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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:12 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 29271
- Views: 2041376
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
In the past 12 or so months I’ve had multiple meetings across Europe and Asia with the likes of EDF, Skoda, Bouyges, Siemens, KEPCO, Samsung, GE Hitachi all discussing the potential for nuclear generation in this country. The feedback from these meetings is always overwhelmingly negative when it co...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
Re: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
:nod: Do people talk about Michael Jordan being developed by the University of North Carolina (where he was 18-21), Raleigh High School (13-17), or Wilmington Junior High (10-12)? This is your precedent case? A player from a different sport? It's a nice universal example, probably the most famous a...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 8584
- Views: 269936
Re: Israel declares state of war
The scumbag Z's seize another 800 hectares for their illegal settlements. https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240326-israel-s-largest-land-seizure-since-oslo-accords-deals-fresh-blow-to-palestinian-statehood Aside from this being a cúnt act in its own right, it's indicative that this Israeli ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 29271
- Views: 2041376
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
Are there any more carparks they can throw money at? The thing is Dutton is getting easy treatment by the media and public because no-one really takes them seriously. But come election time, when people are looking at the Coalition as an alternative government, it will be hard for them to avoid scr...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 8584
- Views: 269936
Re: Israel declares state of war
Uber-yeesh https://youtu.be/_0atzea-mPY?si=LRvYLSJHOZq5y-X7 Sure, sure. But Al jazeera. Just after 25 minutes in, there’s footage of an IDF helicopter pilot stating they couldn’t contact senior officers to help determine which vehicles or groups heading back towards Gaza were terrorists or hostages...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Australian Politics Thread
- Replies: 29271
- Views: 2041376
Re: The Australian Politics Thread
Dutton is not a party Dutton is leader of the opposition who hasn’t come to the table with a single developed policy idea yet. All he’s done is wreck All Dutton has to do is say Yeah nah and Labor, led by that planarian Albo, will develop policy and bills as needed. Legislating while in Opposition;...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2620
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
:thumbup: Yes. When penalties are worth the same as tries, you get better, more interesting rugby None of this dashing about, getting out of breath. How many people watch this clip and secretly are pleased that Charles ‘Charlie’ Charles and his chums actually won. https://youtu.be/LIRFxSU_F6w?si=ZN...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18086
- Views: 818756
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
https://www.loc.gov/static/exhibitions/drawing-justice-courtroom-illustrations/images/objects/political-activists-on-trial/dj0039-enlarge.jpg On point, but too much brown, insufficient orange. Because that's Bobby Seale. As in, Your brother's bound and gagged and they've chained him to a chair.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:15 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
Re: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
I like how the Reds post the schools and junior clubs where players were developed. It would be great if the brumbies could do the same… All they need to add is the hospital they were born in, assuming there was one. Born in a hospital? Posh pricks Be fair. Mum could have been injured in an affray ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
Re: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
OP updated with teams.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
Re: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
Teams usually announced before noon on Thursday so I'll update the OP when I can.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53166
- Views: 2309583
Re: War in Ukraine...
All is not well in the Ukrainian ranks. Danilov has been fired as Secretary of National Security and Defence Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof Zelensky fired Danilov as his national security advisor and appointed instead the head of the external intelligence service, Lytvenenko. Is Zelensky peeved about ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2449
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
This is the bridge in Hobart I mentioned earlier. A bulk carrier struck it, killing 12; five in cars and seven on the ship. If you look closely you can spot two cars dangling over the far edge. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b12a242fdeb909ed01d63c80d7e2f1badd68e742/0_0_3937_2610/master/3937.jpg?widt...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2620
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
The waiting around for another scrum is what makes rugby, rugby? 15% of the game is spent forming scrums - is this what makes rugby, rugby? What is it that makes rugby, rugby, if it’s not one team attacking with the ball while the other defends and competes for possession? Scrums. Lineouts. Rucks. ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
Re: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
It's still a fair way out from the game but OTOH it's still farken raining.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Shogun - A Miniseries of Japan
- Replies: 82
- Views: 8111
Re: Shogun - A Miniseries of Japan
I keep thinking he's doing a Russell Crowe in Master and Commander parody My darling younger daughter gave me a sign-in to a Disney account she inherited so I & Ms MungoSpouse have seen five episodes so far. Excellent show, excellent story-telling & Ms MungoSpouse said the same thing re Jarvis's vo...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2620
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
In my view stopping the score is the reward. Possession should be retained by the attacking team. Like it was for the previous 2 centuries. Indeed. We have a contest for possession in our game. Not a contest for territory like League or gridiron. Gifting it to the opposition for stopping a score is...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2620
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
There is some very rose tinted views on the goal line dropout. It is supposed to stop pick and goes by forwards near the try line, but yet we still see tons of it. Teams are just getting better at recycling the ball if it is short. The game does not stop if we are near the try line. I thought that ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Jeremy Guscott v Manu Tuilagi - who was better?
