HIGHLIGHTS | Māori All Blacks v Japan XV 2024 

Despite the yellow card Rameka Poihipi brought real energy when he came on

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Who??

The Māori oak

none of them

Japan player scrums and lineouts already were pretty solid during their League One season and their respective teams, its to early to say what impact Owen Franks can have, hes only been there 2 weeks lol

@@bunkashaaa1You maybe right or wrong, but they sure gave those Māori brothers a run for their money in the first 25mins, but that was it

Japan score one try off the back of a rolling maul the Maoris score twice. If the Maori had to switch to rolling mauls how did they score thier other four tries. Weird take

He has signed to play for a Japanese club and leaving NZ.

@@StevenSchmidtSnr Ah ok. Thank you

Yeah not bad but japan xv isn't much of a challenge really

@@ManaBlack208 yeah, they broke through the Maori defence quite a few times, but just couldn’t score the points. I thought they were better at set piece also.

@korocam9137 It was japan XV not the japan team which is abit of an insult really hence the score,that's a hiding,could of been 40 at the end there,japan were very intense for awhile but just couldn't keep it up maoris capitalised off their mistakes could of been a different result if it was actual japan team

​@ManaBlack208 What he saying, is. Just finished a solid Super rugby 2024 season. Few boys played S.R Finals 2 days later Ross Filipo got all the MAB "Justice League's together and flew out to Japan, 5 days later, MAB and STILL managed to pull it off

@JhoniDaicos Yeah I know I would of liked to have seen the actual japan team

it's a dead sport! , not growing at all, Japan is possibly the only country (outside the big 5 or 6) thats sort of keep the game going internationally!

@@kyogofurahashi The 2023 world cup had record viewership, Europe have massive crowds. Just a recent Heineken cup game between Leinster and Northhampton saints had a crowd of over 80k people at croke park. Luckily numbers are a reality and your opinion is blatantly false and not supported by any facts :)

@@karatekid-nq6ct Leinster and Northampton had a record crowd of 80,000? lolll that's probably the all the rugby fans of the whole irland and the Uk combined loll, Northampton's average home crowd is just above the one's of League one, yes Leage one! lolll what a dead and pathetic sport!

@@kyogofurahashi Why are you here watching then? It might not be as big as football or cricket, but it's still entertaining to watch at a high level.

@@kyogofurahashi not as dead as rugby league 🥱

No it’s a international team not a club team 😳

They used to be in the PNC years ago but for some reason NZRU won't include them in there anymore.

@@tuksvueti5255 agree and I believe the All Blacks with Maori heritage should have choice as to which team to play for if there is a clash of of timing when the All Blacks and Maori All Blacks play Maybe the MAB could have a two match series against the Springboks in South Africa, or perhaps in NZ with at least one game in Napier as the MAB lost by a point in 1921 (South Africa reporter send a racist telegram back to SA about this match) and drew in 1981 (Pakeha ref cheated them out of a win by awarding a Drop Kick that missed) since it has been over 40 years since the last match between them.

i'd go tupaea over ALB any day

Me too, if it weren't for his injury he was on track to be an incumbent test centre. Darcy Swain did him dirty.

Ultimate if he comes back and Darcy Swains career ends as it deserved

Kiwi commentators are always hilariously biased.

Not so sure about that, bro was running in quicksand 😂

Completely different Japanese team. This is a Japanese development team.

this was a friendly, doesn't count.

Almost all rugby teams have a bad win to loss ratio. It's only really the top 5 that have any consistency.

respect!

Japan XV not the actual Japan team

@@JhoniDaicos correct it's not a test match so a chance for potential test level talent to have a run.

@tewaewae that's corrects. Amazing with shorts amount of time and 5 days to preps for this match. FT, 36 unanswered points? Jobs well done by Ross Filipo

Yes you do

Probably not. Japanese are hardworking and no lazy.

Yeah nah us maori are twice the size and better looking

​@@Paddythefattyaww what happened mate you sound salty asf toward Maori did Hemi down the street get into your miri😂 while you was at work...so you were working and your miri was being worked on😂😂 by the boys at the local gang pad😂😂 you're welcome paddy no need to thank me😅😅

why what a waste of energy and a game - A teams don't play their b side - what is the point

@@bodybalanceU2 you watched it, sucker. the point is to develop players and for RNZ to get some cash.

The last time they did that the game was scheduled for a Sunday? - so Sid Going and his two brothers couldn't play.

I honestly think the Poms are going to beat us. The England/Japan game meant nothing. They have the potential to beat our forward pack up. How many of the ABs forwards are world class and dominant? Ardie Savea and who? We are seriously weak at lock right now. I hope I'm wrong!

@DrissZyani-bu5mo -...you obviously dont watch Northern rugby, we said the same thing about the 2017 Lions and The Ireland team in 2022 and we got hammered in the forwards in both series, also remember in the Ireland series they scored in all 3 tests within 3 mins of the kick off, we werent switched on..As a Kiwi it will be an exciting series as they beat Ireland recently in 6N,we should win but the England team have some excellent players also. Set us up well for the big games at end of year where we will possibly lose 2 out of 3 tests, England at twickenham, Ireland & France and we still have 2 tests against SA in SA, will be a good series but not a cakewalk as you think

Two different teams, this result has got nothing to do with wats going to happen in the ABs vs poms game,ABs are vulnerable at the mo very green if there's anytime to beat them its now and england are very capable but it won't be easy.

​@tinymahuta There's heaps of world class guys in our Forwards wat do u mean? R u kidding?,Tyrrell Lomax,codie Taylor,tamaiti williams,ardie savea,Dalton,piss off

That's not how rugby works mate :)

They are a thorn in the side of rugby in general.

you could say that for most of the teams when it comes to cards - nothing special with nz getting cards compared to other countries card tally

still had the class to overcome adversity

this wasn't even close to Japan's first team...

Yeah, I'd probably put it below the super rugby teams. It's more like a development sqaud for super rugby. Give these guys 3 weeks together, which would be a 100-point difference.

The Japanese team only had 8 of the same players as last week. So it doesn't really provide any perspective... none of us have any idea who these Japanese players are, and how they compare to last week's team.

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