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Sensible Stephen

The laws are a joke at the moment. When two people go up for the ball and one ends up getting hurt - due to competition - the ref can decide one player wasn't really going for the ball, and card him. Likewise people jumping to catch balls which are bouncing along the ground... no. Like when an All ...

Sensible Stephen

The laws are a joke at the moment. When two people go up for the ball and one ends up getting hurt - due to competition - the ref can decide one player wasn't really going for the ball, and card him. Likewise people jumping to catch balls which are bouncing along the ground... no. Like when an All B...

Sensible Stephen

Farva wrote:
_fatprop wrote:
7 Sam Cane
Hooper has been anonymous according to one of our friends across the ditch, so fair point.

Don't stoop to their levels. Just like Genia, who has been amazing, Hooper hasn't been better than the dude wearing his number in black.

Sensible Stephen

15 Ben Smith 14 Bryan Habana, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Ryan Crotty, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Sam Cane, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Brodie Retallick, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Dane Coles, 1 Tendai Mtawarira Good team. I'd maybe put Moody in at 1 though.

Sensible Stephen

15 Ben Smith 14 Bryan Habana, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Ryan Crotty, 11 Julian Savea, 10 Beauden Barrett, 9 Aaron Smith, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Sam Cane, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Samuel Whitelock, 4 Brodie Retallick, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Dane Coles, 1 Tendai Mtawarira Still too many Wallabies. 2. Moore. Because reasons. 8)

Sensible Stephen

Lets be honest. The team should just be the All Blacks. They are so far ahead at the moment, man for man, they are the best. I could find space for Habana and maybe Hooper. As fantastically well as Genia is playing, he's no Aaron Smith. I'd have Cane over Hooper. Habana, yes. Creevy on the bench. I...

Sensible Stephen

Lets be honest. The team should just be the All Blacks. They are so far ahead at the moment, man for man, they are the best.

Sensible Stephen

So division 1:

1 Hurricanes
2 Lions
3 Stormers
4 Brumbies
5 Highlanders
6 Chiefs
7 Crusaders
8 Sharks
9 Bulls
10 Waratahs

Div 2

11 Blues
12 Rebels
13 Jaguares
14 Cheetahs
15 Reds
16 Force
17 Kings
18 Sunwolves
19 Arg 2
20 SA Queens

Sensible Stephen

I like the idea. Its sensible, isn't it.

This year there were 17 rounds. You could almost play everyone home and away if there were 9 teams in your division...

Sensible Stephen

I have never heard of Constance and I have no intention of visiting her page based on the reactions she is causing :lol: Entitled mummy blogger from Perth. Mind boggling stuff. Had never heard of her until today. Sample post: Reporting back after a day volunteering at Arlo's kindy my friend told me...

Sensible Stephen

Just saw sushi with spam in it. Western cultural appropriation destroying traditional foods. Disgraceful. Simple minded idiot doesn't know what kimbap is. A product of 20th century Western military expansionism designed to create the cultural hegemony we see today. Sickening. Only way to fix this i...

Sensible Stephen

I'm still not up on all this facebook stuff. When people I know post a pic of their child am I expected to confirm that I like it. Yeah m8, just don't love it. Then questions will be asked. What's the protocol vis a vis pictures of the flatmate's sister? Download and store offline. Do not tell anyo...

Sensible Stephen

Argentina will be tired as fuk after their tour and run out of puff after 20 minutes. We'll be fine.

Right guys? Guys? .......guys...........

Sensible Stephen

Anonymous. wrote:I'm still not up on all this facebook stuff. When people I know post a pic of their child am I expected to confirm that I like it.

Yeah m8, just don't love it. Then questions will be asked.

Sensible Stephen

Good to see Simmo rewarded with a much deserved recall.

Sensible Stephen

Are those recent pics of NIB Stadium? If so, phucking looks a fantastic field. The question for me is do the Argies have the ability to back up that 50min performance from last week? If so then I think they can take it but they will need to convert their possession and territory into points. If the...

Sensible Stephen

Just saw sushi with spam in it. Western cultural appropriation destroying traditional foods. Disgraceful.

Simple minded idiot doesn't know what kimbap is.

Sensible Stephen

30 minutes of HIIT and I'm feeling them, big time. Nothing quite like the peaceful bliss of your body being absolutely wrecked and your mind just swimming in the good vibes.

Sensible Stephen

I thought this was a thread about vegetarians against meat eaters. Opened it ready to talk about protein intake and everything.

*Exits thread, stage right*

Sensible Stephen

So super rugby will not have a stupid break in the middle for international anymore, and thats about it?

