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by Burke's Boot
Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: 50/50 Charity Raffle for the Knights vs Warriors Mungo game
Replies: 0
Views: 2881

50/50 Charity Raffle for the Knights vs Warriors Mungo game

ex-partner is part of the Hunter Wildlife Rescue that is raising money today at the Knights Mungo game as well as having a website where NSW and Queensland residents can buy tickets till the end of the game that starts in 30 mins. Good organisation and have helped myself in Yengo National Park, Awab...
by Burke's Boot
Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:06 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Is the Waratahs women's side better than the mens?
Replies: 0
Views: 4135

Is the Waratahs women's side better than the mens?

Just watching them live now against the Brumbies on the 4K channel before the men take on the Lions and have to say at least the women can pass, catch and tackle quite well.
by Burke's Boot
Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:34 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Nightmare story - worthless human incinerates family
Replies: 121
Views: 10479

Re: Nightmare story - worthless human incinerates family

Been a few incidents of men throwing their kids off the Storey Bridge in Brisbane and also Westgate in Melbourne. Christ knows what is going on in their heads. Yes. The Brisbane one was a very good friend of mine and a rugby referee. And not just men. A few months later a lady murderer her daughter...
by Burke's Boot
Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:32 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Nightmare story - worthless human incinerates family
Replies: 121
Views: 10479

Re: Nightmare story - ex-NRL player incinerates family

Has the whiff of Chris Benoit about it. Would love for Professor Michael Buckland and his team at the Sports Brain Bank in Sydney to get a hold of his brain and look for CTE. I organised for a friend who was an ex-pro boxer but had a much longer and extensive amauter career to get a brain biopsy 18...
by Burke's Boot
Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Nightmare story - worthless human incinerates family
Replies: 121
Views: 10479

Re: Nightmare story - worthless human incinerates family

Been a few incidents of men throwing their kids off the Storey Bridge in Brisbane and also Westgate in Melbourne. Christ knows what is going on in their heads.
by Burke's Boot
Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:14 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The best new and returning TV series of 2024?
Replies: 11460
Views: 1246991

Re: The best new and returning TV series of 2020?

Glass of red in one hand Large pack of Spicy Sweet Chilli Doritos in the other Sitting back to watch Netflix's Narcos Mexico 2 - available in the US today :shock: :D :thumbup: Watched the first two episodes last night. Great to get more of it, but it feels dragging a bit already with very long mood...
by Burke's Boot
Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:04 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Nightmare story - worthless human incinerates family
Replies: 121
Views: 10479

Re: Nightmare story - ex-NRL player incinerates family

Has the whiff of Chris Benoit about it. Would love for Professor Michael Buckland and his team at the Sports Brain Bank in Sydney to get a hold of his brain and look for CTE. I organised for a friend who was an ex-pro boxer but had a much longer and extensive amauter career to get a brain biopsy 18 ...
by Burke's Boot
Sun Feb 09, 2020 2:29 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb
Replies: 228
Views: 12509

Re: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb

Cockbain is a cock for saying before halftime in an interview that the forwards were ok. The Blues are crap for a Kiwi team and had plenty of players out and comprehensively beat us.
by Burke's Boot
Sun Feb 09, 2020 2:28 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cooking Rib Eye
Replies: 77
Views: 5734

Re: Cooking Rib Eye

Season with salt and pepper then Sous Vide it to whatever you want just not well done then reverse sear at the end with a hot iron skillet with some butter or my favourite, the blow torch. Then let it sit for five minutes.
by Burke's Boot
Sat Feb 08, 2020 11:27 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb
Replies: 228
Views: 12509

Re: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb

Auckman wrote:terrible from both teams
Yeah it was unlikely to be Chiefs vs Saders standard and the weather sealed that before kickoff.
by Burke's Boot
Sat Feb 08, 2020 11:25 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb
Replies: 228
Views: 12509

Re: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb

Ali's Choice wrote:Is Rob Penney under pressure?
Gibson is a coward who should have taken the hit this year.
by Burke's Boot
Sat Feb 08, 2020 5:29 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb
Replies: 228
Views: 12509

Re: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb

My beautiful hometown. :thumbup: :nod: I was thinking of visiting it one day. What street is that depicted in the photo up there? Its nothing like the old industrial town it once was and many Sydney siders have moved up there to buy cheaper property. Plenty of cool bars and pubs, waterfront area wi...
by Burke's Boot
Sat Feb 08, 2020 5:26 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb
Replies: 228
Views: 12509

