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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52609
- Views: 3504855
Re: NZ Politics Thread
More front line staff for the chop. This time do trainers and investigators.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52609
- Views: 3504855
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Further to the above: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/04/government-to-repeal-winter-grazing-rules-for-farmers-in-first-resource-management-act-amendment-bill.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Have we become the dumbest country in the world? "Too complex", "too confusing", "not...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52609
- Views: 3504855
Re: NZ Politics Thread
RMA ......announced changes...... The five changes highlighted include: * Repeal intensive winter grazing regulations * Remove low-slope map from stock exclusion regulations * Suspend requirement for councils to identify new Significant Natural Areas for three years * Resource consents will no long...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Welly cabal
- Replies: 26
- Views: 445
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Super Rugby 2024
- Replies: 197
- Views: 10640
Re: Super Rugby 2024
I don't think rugby needs to be simplified too much too qualify my previous point. NFL is a complicated game and the worst team in the comp makes more money each year than the entire NRL based in a city of 900k. There should be a directive across both countries that club and school games need to be...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Super Rugby 2024
- Replies: 197
- Views: 10640
Re: Super Rugby 2024
On fickleness. How can the warriors have better crowd numbers than all the SR teams and all Premiership teams and all URC teams except maybe Leinster? They've never won the comp. I just can't wrap my head around it. There are lost of reasons why the NRL is booming, and the Warriors are NZ's most po...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53714
- Views: 2354981
Re: War in Ukraine...
Are they replacing their lost navy ships with tanks?CanNZ2000 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:07 pm Russia's summer offensive plans?
Hopefully the new military aid package can get to Ukraine in time.
https://twitter.com/ian_matveev/status/ ... LpS7bKrIUA
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Super Rugby 2024
- Replies: 197
- Views: 10640
Re: Super Rugby 2024
Nah. There is still a lot of wasteful kicking in aerial ping pong. They still allow far too much obstructions on kicks. Aerial ping pong is boring af. They need to get rid of that. Also they need to get rid of secondary tacklers. I don’t get the problem with kicking! There’s this wildly popular spo...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Super Rugby 2024
- Replies: 197
- Views: 10640
Re: Super Rugby 2024
Rugby is doomed with the fickleness of its fans. Some need an uppercut. That was also my immediate reaction; however it’s probably best to listen to what they’re saying. Our sport shouldn’t be dependent upon loyalty to hold onto its fans. Piss off your dyed in the wool fans at your peril.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Hurricanes 2024. The Midget is gone!
- Replies: 188
- Views: 13387
Re: Hurricanes 2024. The Midget is gone!
Nothing specific as to what it is or how long, but this is what we know so far:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350252829 ... ijian-drua
We're running out of hookers.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Welly cabal
- Replies: 26
- Views: 445
Re: Welly cabal
MungoMan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:46 amIt's not far at all, from memory. Also, Little Beer Quarter is just out the back!
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53714
- Views: 2354981
Re: War in Ukraine...
I'm not saying that Russia was right to invade, they weren't. But be realistic. Just as if Canada chose to align with Russia (or perhaps, China) then the USA would not stand for that either. The bottom line is that it is unacceptable that Russia feels entitled to invade a free independent country, ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:04 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52609
- Views: 3504855
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SUPER 10
- Replies: 82
- Views: 1289
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SUPER 10
- Replies: 82
- Views: 1289
Re: SUPER 10
Tehui wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:28 amA bit like tax cuts at the moment.Pakia Pakia wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:03 amIt's an interesting concept to provide subsidised beer especially in the cost of living crisis.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
- Replies: 175
- Views: 1861
Re: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
Possibly correct on your first point...... I'm not willing to say either way. But yeah, where the fudge is Ogre. Has anyone got his contact details? Yup, I been talking to him. Hes not so good at the moment, been struggling with his bursitis. Damn. My memory really is junk - I'd forgotten about the...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Welly cabal
- Replies: 26
- Views: 445
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53714
- Views: 2354981
Re: War in Ukraine...
November2019 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:08 amNot even closeHellraiser wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:50 am It appears that the Ukrainians hit the Kommuna in Sevastopol this morning. So ends the oldest active service naval ship in the world in her 111th year.
https://www.nps.gov/bost/learn/historyc ... sconst.htm
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53714
- Views: 2354981
Re: War in Ukraine...
So there should be an independence referendum every couple of years until the separatists one day hit the jackpot? The SNP approves No, but expecting people's views and attitudes to remain static for 33 years is more than a little unrealistic. So torturing and slaughtering may make them fonder of R...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53714
- Views: 2354981
Re: War in Ukraine...
