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towny

Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 8:52 am
shanky wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 5:30 am Please don’t bother speaking to me unless you’re willing to apologise first.
I apologise for my comment last week. I didn't mean to be offensive, I was trying to be funny, but upon reflection I understand why my comment may have been offensive to you and so I apologise for that.

Good man

towny

shanky wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 8:24 am
towny wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 8:23 am I’m about to walk up to two blokes, who I presume worked in Catering Corps in the Korean War, and ask if they’re from the internet.
Do it!

It’s Queensland mate. Gotta be careful. I believe that’s one of the occasions when it’s okay to glass someone.

towny

I’m about to walk up to two blokes, who I presume worked in Catering Corps in the Korean War, and ask if they’re from the internet.

towny

One cannot help but feel that Jeremy Clarkson, as talented as he is, would be deeply embarrassed by this whole thing.

It’s akin to saying that the dude that runs Reddit is better at technology products than Steve Jobs.

towny

Righto

I'm at the pub. Wearing a dark blue t-shirt sitting outside near the front gate.

towny

Perhaps the issue isn’t the scrums, but the minute wasted before them as the players slowly form up. They just stand there - scrums aren’t making props tired because they involve a breather. Plus, some teams deliberately mess with the setting of scrums to drag them out and waste time and slow the ga...

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I should be easy enough to spot https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamespot.com%2Fa%2Fuploads%2Fscreen_kubrick%2F1597%2F15976769%2F4163932-ryan-goslings-song-im-just-ken-from-barbie-movie-v0-oho2cnqwcgh3nwjimch7okz64gbc9y0damgxmcg2-z4ppnjx6if2fzychz07.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=...

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Not sure I like the option of removing the scrum option from a free kick. Sounds like a way of avoiding the real issue - better reffing of the scrum. On the topic, I saw this posted https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNJyTrXX0AAsYMG?format=jpg&name=900x900 Incredible how much the game has changed in the 3...

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I remember standing next to Fitzy and Drake I think it was in 1987... they were my height... though wider... not that big... they'd never make the front row these days... They’d make it; however they’d make it via many years of weight training and better nutrition. Yeah probably right... though eve...

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I'd love to see stats for "Length of time scrums took" In 1987... 5 seconds.... in 2023... 5 minutes.... :nod: Yeah it would be something like that. Props weren't unnaturally big then. Most props back then were smaller than hookers now days. I remember standing next to Fitzy and Drake I think it wa...

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Not comparable. RFR is a comedy with Simon Pegg at his best. Yesterday is a beige romcom with a Beatles tribute. It's grand. This. If you don't like the Beatles (or are ambivalent to them), it's not for you. If you like the Beatles it's a fun watch without taxing any brain cells. I love the Beatles...

towny

Zakar wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 10:06 am
shanky wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:32 am

That’s awful.
Yep.

Thankfully, life turned out really well for him, incredible surfer and made a real go of the LA thing, but it was millimetres from being otherwise.

I also had a mate that played 7/8 and had his neck broken playing for Randwick.

towny

Updated OP So where do we meet before this big game? Who’s in? I'm in. Might be a few mates coming along. Common Ground, Scratch and Newstead are all the good beer options nearby. Certainly are. If towny is walking / getting the train from the CBD, either of Newstead or Common Ground would be easy-...

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Thomas wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 6:01 am I could be keen for a beer at lunch if anyone is looking to tie one on.

Jesus. That makes for a long day.
But I’m in.

towny

If the Rebels do go cactus, then the brumbies should definitely take their catchment and move to Melbourne. No one supports them in Canberra anyway, and the brumbies system overlayed an actual jr pathway would be a good combo. Rebrand as the Southern Brumbies, with half their games played in Canber...

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The NRL is 18 pro clubs with big budgets and decades of professionalism. They don’t get involved in grassroots - another organisation does that. The EPL doesn’t do grassroots. Neither does the NBA. Not 100% correct. It's true that the NRL don't run junior competitions or festivals, the state bodies...

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Seen on Twitter. What memories :lol: https://x.com/jamiewall2/status/1788364623919611977?s=46&t=GwNlOJ3522AwJhmbjqe2GQ I was at that match. On the hill after starting the day with a steak and plenty of beers at midday. Damien Smith got sent off after 12 minutes but QLD still won and would win every...

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The NRL is 18 pro clubs with big budgets and decades of professionalism. They don’t get involved in grassroots - another organisation does that. The EPL doesn’t do grassroots. Neither does the NBA. Until recently, the 5 Oz SR teams were managed by organisations that also has the role to manage the g...

