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UncleFB

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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

UncleFB

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?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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This bump confused me, I thought Anonymous was back.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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Oh my bad , I thought he skipped out....I can remember the outrage and the song of course The only good from this incident was it revealed to NZ that the Sensible Sentencing Trust were anything but sensible and were just a pack of fvcktards. Well one of the founders was murdered....karma ? :roll:

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booji boy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:06 am 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.

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This guy? NZ man jailed for killing teenage graffiti artist New Zealand correspondent Kerri Ritchie Posted Fri 13 Feb 2009 A New Zealand man who killed a teenage graffiti artist he caught spray-painting his home has been sentenced to more than four years in jail in a case that has gripped the count...

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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....

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The CEO of the Hurricanes is being interviewed on the radio. The Upper Management of the Hurricanes had no idea that their platform was going to be used like this, and they are disappointed in the actions of the team, while respecting the right of individuals to hold these views. Suffice it to say,...

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Skiaddict wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:43 am Lazy to not bend down in that tackle. I hate seeing a red card in trash time. No reason for it.

I rewatched that replay three times and he had his legs bent, I guess the level is of squatting needed these days is quite low.

UncleFB

I got a bit confused and cheered for Ollie Sapsford then remembered he was playing for the wrong team.

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Has Reti outlined his "replacement" Maori Health Authority yet ......as the "replacement" three waters has been outlined......and as we await the "replacement" Cook Strait link.....as we await the "replacement" NZ new homes programme.....as we await the "replacement" Road infrastructure programme.....

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Very good interview by Sean Plunket of Professor Des Gorman on the scrapping of the Maori Health Authority. Even some of you left good/right bad posters might find it interesting if only to get your knickers further in a twist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qytak5-JUuE Do you work for Plunkett's ...

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Not just NZ and Aus.. The thing is that Australia and NZ have the ingredients to start fixing things but don't work properly together. Lets hope there is a plan and it includes more games of rugby, someone posted a Wessel's quote "you can't run a shop that is only open 7 times a year..." It was one...

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