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by UncleFB
Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11381
Views: 1224193

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?

It's like they gradually Hollywood the hell out of it with each subsequent series... Masters of the Air is almost like a Disney production. I have watched The Pacific twice. It's better on second viewing. Same as you, I watch BoB every couple of years. I did the same, and it's not, I thought it was...
by UncleFB
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:22 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11381
Views: 1224193

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?

BoB I’ve rewatched maybe 6 of 7 times all the way through. Pacific I got bored in the first watch through. The two are very different, imo. It's like they gradually Hollywood the hell out of it with each subsequent series... Masters of the Air is almost like a Disney production. I have watched The ...
by UncleFB
Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:35 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Apparently this is Brian Tamaki. We are becoming an Islamic State! I've warned NZ about the Islamic Invasion through high immigration! TODAY, This Islamic prayer was chanted at the Bridge of Remembrance in Christchurch. This prayer directly opposes our Christian God. This war memorial honours NZ so...
by UncleFB
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:00 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Waratahs v Blues @ Sydney - tonight
Replies: 94
Views: 945

Re: Waratahs v Blues @ Sydney - tonight

I'm sending a strongly worded letter to both CEOs requesting a refund of the free ticket I got for this match.
by UncleFB
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:40 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11381
Views: 1224193

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?

JPNZ wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:04 pm Enjoyed the final episode of masters of the air. Overall well worth a watch.
I was getting tense in that last "run" they went on.

I'm looking forward to a rewatch in a years time to see how it holds up because I really enjoyed the series.
by UncleFB
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:37 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Gregor Townsend
Replies: 96
Views: 1969

Re: Gregor Townsend

Demilich wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:35 am Surely two third place finishes in 7 years is exceeding expectations for Scotland?
That was my thought too. It's not like he has Ireland, England or France's depth in cattle.
by UncleFB
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:02 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Crusaders 2024 Thread
Replies: 715
Views: 66049

Re: The Crusaders 2024 Thread

That was a while ago. I would have thought his NSW record would be more relevant. Hes currently getting lee way due to injuries but it'll be interesting to see how long that lasts if things don't change. Give him a break. Warren Gatland lost all his games coming back to NZ, and he's a far more deco...
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:56 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread
Replies: 201
Views: 2324

Re: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread

Someone tonight mentioned that Reece had signed overseas this week? Surely that can’t be true? Anyone seen/read anything? Considering it's Reece until he actually lands overseas and puts on his boots him signing doesn't mean anything. This is supposedly his third attempt to go, one fell apart becau...
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:50 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Attn: Kovana, Flagg - seeking to play club rugby in the islands
Replies: 9
Views: 226

Re: Attn: Kovana, Flagg - seeking to play club rugby in the islands

I'm so intrigued by this, are you so cashed up you can go live in the Islands for a year just to play rugby? :shock:
by UncleFB
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:27 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread
Replies: 201
Views: 2324

Re: Crusaders vs Hurricanes Match Thread

I feel the same about this game as I did about the England v Ireland 6 Nations game - can you both lose?

Hope it's a good game, and I'll be cheering on the 3 Magpies in the team (we've gone over quota - woohoo).
by UncleFB
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Super Rugby 2024
Replies: 154
Views: 9551

Re: Super Rugby 2024

Uncle. When thinking dour, the last team I would think of is the Chiefs. If anything, of all the franchises last year they were by far the most enlightening & D/Mac was usually front & centre. For me the Crusaders had the most dour game plan, using an extremely well oiled front 8 to pave the way. t...
by UncleFB
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:50 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Super Rugby 2024
Replies: 154
Views: 9551

Re: Super Rugby 2024

I too question D/Mac. He is a mercurial player granted, but best suited to those helter skelter matches where the pill is being thrown about with gay abandon. Against sides like the Boks or even Ireland he can be negated very easily. However, I too am frustrated seeing a NH 10 running the show in o...
by UncleFB
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:10 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Super Rugby 2024
Replies: 154
Views: 9551

Re: Super Rugby 2024

No issue with this analysis. Only thing I’d add is that RMo is in the conversation because the gap below him is so large. DMac is great but yet to be proven in a dour game plan that sometimes needs to be played. Then there’s daylight and a couple of green 1-2 cappers. One of our 5 clubs is having t...
by UncleFB
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:10 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11381
Views: 1224193

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?

