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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
This prayer directly opposes our Christian God. I thought Islam and Christianity worship the same god it's just the role of the prophets and Jesus Christ i.e. he is a prophet but not the son of God, where they differ? Well Protestants and Catholics did as well so.. As John Cleese once said (with al...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Farewell sweet prince
- Replies: 19
- Views: 764
Re: Farewell sweet prince
Has he retired?
Thank fork for that , what a giant pain in the ass he has been.
Bloody great, niggly , competitive player.
Big loss for ireland and a big gain for every nation that plays them.
Respect [ grudgingly] , well played POM.
Thank fork for that , what a giant pain in the ass he has been.
Bloody great, niggly , competitive player.
Big loss for ireland and a big gain for every nation that plays them.
Respect [ grudgingly] , well played POM.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Waratahs v Blues @ Sydney - tonight
- Replies: 95
- Views: 1418
Re: Waratahs v Blues @ Sydney - tonight
This has got to be the worst kicking display in Blues history Perofeta needs to be hooked. Can’t Sullivan kick? Poor captaincy really not to change the kicker when someone has the yips bad. One of the forwards can kick surely? Blues should have won that by 20 points, but let them off the hook with ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:03 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The rental income I get on my property is considered 'passive' income because I have a property management company that manages it and I am not actively involved. However every year I put it as company income in my tax return via a look through company I get a bill from ACC for self employed income...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 7:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The rental income I get on my property is considered 'passive' income because I have a property management company that manages it and I am not actively involved. However every year I put it as company income in my tax return via a look through company I get a bill from ACC for self employed income...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL" Reds are too lazy to start a Chiefs thread" thread
- Replies: 160
- Views: 2184
Re: OFFICIAL" Reds are too lazy to start a Chiefs thread" thread
A very entertaining game.
Well played Reds!
Well played Reds!
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
No, I am genuinely interested in your reply. To be clear, I won't necessarily agree with your stance, but it's worth discussing all the same. Persuade me. I think you're reading too much into my posts Ted. I'm not bothered by it and I'm sure every team in Super Rugby HAS a team haka. But it hasn't ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Moana P v. Rebels
- Replies: 34
- Views: 576
Re: Moana P v. Rebels
Also, it would be nice if there was a body able to enforce changes to jerseys. And I’m not talking about ones the design of which I find to be dogshit. Example: just how many soup rugby teams do we need that have a mainly blue principal jersey? I count Blues, Highlanders, Moana, Drua, Tahs, Rebels,...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Moana P v. Rebels
- Replies: 34
- Views: 576
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Capt Hurricane Hurricanes vs Blues Match Thread.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 3070
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Capt Hurricane Hurricanes vs Blues Match Thread.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 3070
Re: The Official Capt Hurricane Hurricanes vs Blues Match Thread.
9 changes to the Blues starting line up What is it with kiwi coaches and their obsession with selecting players out of position????? Plummer isn't an inside centres bum ,I feel sorry for Corey Evans and Grindlay -they're both players with a big upside potential . Suafoa is a damned good 6 but only ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 54398
- Views: 2449889
Re: War in Ukraine...
Which begs the question , how long before they do [re ?] establish a cohesive command/liason/control structure and do the Ukraine Forces have the means and manpower to succeed before that happens?
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Haha. Prof Joanna Kidman is under the gun from ACT about disparaging comments made about their policy for children. What happened to the need for free speech, Seymour? Academic freedom in enshrined in the Education Act anyway. Unless she’s broken the law, she’s on pretty firm ground I would expect....
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Razor's first press conference
- Replies: 226
- Views: 24191
Re: Razor's first press conference
I think that it should only be an option in RWC year plus the NH tour in the year prior. Only if there is some facts, statistics and a consensus[put it to a Bored poll?] that a specific player for a specific position where injury or lack of successful development in the previous 3 years demands a be...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:28 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
:lol: Enz certainly wasn't, nor was I. Lemmie guess, University studying pedantry 101 ? No, I had been full time earning for a number of years by then. I will admit I was torn by the tour. I refused to engage, but buckled when my team mates bought me a ticket to the Athletic Park test. I felt filth...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Official Capt Hurricane Hurricanes vs Blues Match Thread.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 3070
Re: The Official Capt Hurricane Hurricanes vs Blues Match Thread.
