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Because of the cost and relative difficulty Magpie. It isn’t an automatic right at all. Around 40k people a year get Swiss nationality. They have reduced the qualifying time for children who have gone to school here to half (can apply after 5 years). It can be a bit tedious but its hardly difficult...

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Because of the cost and relative difficulty Magpie. It isn’t an automatic right at all. Around 40k people a year get Swiss nationality. They have reduced the qualifying time for children who have gone to school here to half (can apply after 5 years). It can be a bit tedious but its hardly difficult...

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Down to my last bottle of Mallorcan wine, Ànima Negra An 2012.

Mainly Callet which is pretty limited to the islands. Very very nice wine but at around 45 CHF a bottle it will a little while before I buy another case

https://www.annegra.com/pages.html

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Not an exact reply, but of some interest to you perhaps: a little over 16% of permitted Swiss residents in 2019 were from EU27 or EFTA countries. That seems therefore to exclude Brits like yourself (if that's what you are) The British were still EU members last year. Good point. I took the immigrat...

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Was just reading about the number of EU citizens that have applied to stay in the UK. 3.8 million if the report is correct. With a population of approx. 67 million, that means EU citizens make up around 5.5% of the UK population. Any EU country have such a large percentage of other EU + British cit...

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Was just reading about the number of EU citizens that have applied to stay in the UK. 3.8 million if the report is correct. With a population of approx. 67 million, that means EU citizens make up around 5.5% of the UK population. Any EU country have such a large percentage of other EU + British citi...

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We were the only side to play all 3 of the other realistic contenders. We beat 2 of them but the 3rd was a game too much.
It happens in a cup competition, sometimes you get the luck of the draw, sometimes you don't.

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Watched the Exeter Leicester game and I thought the ref was very lenient with his application of the new guidelines / rules. There was an awful lot of players going off their feet at the breakdown and the "îf you are not clearly onside, you are offside" seemed to have been completly forgotten about....

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Amazing skills on display. Feels like optional defense and physicality at the ruck, probably all good mates and don't want to go hard on each other. That's funny, because TJ Perenara and Aron Smith are both on the record as saying that the physicality of this comp, the impact on their bodies and th...

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The UK has suffered nearly 50,000 deaths from COVID-19. NZ has recorded just 20 deaths. Why the f**k would the All Blacks go anywhere near that plague riddled hell-hole at this point in time? Oh do fudge off you repetetive twat. Can't you just keep your Covid-19 trolling to one thread Trolling? I'm...

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Why is it such an issue, I thought we had been repeatedly told that they can sell out the stadiums no matter who they play? Twickers is a depreciating asset Accounting is a bitch With no crowds allowed, then TV money becomes important Got it, I was assuming they would be opening the stadiums by Nov...

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Why is it such an issue, I thought we had been repeatedly told that they can sell out the stadiums no matter who they play?

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MrDominator wrote:Pity.

You'd think the Kiwis in particular would want to test themselves against the best.

With travel restrictions in place I think its better to limit the games to an elite level, that being multi world cup winners only.

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i tried watching some of this - and the Aussie games. I think 20 minutes was the longest I lasted. Unconvincing stuff at the end of the day. Not real ruggers is it, old fruit? It’s not the Kiwis’ fault though. You can’t magic up premium grade tight five beef from nowhere. I know the AB selectors ar...

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I think its been obvious to anyone who has watched the games that they have been very intense and hugely physical. The biggest winning margin is 20pts I believe, with many of the games coming down to single scores. This type of pressure isn't typically seen in other competitions where its not unhear...

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Whats this Aetoroa?

SRA has been of an amazingly high quality, probably of a higher standard than anyone really expected.

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SB think it’s reasonable for the French to demand money to do the basics in processing asylum seekers. That’s a very odd view. You got that wrong actually. France will wave them through from now on. So the answer, in a poor and deprived area of France, is to create the situation where more refugees...

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Sawtooth the Beaver wrote: Aah the hill to die on and avoid the point has been revealed... Let me clarify myself to make you feel better. There is no "EU" Minimum wage, no one thinks there is an "EU" minimum wage, EU countries have Minimum Wage legislation and that is the reality of tariff free tra...

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Aah the hill to die on and avoid the point has been revealed... Let me clarify myself to make you feel better. There is no "EU" Minimum wage, no one thinks there is an "EU" minimum wage, EU countries have Minimum Wage legislation and that is the reality of tariff free trade with the EU. I think you...