Re: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb

Auckman wrote:
Mog The Almighty wrote:My beautiful hometown. :thumbup: :nod:
I was thinking of visiting it one day. What street is that depicted in the photo up there?
Hunter St
by Burke's Boot
Fri Feb 07, 2020 2:21 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb
Replies: 228
Views: 12509

Re: Waratahs v Blues - MATCH THREAD - Newcastle - Sat 8 Feb

Mog The Almighty wrote:My beautiful hometown. :thumbup: :nod:
Windalian? :lol:
by Burke's Boot
Fri Dec 20, 2019 3:50 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: MND
Replies: 8
Views: 1105

Re: MND

A close family member has it. Went from normal to a head in a bed and unable to speak in only six months. Only good thing about it is she is in her mid-70s and has had a good life compared to so many struck down in their prime. Interestingly MND can be misdiagnosed Tick Bourne Illness like Lyme & Ba...
by Burke's Boot
Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:18 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Star Wars Episode 9 - worse than AotC
Replies: 540
Views: 46581

Re: Star Wars Episode 9

I didn’t see what all the gnashing of teeth over Solo was about. I quite liked it. The only issue I’d have with it was Darth Mail showing up at the end, who supposedly got chopped in half when Vader was 8 years old and Han, you’d think, wasn’t born yet? Otherwise I thought it was a great little spa...
by Burke's Boot
Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:15 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Ron Brierley charged over child porn in Aus
Replies: 24
Views: 3014

Re: Ron Brierley charged over child porn in Aus

He started out following the newsletters of Jim Slater from the UK and as a stamp collector / cricket scorer / almost certainly very heavily sperger of some sort he thought why not? It's incredible what he did - he was a late teens / early 20s nerd and he would just turn up to the AGMs of all these...
by Burke's Boot
Thu Dec 19, 2019 5:40 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Star Wars Episode 9 - worse than AotC
Replies: 540
Views: 46581

Re: Star Wars Episode 9

Rey being Baby Yoda's mum was a shock

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by Burke's Boot
Wed Dec 18, 2019 5:26 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Star Wars Episode 9 - worse than AotC
Replies: 540
Views: 46581

Re: Star Wars Episode 9

Saw the midnight screening which i nearly missed as i overslept just before it...wont say much to not spoil it for others except to say i was surprised how much Carrie Fisher was in it considering it was supposed to be screens cut from Episode VII. Better than the Last Jedi which doesn't say much. P...
by Burke's Boot
Sun Dec 15, 2019 8:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL filum thread 2.0.Accept no substitues.
Replies: 9246
Views: 974953

Re: The OFFICIAL filum thread 2.0.Accept no substitues.

Kid A wrote:Anybody who likes English and Irish people calling each other cnuts all the time, plus gruesome violence should watch 'The Nightingale'.
Sounds like The Gentlemen that i spoke of above.
by Burke's Boot
Sun Dec 15, 2019 8:18 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The OFFICIAL filum thread 2.0.Accept no substitues.
Replies: 9246
Views: 974953

Re: The OFFICIAL filum thread 2.0.Accept no substitues.

Saw Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen today. A return to form for him with crime capers as Revolver and Rock N Rolla were decidedly ordinary. Not as funny as Snatch and Lock Stock but well worth a watch and had that clever convoluted plot fingerprint of his. Well worth a watch
by Burke's Boot
Tue Dec 03, 2019 5:43 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Braai Thread
Replies: 7429
Views: 666181

Re: Official Braai Thread

Friday - Picanha steak on the spit along with a couple of deer backstraps. A fav of the Brazillians. Did this Cattleman's Cut (Cutlet) which the Yanks call a Cowboy Steak recently which is basically a Rib-Eye still on the bone and if there was more bone with meat on it would be a Tomahawk Steak. Sl...
by Burke's Boot
Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Best band with a female singer
Replies: 145
Views: 12167

Re: Best band with a female singer

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Suzie is the best singer in the rock setting.
by Burke's Boot
Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:22 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
Replies: 8374
Views: 481534

Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!

