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MungoMan

What international aspect. There's a handful of countries that play the sport. Neither here nor there. When the few countries that did play it and also field rep teams used to tour here, it was a major and well-supported event. The touring team would play district and state rep teams as well as Aus...

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I think league players can be successful in rugby but they need to take the time to learn the game. That does not mean playing for a couple of years and giving it up if they aren't a first team starter for the All Blacks/Wallabies/England. RTS was a guy who came over to try to make it big and left ...

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Is there a mercy rule in Super rugby? Mercy is a stranger to super rugby. And super rugby is a stranger to mercy: homo homini lupus in Hobbesian terms. The same applies, mutatis mutandis in terms of grammar, to the men’s and women’s soup comps. * Yes I really am trying to lure slugella out of hidin...

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jambanja wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:45 am Watching this Welly cabal being organised is like what I imagine the new episode of Wallace and Gromit “Wallace and Gromit go Cat ranching” would look like.

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Tuesday evening it is. Venue and who else is in? Are we hitting town or the Hutt? Yep, Mungoman's phone works a treat. As does my new kitchen faucet, thus far. I think you'd suggested the Hutt, so should we say Baylands? I'll be coming from work, so can meet Mungo on the train if necessary - or jus...

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As an Australian based poster, your statement that Rugby League is "far less than successful" than Rugby simply doesn't make sense. Perhaps that's the case in France and the UK? Watched an interesting video by Two Cents the other day, showing how massively popular the NRL is in Aus. Lot's of money ...

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As an Australian based poster, your statement that Rugby League is "far less than successful" than Rugby simply doesn't make sense. Perhaps that's the case in France and the UK? Watched an interesting video by Two Cents the other day, showing how massively popular the NRL is in Aus. Lot's of money ...

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Listening to LBC now. Read this. The very same UN who have said Rwanda is not safe for deporting asylum seekers are planning the following. They are planning sending girls from Afghanistan fleeing Taliban to complete secondary school studies to...........Rwanda I shit you not. https://reliefweb.int...

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We’re OK with taking the train. :thumbup: Right, let's confirm where. I shall await further developments. And message you tomorrow arvo after I arrive to make sure I can get thru' OK. Arrived and we’re at the Mercure on Victoria. I’ve messaged Ted with my NZ phone number so hope it gets through OK ...

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Can you quote the Law that specifically says that? I’m also keen to hear the answer to this. I'll save you the wait. There's no Law that specifically says that. Banana has seen something he didn't like, and is making up Laws to justify why he thinks it deserves sanction. The only thing in this for ...

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This bit - looking back to college protests during the Viet Nam war - annoyed the shite out of me. In the same way, we now remember the Vietnam War as an American tragedy. The students at Columbia University who protested it seem, in retrospect, to have been right. But our memories elide some of th...

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Anywhere from Monday evening to Thursday, but it looks like Wednesday is not ideal. If the Big City folk feel too proud to mix it with us Hutt plebs, there might be an option for a Hutt venue, say Pito-one, but would need to arrange transport for the Mungo's. Abandoned have a new bar if Fitzherbert...

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Half ack ftom leahue to union would be unsuitable because space is given to the leahue halfback to pass. They usually take a step. You need to pass off the ground from union. It's down to the individual but habits is hard to change. The closest to a straight swap would be RL hooker to RU scrum-half...

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I wonder how much longer Israel can count on unconditional support from the US? It seems more and more people in the US, particularly in the younger generation, aren't willing to accept that Israel are the plucky underdogs holding the moral high ground in the region. There's still a large and very ...

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Half ack ftom leahue to union would be unsuitable because space is given to the leahue halfback to pass. They usually take a step. You need to pass off the ground from union. It's down to the individual but habits is hard to change. The closest to a straight swap would be RL hooker to RU scrum-half...

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Half ack ftom leahue to union would be unsuitable because space is given to the leahue halfback to pass. They usually take a step. You need to pass off the ground from union. It's down to the individual but habits is hard to change. I meant a 7 (RL) playing 10 in union. Yeah, quite a few have a dec...

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OP makes an interesting point but can't sustain it. Basically it's a gross over-generalisation at best. Yeah, reminds me of my usenet days when the occasional aus.sport.rugby-league poster would inform everyone how utterly shit union converts to league were based on two or three high profile flops....

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Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:20 am Jonah Lomu started off as a kid playing League in South Auckland junior comps before switching to Rugby. He ended up pretty good.

That Tana Umaga fella could also play a bit despite being a leaguie until 20 or thereabouts.

