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by tubbyj
Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:51 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

That's why when Fonterra has a good year generally the NZ economy has a good year Chloe. Fonterra's profit up 25% in the last 6 months. NZ has 2 negative periods of growth. Missing facts again Ouch !! :lol: I don't know why I both posting in this thread apart from a couple of posters it is like dis...
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:48 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Compared to the Reserve Bank Act target of less than 3%
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:44 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Well Fonterra is yet to pay that profit to farmers but even still Grant Robertson printed so much money that we didn't earn that it caused massive inflation that the reserve bank was slow to react to and now we have been subjected to massive interest rate rises that has left everyone with a mortgage...
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:29 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Every time I have seen Chloe Swarbrick debate David Seymour she gets destroyed. Her advisers between then give her a rebuttal for next time but once he destroys this she can't think on her feet she just goes quiet and repeats slogans. A good example of it here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJ0ud...
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:15 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

It is not a huge change I just thought you knew how the economy works but if you find Chloe makes sense I can see you don't and it is probably a waste of time replying to you. You might as well just sit here nodding in agreement with Eug who can't wait to everyone is on a benefit so they have more t...
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:41 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Seven paragraphs and not a single fact to be seen. Total conjecture. You see what you choose to see I guess. There's two sides to a debate after all. :P Try this bit then. "People like Chloe Swarbrick have been running round making this same statement ie lower rents will not be passed on. She has n...
by tubbyj
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:20 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

In a report last year by Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand, New Zealanders learnt, for the first time, the extent of these staffing issues. The estimated shortfall was 1,700 doctors, a gap that is projected to increase to 3,400 by 2032. Many New Zealand doctors are choosing to move overseas to prac...
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Crusaders 2024 Thread
Replies: 747
Views: 67568

Re: The Crusaders 2024 Thread

Getting deja vu from the Hurricanes fans on this thread. Reminds me of when England beat the All Blacks in the 2019 RWC. Crowing at others setbacks when they are yet to win anything of note themselves yet. Hope that doesn't end as badly for them as it did for the English fans a week later.
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:22 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread
Replies: 201
Views: 2547

Re: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread

No way to get around that Bower is a bit shit and Newell not much better. Oli Jager and Tamaiti Williams have been big losses for the Crusaders.
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:18 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread
Replies: 201
Views: 2547

Re: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread

Just caught up on the game. We didn't deserve to win that in any way, shape or form, but I'll admit I still got my hopes up at the end. Bastards. Canes should have won that comfortably. Could have easily been 20-0 at HT and game over. Reece and Grace the only bright spots for us. We weren't going t...
by tubbyj
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:14 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Why the 6 week cover up by the Greens leadership though? Similar to GG. I would have thought the best course of action is to suspend the MP, pending an investigation, as soon as the allegations come to light. Its becoming endemic of the green party.. Is it though? Not gonna get into whataboutery, b...
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
Replies: 571
Views: 18646

Re: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread

I read yesterday that Matt Henry is the highest wicket taker this series (both sides) and NZ’s second highest run scorer. That is a great game and a half for him but an indictment on the NZ batting. Hes been the standout bowler. Southee and kugel shouldn't be there and haven't threatened at all. So...
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
Replies: 571
Views: 18646

Re: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread

Tim Southee 0 for 53 runs to follow on from just 2 wickets in the first test. Heading for another low haul of wickets in this series to go with the 2 he managed in the Tests vs SA B. Yet they force Wagner to retire??? Is Southee a specialist captain now like Geoff Howarth was towards the end of his ...
by tubbyj
Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:44 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Wtf are you on about tubby? The new ferries were planned to be rail enabled to continue to allow cargo to travel North to South island by train. The "Toyota Corolla" version that Nicola Willis has been talking about would be RORO which would mean no longer would rail freight be able to travel seaml...
by tubbyj
Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Shouldn't NZ be prioritizing costal shipping of goods to Lyttleton, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill from Auckland, Tauranga, Napier and Wellington rather than trucks on ferries? All our cities are mainly on the coast with large ports. What about the climate change implications of subsidizing diesel...
by tubbyj
Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:55 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
Replies: 571
Views: 18646

