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Grizz Wyllie

Yup, we were told not to panic buy and stockpile so it stands to reason to head out on Saturday morning for our regular weekly shop.

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I'm all aboard the Havili at 12 option. That gets Will Jordan starting in the back three with Ennor coming off the bench which I think is a better balance to the backline. Dunno about shifting Goodhue to 12 from centre which is such an important role defensively.

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That wasn't anywhere near as scandalous as I'd thought. Nothing terribly murky or underhanded there. Promote them back to the Prem immediately.

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Be bad news for the England team, surely. Wouldn't they loan out all their big guns to French, Japanese and Super teams so they have meaningful rugby to challenge themselves with for a season.

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Mooar and Robertson weren't particularly fond of each other. There's was a marriage of convenience. The repeated successes masked a clash of styles.

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booji boy wrote:So 5 confirmed dead and 8 presumed dead for a total of 13. Still pretty grim news but from early reports I thought the death toll was going to be 20-25.

There was a suggestion on the news that they also expect deaths of those that escaped are in burn units. So perhaps more than 13.

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Augie Pulu ripped the whole post pad off in an NPC game so he could get a better position in the defensive line. Ref gave him an old school telling off but said he couldn't penalise him...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twkyc5LIz_w

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Faf
Maro
Ardie
AWJ
Faz

... would be my shortlist

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Once upon a time the bronze final was used to find the third and final automatic qualifier for the next RWC. Quite liked that idea as it meant something tangible was on the line for the winner. But those were the days when those who missed out on automatic qualification had to play qualifiers such a...

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It was a valid follow-up question after Hansen earlier admitted at halftime he’d demanded his team be hungrier.

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That Bakkies Botha story was legendary.

Wonder who the Springbok was with the love of bacon?

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To suggest the NZ media a fanboys while sitting next to John Mitchell who’ll have been on the receiving end of Kiwi scribes is laughable

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Any good NZ podcasts that have looked at this weekend's game that Kiwi's can recommend? The Cup '19 does a good overview of RWC happenings from an NZ perspective. Doesn't have any star power that the British pods offer - more newsy than banter. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cup-19/id147...

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Goode and Hamilton are excruciating. The same forced self-deprecating humour over and over... Goode going on about his hair/weight, Hamilton about being English/average. It's funny once or twice a month, not seven times per pod.

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WR making an example out of Scotland to prevent future uprisings. Doubt they’d have done it with a legitimate Tier 1 union but a Tier 1.5 nation is a perfect target to set a precedent.

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I will never believe any more 'insider info' from Grizz, eva. To be fair, it sounds like NZR didn't even give Spark a chance to bid. Sky Television has walked away with the rights to show Super Rugby and All Blacks matches until 2025, after Spark was unable to make a competing bid. NZ Rugby will ta...

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Decision on #SCOvJAP now expected by 11am Japan / 3am UK. Hive of activity in stadium & glorious sunny day. Signs positive but hard to gauge full damage and potential safety risks at this stage. #rwc2019 The stadium and pitch appears to be fine, I don't understand what the risk is? Perhaps the orga...

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Interestingly, before the Namibia/Canada game as canned it was set to only have five-camera coverage (a normal RWC match has in excess of 20 cameras) and therefore no TMO. Could you imagine if the Japan-Scotland game was similarly streamlined and there was a contentious decision that couldn't be ref...

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Decision on #SCOvJAP now expected by 11am Japan / 3am UK. Hive of activity in stadium & glorious sunny day. Signs positive but hard to gauge full damage and potential safety risks at this stage. #rwc2019

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And World Rugby have just told the SRU to pipe down... World Rugby Statement of Clarification It is disappointing that the Scottish Rugby Union should make such comments at a time when we are doing everything we can to enable all Sunday’s matches to take place as scheduled, and when there is a real ...

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Negotiations aren't happening until after the RWC concludes.

