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You mean in general but then state as fact 'like Morgan with no arms'. Oh for fucks sake - I specifically said I wasn't talking about this incident - yeah, refs don't know what words mean apparently. I'm out. Haha calm down. I told you I don’t really understand your question and it’s phrased in a w...

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message #2527204 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 5:09 pm Seen some kiwis ones too. Apparently it was definitely a penalty .....because Sam Cane got red carded for a shoulder to the head in a world cup final.
Some bizarre sort of kiwi revenge?

Weird post, in a sea of weird.

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Watching this is a bit like listening to Yank Republicans and Democrats going at it; donkeys braying at each other. But an alternate final thought from me: If the referee had instead awarded a penalty for a dangerous cleanout, would the reaction of Lions fans be so vociferous? Objecting to a penalty...

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It's completely different. Completely? It shows pretty much that same situation in terms of jackler position and clean-out contact. The difference is what makes one a red, and the other play on. BBB had time to adjust, Jackler is static, no attempt to wrap (shoulder cocked) Morgan didn't have time ...

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Monkey Magic wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:18 am
Whatever wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 10:58 am
Toro wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 10:53 am

Not a lions win.
Then why do I still feel so empty?
Have you learnt about our lord and saviour?

Also fatty Savea dropping the ball with the line wide open

Neither of those 2 things help me.

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100% agree. It's time to put the most controversial Lions win in history behind us and look forwards to the next test.The Lions lads must feel empty with that win and will be keen to make it irrelevant by winning the third. So we have plenty of highly charged rugby to look forwards to! That's good ...

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Completely? It shows pretty much that same situation in terms of jackler position and clean-out contact. The difference is what makes one a red, and the other play on. BBB had time to adjust, Jackler is static, no attempt to wrap (shoulder cocked) Morgan didn't have time to adjust, jackler still mo...

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100% agree. It's time to put the most controversial Lions win in history behind us and look forwards to the next test.The Lions lads must feel empty with that win and will be keen to make it irrelevant by winning the third. So we have plenty of highly charged rugby to look forwards to! That's good ...

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It already has, Brodie Retallick's red card against Japan and subsequent 2 match suspension - not dissimilar: https://www.rugby.com.au/news/all-blacks-brodie-retallick-cops-two-match-ban-2022112 It's completely different. Completely? It shows pretty much that same situation in terms of jackler posi...

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I see Eddie weighed in and missed the major point of contention which is avoidance. All pundits seem to be focusing on the contact and 'he couldn't do anything else' as reasoning for or against the decision. I hope coaches have it explained to them (and players of course) otherwise some may be in f...

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Whichever way round, the contrast made the Oval look like smthg out of Jurassic Park. :thumbup: I suspect Sam Neill filmed it... Turns out they were told they couldn't inspect the wicket.. and had to stay 2.5m away... which they said they'd never been told they couldn't inspect a wicket before... h...

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I don't actually mind that Turinui is making one strident call - albeit on a 50/50 - it leads to good debate. But when, as seems to be the case this season, he is just looking intently at referees decisions, and not his teams' performances, as the reason for losses, then he has crossed a line. He ma...

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Tizzano was at a common height for players attempting a jackal.... I see what you did there, but we can't realistically ask players to stay on their feet go into contact below knee height. Haha, yeah I was being pedantic. But semi-serious, jackallers are often head down ass up and if so, the suppor...

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Galthie talks How did you go about building the team? We simply built the best team possible. What's your view on Joshua Brennan, repositioned to flanker? He's clearly an up-and-coming player. We've been following him for a very long time. We want Josh to play, and we've built a team where he can f...

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Greetings from Siem Reap 🙂 Yes, land borders closed. Flights are ok. Some taxi firms on the expat Facebook forums are advertising land transfer via Laos. But as already mentioned, I’d fly if you can. :thumbup: We'll be in Siem Reap in about 4 day's time. Good to hear about transfers in Laos; we'd p...

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grievous wrote: ↑Wed Jul 16, 2025 11:28 am You know...what you need to do...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6kEsloMdE

Being knocked out by a tranquiliser before taking a flight would certainly solve a lot of my flying anxiety issues.

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Greetings from Siem Reap 🙂 Yes, land borders closed. Flights are ok. Some taxi firms on the expat Facebook forums are advertising land transfer via Laos. But as already mentioned, I’d fly if you can. :thumbup: We'll be in Siem Reap in about 4 day's time. Good to hear about transfers in Laos; we'd p...

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For those who know the region, a little advice please... Since we arrived in SE Asia, Thailand and Cambodia have had another argument, and our understanding is that all land borders are currently closed between the 2 countries (?). We are currently in Phnom Penh and we need to fly out of Bangkok - t...

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Johnny come lately PR, I've been complaining about the exact same thing for years. First it was just PI and Maori pronunciation and muddling up of players, now it's bloody anyone, even white people. Undoubtedly the best one was when he credited Tavatavanawi for making a great run in open play when ...

