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You telling me Bimbo got it wrong about RBPT only applying stickers to engines? :P Well, technically he's wrong about that for the existing Honda units as well. The RBPTH003 (and the 002 and 001) before it leave the factory in Sakura with the RBPT sticker pre-applied. The guys at RBPT in MK don't t...

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To the best of my knowledge, Pollock has never started a senior match at 6. I don't think he's started an U21 match at 6 either. You're absolutely right, and I was waiting for someone to spot it. My patent-pending analysis method needs work, because it doesn't account for hybrid roles (lock/flank o...

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Where is the engine being cast? MK. RB spent an absolute fortune on the powertrain facility. Ford are onboard to provide EV expertise EDIT - most of the senior personnel at RBPT are ex AMG HPP. These are people who are serious about designing and building engines You telling me Bimbo got it wrong a...

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To the best of my knowledge, Pollock has never started a senior match at 6. I don't think he's started an U21 match at 6 either.

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You know the engine from Honda was built and supplied by Honda and so far RB power trains haven’t built an engine. Tell you what, where is the engine “cast” if it’s red bulls. They are supposed to be working on the new engine bud...Where's the proof they haven't been working on the new engine and i...

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So, England unchanged. India leave out Bumrah, Sudharsan, and Thakur. Stokes wins the toss and opts to bowl first

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Boeing should be f-cked to be fair. I try to avoid flying their planes whenever possible. Not because I think they will crash, I just don't want to reward their price-cutting and corner-cutting that costs lives. It's not Boeing any more. It's been taken over by the accountants who were running McDo...

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How does Oz manage to spend 75% as much as France? There's no way we exert 75% as much force. Because the Defense department here is one of the worst in the world for buying Platinum plated shite we don't need M1 Abrams anyone - that can't operate in the Northern areas where they would be needed.. ...

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There's a lit of BS doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment Anyway, an update of known info. The AAIB decided that they would have a crack at dealing with the black boxes themselves, so they were flown my India military transport to Delhi, where apparently after some effort they managed to extrac...

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On further inspection, this report is coming from a known fake report doing the rounds

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Noise coming out from Boeing / NTSB that this could be a dual FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) failure, in the context of electrical transition from ground to in-flight mode. Cause of failure would be an arcing in the main power relay box linked to water ingress during pre-flight groun...

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So - when it's hot

Mclaren
Daylight
Ferrari
Daylight
Daylight
More dyalight
Mercedes
Rest of field.

If Verstappen doesn't crash out then he probably slots somwhere between Daylight and Daylight behind the Ferraris

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FAO Red Bull. This is why designing a car that only one of your drivers can actually drive is a bad idea

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RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Sun Jun 29, 2025 2:47 pm Despise having to watch this on the pc.

Can you not cast to a TV? Or install the app on TV? I've only ever watched Rugbypass on a TV screen

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I'm impressed that Piastri has managed to keep his tyres together

Or - maybe not

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Never seen a car continue to have brakes as hot as that before. So long afterwards and it still was on fire. yeah - while the brakes were clearly on fire, something seemed to be feeding the issue - maybe hydraulics given how much trouble Sainz seemed to have getting the car to move in the first pla...

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What a farce

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Scorchio in Austria today - 30-32 degrees air temp, 42-50 track. You would expect that to favour that Papayas, while Mercedes will go backwards at a rate of knots. Depending on just how bad the temps hurt the tyres we could end up with three stops. Alos a very real possibility for a Yellow flag with...

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message #2527204 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 29, 2025 11:03 am Matches are on rugbypass, which is a joke after last week's cockup on the England/France warm up fixture?

They had the last Rugby U20 World Cup on Rugbypass IRC, as well as some other stuff - It's generally been fine

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Thinking of doing something a little bit different/riskier for a break with the wife in September Anyone ever done Albania or Montenegro Any thoughts/rcommendations I'm sat in Kotor now. Montenegro isn't exactly risky, but is phenomenally beautiful. I work in travel, so am privileged to explore a l...

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Bear in mind we're only a few days away from the next stage of Liberation Day tariffs - the next week or two could be more than a bit unpredictable. Would you sell your stuff in anticipation though? I've already sold out all of my ISA stocks and the whole account is currently cash earning at 4.35%....

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Bear in mind we're only a few days away from the next stage of Liberation Day tariffs - the next week or two could be more than a bit unpredictable.