- Replies: 81
- Views: 1444
Re: Jeremy Guscott v Manu Tuilagi - who was better?
I had it in my mind that Guscott mainly played at 12. He wore 12, but played 13. It's a useful nuance that Bath traditionally never used the 13 shirt due to superstition, numbering 1-12, 14-16. As a result, Guscott wore 14 for Bath and always 12 for both England and the British and Irish Lions in r...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18086
- Views: 818756
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2620
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
It seems that most rugby fans agree with you. The old blokes that wouldn’t want to change a flat tyre are just making noise. Pfft. It's mainly the old folk who are able to do it. Youngsters just whine 'Isn't there an app for this?'. Look at this thread mate. Look at US politics. Look at any country...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2449
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
- Replies: 181
- Views: 2620
Re: Stupid laws world rugby have created in recent years
I'm not personally attacking the scrum when I say I like the drop out. I am attacking unambitious teams keeping possession in excellent positions and doing little with it, being held up and then being rewarded with one of the best options in the game to score a try from. And hey, if they fail they ...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2449
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
That would translate locally as "Not lookin' real good".
EDIT
Many years ago a ship in Hobart took out a span of a bridge over then Derwent but fortunately there weren't lots of cars on it at the time.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP R6 - Highlanders v Hurricanes - Game of the round?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 907
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
Re: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
We're lucky to be invited to play the Reds. I just hope we don't embarass ourselves too badly, and we keep the score under 50. If this rain keeps up I'll be surprised if the combined score hits 50. Definitely a game where I take the rain-jacket. And investigate whether the piss outlets at the groun...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
Re: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
WHERE Switkanthorpe Stadium https://footballgroundguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/glanford-park-scunthorpe-united-fc-1418381119.jpg WHEN Saturday March 30, 2024 at 6.35 AEST, a date which will live in infamy WHO https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTJm_mThIQgQGexTwjycZmUfmt1n...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
- Replies: 39
- Views: 502
SRP Rd 6 - Reds v Brumbies
WHERE Switkanthorpe Stadium https://footballgroundguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/glanford-park-scunthorpe-united-fc-1418381119.jpg WHEN Saturday March 30, 2024 at 6.35 AEST, a date which will live in infamy WHO https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTJm_mThIQgQGexTwjycZmUfmt1n...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sean Maloney - Aus commentator
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1125
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Shogun - A Miniseries of Japan
- Replies: 82
- Views: 8111
Re: Shogun - A Miniseries of Japan
Loving it so far, the Japanese crew really helped with the reality feel, and to give credit where credit is due, the detail James Clavell put into the book. Two things are a pebble in my shoe, it was shot in Canada and looks like it most of the time. Cosmo Jarvis, sounds, and looks, at times like a...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
- Replies: 120
- Views: 2128
Re: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
We’ve had Orcas going on ship sinking rampages too. Slowly but surely the black and white mask is slipping. The last place I’d want to be right now is alone with a zebra. :( Make sure you don't cross one then!! Aye, mark my words, the most conniving, evil, vicious things on earth are vaguely blacki...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53166
- Views: 2309583
Re: War in Ukraine...
But its been a win for the US and her allies. That's too broad and sweeping a generalisation. Even among US allies there have unquestionably been some losers. The de-dollarisation of the world is going be the biggest global change since the end of the Cold War. Winners and losers undecided. But a h...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2024 Boredies - Voting closing. Results Friday
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3423
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sean Maloney - Aus commentator
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1125
Re: Sean Maloney - Aus commentator
Re Maloney: I haven't noticed him much, oddly enough, which must mean he's ceased to irk me.
Not a bad thing.
Not a bad thing.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Bath complete deal for Saffa lock.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 666
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53166
- Views: 2309583
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:44 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
- Replies: 9100
- Views: 284251
Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
It's he that small? Looks way bigger than Williams to me. I suspect FairWeather is speaking comparatively and not absolutely. Williams' peer group of outside back opponents would, AFAIK, be smaller than Toole's. Is that true? Looking at the RC opponents: SA has small wingers NZ has Clarke who is bi...