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towny

I've not attended too many games in London or Dublin, but I found Dublin to be a far better experience for heading out after the game.

towny

How DARE you?!

towny

8.5kg down, stubborn fat deposits on hips & lower belly remain. Gonna keep cutting till end of November & see where I get to. Would estimate me at somewhere between 18-20%bf. :thumbup: I’ve been heading the other way - need to sort my shit out, but my wife keeps baking and I work from home too much.

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Anyone here able to do a muscle up? My pb for pull ups is 14 (although the last one was kind of iffy) and for chin ups is 15, but I'm nowhere close to a muscle up. Think I need to get some resistance bands so I can practice the part of the movement where you pull the bar to below your chest/level w...

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In England they are banning heading in youth football because of dementia risk... https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/c97z8dm7g11o Italian players must head the ball more, eh? Wasn't that MND? Or dementia too? Apparently five members of the England 1966 World Cup-winning side were diagnosed wi...

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Skelton didn’t return to the field after this tackle and I’m sure that few Australians will be surprised that this TMO failed to pick it up.

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Not a good week for ‘Dr’ Mike Israetel :o If you’re not aware… 1. Solomon Nelson, who turns out is an Aussie Fitness Industry analyst, got his hands on Dr Mike’s Phd dissertation and absolutely shredded it. https://youtu.be/elLI9PRn1gQ?si=nkI4WQmqhlrOnbE4. 2. Milo Wolfe interviews Mike and gives hi...

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Yeah they recommend school kids don't do headers now and its been banned in some places. But it appears to be only the Italian pro soccer players that have the high incidence. In England they are banning heading in youth football because of dementia risk... https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/...

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Not a good week for ‘Dr’ Mike Israetel :o If you’re not aware… 1. Solomon Nelson, who turns out is an Aussie Fitness Industry analyst, got his hands on Dr Mike’s Phd dissertation and absolutely shredded it. https://youtu.be/elLI9PRn1gQ?si=nkI4WQmqhlrOnbE4. 2. Milo Wolfe interviews Mike and gives him...

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Terribly sad news. The neck/head axis is the weak spot. The concussive battering of the upper body and effect on the spine and hence the brain is hard to mitigate against. Is that so? There is evidence that Italian pro soccer players develop MND at rates far higher than the general population (up t...

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Terribly sad news. The neck/head axis is the weak spot. The concussive battering of the upper body and effect on the spine and hence the brain is hard to mitigate against. Is that so? There is evidence that Italian pro soccer players develop MND at rates far higher than the general population (up t...

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Losing Skelton early was crucial - on top of that we saw two Yellow Cards, which served to drain the tank. Without the likes of bench regulars Bell and Tate, there was far less PoW available to the Wallabies in the second half.

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Well the RC wasn't sidelined for this tour, there wasn't a RC next year. The RC agreement ended this year. Well according to the CEO of RA. Also interesting he seemed to suggest Aus and Argoes get a cut of broadcast for it. The agreements are always for a period of time - the RC and TRC have been ‘...

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Jeff the Bear wrote: ↑Sat Oct 04, 2025 10:59 am I like welcome to country.

On another note, how hilarious is it to have the game on the edge of a dessert, and then have it piss down.

Desert, eh?
Perth gets about the same amount of rain as London.

towny

Is this kicking off now? Sky Sports (UK) are showing highlights of women's rugby league instead of the match if it's on. Saying 15mins to KO on my feed, assuming 11:00 and not 10:45 start. I think it will be like 8.05pm or 8.10pm here in Qld. How hard is it to let viewers know what time the game ac...

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ymx wrote: ↑Sat Oct 04, 2025 10:53 am Oh god. Welcome to country.

This is so flipping cringe

Time for the haka, eh?

towny

It'd pretty much be mismanagement if a commercial organisation announced that they were going to work with their future competition. Not to mention how much it would work to put their pro clubs at a disadvantage in player contract negotiations. Whether or not nations select players signed to R360 fo...

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I think they mean expanding the brand by playing a Bok/AB test at Twickers as part of tour. Same as why do you think the Irish test is being played in Chicago next month. I think it sounds like corporate yoga-babble. The kind of shit one might hear from a try-hard, suspenders-wearing, first-year bu...

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I think it sounds like corporate yoga-babble. The kind of shit one might hear from a try-hard, suspenders-wearing, first-year business consultant at a f*ckwit bar between Jaeger bombs . I’m not particularly thrilled by the idea of an extended tour of someone we regularly play every year or against ...

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I actually like that Hooper retains his starting spot and they’re bringing Valetini off the bench considering he’s been in and out of the squad with that hammy issue… Hooper has been consistently the Wallabies’ best forward this year, and it sucks he’s heading overseas now. Wilson is also having a ...