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Jtah wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 2:10 am There’s also another option for Australian talent that doesn’t need to go to NSW boarding schools, which is to go to NZ for the last two years of high school.

Seems expensive.

towny

Smartest team in world rugby, among other reasons.

towny

Seen on Twitter. What memories :lol: https://x.com/jamiewall2/status/1788364623919611977?s=46&t=GwNlOJ3522AwJhmbjqe2GQ One of the worst thing rugby has done is outlaw a deserved punch. Fans want to see it. Give them what they want. Look at ice hockey or think about what enabled SOO to cut through.

towny

Add Hewlett-Packard to the list of great engineering companies that are now kaput after being financially engineered into oblivion. Slightly different but almost any product that was any good and was acquired by CA eventually disappeared into oblivion. Tbf, Hewlett-Packard’s business model meant th...

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Fark! Brumbies’ fans, eh? Qatar AFC has more locals in their lineup.

towny

Updated OP

So where do we meet before this big game? Who’s in?

towny

shanky wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:56 am
towny wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:38 am
shanky wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:31 am

Sinatra?

Michael Buble, more like

I’ll take it.

I know

F*ck you

towny

Thomas wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:45 am
shanky wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:28 am And some kind of random, capricious limit on Brumbies players to be included

Let's say "no more than 5 allowed"

Just to keep things interesting
Or maybe we can only allow Brumbies players who were raised and nurtured by the ACT system.

towny

I liked it.
Apparently Paul McCartney knocked back a cameo because he thought it was going to suck but regretted it once it was released.

towny

Bindi wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:25 am Interesting Tate's on the bench.

Tate hasn’t been great this year - Thomas’ last 2 games were very good.

towny

shanky wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 12:31 am
towny wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 10:53 am Crikey. Look at you lot! Dusting off your lounge suits for a night out! I guess it’s like when Sinatra came to town.

Thomas has dibs on the first shout AFAIK.
Sinatra?

Michael Buble, more like

I’ll take it.

towny

If the Aussies could pass to the man, or in front of the player they will be a much better attacking side. Good to see them contesting the lineouts and fronting up in the collisions. BIG difference is they still look like boys, when you watch U20 6 Nations they are far ahead in their steroid cycles...

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So we don't need to worry about young rugby players going to League, if they make it to U20 level? It’s an interesting point. Who was the last u20 player that went to the NRL? Mark N is the obvious one but I'd be surprised if there were no other less well known known rugby players that went to leag...

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Pleasing to see the Wright-for-captain bandwagon is gathering speed He doesn’t play for the Brumbies so not everyone will be on board but most of the rest don’t have any conflicts so can get behind this. I certainly can. I'm also behind not having any players from the Force or Rebels in the Wallabi...

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Get selected for the WBs ahead of Hanigan seems to be one thing If Schmidt is a man of steak over sizzle, then he will be. He'll also have the (C) after his name. Wrongers has been killing it this season. Possibly the best performing Australian forward. McReight and Wright are having their best sea...

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I would like to see a Melbourne Rebels team join the Shute Shield. Well I’d prefer each “Super” team to be a rep team of club comps. Dewar Shield produces the Rebels/Axemen. Perth produces the Force. Sydney has catchment areas with 2/3 teams. Hospital cup 2 etc. Build a proper pyramid. Sydney needs...

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Was there footage of him tearing it up as a schoolboy that went viral, or am I thinking of some tall lanky league teen? I think that was Joseph Suaali’i. He’ll also be at the Tahs next year, and he’ll be close to the highest paid rugby player in the world; despite not playing a game since he left s...

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Fair enough but League have signed a few junior Wallabies. The 2 examples I can think of are Mark Nawaqanitawase and Jared Warea Hargreaves who played for Australian U20/U19, signed with super rugby teams and were later poached by League. These two examples being fifteen years apart... So we don't ...

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Who is this? Max Jorgensen - 3 years for $1.6m + match payments. Dropped and played for Randwick last week. Was there footage of him tearing it up as a schoolboy that went viral, or am I thinking of some tall lanky league teen? I think that was Joseph Suaali’i. He’ll also be at the Tahs next year, ...

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I would like to see a Melbourne Rebels team join the Shute Shield.

towny

I wouldn’t describe the VRU as a high performing organisation. Talent finds its way through in spite of. What we’ve seen work really well is the replication of Super at the junior level. My concern earlier was that the Rebels brand is all over jr development. Without an elite team to aspire to acad...

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I wouldn’t describe the VRU as a high performing organisation. Talent finds its way through in spite of. What we’ve seen work really well is the replication of Super at the junior level. My concern earlier was that the Rebels brand is all over jr development. Without an elite team to aspire to acad...

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