JPNZ wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:11 am Really enjoyed eps 6-7 and 8 in Masters of the air. Season Finale this friday
Masters of the Air has been a great return to form for the BoB team.
by UncleFB
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:08 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Super Rugby 2024
Replies: 154
Views: 9551

Re: Super Rugby 2024

Yep exactly what I meant, I was a bit clumsy. NZ has finally seen the end of the echo boom from the McCaw/Carter golden era. The production line will fill any yawning gaps pretty quickly but it won’t be able to replace the quality of RMo, Smith, Whitelock, Retalick etc. this can only be done with t...
by UncleFB
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:45 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Super Rugby 2024
Replies: 154
Views: 9551

Re: Super Rugby 2024

I think there is a bit of NZ pulling back on player loss. Particularly in the halves. However Oz sides paired the price over the last 24 months and I think we’re starting to see a bit of fruit. The Wallabies, for example, don’t have to do a lot of rebuilding in regards to playing stocks. Australia ...
by UncleFB
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:57 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

The winds of freedom sweeping across the country. Have you been in Texas so long that tax break = freedums. ;) Freedom was fleeing the People’s Republic of California with their 13% state income tax. I didn’t have an issue with Labour removing the interest deduction for residential property. Not su...
by UncleFB
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: DUNE 2:OFFICIAL THREAD
Replies: 257
Views: 23034

Re: DUNE 2:OFFICIAL THREAD

Pakia Pakia wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:51 pm It was good but I didn't cream my panties like some on here.
Agree. Part 1 was better and a bit of odd editing in this one.
by UncleFB
Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

The winds of freedom sweeping across the country. The Government has confirmed landlords will again receive a tax-break on interest paid for rental properties from April Associate Finance Minister David Seymour and Revenue Minister Simon Watts have announced the policy, campaigned on by both Nation...
by UncleFB
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Moana P v. Rebels
Replies: 34
Views: 483

Re: Moana P v. Rebels

Most embarrassing crowd I've seen in Super Rugby. Would be less than 1K. It was a silly place and time to play it. Should have played it in Napier (although not all of our MP players seem to be in favour this year), would have got a much better crowd, and not played it directly against the Warriors...
by UncleFB
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:36 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Crusaders vs Drua Match Thread
Replies: 40
Views: 756

Re: Crusaders vs Drua Match Thread

Have the Crusaders ever had a more ordinary loose forward trio? Boy they are struggling, Chirstie is trying, but Grace and Gardiner??? Oddly enough both of those two have been anointed the great white (well Maori in Grace's case) hypes in the past. Gardiner had that one game for NZ A where he was a...
by UncleFB
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Karen gets a win, finally. It’s a goody
Replies: 39
Views: 886

Re: Karen gets a win, finally. It’s a goody

I know some of Jewel's well known songs from the late 90s. But if I ever met her somewhere, I wouldn't have a clue who she was. Tehui in all white people look the same cancellation shock. ;) All I knew is that she he had short blonde hair. She could have whakapapa to Ngai Tahu for all I know. I nev...
by UncleFB
Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:38 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Karen gets a win, finally. It’s a goody
Replies: 39
Views: 886

Re: Karen gets a win, finally. It’s a goody

Tehui wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:03 am
CrazyIslander wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:28 pm Seriously how many people know Jewel songs?
I know some of Jewel's well known songs from the late 90s. But if I ever met her somewhere, I wouldn't have a clue who she was.
Tehui in all white people look the same cancellation shock. ;)
by UncleFB
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:30 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Karen gets a win, finally. It’s a goody
Replies: 39
Views: 886

Re: Karen gets a win, finally. It’s a goody

message #2527204 wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:48 pm Never heard of her. Looking at her wiki page, she had a number one single in Oz and a number one album in NZ. Reached 52 and 82 in the UK charts respectively.
Ah fair enough. UK hates Jewel.
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:40 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NRL announces the re-start of their season May 28
Replies: 415
Views: 40269

Re: NRL announces the re-start of their season May 28

Tehui wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:59 am I just saw the score of the Warriors first round game. Useless. I don't know why I bothered. I might as well watch the cricket.
At least you didn't watch it. It felt like the Warriors of the last decade, rather than the Warriors of last year.
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Karen gets a win, finally. It’s a goody
Replies: 39
Views: 886