"The amended statement claims the Wallabies would have put in a "superior performance" had Folau been selected for the 2019 Rugby World Cup team, which could have been "trophy-winning" under his "possible captainship."" Trophy winning??? :lol: :lol: :lol: Just the most bizarre, hypothetical, parall...
by Burke's Boot
Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:20 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
Replies: 8374
Views: 481534

Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!

J Man wrote:He could have been captain of a trophy winning Wallabies side!


He's the kind of guy who will be bankrupt in 3 years due to a lack of smarts.
If his views weren't in line with Westboro Baptist, he could make a lot of money being a religious entrepreneur if it was more Hillsong style.
by Burke's Boot
Sun Nov 17, 2019 11:52 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Izzy, what the HELL!!
Replies: 8374
Views: 481534

Re: Izzy, what the HELL!!

he's channelling the late Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist now.
by Burke's Boot
Sun Nov 03, 2019 2:01 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Bands you are off to see live
Replies: 1532
Views: 206731

Re: Bands you are off to see live - Bump for Mog the Alwhing

Saw these guys last night, while the Final was on actually, and highly recommend seeing their remaining dates in Australia and UK/Europe

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by Burke's Boot
Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:25 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Official Braai Thread
Replies: 7429
Views: 666181

Re: Official Braai Thread

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by Burke's Boot
Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:17 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once
Replies: 20
Views: 3311

Re: Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once

Fat Old Git wrote:It's a fair point. The home team should always be able to win. It would be a massive choke if they didn't.

:lol: Especially at Eden Park.
by Burke's Boot
Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:16 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RWC 2019 - AB Merch
Replies: 5
Views: 921

Re: RWC 2019 - AB Merch

Jensrsa wrote:2011?

Must be some inside joke
Not really if you remember the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7C6bTHyC0U
by Burke's Boot
Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once
Replies: 20
Views: 3311

Re: Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once

Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once That would still be one more than France, the true chokers of world rugby considering their ressources and all the things they've won or brought to the game. If I were a French rugby fan and I saw England winning their 2nd RWC or who knows, Wales winning the...
by Burke's Boot
Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:08 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once
Replies: 20
Views: 3311

Re: Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once

Anonymous. wrote:
Yourmother wrote:
eldanielfire wrote:A shame after the good spirits this game has been discussed in so far.

BTW, who is this guy?
An Australian
:lol:
Yeah but we weren't expected to win anything especially with that Bull in a China Shop coach who's tactically deficient along with having selecting issues.
by Burke's Boot
Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:02 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RWC 2019 - AB Merch
Replies: 5
Views: 921

Re: RWC 2019 - AB Merch

Ghost-Of-Nepia wrote:Your Pauline Hanson fleshlight must have taken a hammering over the last 22 hours, BB.
:lol:
by Burke's Boot
Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:58 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: RWC 2019 - AB Merch
Replies: 5
Views: 921

RWC 2019 - AB Merch

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by Burke's Boot
Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:58 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once
Replies: 20
Views: 3311

Re: Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once

After all home tournaments hardly count and they had a substantial amount of help from Joubert in the 2011 Final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7C6bTHyC0U So the great AB tradition of WC chokes continues. Australia failed to win their wc at home Despite a bent ref in the final :lol: Andrew Watso...
by Burke's Boot
Sat Oct 26, 2019 12:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once
Replies: 20
Views: 3311

Out of 9 WC's the ABs have only won once

After all home tournaments hardly count and they had a substantial amount of help from Joubert in the 2011 Final:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7C6bTHyC0U

So the great AB tradition of WC chokes continues.
by Burke's Boot
Mon Sep 30, 2019 1:38 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Irishman (2019)
Replies: 196
Views: 21110

Re: The Irishman (2019)

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by Burke's Boot
Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:16 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Congratulations Wales
Replies: 90
Views: 5134

Re: Congratulations Wales

No congrats from me, we were stitched up before the game with the Hodge ban, the Keruvi bizz on attack then the blatant off-side intercept try that wasn't even looked at by the TMO. Hooray!! I’ve been hoping someone like you would turn up :nod: Regarding Kerevi, in the immortal words of the Great U...
by Burke's Boot
Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:06 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Congratulations Wales
Replies: 90
Views: 5134

Re: Congratulations Wales

No congrats from me, we were stitched up before the game with the Hodge ban, the Keruvi bizz on attack then the blatant off-side intercept try that wasn't even looked at by the TMO.