9 changes to the Blues starting line up What is it with kiwi coaches and their obsession with selecting players out of position????? Plummer isn't an inside centres bum ,I feel sorry for Corey Evans and Grindlay -they're both players with a big upside potential . Suafoa is a damned good 6 but only ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Shouldn't NZ be prioritizing costal shipping of goods to Lyttleton, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill from Auckland, Tauranga, Napier and Wellington rather than trucks on ferries? All our cities are mainly on the coast with large ports. What about the climate change implications of subsidizing diese...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Highlanders v Blues
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4449
Re: Highlanders v Blues
Finally got to watch the match and a pretty spectacle it was not.
Blues backline seemed to lack any cohesion but the forward effort was enough.
McWhannel will be very useful, Beehre was solid.
Back row very good.
Can't see them beating the Chiefs without a serious improvement.
Blues backline seemed to lack any cohesion but the forward effort was enough.
McWhannel will be very useful, Beehre was solid.
Back row very good.
Can't see them beating the Chiefs without a serious improvement.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Shouldn't NZ be prioritizing costal shipping of goods to Lyttleton, Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill from Auckland, Tauranga, Napier and Wellington rather than trucks on ferries? All our cities are mainly on the coast with large ports. What about the climate change implications of subsidizing diese...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:55 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Fcuk sake listen to yourself, ranting and raving carrying on about the new Govts first 100 days in office. The previous Govt had six years in office, three of them with unfettered power so why are these things in such a dire state? As for the last comment about roads are you ideologically opposed t...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I eagerly await the Monday a.m Cockskin spin on this... :twisted: https://www.odt.co.nz/sites/default/files/styles/odt_portrait_medium_3_4/public/story/2020/07/image_-_2020-07-02t091135.769.jpg?itok=YAg3mqBo At first I thought you must be a Muttontwat multi but a quick glance at your posting histor...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Blues returning optimism 2024 Thread
- Replies: 311
- Views: 54955
Re: The Blues returning optimism 2024 Thread
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- Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SR2024 Round 1: Blues vs Drua
- Replies: 37
- Views: 912
Re: SR2024 Round 1: Blues vs Drua
Btw more games for the north! I can’t believe no matches have been played there since 2011. Northland should’ve seceded by now over that insult! We just have , Road now closed , designated detour guaranteed to psychologically scar itinerant jafas for generations to come. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SR2024 Round 1: Blues vs Drua
- Replies: 37
- Views: 912
Re: SR2024 Round 1: Blues vs Drua
Interesting team. It's unclear who covers midfield if Plummer gets injured - as he often does. I guess Reiko would move to 12 and Lam to 13. If Perofeta is injured there would potentially be 3 positional changes at 13, 12, and 10. Or maybe Sullivan might move to 10 and Forbes to 15. Corey Evans wou...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Blues returning optimism 2024 Thread
- Replies: 311
- Views: 54955
Re: The Blues returning optimism 2024 Thread
I think Beehre will potentially be the biggest win this year for the Blues in terms of recruitment if he can escape the Blues lock curse and stay fit. Beehre is listed at 1.89m on the Blues site. Small for a modern lock. I can only presume that's a typo? He's more likely 1.98m and someone got the 9...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Pie Makers of Auckland
- Replies: 154
- Views: 12658
Re: Pie Makers of Auckland
I thought exactly the same thing. Invalid theory. Shown by establishments having a crap steak and cheese pie and excellent other varieties. But how do you compare say a beef rendang pie with say a satay chicken pie? Simple application of the question - Should I have bought 2? I have to say my eyes ...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:23 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SR2024 Round 1: Blues vs Drua
- Replies: 37
- Views: 912
Re: SR2024 Round 1: Blues vs Drua
Will be interesting hiw the team approach this one. Last year vs the drua playing in Fiji the blues went very conservative amd suffocated the life out if the hime team. I wonder if they'll chance their arm a bit more given it won't be as ridiculously hot in Auckland, or stick to percentage play Gam...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: SR2024 Round 1: Blues vs Drua
