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Waiting for that proof AC...

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I love the fight that is in Christie - good player. Caleb Clarke is also looking pretty good at this stage - getting harder to not imagine him wearing the fern one day. Clarke is too one dimensional for my money. Big and fast is all well and good but that can be contained. What else can he bring to...

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Ben Blair over Christian Cullen in 2002, and finally.. MacDonald over Umaga in that fateful 2003 Semi-Final. Are you stupid? Assistant coach Deans never attended a single AB selection meeting. He was forbidden from attending selection meetings as part of his NZRU contract because of the perceived c...

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Yeah distinct lack of lumpy being mentioned. At all. I’d put him in my midfield before Ennor and Ioane in a heartbeat. Lumpy plays 12 and he plays that position in one way. High impact attacking ball carrier with an occasional kick. Ioane and Ennor play 13 or wing. Both have speed and precision on ...

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Still have DickMo as player of the week here. He didn't miss a trick last night (albeit behind a dominant pack) His kicking wasn't up to his usual standards I feel. Still comfortably the best 10 going around, in my opinion, but an off night from the tee Unusual from Mo'unga, but just another day at...

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Double.

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Yeah distinct lack of lumpy being mentioned. At all. I’d put him in my midfield before Ennor and Ioane in a heartbeat.

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Do we want him at 12 or 13? Is he the next ALB?

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Fat Old Git wrote:The knock on try is the only incident being focused on by the northern based news media it would seem. None of the others were of interest it would seem.

Crusaders winning is far too common to be newsworthy.

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If Daniel Shand doesn’t get a huge number of votes I’ll be disappointed.

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Tbf, policy isn’t everything. A lot of people voting for Ardern would be doing so for her leadership In times of crisis (Chch, White Island, covid-19).

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Flockwitt wrote:What was he trying to do? Claw the ball back?

YC or knock on?

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Harsh but technically correct is a fair assessment. The truth is the laws want to YC anyone hitting a ball they have no chance of catching, but not penalise anyone genuinely attempting to catch. This has been translated to knocking up = good and knocking down = bad. A stupid and hamfisted way of han...

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Is there any super rugby team he wouldn’t start for other than the crusaders?

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Jordie Barrett could also be a better 10 than Carter. Plenty of years ahead of him.

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Labour ain't gonna save NZF and it looks like they're putting in a decent attempt in Auckland Central (the Greens best prospect I think).

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If you think Mutton’s a long then ignore him instead of all this collective bitching. Seems to happen every other day. I wasn't bitching, I just asked him wtf he is going on about, with his odd posts. Do you think it is ACT policy to restrict women MPs from having kids and if so why? With links ple...

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If you think Mutton’s a long then ignore him instead of all this collective bitching. Seems to happen every other day.

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I don’t think it was, speed was everything. The bureaucratic gears of govt are slow and cumbersome. Waiting to enact legislation could have changed everything. They passed something in 2 or 3 days last month. It just needed to be an amendment didn't it? Anyway who cares I've done this one to death....

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I don’t think it was, speed was everything. The bureaucratic gears of govt are slow and cumbersome. Waiting to enact legislation could have changed everything.

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I think the current situation proves that statement wrong Santa. Clearly the govt prioritised public safety over acting within the law. If they even broke the law...

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It’s fair to ask why the govt hasn’t really engaged with the possibility it was illegal.

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I think the chiefs could salvage a fair bit of reputation if they overcome a crusaders outfit who are playing well. It would have been a lot better if the hurricanes didn’t beat them to it though.

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The public safety one looks like a good rationale. Thanks for posting that Santa.

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Seriously hope the Chiefs get up for this.

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it should be an absolute last resort only used when there are gaps in the law or unforeseen situations that the law doesn't cover. Which would fit the lockdown situation, surely? Nailed it. My only issue with labour is that they didn’t retrospectively legislate once the crunch was largely over, but...

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Santa wrote:Looks like I'm in a minority here when I say I think it is bad if people are jailed unlawfully. I guess I'm a classicist like that.

We’re people jailed? Or was this a threat? I actually can’t remember.

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What numbers are we looking at here?

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No one is saying Foster should not be picked solely on his RWC performance though. There is far more to it than that. NZers can accept coaches who lost the rwc (Henry). But Henry gave us two of our most dominant years ever in 05 and 06. Has foster done anything for us?

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The government took actions which most agree were appropriate and necessary. If these are deemed to be illegal, then the issue is that our current laws are too restrictive on a govt in this Kind of emergency. I think this will be how the public reacts anyway. I don’t think anyone will hold this agai...

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Santa wrote:
Wilderbeast wrote:The government is above the law. Two words. Retrospective legislation.
Don't be silly. That would be the government making its action lawful not leaving them unlawful. Thus not above the law.

Retrospective legislation means the govt was Technically always acting legally, right?

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The government is above the law. Two words. Retrospective legislation.

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A lot of people point to Foster's record pre-All Blacks as evidence he sin't good enough. Is it not possible that since he worked under Hansen he has learnt a lot and those weaknesses he had as a coach have been filled in and the NZU are aware of that? Also Hansen who knows a lot about test rugby a...

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NZRU old men’s club at its worst. The most positive spin I can think of is that Foster was appointed with one eye firmly on a similar decision several years ago, with Deans coaching the seemingly invincible Crusaders and Henry coming unstuck in the RWC. Problem is, Robertson has every appearance of...

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NZRU old men’s club at its worst. The most positive spin I can think of is that Foster was appointed with one eye firmly on a similar decision several years ago, with Deans coaching the seemingly invincible Crusaders and Henry coming unstuck in the RWC. Problem is, Robertson has every appearance of ...

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I think/hope it will become normalised to an extent. People need to remember how kids do dumb shit sometimes.

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This was quite funny from the Government in the court case yesterday. Casey said the Prime Minister sometimes was Bloomfield’s mouthpiece, confirming the public health advice. People were being asked to change their behaviour voluntarily, she said. “You think it is much more likely that everybody s...

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Anyone who takes the piss out of Hitler, even 75 years later, is OK by me. Move on. We have become so f**king woke and PC. I heard recently that the BBC will be removing the Fawlty Towers episode with the Germans. FFS! :roll: EDIT: Actually I've just checked and it turns out they have reinstated it...

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A statisticians take on the possibility of a rogue poll. Lots of explaining. People choosing to just write it off should probably read it though.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-07 ... y-be-true/

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Nationals internal polling leaked. 36%

I wonder...

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