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merlin the happy pig

The gap between All Black standard and super rugby standard was stark tonight, especially for the Canes. Coles and Ardie Savea were excellent. I can't think of anyone else who did much at all. On second thoughts Reyasi was good. Blues were marginally better overall, but hardly inspiring. Passing mos...

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Chiefs totally disorganized on attack. Not only that their passing was among the worst I've ever seen from a professional side. Hardly once did I see pass someone could run onto. McKenzie sadly looks a spent force after his knee injury. He's not quite Milner Skudder slow, but whereas last year you w...

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Caleb looks like he'll end up a centre at some point... far too skilful to stay on the wing... He is like a combination of Ben Smith and Tana Umaga... always beats the first tackler... has a subtle passing game and is smart... get him in the All Blacks asap... he has ten years in black ahead of him...

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Some fairly conclusive [although not yet peer reviewed] science on aerosol transmission: "How, exactly, does the virus move through a community, a building or a small group of people? Which modes of transmission should concern us most, and how might we stop them?" https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10...

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RMo bought it back in a big way and could rightly claim motm. It’s quite impressive considering he was quite iffy in the first half. Agree with that. That was a game of inches and many times in the first half with some of his stupid kicking of what the f... was that Ritchie. Where as with Codie Tay...

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Crusaders found only one weakness in the Blues game, Taking the high ball. Bridge especially exploited that ruthlessly. For 60 minutes of the game they couldn't find any other way to make the gain line. After an average first half, Mo'unga was irrepressible in the second. Two moments of absolute cla...

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Would be nice to see free movement of players between all countries involved regardless of eligibility for national teams. We (NZ) would have to lose the centralized contracts, but having the franchises under the umbrella of the national unions should still mean we don't see players forced by their ...

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Would we keep The Rugby Championship? The ABs need to be playing top level rugby every year to stay at or near the top, with the Six Nations being set in stone it kind of doesn't leave a lot of choice. I haven't heard anyone talk of dismantling the RC. It's highly profitable, pretty much subsidisin...

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This thread has certainly heated up a bit over the past few days. I can't really figure what people are arguing about? - aside from bazzamacca who is just trying to start fights with other posters. You are all Australian Rugby fans who are passionate about the game. You all want what's best for the...

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Just watching the news about what will happen tomorrow. I'm banking on them extending it, not because it's required, but because no one will want to make the call and risk getting it wrong. Probably the smartest available move given it will hand businesses extra time to tool up for level 3 restrict...

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There's a real risk something like this would be a massive white elephant. Commuting long distances to work will become less and less viable as remote workplace technology improves, and for industries where most workers don't work from home, why would you want to incentivise centralising those in t...

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Remdesivir looking promising. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-remdesivir-trial/index.html Plasma therapy also seems helpful, but scalability would be interesting, 1 recovered person can provide plasma for 3 seriously ill. https://www.jwatch.org/na51335/2020/04/16/convalescent-p...

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I’ll update the 15 (or 23 if we get too many decent options) 1. 2. 3. 4. Courtney Lawes (Black/white) 5. 6. Lewis Ludlam (black/white) 7. Michael Jones (Oceanean/European) 8. 9. 10. Danny Cipriani (White and black) 11. Delon Armitage 12. Jeremy Guscott (Did he play 12 ever?) (white/black) 13. Jonat...

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Haven't looked into the details but you'd have to think NSW is going to be in for a pretty rough time of it. What's a few hundred deaths when compared to the freedom to get your KFC delivered? To be fair, restaurants are all open for delivery and takeaway in QLD as well, and our curve is quite a bi...

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Thinking of all my NZ boets during your lockdown. Some questions for you as an Aussie based poster who may be facing similar conditions in the near future? 1. What's been the worst thing about being in lockdown? 2. Have there been any unexpected positives? 3. Knowing what you know now, how would yo...

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Auckman wrote:Muttonbirds brings up a good point. Tenants are going to be shafted; either owing massive amounts in rent or kicked out after the lockdown period is over.

Would a situation where mass unemployment leads to mass tenant evictions lead to a collapse of the rental market?

And/Or a spate of GBH.

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Appears that Italy is turning the corner.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... try/italy/

Number of new cases and new deaths has dropped for 2 days in a row.
Wonderful news for them if it is sustained.

