Rugby News In 10 Minutes or Less: Introducing Megafoon's Daily Lunch Break

Welcome to this first edition of Lunch Break, something that we're going to be doing every day around 12 o'clock or so every weekday. The Megaphone Rugby Lunch Break, where we'll keep you up to date with what's happening in the world of rugby. Just a brief rundown of what the latest news items are and also talk to you about what's been shown on our channel, stuff that's been causing a stir and what's coming up later today and talking about causing a stir. Harry has invented a new stat called CPR, carry passes and rucks. And he's used that to say this is the way the All Blacks have started to play under Dave Rennie.

and the numbers are staggering. Against Italy alone, the All Blacks made more than 300 passes. He contrasted that with what he called K-A, kick attack, the way the Springboks are playing. What's very evident here is that the All Blacks and the Springboks are pulling away from the rest of the world. France still managing to hang on, maybe we'll see how they go when they actually pick their first team, when the Pond and them, they actually get a chance to play.

But it's clear that the All Blacks and Springboks are pulling away, but also clear that they're pulling apart. They're pulling further apart. All Blacks going one way of playing rugby, the Springboks going another way. And it's fascinating. At a glance, you can see where the game is going with these two teams.

So watch out for that Lucky Rugby episode. I'll put the link in the description down below. It's all there. Go have a look. Canary's invited all of us to give our input.

We've got a few very interesting comments made already on how we can improve it, how relevant it is, how wrong we are. The mega buffoon we actually called in one of the comments we were called. so funny anyway uh talking about news now quickly francia frenta calling announcing his retirement because of concussion too many rugby players are still being forced to retire because of concussion even with world rugby's focus on avoiding injuries head contact and the likes and it does remain a worry so we see where this goes they got this big court case coming we talk about that a bit more when it becomes a bit more relevant the all blacks are on the way and the big question at the moment is who going to play for the franchises in those four games Who going to play for the Bulls the Stormers and the likes Rasi said last week it be on a case-by-case basis. It'll decide who needs to get some game time. If Sasha needs to get some game time, they'll pick him for the Stormers, allow him to play for the Stormers.

Interesting enough, our friend Ari Holgaard sent us a little video of Sasha walking around on the field this weekend for Curry Cup match against the Griequas. No assholes whatsoever. Jumping on the ankle, maybe to prove a point somewhere. Sasha is definitely ready. We'll see.

Maybe even goes to Argentina. So the point is, Rossi will not release all the speed mocks, but he will release them as and when, if they need some game time. That's going to be an interesting approach to see. In other news, the Nations Championship ended up on a high with Argentina and England going at handbags and all. Seven yellow cards, lots of argy-bargy.

Nudge-nudge, wink-wink. And Felipe Contraponi storming out of the press conference. alleging some disrespect by the English team who were celebrating right next door. I don't know what they were supposed to do. Keep quiet or what?

That's a bit of an overreaction, if you ask me that. I think the Argentinians, for me, probably the disappointment of the tournament. Lost two out of three at home. Not what I expected from one of the better teams in the world. We'll see how they go in November, but this wasn't a good start.

Talking of the Asia Championship, the All Blacks surprised Ireland and beat them convincingly, More than all of us fought. And Harry did a quick reaction after that one. And he said he wished he had a better game to review. All Blacks were just all over Ireland. Ireland was never actually pitched up.

Outplayed, outgunned, out-thought, I would think. And the CPR that Harry referred to quite clearly on display. And Ireland having no answer for that. The Springboks beat Wales 43-0. Second game in a row against Wales The Wales didn manage to get on the scoreboard Hugh Griffin was understandably upset about the fact that he didn even score a single point now for what was it 160 minutes but the Springboks for me failed to convince 73 nil last year at the end of the tour end of the automations tour and then 43 nil this time but with a third or fourth choice team I suppose four debutants in that team we have to take that into consideration.

For me something that I've talked about yesterday on the Lacquerac report as well and I wrote an article about it which i'll get just now is the fact that the springboks haven't played the best team as a team yet and we saw what a lack of cohesion can do we saw it against scotland where this scots just found ways to run right through the middle and it was mostly forwards that were missing those tackles because they were not used to playing with each other and we saw similar signs of disconnect and lack of cohesion against wales um some superstars like peter stef de toye and even paul de vellius who's now looks like the next step of superstar if you you ask me. You know, they managed to do their bit, but as a team, it didn't convince. I'd like to see what Rossi does for the team that he's going to send to Argentina. I think it's a little bit late and I'm worried about the fact that the Springboks might play their best team for the first time against the All Blacks in the first test. The All Blacks have now played three tests in a row with basically their best teams.

A couple of question marks about the number 10, Ruben Love. If he's out there, he talked about that as well. They're going to be focused on Cam Roygaard as a nine playing off him and then whoever comes in as well at 10 will not be that important. Mwunga can't play of course he's not allowed to but maybe they'll pull the rabbit out of the hat somehow we don't know. Curry Cup started this week.

Stormers beat Trikwas in an unconvincing fashion I would think. Sharks scraped by against the Pumas. The Bulls unexpectedly lost against Boerland. We spoke to Quintan van Rooyen on Afrikaans channel that Quintan van Rooyen is the CEO of the and he called it. He said it's going to be an upset and he was right.

And I like to see how the Bulls recover from that one And of course Faf making his debut for the Chitos against the Lions His old team And you can clearly see what the difference an old head made there You never know. Maybe the Curry Cup is not going to be as boring as we think it might be. That's what we're going to have to be watching for the next foreseeable future until the Spring will start playing again. And of course, the greatest rivalry to a start. So that's just the news in a nutshell.

Later today, I'll be talking to Arie O'Gard on the weekend wrap. We'll take a look at all of the games, all of the matches, what we saw, what we thought and what we're expecting. Remember guys, our podcast might be long but we put chapters in all of them. I know you look at it Monday night. It's too long, I don't want to watch it.

Watch it, skip ahead using the chapters. All our videos have chapters down below. If you only want to watch the cheetahs, you'll see a place where you can skip to the cheetahs. Make sure all of our videos have that. Tuesdays we talk to Jan de Kooning on Rugby Rundown where he tells us all the latest news.

I'll ask him a little bit about is there any news from SR Rugby's review of the tournaments and the likes.

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