson Mandelas anymore, the world would have certainly been a better place.

No, there wasn’t any knock on by Telea. Instead, there was a series of contentious calls or non calls that all went against New Zealand. While I do understand the euphoria and although South Africa needs to be congratulated for the win, staying humble under the current circumstances won’t do...

Kia Haka, ALL Blacks! It’s a win-win situation, lose and Razor’s era will begin a little bit earlier, win and get another chance to lift the WWE trophy!

Great try!!!

I hope we will participate again in a Rugby World Cup only after we have remained ourselves who we used to were in the 60’, 70’, 80’ and a bit of 90s. In the 1995 Rugby World Cup, we lost 8-21 to Springboks, now 0-76. Embarrassing beyond belief, but with less that 1.000 currently registered...

All good, mate, thank you for the reply.

Anything still could happen, including a first ever loss to Italy and not making into the QF…. That second test victory in South Africa last year, who saved Foster’s job, might prove detrimental to this RWC campaign…I truly believe that Scott Robertson would have still had the time to steer...

Are you old enough to remember when we beat you 24-6 in Bucharest in 1983 and 15-9 in Cardiff on 10.12.1988? Have you ever known that Romania was about to be invited to join the Five Nations in the 80s, but ultimately it could not be done as we were a Communist country? Comparing San Marino...

We do not mean anything in world rugby since early 90s (we last beat France in 1990 in Auch, Scotland in Bucharest in 1991), so all I want for us is to avoid being completely humiliated. Long gone are the days they wanted to open the Five Nations to us, but being behind the Iron Curtain did not...

Well, we can safely say now that Foster has broken all the All Blacks records...sadly, they happen to be on the wrong side of the ledger...Absolutely shocking to put three openside flankers in the starting lineup just because you couldn't or didn't want to develop specialist loosies during this...

The state of Romanian rugby is simply embarassing...from 5 Nations contenders in the 70s amd 80s, when we beat France, Scotland and Wales, to losing 56-6 vs Georgia... we were far more competitive then than Italy is today....

If Robertson will translate his Crusaders times winning culture into these fading ABs, which I hope and I believe he will, then we may see a couple of RWC ABs cycles under him. Man, I am so happy that he was appointed and I am really looking forward to 2024!

What an incredibly dreadful decision by the NZRU, that will certainly have many on and off the field implications...so although Foster lost 5 games out of the last 7 against Tier 1 opposition, he is retained based upon the team's last performance, which came under certain circumstances (i.e...

Quick question for the New Zealanders: would you prefer to stick with Foster through the 2023 RWC, based on this latest team performance alone (at the risk of losing Scott Robertson to another country), or have Scott Robertson appointed now?

New Zealand played very well tonight, but this had probably been Foster’s regime in a nutshell: one brilliant game every other 5 or 6. No consistency whatsoever. Sadly, I feel this result may be the worst thing that could have happened to NZRU, medium or long term wise. Granted, it’s not like...

Ian Foster should go regardless of today's result and even if the All Blacks will pull off a great escape like they did some years ago, by ways of somebody's individual brilliance. The team badly needs someone new, someone that could motivate the players and come up with fresher playing...

Again, two players picked out of their position, Ardie Savea and Will Jordan.

I hope that South Africa wins 2-0 and in a convincingly fashion, so that a potential HC regime change within the All Blacks environment to be taken into consideration seriously. A series draw and worst, an All Blacks 2-0 win will only further mask New Zealand core problems and generate false...

I don't know where to start, to be honest, there's so much to say about this NZRU trainwreck that started after the Lions series and got even worse after the travesty that was Ian Foster's appointment back in December 2019...I will however try to summarize my thoughts in connection thereof: -...