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An interesting opinion piece about the US student protests by Lydia polgreen in the NY Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/columbia-student-protests-israel.html The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right. https://archive.ph/7cuN5 This bit - looking ba...

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Eugenius wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:07 pm It bet the shit outta GOT’s for me .

90% rating .

Yea, the way it ended was fine by me. I do not need to see yet more CGI mass battle scenes, and Toranaga's exposition of what would happen and why was in keeping with his (ahem) general MO as revealed in earlier episodes.

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I can’t say for sure, but I suspect a society would need to be in pretty good shape for decimalisation to work. There are schools of thought that alcoholism and chronic addictions are a symptom. I don’t think its coincidental that the US has the drug issues it has, nor do I think the failure of mor...

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Can we just admit once and for all that League players are inferior in our code. League requires positional specialisation that doesn’t convert to the complexity and breadth of play required on the rugby field. Vunivalu is a joke. Daly M winner RTS was serviceable. Exceptions to the rule are Koriob...

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Is there consensus yet?

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towny wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:30 am The Rebels need $22m to clear their debt - the group that wants to ‘save’ them are property developers backed by PE, which seems like the worst kind of people imaginable.

Hitler backed by syphilis. Dream team. What could possibly go wrong?

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Wallabies back row are 3+1.5 are in some order of Valetini, McReight, Wright, Wilson, Swinton, Cale, Kemany, LSL, Uru, Leota. I think we should give Cale another year. This is his first season of professional rugby plus he needs to put on a bit more size. No Tom Hooper? Cale should be in the mix im...

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This is one occasion where being located on the bottom side of the world and diagonally across from Europa is of not help.

Not with things like this around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_MQ-28_Ghost_Bat

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towny wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:15 pm
MungoMan wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:13 pm
towny wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:03 pm

I read your post to my great-aunt and she called you a softcock.
One of her politer days, obviously. Cop her on a bad one and ....
When I spoke with her she’d only just switched from gin to rum tbf.

Your timing, as always, was impeccable.

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Based in current form, I'd think McKenzie has a strong argument. He certainly has been the first choice 10 in SR Pacific, this weekend no exception. Daylight second too. I can't even think who the next best is. Ditto. NFI. Several Russian tank armies could pass through that gap side by side.

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Grand lads :thumbup: But don't come crying on the board wondering how this or that hit can be a red card. The game's participation numbers are falling and with past (and have absolutely no doubt - future!) lawsuits ready to seriously undermine the feasibility of the game continuing, don't come wond...

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Attendance 16,325. Not bad.

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towny wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:05 pm Who’s that bloke on the wing?!!

Tim Ryan

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I am rapidly tiring of James Dogdick.

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:lol: the Reds breakdown has been destroyed. Do you really think McDermott would do any better? Yeah I was thinking this. Mid level thinkers blame the half back for scrappy back of the ruck ball. Some of the drops have been stone cold. Thomas & McDermott clear the ball from the ruck at more or less...

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Ref booed off at halftime. Love it!

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R 7 B 10

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Tehui wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:16 am I hope that Brumbies prop is ok. I cringed like a MFer watching that scrum fold on the replay.

The vision from behind the scrum was grisly. Schoupp was folded under yet the Brumbies back row was still pushing…

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Anywhere from Monday evening to Thursday, but it looks like Wednesday is not ideal. If the Big City folk feel too proud to mix it with us Hutt plebs, there might be an option for a Hutt venue, say Pito-one, but would need to arrange transport for the Mungo's. Abandoned have a new bar if Fitzherbert...

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Also, body heights are typically much lower in Rugby. Or not https://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/comment-taane-milne-should-be-shipped-off-to-super-league-after-latest-grubby-act/news-story/ae2ab1d4e479c0cca3fbc641b0d09024 Milne is, and always has been, a grub Interestingly, he was part of Newington’...

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Legal https://i.imgur.com/u5oxPwr.jpeg Bigger fella colliding with smaller fella. Smaller fella gets rapidly knocked backwards resultantly. If the ballcarrier was of a similar weight to Finau, it's likely Finau would have achieved at least a partial wrap since it's less likely the ballcarrier would...

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Legal https://i.imgur.com/u5oxPwr.jpeg Bigger fella colliding with smaller fella. Smaller fella gets rapidly knocked backwards resultantly. If the ballcarrier was of a similar weight to Finau, it's likely Finau would have achieved at least a partial wrap since it's less likely the ballcarrier would...

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