- Replies: 37
- Views: 912
Re: SR2024 Round 1: Blues vs Drua
Interesting team. It's unclear who covers midfield if Plummer gets injured - as he often does. I guess Reiko would move to 12 and Lam to 13. If Perofeta is injured there would potentially be 3 positional changes at 13, 12, and 10. Or maybe Sullivan might move to 10 and Forbes to 15. Corey Evans wou...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:10 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Back to 1080 debate briefly. A remote Fiordland kiwi population feared to be sliding towards extinction is turning the tide and increasing in numbers for the first time in their conservation history. The Fiordland tokoeka population at Shy Lake is growing about two percent a year. The Department of...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 6:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Willis seems rather shocked at the potential blow out of the promised infrastructure ( roads ) costings , but never the less insists it’s all going to happen . Frankly delaying the bloody tax-cuts a few months might make the buying of shitty second hand ferries unnecessary, why wouldn’t you ? I rem...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
- Replies: 571
- Views: 19251
Re: NZ hosting Australia 2024- Cricket series thread
What was an interesting contest , trashed by 1 Santner over which would have got the same treatment in grade cricket.
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:09 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Super Rugby 2024 - Rd 1. Chiefs Vs Crusaders
- Replies: 187
- Views: 5057
Re: Super Rugby 2024 - Rd 1. Chiefs Vs Crusaders
What's the Chiefs' injury situation looking like? The Crusaders will be starting the season sans Taylor (sabbatical), Blackadder, Burke, Havili, Jordan, Halfpenny. Plus Ennor gone for the season. So 7 first 23 players, along with Mo'unga, Whitelock, Goodhue, Fainga'anuku leaving. Very much the dawn...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:00 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The cost of that device e is significantly more than dosing with 1080 per hectare and it is only effective where access is relatively easy. If cyanide (the Feratox advertised within the link) was the magic bullet then 1080 would not have got a look in. The reason cyanide is not as effective is that...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
It's not just about possums. Where the populations of birds you're trying to protect (Kea, Rock Wren, Kaka, Kokako, Takahe etc.) are at incredibly low population densities, local targeting isn't going to be sufficient. In certain areas (Nelson Lakes) where the Friends of Rotoiti do a lot of trappin...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:07 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
The cost of that device e is significantly more than dosing with 1080 per hectare and it is only effective where access is relatively easy. If cyanide (the Feratox advertised within the link) was the magic bullet then 1080 would not have got a look in. The reason cyanide is not as effective is that...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:54 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Rumours intensifying that Robertson will stand down as an MP. I’m guessing he will pick up a Vice Chancellor role somewhere in the NZ system. Good guess. Confirmed vice chancellor at Otago university. God help Otago Uni. I'd be overly anxious if he was running the meat raffle at the local footy clu...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Up until 2020 the Government differentiated between the largest group of State beneficiaries (Superannuates) who, in recognition of their status as long term dependents, are linked to a percentage of the median wage (historically tied to a broad definition of poverty) and the rest, who were tied to...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
And yet, despite decades of trying, no-one has come up with a better option. With a personal tally of over 10k of the furry vermin , this device has the most promise. For some reason, not supported by DOC or Forest & Bird. Can be loaded with 1080 for predator specific targeting and timing. https://...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 53176
- Views: 3600418
Re: NZ Politics Thread
On your first point, you are quite right - I oversimplified and I stand corrected. However, he still cynically used anti-mandate rhetoric to court both anti-mandate and anti-vaccine voters. Similarly, he's courted the anti-1080 vote in the past and continues to do so - even including a policy in th...