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towny

There is a lot of truth in that. My fixes: - Free player movement between all Super rugby sides (even if it means players switch nationalities under residencey rules) - Salary cap - Someone start promoting the game FFS, there was absolutely no media (web/radio/TV/other) of the Blues-Brumbies game o...

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Do the SR clubs get a cent from beer sales? Doesn’t the catering company that owns that contract make all of rhe beer money at SR games? No. Correct. They don't even want beer at games. They don't want any aggression from the crowd or even the players. They want profitable sanitized family friendly...

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They have to be poured into plastic cups at games which requires more labour. Super Rugby franchises are a business though not a community not for profit. Do the SR clubs get a cent from beer sales? Doesn’t the catering company that owns that contract make all of rhe beer money at SR games? No. Cor...

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Are you trying to tell me you can get $5 for a pint at a pub in NZ? $5 a bottle at my local golf clubs and RSA. Some beers are $6 or $7. Do they serve pints at Eden Park? They have to be poured into plastic cups at games which requires more labour. Super Rugby franchises are a business though not a...

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If there was a draft, I wouldn't want a full draft, you'd have like x number of protected players and the rest go into the draft. Bit shit if the star Queensland school boy never plays for the Reds etc. Imagine a teenager is sent to another country straight out of school? What problem is a draft th...

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A few weeks ago we had a whole heap of games within 10 points of each other and things were getting exciting. Now we seem to be lucky to get one close game and the rest of blowouts. This weekend was pretty dire and kind of deflates excitement for the comp Rugby is doomed with the fickleness of its ...

towny

If there was a draft, I wouldn't want a full draft, you'd have like x number of protected players and the rest go into the draft. Bit shit if the star Queensland school boy never plays for the Reds etc. Imagine a teenager is sent to another country straight out of school? What problem is a draft th...

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The problem is the business model. NZ’s SR teams are beholden to NZR, who give them an allowance and rules to abide by with. Their primary role is to produce All Blacks. There is a lot of truth in that. My fixes: - Free player movement between all Super rugby sides (even if it means players switch ...

towny

The problem is the business model.
NZ’s SR teams are beholden to NZR, who give them an allowance and rules to abide by with. Their primary role is to produce All Blacks.

towny

A few weeks ago we had a whole heap of games within 10 points of each other and things were getting exciting. Now we seem to be lucky to get one close game and the rest of blowouts. This weekend was pretty dire and kind of deflates excitement for the comp Rugby is doomed with the fickleness of its ...

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Calaborator’s Choice?

towny

According to rugby.com.au the Saders lost the penalty count 15-11 and the only YC was given to a Force player, so we’re not quite in Egon Seconds territory here. That won’t matter to AC. He’s only interested in being on the winning team He’s a supporter-of-convenience, an opportunist No doubt, in 1...

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According to rugby.com.au the Saders lost the penalty count 15-11 and the only YC was given to a Force player, so we’re not quite in Egon Seconds territory here.

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Total tackles

Crusaders: 70
Force: 206

towny

A specific retort to a more general point. Not that it perhaps means much, victims of sexual assault often get lots of facts wrong. Also I don't imagine the video os available to peruse, and I wouldn't look if it was. So on the specifics of this case I've no idea what happened, or even what was cla...

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RA remits dough from internationals to soup franchises and others. Where will monies remiited to the Brumbies be spent? Oh, so it’s all about business with you, eh? Are they participating in a professional sport? Yes. Yes, they are. They are also overly reliant on funding from a body - RA - that is...

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:03 am
towny wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:00 am
TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:23 am Why didn't Frost and Hooper start?
Charlie Cale?
Cale plays 8. Frost plays lock and Hooper is usually a Blindside Flanker.

So you want to drop Bobby V or the specialist openside flanker? Who should Hooper be in the team for if it’s not Cale?

towny

TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:23 am Why didn't Frost and Hooper start?

Charlie Cale?

towny

Yes, true. But there are countries where it's very hard to get rape convictions because the peers on the jury tend to judge the victim not the accused. I can't actually say I know either way whether Australia is one such, but I don't think ignorance is a reason not to be judgemental In the case of ...

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Straya's most unnecessary soup franchise is getting comprehensively bummed. I really do not understand this kind of talk from Australian rugby ‘supporters’. RA remits dough from internationals to soup franchises and others. Where will monies remiited to the Brumbies be spent? Oh, so it’s all about ...

