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by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

I don't think the Greens are in free fall, a couple of bad eggs doesn't mean the whole party is rotten. I just agree with other posters that they set the bar so high with their holier than thou preaching to the rest of us that a couple of incidents as serious as these two makes them look really bad...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:52 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Waterboys crossing the line
Replies: 40
Views: 1024

Re: Waterboys crossing the line

Thought this thread was about Karl Wallinger dying.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:45 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: SRP - R4 Highlanders vs ACT Brumbies
Replies: 38
Views: 488

Re: SRP - R4 Highlanders vs ACT Brumbies

Please give me a link. Easy money if you wanted to whack a thousand on it What’s going on? Has the Highlanders team bus gone over a cliff? If JP is quoting NZ TAB odds, sadly you won't be able to join up and bet with them. Other agencies have the game as a coin toss ($1.95 apiece on B365)
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:54 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread
Replies: 201
Views: 2332

Re: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread

Someone tonight mentioned that Reece had signed overseas this week? Surely that can’t be true? Anyone seen/read anything? I hope not. I understood he was being chased but havn't seen anything confirmed. Don’t quote this but ground rumour mill is in overdrive. He might be waiting to see how he goes ...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:46 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Banksy's anonymity
Replies: 44
Views: 1532

Re: Banksy's anonymity

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by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Moana P v. Rebels
Replies: 34
Views: 483

Re: Moana P v. Rebels

WoodlandsRFC wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:11 am Could be wrong, but was this not because the game had to be moved from Albany at short notice because of the state of the pitch?
Yep. Was still set to be played there until a couple of weeks ago.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Sam Kerr
Replies: 152
Views: 3747

Re: Sam Kerr

I'm the king of reasonableness so I think I've got it about right when I say it wasn't a particularly sensible thing for Sam Kerr to say, and she should reflect on that when it comes to future interactions with the police, but also how the fudge is this even going to trial??
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:52 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

The team he passionately supports , I know he’s your bud Enz ; but now you’re just getting silly. We were all at school . (I wasn't - wrong again) Perhaps you should take a step back . And you and your know-all opinionated bs should take a freaking taxi back but you never will. Why do you think you...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cheltenham 2024
Replies: 50
Views: 2724

Re: Cheltenham 2024

danny_fitz wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:04 pm My money is on Foinavon.
:lol:
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Christian Horner - Who really cares
Replies: 24
Views: 2390

Re: Christian Horner - Who really cares

mr bungle wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:54 am You do like to create threads when posts can easily be made in the threads they relate to.
He posts like a Kiwi version of Coogee.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:21 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Eugenius wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:24 am
Mr Mike wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:06 am
grouch wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:55 am

I've just ground my way through the NZ Rail 2024 half year results.
2024 half year results? Do you have next week’s lotto numbers also?

The New Zealand cup winner ?
Leap To Fame.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Imagine being this much of a pedantic prick
Replies: 21
Views: 2697

Re: Imagine being this much of a pedantic prick

Dobbin wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:33 am :D
:lol:
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Imagine being this much of a pedantic prick
Replies: 21
Views: 2697

Re: Imagine being this much of a pedantic prick

Reminds me of the local judge who denied Hayden Wilde a triathlon gold medal in London Olympics, just for touching his bike helmet strap The London Olympics held when he was 15? Think you mean the Commonwealth Games in a different city in a different year I knew one person would be pedantic and pul...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Mon Feb 05, 2024 4:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Enzedder wrote: Mon Feb 05, 2024 4:03 am Ah, a posh school Volty
I still remember going from Hukanui Primary to Fairfield Intermediate. A bit of a culture shock...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

1960s tuck shops were soooo much better than the lot you lot are quoting above. Pies, sausage rolls, buzz bars and soft drinks. The rest can piss off. My standard order on bought lunch day at Hukanui Primary in the mid-late 1980s was a sausage roll, an apple turnover and a Big M chocolate milk. Tak...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:31 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Changing tac a bit, does anyone have any updated figures on how compliance to the healthy homes standards is going? I watched a special on Fair Go last year that said despite labour bringing in the healthy homes standards about 5 years earlier at that point, only just over 50% of rental properties ...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:07 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Successful players who switch code
Replies: 95
Views: 4033

Re: Successful players who switch code

That said, potentially a better bowler than the likes of Robert Kennedy, Kerry Walmsley, Warren Wisnewski and Andrew Penn, who all popped up in BC colours during his time in rugby...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:54 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Successful players who switch code
Replies: 95
Views: 4033

Re: Successful players who switch code

Yes. Which is why I said he didn't play tests. Was he good enough to play tests if he had concentrated on cricket instead to trying to do both and eventually concentrating on rugby? Hard to say. He was more focussed on rugby by the time he debuted in cricket. But he has pretty strong cricket roots....
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Successful players who switch code
Replies: 95
Views: 4033

Re: Successful players who switch code

Eugenius wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 1:55 am A couple of one dayers no ?
Yes. Which is why I said he didn't play tests.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Successful players who switch code
Replies: 95
Views: 4033

Re: Successful players who switch code

Too much recentism - so, to add some history... Don Clarke - played a bit of rugby and was also a fast bowler for Auckland and ND Vic Pollard - played a bit of cricket and football for NZ Mark Burgess played some cricket and was also NZ footballer of the year George Nepia - Rugby and League Inga Tu...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Successful players who switch code
Replies: 95
Views: 4033

Re: Successful players who switch code

Eric Tindill - test cricketer, All Black, international rugby referee, test cricket umpire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Tindill
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:54 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Australia's greatest sporting moment?
Replies: 104
Views: 3414

Re: Australia's greatest sporting moment?