Let's not forget NZR aren't sure exactly what they are selling. SANZAAR need to decide on what the Rugby Championship and Super Rugby looks like before they ask for offers from SKY and Spark Sport.

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If the All Blacks were afraid of a five day turnaround why then did they suggest moving the Italy game earlier to Friday... five days after their previous match?

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JPNZ wrote:
Grizz Wyllie wrote:The competitor hasn't bid yet. No chance NZR is taking Sky's upfront offer without using Spark to jack up the price.
How do you know Spark didn't throw an offer in?

Because they told me

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The competitor hasn't bid yet. No chance NZR is taking Sky's upfront offer without using Spark to jack up the price. Negotiations were put on hold until the completion of RWC. You think Steve Tew/Mark Robinson is negotiating the biggest piece of business to impact the game while they are wining and ...

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Given all but the USA squad have now been announced we can probably do this. NZ 1 Mako Vunipola (England) 2 Jordan Uelese (Australia) 3 Ben Tameifuna (Tonga) 4 Luke Thompson (Japan) 5 Dean Budd (Italy) 6 Michael Leitch (Japan) 7 Jack Lam (Samoa) 8 Nasi Manu (Tonga) 9 Willi Heinz (England) 10 Joey C...

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I believe an injury replacement can't join the squad within 48 hours of a game.

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On a wider point, I don't see how you could restrict it to Tier 1 players changing allegiance to Tier 2/3 nations because the overall sentiment seems to be that some Tier 2 nations would become Tier 1 with the help of better players.

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'Europe's rugby powerhouses are not behind the idea of players being able to represent more than one Test playing nation, NZ Rugby chief executive Steve Tew says.' - I agree with this and so do most if not everybody /thread I don't agree with duel eligibility, but wouldn't be averse to some sort of...

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elcamino wrote:Glad to see the 1014 show picked up by Spark. Anyone know when they start their coverage? It’s been disappointing that they haven’t been on Sky for the RC.

Believe they'll be up and running on Spark Sport midweek

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Waikato named, Sweeney will never retire lol, alaimalo poached, tudreu from manawatu, the return of a fijian legend in api naikatini in like 8 years, sprogs of bruce reihana and Fijian giant prop, joe veitayaki Rivez Reihana is no relation to Bruce. Rivez is a Northlander, who headed to the Tron to...

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A friend has tried it on the archived games and found the quality to be much lower than broadcast. Anything with fast movement is quite jerky. We have fibre and find lightbox/netflix to be jerky sometimes and TVNZ on demand usually, and that is just films/series rather than sports. I've bought it a...

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Well no suprises to see Spark have bent over already... This will be due to most commercial premises (pubs, clubs etc) failing to have decent internet and not wanting to bother with the setup costs of running TV over internet. If this comes to all SKY subscribers Spark have pretty much admitted def...

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Well no suprises to see Spark have bent over already... This will be due to most commercial premises (pubs, clubs etc) failing to have decent internet and not wanting to bother with the setup costs of running TV over internet. If this comes to all SKY subscribers Spark have pretty much admitted def...

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Funny thing the Japanese Top League. Never seen any of it on TV. All these players who have gone there to top up their pension pot could've been picking fruit for all i know. Couple games a week are shown on NZ TV. As you’d imagine, it’s a fluid brand of rugby with little minimal defensive confront...

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‘Their’ servers handled NCAA March Madness. I’m sure a few rugby games watched in NZ should provide no issue with the backend

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Boundary count-back is cruel. Should have been decided per capita

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Surely not

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Yay! They’ve binned it...

https://www.world.rugby/news/431488?lang=en

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I don't think you're going to see any worse scorelines by including Japan, Samoa, USA/Cananda in there. And you'd probably need one other from Europe. And given the new editions will be spread over four groups of four then the minnows are going up against just one powerhouse, as opposed to currently...

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I’d have thought a team signing damaged goods would be a good fit for Cash Converters

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