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I just watched the whole match again... it was better than I thought... Lio-Willie played quite well and had a number of carries over the advantage line (PP your stats are wrong). DMac played better than I remember. I think we remember a couple of bad things he did.. but he did a lot of good stuff....

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Ugh, Nic Berry again. Can't understand how he keeps getting work. Neither does Rassie. I doubt this game will flow.

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Personally I approach these games in a calm methodical manner. I succinctly and quietly evaluate the referee's performance while simultaneously considering a respectful, balanced and informed viewpoint on the opposition's transgressions, inadequacies and moral fortitude. I acknowledge fine play in ...

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Game day! I'm finding myself remarkably excite. Let's go Black!! Don't know if it will happen, but I want a carve-up of this French C team to discourage their development on our time and dime. At one stage Dunedin (Carisbrook) was a hard place for visiting teams to play the ABs, but what is the atm...

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I predict the ABs will struggle with Roigard as their 9. Hesnot a great distributor He's the best halfback in NZ. Your assessment of his play from halfback in the game is probably influenced by the inability of the Hurricanes to get quick ball. The Brumbies did a very good job of slowing it down, w...

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I was certainly a great day out at the shiny new stadium. People in the South Stand especially had a good time and the pyrotechnics were super. But they were right about the food; we didn't have to queue, but it took well over an hour to arrive. I do expect them to get that right with a little prac...

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History made at Hong Kong Sevens’ shiny new Kai Tak home but questions remain Despite problems for fans including long queues for food and drinks, Hong Kong has reinforced its place as a premier spot for rugby sevens New Zealand and Argentina made history as the first Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens o...

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Day 1 is under way. Match results tracker here: https://www.svns.com/en/fixtures-and-results/perth/matches So in the men's, NZ beat Australia, then Australia beat South Africa. I haven't been following the 7s until now, but these seem surprising results? Yeah, not particularly. Everyone can beat ev...

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Auckman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 12:20 pm Day 1 is under way.

Match results tracker here: https://www.svns.com/en/fixtures-and-re ... th/matches

So in the men's, NZ beat Australia, then Australia beat South Africa. I haven't been following the 7s until now, but these seem surprising results?

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Home of 7s has moved across the bay to a new home, bye bye Wan Chai. Should be epic, wish I was at this. :thumbup: Thanks for the info. We shall be there Sunday, down with the people to start with, then in the rarified air of the corp boxes for the later part of the day. Report back on the area whe...

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grievous wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 10:10 pm Home of 7s has moved across the bay to a new home, bye bye Wan Chai.
Should be epic, wish I was at this.

Thanks for the info. We shall be there Sunday, down with the people to start with, then in the rarified air of the corp boxes for the later part of the day.

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:thumbup: What's an Inverse stock? Is it like a CFD that you can long or short? I do think tech stocks will come down. I mean they are ridiculously overpriced. But who knows when that will happen. Yeah, shorting the Nasdaq. One such is SQQQ for example. Ridiculously overpriced is the consensus from...

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Do you only have the small-cap US index fund? If so you've been missing out some of the big gains in the past few years. I'd consider buying an S&P 500 index fund and/or US all market index fund. No, I have a mixture, but all Nasdaq. People in the US with 401K's & IRA's have a reasonably limited se...

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Merican tech stocks just keeps going up and up. Some crazy gains since yesterday. I was hoping the markets would go down so I could buy but US stocks gone the other way. Big spike in my small-cap US index stocks immediately after the election result, I noticed - around 5% up each. That was the most...

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Merican tech stocks just keeps going up and up. Some crazy gains since yesterday. I was hoping the markets would go down so I could buy but US stocks gone the other way. Big spike in my small-cap US index stocks immediately after the election result, I noticed - around 5% up each. That was the most...

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Do you feel dirty?? :P I imagine FB is filthy. Nah, wasn't Aumua's fault he was born in Welly-Canes territory. :D I wonder, with Taylor out, if this was finally the moment when Aamua steps forward to realise his talent on the international stage? Throwing has been an issue for him, but it was good ...

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I had English commentary... apparently I didn't see one English indiscretion... I've suffered through that before. Borderline unwatchable. 80 minutes of continuous whinging. TNT Sports... Austin Healey is Phil Kearns like in his bias. Did they also happen to mention that apart from the intercept tr...

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Jay Cee Gee wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:53 am
sorCrer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 4:48 am On and on the bleating goes...
Your team just made an official complaint about a match they won 2 weeks ago.

I trust it will have come with a Power Point Presentation. Everything is better with a Power Point Presentation.

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TJ was right IMHO to point out the number of times Bok players were reaching over to slow the ruck ball only for Brace to say "lost" or "hands off". The effect is still to slow the ball down. Your second point I agree with completely. It was even more maddening given the fact that the ABS were in a...

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Absolutely zero issue with a penalty and a warning for that bullshit. I have two issues with it. The Itoje level ranting is a blight on the game and TJs armflapping and sprays are up there. Last game he was doing pretend crying eyes after an Argentinian penalty. No place for it. My second issue is ...

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