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- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Crusaders 2024 Thread
- Replies: 717
- Views: 66119
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.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:22 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread
- Replies: 201
- Views: 2335
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.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread
- Replies: 201
- Views: 2335
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...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18394
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18394
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 ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 18394
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...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Crusaders vs Waratahs Match Thread
- Replies: 122
- Views: 6655
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.
No wonder our U20s were shit last season.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qytak5-JUuE
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Farce v Hurricanes
- Replies: 67
- Views: 2057
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.
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 3:36 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Pie Makers of Auckland
- Replies: 134
- Views: 10293
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...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SA D side vs NZ A team test cricket
- Replies: 423
- Views: 13859
Re: SA D side vs NZ A team test cricket
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- Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Crusaders 2024 Thread
- Replies: 717
- Views: 66119
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.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Super Rugby 2024 Pre-Season Fixtures
- Replies: 101
- Views: 6549
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...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 810
- Views: 59994
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 ...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 12:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: I post a nice tune from youtube, you post one back
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7791
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Blues returning optimism 2024 Thread
- Replies: 170
- Views: 29233
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 ...
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 9:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:51 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 1:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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 ...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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 ...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 6:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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%,...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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%,...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:39 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 12:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
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 designe...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:05 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I was today years old when I learned that collogue was a word. Thank you for the compliment. Nothing like attacking my spelling as a concession you can't argue with my point. Your insecurities are showing. I attacked nothing and have stated no position. I simply enjoyed the fact that a typo added a...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Go to any NZ University. Every department has had budgets cut and staff asked to do the work of their collogues who are left and not replaced. All except one department in every NZ Uni. Can you guess which one? I assume this post was intended for me. Is that really your evidence to back up your pre...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Go to any NZ University. Every department has had budgets cut and staff asked to do the work of their collogues who are left and not replaced. All except one department in every NZ Uni. Can you guess which one? Whether you like them or not there is no denying Peter and Seymour have gained their posi...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 7:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 51671
- Views: 3437888
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Question for everyone, do you think we could see civil unrest in NZ over the next 3 to 9 years? And by this I mean violent protest and looting like we have seen in the US. Willie Jackson predicted we would see scenes " 10 times worse than anything we saw during the 1981 Springbok Tour. Is it a cred...
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 810
- Views: 59994
Re: All Blacks 2024
It seems simply enough to me. Richie Mounga's agent asked for offers from overseas and got money that was considerably more than NZR was able or willing to pay. Beauden Barret's agent asked for offers and got a okay offer for a year then money considerably lower than NZR was willing to offer. Overse...