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I’d almost be confident if Tate and Bell were on the bench.

towny

I mean Razor's winning percentage as Head Coach is still higher than Rassie's, but I agree his team has performed below the expectation of North island based trolls who have Razor Derangement Syndrome after watching his Crusaders molest their nothing-franchises year in year out.. I think he's perfo...

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That would have been a politically unsafe position. The provinces of Auckland, Taranaki and Wellington would have rioted, with the NZ rugby media led by fanboi in chief Marc Hinton actively seeking to unseat Robertson on day one. I find this part of your sentence baffling, almost the entire NZ rugb...

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Wilson is not better than Valetini ffs. I love the guy but that’s straight up crazy talk. Joe Schmidt thinks he’s a better 8. Apparently so much so he named him captain. You must know more than Joe Schmidt. I don’t think that’s the case at all. Obviously Joe wants them both in the team - why not pl...

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Wilson is not better than Valetini ffs. I love the guy but that’s straight up crazy talk.

towny

I think they mean expanding the brand by playing a Bok/AB test at Twickers as part of tour. Same as why do you think the Irish test is being played in Chicago next month. I think it sounds like corporate yoga-babble. The kind of shit one might hear from a try-hard, suspenders-wearing, first-year bu...

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I think people should stop obsessing about the numbers on the jerseys of the backs. The number on the jerseys aren't going to correlate with where players are positioned at every facet. Keeping in mind that Jordie Barrett played at 14 in defense in Bledisloe 1, with Carter defending in the centre's...

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I can't imagine there are any unintended consequences from such a rule..... One thing I noticed is the admission from Conrad Smith (who somehow has rocketed to the top of sports administration) that rugby's guidelines around head contact have seen NO reduction in the number of concussions. I'd be i...

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How exactly does NZR profit from 'expanding the brand' to South Africa? Is there something actually in this or is it just more Goog Harrison-esque, corporate yoga babble? I think they mean expanding the brand by playing a Bok/AB test at Twickers as part of tour. Same as why do you think the Irish t...

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I can't imagine there are any unintended consequences from such a rule.....
One thing I noticed is the admission from Conrad Smith (who somehow has rocketed to the top of sports administration) that rugby's guidelines around head contact have seen NO reduction in the number of concussions.

towny

How exactly does NZR profit from 'expanding the brand' to South Africa?
Is there something actually in this or is it just more Goog Harrison-esque, corporate yoga babble?

towny

North Carolina is a parasitic state that receives billions more from the fed than it contributes.

towny

Always a good comp :thumbup: Unlikely to unveil any superstars in hiding, but important for the community game, so important for rugby :thumbup: Not superstars but both the force and rebels have taken players on training contracts/trials from this comp in the past. There you go! A good chance to un...

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Based on rumours ive heard/read. 1. Slipper 2. Pollard 3. TT 4. Frost 5. Skelton 6. Hooper 7. Mcreight 8. Wilson 9. Gordon 10. Edmed 11. Dungers 12. Lenny 13. JAS 14. Anti Trans 15. Jorgo 16. Bpa 17. Bell 18. 7As 19. Williams 20. Valetini 21. Longers 22. JOC 23. Flook Jesus! That's some bomb-squad!

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Yeah, I'm worried about the AB tour of SA next year. Does NZR realise that this will mean 3am Rugby for over a month. They're boasting about mid-week tour games, but who is waking up at 3am to watch the AB's play the Blue Bulls? Next year is looking shit for AB fans in NZ and Australia who like wat...

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boere wors wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:09 am
assfly wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:00 am What kick-off time in SA would be best for viewing in NZ?
9 a.m.

Which is 8 p.m. in NZ

Edit: too late. But realistically, the later the kick off in SA, the better for the NZers

A 8pm kick-off in South Africa would be a 7am kick-off in NZ.

towny

That's true, but there's a big difference. The Samoan and Tongan players are basically all Australians and kiwi residents/citizens that are well known to NRL fans. There are obviously big differences. And yes the players in Toa Samoa and Mate Ma'a Tonga are all based overseas. But so are all the Ma...

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assfly wrote: ↑Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:00 am What kick-off time in SA would be best for viewing in NZ?

9am = 7pm New Zealand time

towny

Yeah, I do drop sets with dumb-bells and cables, also superset them with shrugs on pull day and also do a mechanical drop set with the lat raise machine (straight arm to failure then bent arms to failure). I also do front delt work even though a lot of people say it's not necessary as they get stim...

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Uncle FB is misinformed. Its been common knowledge that he is playing NPC because he made himself unavailable for Manu Samoa. I don't blame him. Why earn nothing playing for Samoa when he can earn $50-$60K playing NPC? His family is Samoan based, and that's a lot of money for a Samoan family. As an...

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