Baby steps, better than nothing.

Sensible Stephen

AFL is just as bad. Young idiots doing idiot things shocker.

BTW don't you mean Mitchell Pearce for the dog sex and Andrew Johns for the ahem?

Sensible Stephen

Lee pitched a straight 1-to-8 seeding for the quarter-finals or a more radical two-division, Australasia-South Africa concept with a dissolving of the pure Australian Conference. Radical? :lol: We have been discussing this as an option on the bored for about 3 years!! What do these plums get paid t...

Sensible Stephen

Should be limited to ANZAC day

Sensible Stephen

I think its pretty simple. Disrupt them at the breakdown. Doing that constantly over 80 minutes is not easy at all however.

Sensible Stephen

The Native wrote:
Sensible Stephen wrote:This will really tell us where we are. Looking forward to it, whoever wins this takes second place you'd have to think.
Big trip for the Argies. SA to Argentina a rest then NZ then across to Perth. A lot of miles and and they're probably quite beat up as well.

Good.

Sensible Stephen

This will really tell us where we are. Looking forward to it, whoever wins this takes second place you'd have to think.

Sensible Stephen

Regardless of the whole jack removal thing, the biggest issue i see with the phone is it pretty much offers zero incentive to upgrade. Everyone will be holding out for the 8 next year. This phone is basically the 6s part 2.

Sensible Stephen

If a Coach sets in place a game plan the players he picks are not able to effectively implement then is he not a bad Coach or just a poor selector? Surely a professional coach means selector, man-manager, tactician, skills coach, fitness coach etc. I mean they might not personally do all those thin...

Sensible Stephen

When Microsoft released the “millennial” chatbot named Tay in March, it quickly began using racist language and promoting neo-Nazi views on Twitter. And after Facebook eliminated human editors who had curated “trending” news stories last month, the algorithm immediately promoted fake and vulgar sto...

Sensible Stephen

Which takes me back to my point, if the gameplan is to kick to iDagg, Kahui and Jane all day yet they catch everything do the players then change it up? Depends on the coach doesn't it. How much freedom does the coach give the players. If the coach is going to tear them a new one for changing tacti...

Sensible Stephen

I wonder if the day will come when NZ or Australia could field an "asian" team that would be competitive. Not in my lifetime Japan has been trying for a century and is competitive only when 30% are Kiwi/Tongan/Fijian/Samoan. Yeah, I was more thinking around the local asian populations taking the ga...

Sensible Stephen

How in phucks name are Akira and Reiko with Japanese first names, Samoan last names Hori? Their mother is Maori Neither are Japanese. Huh? both names are japanese. reiko is a womans name though :lol: Yuki is gender nuteral as well. Point? Point? Precious much? Its funny, like calling your son Emily...

Sensible Stephen

Murdoch wrote:
naki wrote:
badmannotinjapan wrote:How in phucks name are Akira and Reiko with Japanese first names, Samoan last names Hori?
Their mother is Maori
Neither are Japanese.

Huh? both names are japanese. reiko is a womans name though

Sensible Stephen

Another thing I find iteresting is seeing how Rugby fans blame "bad coaching" compared to fans of other sports. If a swimmer fails to win a gold medal at the Olympics, fans don't blame his or her coach. If an athlete fails to make the final at a big meet, his coach isn't immediately blamed. But if ...

Sensible Stephen

Only know one, he is very similar to Larry David. Just his hair is black not grey.

Sensible Stephen

I wonder if the day will come when NZ or Australia could field an "asian" team that would be competitive.

Sensible Stephen

Tactics and selections are part of coaching. Numerous times our coach has got his selections wrong (pooper for too many games being one), and had questionable tactic. Say Robbie Deans and his call for endless bombs to Jane and Dagg. :thumbdown: Wait, so they didn't have a choice to deviate and adap...

Sensible Stephen

Tactics and selections are part of coaching. Numerous times our coach has got his selections wrong (pooper for too many games being one), and had questionable tactic. Say Robbie Deans and his call for endless bombs to Jane and Dagg.

Sensible Stephen

fraz wrote:
Sensible Stephen wrote: Wait, those aren't some of the winners, are they?
They are indeed. Calm down everyone, looks like Skynet is still a way off.

Jesus.

Sensible Stephen

THey're definitely not the best looking phones on the market that's for sure. The 6S Plus is a hideous slab of a phone with massive bezels. I think the new black versions of the iphone 7 look a bit better though. THey help to hide the bezels somewhat. True. The white (or whatever colour they are su...

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