Foster's Firsts.

@nostrildamus said in Foster's Firsts.:

@Catogrande said in Foster's Firsts.:

First time NZ have not topped their group - or have I boobooed?

Has any team ever been unbeaten in their pool and still finished second in it?

No but teams have lost a game and still finished top

@nostrildamus said in Foster's Firsts.:

@Catogrande said in Foster's Firsts.:

First time NZ have not topped their group - or have I boobooed?

Has any team ever been unbeaten in their pool and still finished second in it?

I reckon Scotland 87.

@booboo said in Foster's Firsts.:

@nostrildamus said in Foster's Firsts.:

@Catogrande said in Foster's Firsts.:

First time NZ have not topped their group - or have I boobooed?

Has any team ever been unbeaten in their pool and still finished second in it?

I reckon Scotland 87.

Confirmed

Has anyone seen Schmidt and Foster speak to, or even look at, each other? In the coaches box Foster always turns left for comment, with Ryan.
It is almost as if Schmidt has had enough of being subordinate to a weak fool.
Can’t wait for the memoir.

@Machpants said in Foster's Firsts.:

@nostrildamus said in Foster's Firsts.:

@Catogrande said in Foster's Firsts.:

First time NZ have not topped their group - or have I boobooed?

Has any team ever been unbeaten in their pool and still finished second in it?

No but teams have lost a game and still finished top

For example ...

First AB coach to lose a pool game and get to the semis.

First AB coach to lose a pool game and beat the world's no. 1 team in the knock-out stage

More importantly, first AB head coach to look slimmer than the other coaches...

@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster's Firsts.:

First AB coach to lose a pool game and get to the semis.

First AB coach to lose a pool game and beat the world's no. 1 team in the knock-out stage

More importantly, first AB head coach to look slimmer than the other coaches...

Have you been drinking

First AB coach to knock the Number 1 side in the World out of the World Cup.

@Machpants said in Foster's Firsts.:

Have you been drinking

Ryan is fat. Foster is just portly.

@sparky said in Foster's Firsts.:

First AB coach to knock the Number 1 side in the World out of the World Cup.

Can do it twice if we beat SA/France in the final, if it goes that way

@sparky said in Foster's Firsts.:

First AB coach to knock the Number 1 side in the World out of the World Cup.

I believe Hanson did that in 2019?

Link here.

@gt12 No Ireland were ranked Number 1 going into the 2019 tournament but lost that when they lost to Japan in pool play. NZ were ranked number 1 in the world going into that QF.

First abs coach to have his team not ranked 1 in the quarters, too

@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster's Firsts.:

First AB coach to lose a pool game and get to the semis.

First AB coach to lose a pool game and beat the world's no. 1 team in the knock-out stage

More importantly, first AB head coach to look slimmer than the other coaches...

That team issue shirt is not flattering ...

@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster's Firsts.:

More importantly, first AB head coach to look slimmer than the other coaches...

slimmer than all of them? Or do you think Ryan has eaten Joe Schmidt?

With a week to go, could he do the first AB coaching equivalent of a 2011 Stephen Donald?

First All Black coach to take a team to a World Cup final in France.

Fuck this thread.

It’s a different world now and we could have been better over the years but we’re in the WC final.

Leave the fat bastard alone.

@MajorRage said in Foster's Firsts.:

Fuck this thread.

It’s a different world now and we could have been better over the years but we’re in the WC final.

Leave the fat bastard alone.

Who’s criticising Ryan?

@Kirwan quite a few were roughly 6 weeks ago