In 1991 there was a free and fair election held in which 93% percent of the population voted in favour of independence. Every single region voted in favour of it. I'm pro-Ukraine and I still find using the 1991 election as an indicator of people's views in 2024 to be a flawed argument. A lot of tim...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
- Replies: 175
- Views: 1861
Re: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
Some pretty hilarious responses for the weekend losses coming from Highlander and Crusaders fans. The Wellingtonians, tho', generally aren't saying a lot either for good or for ill. I reckon the 'canes (stellar) season to date has put them in a state of shocked disbelief. Got 'em worried that if th...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 949
- Views: 65592
Re: All Blacks 2024
Shields was good yesterday but he was poor against the Chiefs. He's not close to Finau. Agree with that. I'd have Finau my 1st choice 6. He was very underused last year. But I'd have Shields over a wife beater or someone who goes missing like an Akira He's 33 now... 36 by the world cup... surely be...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 949
- Views: 65592
Re: All Blacks 2024
I'd have Shields any day of the week over Frizell or half the 6s we've had lately. Ideally we could do better but he wouldn't disgrace the jersey and you'd get a full 80 of hard edged effort out of him. Shields was good yesterday but he was poor against the Chiefs. He's not close to Finau. There is...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Welly cabal
- Replies: 26
- Views: 445
Re: FAO Ted
Are you up for a cabal or would you prefer a candlelit dinner at the hungry horse?
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18251
- Views: 837731
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
It should pass in the senate in a few days. Definitely a big boost to the Ukraine. Respect to the speaker who we at least now know is not a Russian shill. He put his job on the line to do the right thing here, and while some of his politics is vile imo, at least he shows some spine and intelligence...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18251
- Views: 837731
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Totally the right thing for the US to do also in terms of strengthing their own position going forward. One thing the Ukraine war's shown is that there has been one of those significant shifts in the way wars are waged, it's very much out with the old and in with the new and this will help springbo...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53714
- Views: 2354981
Re: War in Ukraine...
Germany's Fear of Donald Trump Is Hurting Ukraine: Ret. US General ... President Joe Biden's administration was "unduly scared" of Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the war in Ukraine. https://www.newsweek.com/germanys-fear-donald-trump-hurting-ukraine-ret-us-general-1892452 I thought Germany h...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:29 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18251
- Views: 837731
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
I ahve to disagree on the Israeli bit, it was clearly doen to prevent a war starting and a hopefully, one off thing, bit different to Ukraine where it's constant and getting more involved in an active war could escalate things in more dire ways right now. As for the GOP, I thought it was clear they...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:20 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53714
- Views: 2354981
Re: War in Ukraine...
Another pro Russian saffa The alternative view is that Ukrainian lives are being sacrificed in an unwinnable proxy war between NATO and Russia and that all this latest tranche of funding will do is to prolong the conflict. The average age of a Ukrainian soldier is 43. No amount of money will reduce...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:13 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53714
- Views: 2354981
Re: War in Ukraine...
Donald Trump has said the survival of Ukraine is important to the US, in what Reuters describes as a shift in tone days before Republicans are due to vote on a $61bn aid package in the US House of Representatives. “As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52609
- Views: 3504855
Re: NZ Politics Thread
To be honest, I think I muddled up annual leave and something about sickness among staff. IIRC, I was driving at the time, but not drinking, so not a total fudge up.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
- Replies: 175
- Views: 1861
Re: SRP Rd 9 - Reds v Highlanders
Thomas, you utter bastard.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Beating the Crusaders
- Replies: 51
- Views: 991
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52609
- Views: 3504855
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I think this lot really don't give two hoots what the public think . They're in now, therefore "have a mandate" to pretty much do as they please. Also, the damage could well and truly be done before the public get the chance to have a say and of course, social media will be working overtime to spin...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52609
- Views: 3504855
Re: NZ Politics Thread
There's quite a number of projects across various ministries that had "time allocated funding". Basically certain programs were funded for set periods of time but were in addition to base line funding, not a part of it. It seems a number of these are not being replenished when their time frames are...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: All Blacks 2024
- Replies: 949
- Views: 65592
Re: All Blacks 2024
Agree with that. I'd have Finau my 1st choice 6. He was very underused last year. But I'd have Shields over a wife beater or someone who goes missing like an Akira He's 33 now... 36 by the world cup... surely better long term options around? Blackadder, Grace, Flanders, Finau? Razor strikes me as s...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
- Replies: 114
- Views: 1522
Re: Force vs Crusaders Match Thread
Crikey.
Well done Force.
Well done Force.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Yesterday
- Replies: 102
- Views: 748
Re: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Today
Wow. Not a red
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Yesterday
- Replies: 102
- Views: 748
Re: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Today
Red all day.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Yesterday
- Replies: 102
- Views: 748
Re: Blues v Brumbies @ Eden Park - Today
Very poor drive defence by the Brumbies. Papalii scores