a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TCwlbw3EekI/AAAAAAAAETM/ROJszUQcHf0/s1600/plays-of-the-week-yesyesyes.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/TCwlbw3EekI/AAAAAAAAETM/ROJszUQcHf0/s400/plays-of-the-week-yesyesyes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488803204760369730" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"It’s Plays of the Week time again and I can promise that this week there’s no naked bums on show, unlike a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/rugby-club-plays-of-week-i-see-it-but-i.html"last week’s edition/a where we got to know a few Kiwis a little too well. This week there’s a giraffe playing rugby, Greg Martin all fired up, and the Puma’s showing the French a thing or two in Buenos Aires. /spanbr /br /Starting with the a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/ireland-defeated-by-wallabies-in.html"Wallaby win over Ireland/a where both sides had a case of the dropsies at times. It was anything but a polished performance from the home side, but Digby Ioane seems to have a special relationship with a certain someone, so they should be able to lift their game in time for the Tri Nations.br /br /Hosea Gear is probably the most impressive wing of the past few weeks, as his performances for the New Zealand Maori included a a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-zealand-maori-edge-england-in.html"hat trick against England/a. He was snubbed for the initial All Black squad though, with coach Graeme Henry acknowledging his talent.br /br /"He's unlucky. It's just that you can't pick them all and I feel for him because he played some exceptional football. But we made a decision on Super 14 form that Joe Rokocoko and Cory Jane were our two specialist wings, and they played in the first two tests and played exceptionally well.br /br /"It's hard on a guy like Hosea Gear. We certainly have been told about him. I went to the game in Napier and I guess about 250 people yelled out to me in the stand, so I do know he exists," he added.br /br /Gear himself was disappointed, but realises he isn’t quite the finished article yet. "I haven't heard a lot, but I know pretty much what I need to work on... my guess is the high ball and my overall workrate," the brother of former All Black, Rico Gear, said.br /br /In East London, a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/springboks-too-strong-for-italy-as.html"South Africa hosted Italy/a in what was a one side affair. One of the tries of the match went to Pierre Spies after great work from Schalk Burger and the span style="font-style: italic;"rugby playing giraffe/span, Andries Bekker.br /br /The performance of the weekend goes to a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/argentina-post-record-score-against.html"Argentina/a though, as they brushed aside the travelling French in what was a record score against the country where a lot of their players play their club rugby, probably making the win all the more sweeter.br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"Highlights of each match can be seen right here on RD, so which was span style="font-weight: bold;"your/span Try of the Week? /spanbr /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/grbuUNRCl90amp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1?rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/grbuUNRCl90amp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1?rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;":: Related Posts ::/spanbr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/rugby-club-plays-of-week-i-see-it-but-i.html"The Rugby Club Plays of the Week - I see it but I don't believe it!/abr /a href="http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2010/06/rugby-club-plays-of-week-north-vs-south.html"he Rugby Club Plays of the Week - North vs South/abr //span/divspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span02:26/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-5756489609623759763?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=VGfah_zpIOw:RgEJavA2wO0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/VGfah_zpIOw" height="1" width="1"/ More...