Re: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread

NZ getting humiliated and it is very well deserved. It was really shitty shabby treatment of Neil Wagner to force his retirement from international cricket earlier this week. Telling such a warrior and servant of NZ cricket that he was behind the likes of Scott Kuggeleijn was disgraceful. Instead im...
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:20 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Crusaders vs Waratahs Match Thread
Replies: 122
Views: 6711

Re: Crusaders vs Waratahs Match Thread

Kemara, Hotham and Springer all piss poor in direction, leadership, kicking and defense so far.

No wonder our U20s were shit last season.
by tubbyj
Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Very good interview by Sean Plunket of Professor Des Gorman on the scrapping of the Maori Health Authority. Even some of you left good/right bad posters might find it interesting if only to get your knickers further in a twist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qytak5-JUuE
by tubbyj
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Farce v Hurricanes
Replies: 67
Views: 2075

Re: Farce v Hurricanes

Canes looked very good, Force looked shit so hard to know how impressive that win was but if the Force are the fighting grafting side of previous years then the Hurricanes are a big chance of winning the title this season.
by tubbyj
Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Pie Makers of Auckland
Replies: 134
Views: 10386

Re: Pie Makers of Auckland

Where in NZ are people voluntarily spending more than $8 on a pie? I was in Kaikoura over the weekend and got a steak and cheese from the Middlehurst Station Farm store in the main street. It was $8.50. It looked so good in the warmer I decided to try it. Now maybe I just got lucky and it was one o...
by tubbyj
Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:10 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Grant Robertson will go down as a pretty average Labour Minister of Finance. No real legacy for working people, unlike the great Michael Cullen before him. Unfortunately for him his tenure was overshadowed by Ardern and her role facilitating overseas interests directing government policy but even st...
by tubbyj
Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:13 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: SA D side vs NZ A team test cricket
Replies: 423
Views: 13901

Re: SA D side vs NZ A team test cricket

https://www.stuff.co.nz/media/images/9Tzi8ywRz924XE3uHaD6DZ3Ef+IdbOiYlvIROR5vlqUeRrexTocZGobKRJ9od%2Fgnk3B%2FCeKTmTAsIjj6Q0YaYSmoIYejQmvA8gq9PVxO4vVx1bg2TdYG5ic4w%2FZQCg2yeZqSeJWmXQ3Xhau0ZqSGBFzV7fjAJTbcULMGeRUHr1emt8fXy2J6fWqOScM0SUqTSxCPBSBFoDiyG3jhfST8EeP%2FE3TG7VgxFMXh9i81%2FyHVo689cxfjwT%2Fmau...
by tubbyj
Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Crusaders 2024 Thread
Replies: 747
Views: 67568

Re: The Crusaders 2024 Thread

Bit of a thrashing not much info who who played for the Crusaders though. Hopefully just a wider training squad team.
by tubbyj
Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Super Rugby 2024 Pre-Season Fixtures
Replies: 101
Views: 6566

Re: Super Rugby 2024 Pre-Season Fixtures

So the Highlander's thrashed the Crusaders in Methven 41-14 to go unbeaten in preseason. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350182150/highlanders-complete-pre-season-big-win-over-depleted-crusaders They look to have a well rounded young group of players so might not be the easy beats they have been in pr...
by tubbyj
Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:51 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Oh I see discussion has moved on from politics to corporal punishment. It is irrelevant in my view the fundamental problem is the attack on the nuclear family and the number of kids being brought up in single mother households without a father. Even if a male is present in the household he is more o...
by tubbyj
Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:43 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Why do people really vote for NZ first? A National and Act coalitions openly states it wants to do away with NZ Superannuation (Universal ie for every Nzer) as a meaningful means of living rather than existing and Labour and the Greens want to do the same just through the different method of high in...
by tubbyj
Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: All Blacks 2024
Replies: 831
Views: 61216