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MungoMan wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:54 am
Auckman wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:53 am Nice half

Blues 24-0 Brumbies - HT
Straya's most unnecessary soup franchise is getting comprehensively bummed.

I really do not understand this kind of talk from Australian rugby ‘supporters’.

towny

There are times one might ponder the wisdom of the accused getting a jury of their peers What now? Who should make the decision then? Yes, true. But there are countries where it's very hard to get rape convictions because the peers on the jury tend to judge the victim not the accused. I can't actua...

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Your daughter is a fan of Kylie McDevitt? Huge fan! But she gets these celebrities confused all the time, so who knows, right? Wow, she must have been really into the Jason Kelce docco ! Might be the only way Kylie is famous other than the Kelce brothers podcast. She’s quite resourceful.

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You can make it part of your forthcoming tour Towny I don’t really know the guy but my daughter is a fan of his Mrs and I am fantastic company. Might be worth giving him a buzz, because we are definitely going there. Your daughter is a fan of Kylie McDevitt? Huge fan! But she gets these celebrities...

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Hunter Paisami put his hand up for the 12 jersey in a big way tonight Didn’t he, though!? In attack he was excellent - got well over the gainline all night and gave great service to those outside him. But it was his defence that was really telling imo. He didn’t seem to miss anyone and there was a ...

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https://i.ibb.co/bWDk10N/IMG-2215.jpg Good God. :lol: There’s a fair chance that Kelce will be seen in Wrexham next season. You can make it part of your forthcoming tour Towny I don’t really know the guy but my daughter is a fan of his Mrs and I am fantastic company. Might be worth giving him a buz...

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Foketi is only just almost soup level. His international career is because we have been pretty thin on the ranks at 12. And Eddie liked ex-leaguies. I like Foketi and think he’s a smart player. Paisami is having a very good year and seems to be getting better, so he’d be the leading contender imo. ...

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So Paisami or Foketi for Wallabies? Foketi is only just almost soup level. His international career is because we have been pretty thin on the ranks at 12. And Eddie liked ex-leaguies. I like Foketi and think he’s a smart player. Paisami is having a very good year and seems to be getting better, so...

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I remember hearing last Easter that the Rebels had the most accurate lineout in SR - so that must have been 5+ games into the season. Mafi was playing most of the minutes back then fwiw. Parling was in Rennie’s Wallaby coaching team for a couple of years, so he seems to have a good level of experien...

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Derwyn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:54 pm

Good God.

There’s a fair chance that Kelce will be seen in Wrexham next season.

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He's got the beautiful bit correct though. Only for those rich, white, upper classes like louis... or some posh cvnt boyos from the valleys? He must be thinking about all the English and Irish living in Llandaff and pontcanna ;) I bet the only Welsh people he knew were Catherine Zeta-Jones and this...

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Jtah wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:16 am For the record I don’t think Parling is a bad coach. He’s probably excellent at the line out. He just so happens to have the biggest head case in pro rugby throwing.

+1

He’s not a throwing coach.

towny

I’m feeling anxious for Rodda

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Nah, spend some time in Portland if you want to see what the "all drugs are legal" thinking takes you. Entire streets of junkies shooting themselves up in public view and harassing everyone trying to do business. I read recently they revoked that law. Unlike crack neighbourhoods in the US where the...

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It is. I guess it shows that politics is often like supporting a football team and people can't change. Goerge Bush courted the Christian evangelical crowd, and Trump inherited them. I often see the extreme ends of political sides have many contradictory groups in them. +1 I'd agree but extend the ...

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Christian fundies and Trump is such a weird alliance, I know why it's happened but still they should consider him antichirst like by their usual standards. It is. I guess it shows that politics is often like supporting a football team and people can't change. Goerge Bush courted the Christian evang...

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Much better. A few years ago I would have taken every single kiwi ten over every one of ours. Now, Dmac aside, it's much more even. 👍 Although they still have Mo’unga on the shelf. Is he still considered eligible? I thought him and Barret were no longer in AB’s contention. He’s eligible according t...

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Because of this thread I went and had my blood tested for bad stuff.

Thanks for the reality check Kiwias.

towny

So the US would loan Ukraine to buy obsolete/expired equipment and ammunition that’s in US inventory instead of the US throwing it out? That’s a good deal, right? Yes, and the money the Ukrainians "pay" would go towards restocking. It's effectively a subsidy for American weapons manufacturers Exact...

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So the US would loan Ukraine to buy obsolete/expired equipment and ammunition that’s in US inventory instead of the US throwing it out?

That’s a good deal, right?

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