Hopefully not because they're running out of old people

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If my tenant falls on hard times during this crisis I will be happy to negotiate a lower weekly rent. Not sure about a rent holiday unless it is forced on us but certainly open to lowering the rent to keep a roof over their heads. That's fine but again not the point. The point is the huge discrepan...

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https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca This seems like a pretty solid analysis of the likely actual number of cases vs the official number. Australia with 149 cases is likely to have approx 10 times that number infected but not showing symptoms yet. High...

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Looks like the old bell curve has hit the old going downy end Confirmed cases so far 90,294 Deaths 3,086 People that had it and are now recovered and fine 45,705 So more people that have had it and recovered now outnumbers those that currently have it. This is all not taking into account the bit wh...

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Looks like the old bell curve has hit the old going downy end Confirmed cases so far 90,294 Deaths 3,086 People that had it and are now recovered and fine 45,705 So more people that have had it and recovered now outnumbers those that currently have it. This is all not taking into account the bit wh...

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India to make 150, then bowl the crappers out for 75?
Nothing would surprise me with this test.
We could just as easily roll them for 100 and knock it off with 2 down.

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Hard to see how Southee isn't batting at 11.
When he came onto the scene he actually looked like he could become a decent batsman.

Fantastic Indian bowling, even yesterday when they didn't get a wicket they were relentlessly accurate.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0147-1 Link to paper on different levels of cell receptors among different populations, male/female. The suggestion if I read it correctly is that Han Chinese (prob a proxy for any East Asian) Are more susceptible due to higher number of ACE2 cell receptors...

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Calculus wrote:
merlin the happy pig wrote: Initial reports suggested that South East Asians are more susceptible.

China is not in South East Asia.

Sorry meant East Asian.
Brain fart, no excuse.

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Still finding it difficult to get hyped about the whole tbf. Yes it is said to have a 2-3% fatality rate, but then something like 80% of people just experience moderate illness and then get on with it. So if you take into account people just not bothering to go to the doctor thinking it is just a b...

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Jonah Lomu scored a try off the back of the scrum in a Babarians game.
I think he played at 6 for the game, but my memory is very fuzzy on this.

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They took foot and mouth more seriously. I think they might consider postponing it now that the coronavirus has taken hold in Milan. That said, the idea of being able to contain this virus is laughable. The real goal is surely just to slow it down enough that a vaccine is created, or effective anti...

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I think it's a smart move by AIG. The ABs brand is currently pretty good, but it's medium term future doesn't look that bright. This has little to do with choosing Foster as a coach. (FYI I don't rate him either) Quite simply it's because there doesn't appear to have been any progress made on the is...

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lots of talk about the midfield muddle and Mo'unga vs Barrett as though they were determining factors in our loss to England. They were almost completely irrelevant. What lost the semi-final - Poor lineout throwing - Serious lack of intensity at the tackle - The much hyped pod system where our loose...

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guy smiley wrote:
JPNZ wrote:Fosters name is everywhere on the news sites. Guess the canes better get looking for a coach
All that means is a posse of lazy reporters have swooped on the same rumour.

Usually one of them swoops (actually probably a tip off)
The rest of them just parrot each other.

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Druid wrote:
guy smiley wrote:

I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain

Rocket man surely?

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Guardian, the hate hoax factory

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I hadn't seen this until now... I thought the 1st pitch at Tauranga was good, anytime you get a win by an innings plus is. George Dobell, a senior correspondent for ESPN Cricinfo, made the claim as the second test between New Zealand and England in Hamilton appears to be heading towards a draw. On ...

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Shame he didn't lose to the rocket, headlines would have been much more fun

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Big Nipper wrote:Jordan Peterson is a living, farting spoof

Well you are widely recognized on the board as an authority.

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Some of it isn't anti-vaxxers, but a lack of easy access to get vaccinated . I think they found that to be the case for many of the un-vaccinated members of the worst affected community in Auckland anyway. I'm all for it being compulsory and administered in schools rather than relying on parents to...

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Look sermons all over Australia and the world and all religions would be very controversial by nature so I wouldn't say that what Izzy has said about the bushfires is scandalous. It's more scandalous to report it and spread it in the community. I think Izzy's fixation with the Gay issue is more to ...

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Arguing over a single game like this within the context of Stan's 8 year coaching reign is a little irrelevant... unless we consider that single game as a metaphor for that career. Don't be coming in here all high and mighty using reason and common sense and the like. Not how things are done round ...

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Trigger warning for Australian farmers.

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