He's... British?
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:44 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Australia's greatest sporting moment?
Replies: 104
Views: 3414

Re: Australia's greatest sporting moment?

Has to be the Americas cup win doesn't it? Certainly in terms of the global expectation and history of the sport to that point No, cause the America's Cup is a f**king load of shit. Aussies have woken up to it being an extreme elite sport plied by rich owners dabbling in a hobby crewed by who you k...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:30 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Successful players who switch code
Replies: 95
Views: 4033

Re: Successful players who switch code

Jarryd Hayne was a successful rugby league player who tried to make a go of it in the NFL.

Turns out he wasn't too good at that, but he was pretty handy at ... RAPING. [/Norm MacDonald voice]
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Thu Jan 18, 2024 6:55 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Byron Kelleher still punching his Mrs
Replies: 17
Views: 1391

Re: Byron Kelleher still punching his Mrs

It's always been well known around Dunedin that he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Not that intelligence necessarily translates to domestic violence but...

Anyhoo, he seems like a piece of shit
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:41 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Your least favourite rugby stadium
Replies: 58
Views: 2280

Re: Your least favourite rugby stadium

No better rugby viewing stadium in NZ than Forsyth Barr Stadium. FACT.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Australia's greatest sporting moment?
Replies: 104
Views: 3414

Re: Australia's greatest sporting moment?

I voted for Cathy Freeman's gold medal win. I still remember screaming and crying when she won and hearing people screaming across the suburb. The 2000 Olympics 200m freestyle relay was also great. Klim broke the world record in his leg of the race and Thorpe came home to smash the USA at the end. ...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:49 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

The most depressing thing could be what her story may tell us about the state of mental health services in NZ. And the idiots with their threats and access to the internet. We really are a f**ked up country if what she says is even half correct. After the Ardern disclosures, I fear she is being hon...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Penny Wong heading to the Middle East
Replies: 28
Views: 2365

Re: Penny Wong heading to the Middle East

Slim 293 wrote: Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:16 am :|

I'm sure this deserved its own thread...
Old El Flash has a habit of thinking that every single one of his internal musings needs a thread of its own on the Planet Rugby forum.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:30 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Your favourite Rugby Stadium
Replies: 48
Views: 3387

Re: Your favourite Rugby Stadium

From the ones I've worked at: Premiership: Franklin's Gardens, hon mention for the Rec 6N: Principality by a mile Europe: La Rochelle or UBB Test: Kings Park Durban or Carisbrook . Best grub: Gloucester Twickenham Ernst-Mayol Worst grub: Aviva Cardiff Murrayfield Best Parking: Twickenham or Lille W...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:43 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Smell ya later, Muttonflaps.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Sun Jan 14, 2024 12:50 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RIP to the great JPR.
Replies: 68
Views: 9074

Re: RIP to the great JPR.

Won't be missed.





Oh sorry, I thought this was a belated thread about the departure from this bored of that miserable Scottish poster JRP.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Given you seem very keen to move on from your wee corner, can I assume that your naming of Golriz Ghahraman a "Golly G" is either racist or misogynistic, or both? Well her first name is Gol riz so abbreviating it to Golly doesn't seem that unreasonable. And her surname begins with G so Golly G make...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:39 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Best Al Bundy quotes.
Replies: 18
Views: 2203

Re: Best Al Bundy quotes.

mojo wrote: Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:57 am
And who could go past the Bundy family motto?

"Hooters, Hooters, Yum, Yum, Yum. Hooters, Hooters, on a girl that's dumb. "
Isn't that the motto for the No Ma'am Club?
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Christmas/NY plans. Thoroughly enjoyed a few days in Christchurch after the direct SFO to CHC flight, terrific new route, and flying into Nelson tomorrow for the Black Caps game before spending Christmas in Blenheim. Later I’ve got a full day fishing charter out of Picton and lots of vineyard visit...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Sat Dec 16, 2023 8:47 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Flying up to Mt Maunganui/Papamoa on the afternoon of the 22nd, will catch up with Dad over in Tamahere at some point, then back to Wellington on the morning of the 28th. Only non-stat day I'm taking off is the 28th, as I used up my leave on my month-long UK holiday, and need to save a few days for ...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Dec 08, 2023 7:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Yes it is. Or, in the words of that great orator Willie Jackson, "They're useless Maoris!" (He literally described David Seymour this way earlier this year). EDIT: Actually it was last year looking at the date of that story. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/466863/jackson-defends-calling-seymou...
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:42 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Tori Whanau ...Booze Hound
Replies: 58
Views: 3198

Re: Tori Whanau ...Booze Hound

Can't believe the grief Tory is getting for this. During a cost of living crisis, she should be applauded for providing relief to a ratepayer.
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:55 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51671
Views: 3437515

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Eugenius wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 8:01 am Once Chris Bishop came into the Gallery , I asked him if he had “a spare ciggie mate” , he didn’t laugh , but a couple of my workmates did .
Classic. You would have been the toast of the gallery that night!




:proud:
by Ghost-Of-Nepia
Fri Nov 24, 2023 8:36 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Oscar Pistorius case: South Africa prosecutors to appeal
Replies: 103
Views: 14844

Re: Oscar Pistorius case: South Africa prosecutors to appeal

"Ah daont need to luk at tha fowtow! Ah saw ut wuth ma own ahhs!"