Steady on now. To describe an international team with Rob Kearney at fullback as playing a fantastic brand of rugby is a sure sign a lad has lost the run of himself. They play intelligent, largely risk free rugby. The fact Kearney was always preferred ahead of Zebo confirms what the emphasis is on.
Joe Schimdt gave this reason as to why he doesnt
"Rory is a really good example. He said he doesnât sing the anthems because he knows it would, emotionally, heighten his emotions, probably beyond the level he feels is best for him to be in control.
âHe kinda self-regulates and in the end most players self-regulate really well, so you just donât want to get in their way, they are experienced athletes and they also have a ripple effect on the team so you let them ripple in. They are calm, concentrated, highly-motivated in their demeanour, you hope that the ripples through.â
Playing intelligently is playing fantastically to me. Rob Kearney is picked at 15 mainly becuase it shapes the opposition attack. Which makes it much easier for scidmt to devise a game plan to win games.
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see this is the reason rugby is despised
fuckwits whoâve never played the games using terms like âshapes the oppositions attackâ
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What the fuck 
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I played the game until I was 16 until I had to give it up.
what better way to test our full squad than to test the lower lights in a test environment
tag doesnât count
I never played tag rugby in my life.
I played rugby for a few years when I was a youngfella as well. I was scrum half, I hadnât a notion what I was doing but apparently I was good at it because I could throw the ball to the fella standing longside me so he could boot it as far down the field as he could, at which point Iâd have to follow the ball and do the same thing again.
*apparently I was good because I could throw it left and right.
Stupid fucking sport
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Or as the head of world rugby calls them:
Meaningless friendlies
No I didnât, youâre making things up again, another one of your Apple Bumbles.
For a pastime that supposedly attracts the educated elite it sure is easy to sucker them in to thinking rugby is a game full of intricacies and strategy when in fact it is just one big game of grunt.
You can understand why roasters love rugby really.
Itâs the equivalent of sitting on a toilet bowl for half an hour trying to squeeze a turd out while heavily constipated.
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Will you expand on your point from earlier in the week so? I thought you were making a clear comparison here.
what position did you play, fella?
Inside centre mostly.
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A donkey, you may as well have been one of the fat lads in the scrum
You thought wrong. Misquoting me in an attempt to score points again. Very sad.