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bimboman wrote: ↑Sat Jun 28, 2025 9:14 pm Spencer’s black mark being the Farrell and wigglesworth are wit kant.

Well yeah. But as Wiggy has failed upwards into a Lions coaching job the chances of Spencer getting a lookin are somewhat less than zero

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expensive submarines? it wouldn't be 75% all the time You bear me to it! :lol: Yeah, nah ... It could be none of the time, tout de suite.The submarines don't exist. Cancel Aukus? The silver linings if Australia's $239 billion submarine deal with the US gets scrapped Sholto Byrnes -- East Asian affa...

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There's got to be serious problems at Red Bull. They can't have reasonable second drivers simply vanishing behind a gaggle of mid-table cars. For once, Tsunoda was actually quite close to Verstappen. It's pretty unusual that being 0.25s behind your teammate in P7 will see you getting knocked out in...

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Well, that went largely as expected. You had a side who looked like they'd just met. They were rusty, there were errors, they forced things that weren't on. And the Lions put that side away without really breaking a sweat. Some unstructured positives. - Sheehan is such a baller. - I've defended Dal...

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Ps: though that win was more a case of talent over cohesion. Defence was all over the shop in particular. Lot of work to be done. Well, yeah. Attack comes together faster than defence. This lot haven't been together anywhere near long enough yet for the defence to be cohesive. By nest weekend I'd b...

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Result largely as expected. Not as dominant performance as last time these teams met by the Lions but restarts apart they will be reasonably happy. Pollock and Daley best for me. Scrum not as dominant as probably expected. Just looking back through game comments. I thought Pollock was good, great r...

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Williams injured today and JGP still not 100% wonder if we’ll lose JVP this weekend? Ben White? Probably should be, but JVP got the last call up so has been in camp. Obviously White wasn’t available at that point… Wasn't that at least because the English squad was just down the road? So drafting th...

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A quick review of the Lions fans in the crowd and the average age appears to be 60 years old Almost like boomers have loads of money and no one else does to spend 5k on a jolly. I prised a package deal for the tour. Think it was €20k. Spending money about €5k I imagine. If I'd known I was going to ...

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Putting a Barbarians side together is tough enough as it is, but in a Lions season it really is a hiding to nothing.

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Brutal words from Justice Barrett regarding Justice Jackson. Justice Amy Coney Barrett had pointed words on Friday for her colleague Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, accusing Jackson of taking an "extreme" position on the role of the judiciary branch. Writing in her Supreme Court opinion on nationwid...

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Trade talks with Canada fail; new tariffs with Canada to be announced within 7 days (makes a change from two weeks) The Chinese say "kill the chicken to frighten the monkeys". Yeah - but the idea is really to pick a complete nothing chicken that you can do without. Contrary to Trumpian belief, Cana...

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We all await the decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc. (combined with Trump v. New Jersey and Trump v. Washington) with great interest. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf One small step for the court, one giant leap towards authoritarianism for the orange cvnt. If there ever is a...

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Norris proves he's not a world champion in the making in one single move. That was f**king dumb - there wasn't even a hint of a gap There has to be a point where he is told he is number 2 to a Piastri WC challenge. I think there is also a case to say.. can we all hold on a bit with all the calls ab...

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Trade talks with Canada fail; new tariffs with Canada to be announced within 7 days (makes a change from two weeks)

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Willis really was the ideal Doris replacement, he's an upright runner like Conan and Doris- Earl isn't a good fit. Pollock is still an enigma for me- his stats don't lie so it's on me not watching him properly. The thing with Henry is umpteen-millionth-fold (I was going to say two fold, or three fo...

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Archer added to the squad for the 2nd match, starting next Wed

Ben Stokes (captain)
Jacob Bethel
Ben Duckett
Zak Crawley
Ollie Pope
Joe Root
Harry Brook
Jamie Smith (wicketkeeper)
Chris Woakes
Brydon Carse
Josh Tongue
Jofra Archer
Sam Cook
Jamie Overton
Shoaib Bashir.

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He's a bit battered, and I'm not sure they'll take him to oz. Rehan is hardly bowling now... Though i don't think he's opening any more? Hartley maybe? Leach is a fighter though... and if no one else... This is the crux of the issue there is no obvious candidate Leach, Hartley, Ahmed all have signi...

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