Re: All Blacks 2024

Can't speak for other franchises but McClutchie isn't more talented than any of the options at the Blues. I don't see him as an exceptional talent. I see him more as a reliable polished journeyman but I'd still prefer someone like Otere Black over McCluthie. I don't see a franchise winning a title ...
by tubbyj
Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:03 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

:lol:

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by tubbyj
Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:47 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

I like to observe people and I have noticed both on here and in people I know that older men 60+ express views and act in ways that suggest they see themselves as white knights for younger females. Indignant old men who jump up and down and try to defend their honour, usually in the form of deflecti...
by tubbyj
Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:20 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Blues returning optimism 2024 Thread
Replies: 173
Views: 29558

Re: The Blues returning optimism 2024 Thread

Wider squad announced. Good to see Annandale in there. I’d like to see him get a run at some point if someone gets injured. LMH has a solid pass on him but needs to develop his sniping game. Introducing our wider squad for 2024 🔥 Lisati Milo-Harris Ben Ake Edward Annandale Alex Harford Shilo Klein ...
by tubbyj
Sat Dec 30, 2023 9:05 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

What? I must have missed the referendum on that. Unless you count the election result that shows many did not want change in the form of Three Waters. Christchurch has some of the best Artesian drinking water in the world yet it is now being polluted with unnecessary chlorine. This change has f**ked...
by tubbyj
Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

No kidding! Which just shows how poorly planned and thought through it was from beginning to end. And McAnulty gave in in an attempt to appease the backlash similar to the policy bonfire Hipkins held trying to salvage the election. Listening to the people does have some benefit but those people cle...
by tubbyj
Sun Dec 24, 2023 1:11 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

There are plenty of very fair landlords out there . Unfortunately there are plenty of utter bastards too . How dull. It's the same for everything. There is an elevated rate of sociopathy in non-profit organisations. As an "ideological empiricist" I'm sure you can provide us with the empirical data ...
by tubbyj
Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:50 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Careful Sonny some of these blokes might seem like sad internet obsessives who post their political opinions on a rugby forum because people in their real lives can't stand hearing them any longer but Tehui has educated me that this is actually a hotbed of expert opinion. Tehui and Enz are actually ...
by tubbyj
Tue Dec 19, 2023 6:49 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Support for National was virtually unchanged at 37.5%, down 0.6% points from the election, while support for ACT increased 3.9% points to 12.5% and support for NZ First was up 1.9% points to 8%. In November support for the defeated Labour-Greens-Maori Party Parliamentary Opposition was at only 36%,...
by tubbyj
Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Support for National was virtually unchanged at 37.5%, down 0.6% points from the election, while support for ACT increased 3.9% points to 12.5% and support for NZ First was up 1.9% points to 8%. In November support for the defeated Labour-Greens-Maori Party Parliamentary Opposition was at only 36%,...
by tubbyj
Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

I came across this article today about how populists around the world encourage mistrust, and I immediately thought about NZF. This specific quote caught my eye, in light of Winston's rhetoric in parliament last week about 'Māori elites' (and tubbyj repeating the same hollow narrative here on PR af...
by tubbyj
Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:39 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

No I said they were facing the prospect of going from millionaires to billionaires with the direction Labour wanted to go. The fact that this has been taken away is why this minority is so angry. In your original post on this subject, you said: What you are seeing is not anger from all Maori but ex...
by tubbyj
Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:26 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51878
Views: 3454575

Re: NZ Politics Thread

No I said they were facing the prospect of going from millionaires to billionaires with the direction Labour wanted to go. The fact that this has been taken away is why this minority of grievance elites are so angry. PS millionaires to billionaires in my original post was obviously hyperbole design...