Re: Karen gets a win, finally. It’s a goody

I don't know what this thread is about, don't want to ruin my YT algorithm, but how does anyone in the west who was alive in the 90s not know who Jewel is?
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:36 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Then like Eug you haven’t been reading my posts properly because I have stated several times that it’s not what’s being protested but the fact it’s happening at all. You are also conflating two different scenarios, I was comparing Folau to athletes taking the knee, not to people doing a protest hak...
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:32 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Lets face it , a consistent concern on this forum is the lack of bums on seats at Soup & NPC games. Last night's game between Moana Pacifica and the Rebels at Waikato stadium from what I could see on TV the stadium looked empty. On the other channel the Warriors are hosting a sellout crowd for thei...
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:15 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Who would that be, the one who suffered career wise? Was it only one person, or were there a whole lot of them, don’t remember any of the football stars or racing car drivers etc being sanctioned We’ll agree to disagree on whether or Falou did or didn’t sacrifice his career, but from my point of vi...
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:32 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Who would that be, the one who suffered career wise? Was it only one person, or were there a whole lot of them, don’t remember any of the football stars or racing car drivers etc being sanctioned We’ll agree to disagree on whether or Falou did or didn’t sacrifice his career, but from my point of vi...
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NRL announces the re-start of their season May 28
Replies: 415
Views: 40269

Re: NRL announces the re-start of their season May 28

This bump confused me, I thought Anonymous was back.
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:26 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

I'm not sure how involved i was in the Folau discussion, but as far as I'm concerned it's a slightly different situation, Folau said and did what he did as an individual, yes he's a representative of Australian rugby and as such has to mind what he says in public, but he is entitled to his views an...
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:54 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

It is the sponsors platform because without them this game wouldn’t be on television, it would be played in some paddock where only friends and family would be there to watch and no one would even know they were playing, they could perform whatever haka they wanted and it would amount to old man sh...
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Gallagher/Bunnings NPC rugby!!
Replies: 17
Views: 263

Re: Gallagher/Bunnings NPC rugby!!

Need to get bums on seats. Hard to do when no one knows who these guys are. I don't think that is necessarily true, many of the teams, including the non franchise ones run out with double digits Super players, so that's not an issue, and local players are often known in their province. But if you'r...
by UncleFB
Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Gallagher/Bunnings NPC rugby!!
Replies: 17
Views: 263

Re: Gallagher/Bunnings NPC rugby!!

NZR were morons destroying the NPC. It was tribal. It was the NRL of NZ. Yup. At least they finally showed their true colours about it last year in the governance review. Anyway, this deal is a good step, now we just need the rest of the unions to take a leaf out of Hawkes Bay's books (I think they...
by UncleFB
Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:15 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Gallagher/Bunnings NPC rugby!!
Replies: 17
Views: 263

Re: Gallagher/Bunnings NPC rugby!!

NZR were morons destroying the NPC. It was tribal. It was the NRL of NZ. Yup. At least they finally showed their true colours about it last year in the governance review. Anyway, this deal is a good step, now we just need the rest of the unions to take a leaf out of Hawkes Bay's books (I think they...
by UncleFB
Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:01 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: NZ Politics Thread
Replies: 51670
Views: 3437189

Re: NZ Politics Thread

Since at least the beginning of this Super Rugby Aupiki season, if not before. Why do you ask? This one was 12 years ago so since then at least https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M6WHw645lE In celebration AFTER winning the Super Rugby title is an exception. A bit like Razor doing his break dance rout...
by UncleFB
Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:32 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Unplanned rapid disassembly
Replies: 21
Views: 571

Re: Unplanned rapid disassembly

A tough on crime approach doesn't work Enz. Try to talk to the kids and understand their cultural background that may have lead to their offending before you disassemble said bike and speaker. Pfft, we're in the era of the NACT , take your woke B/S elsewhere you Taupo hippie. :lol: Well that respon...
by UncleFB
Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:31 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Capt Hurricane Hurricanes vs Blues Match Thread.
Replies: 105
Views: 2818

Re: The Official Capt Hurricane Hurricanes vs Blues Match Thread.

I quite like Rakete-Stones but I don't think he is mobile enough to be a loose foward. Numia on the otherhand probably could fill in at 6 at a pinch. RS is probably unlucky with the unheralded Tosi coming up with some clutch plays & Mafileo coming straight into the front row, probably for his size....
by UncleFB
Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Official Capt Hurricane Hurricanes vs Blues Match Thread.
Replies: 105
Views: 2818

Re: The Official Capt Hurricane Hurricanes vs Blues Match Thread.

I see the Magpies in the 23 quota is two this year, Rakete-Stones dropping out of the 23 to make way for Flanders. Go the Blues. I quite like Rakete-Stones but I don't think he is mobile enough to be a loose foward. Numia on the otherhand probably could fill in at 6 at a pinch. RS is probably unluc...