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That's been the word for a while. Whether it's true, and whether if it's true it's possible I don't know. Part of the trouble with saying this is the conjecture is there's been little in the way of a plan from the Uk side, so most of the speculation has been driven by the EU contributions. Maybe at...

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Are the EU starting to blink...... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-stateaid/eu-eyes-softening-key-state-aid-demand-in-brexit-talks-sources-idUSKBN24Z1MH From your linked article, bolding mine : “The room for compromise lies in something that will let the UK decide on its own since ‘re...

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Are the EU starting to blink...... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-stateaid/eu-eyes-softening-key-state-aid-demand-in-brexit-talks-sources-idUSKBN24Z1MH From your linked article, bolding mine : “The room for compromise lies in something that will let the UK decide on its own since ‘re...

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Are the EU starting to blink......

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brit ... SKBN24Z1MH

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Seems that Eurotunnel is the latest point of attention in the realization that things are changing but this time from Europe's side. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/brexit-boris-johnson-faces-eurotunnel-test/ar-BB17m8gq?ocid=msedgntp The European commission has this week asked the European par...

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It is reported in some newspapers (most notably EL PAIS) that Gibraltar is distancing from UK and seeks a custom union with EU on its own. I see also that the government of Gibraltar site reports about talks between the Spanish Foreign minister and Gibraltar Chief Minister. Shouldn't be that (seeki...

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It is reported in some newspapers (most notably EL PAIS) that Gibraltar is distancing from UK and seeks a custom union with EU on its own. I see also that the government of Gibraltar site reports about talks between the Spanish Foreign minister and Gibraltar Chief Minister. Shouldn't be that (seeki...

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On the topic of locks, I assume you’ve noticed that SRA teams’ starting pairs have each been under 200cm on a few occasions. Myself, I don’t put his down to all the taller blokes buggering off elsewhere. I’m leaning towards it being selection driven by the breakdown laws being trialled. The squads ...

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You just have to love the little Ozzie battler

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We got out-thought in that semi but way more out-passioned. We were just losing collisions from the start, it was a head space thing, we weren't in it. I still think it's a credit the ABs how they stayed in that game till Sam W got the penalty reversed, given how much we were being dominated. Selec...

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Can't say I am not disappointed.

At his best he is a very potent winger. Sure he is not a complete player but was certainly happy to have him at 11 for the Canes.

29, outside chance at best of making a few AB appearances, I can understand him taking the easy rugby route.

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Smith at 9 and Frizell at 6 for me.

Not sure about Lam at 11 but struggling to think who stood out.

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The love-in with Goodhue is hilarious, he's never been anything more than an ordinary player... Great player. Goodhue and ALB are locked in through to the next world cup. Yeah, Bayern needs to put down the crack pipe. Goodhue is near to our best centre. This from the dullard that spouted Beau’unga ...

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He'd actually be a great AB coach. Any short punchy competition where he can brow beat the officials and opposition players is his natural space. A long drawn out league would bore him. Winning three Premiership on the bounce will do that to a man. But maybe there’s hope and a lesson there for the ...

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Cracking game :thumbup: I thought Frizzell was up there with Laumape for player of the round, another great performance. Ioane was excellent when he came on, provided the game to start to expose the space that was being created. I thought both 10s were pretty good, Hunt is making his mark and Trask,...

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Will take the win but not sure we really deserved it.

Plenty of opportunities to go well ahead in the first 20 that we just couldn't take.
Thought it was going to come back to bite us.....

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“I’ll paraphrase the conclusions; the NZRU shot themselves in the foot,” O’Neill told the Herald. “Rugby World Cup and the International Rugby Board [IRB] had particular conditions about clean fans and stadia and you either had to comply or lose the hosting rights. “Yes, the terms and conditions fo...

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“Ever since Australia hosted the World Cup on its own in 2003 … the template is one country . When England hosted it in 2015, it was just in England." Millennium Stadium is England? Show's how out of touch JON is. France hosted in 2007....used stadiums in Cardiff and Edinburgh.....which are clearl...

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“I’ll paraphrase the conclusions; the NZRU shot themselves in the foot,” O’Neill told the Herald. “Rugby World Cup and the International Rugby Board [IRB] had particular conditions about clean fans and stadia and you either had to comply or lose the hosting rights. “Yes, the terms and conditions fo...

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It's almost unfair to include AB wingers here because it's such a confidence position and nowhere else is there the same competition for places. All wingers go through ups and downs but a little dip and you're out in NZ. Take Stockdale for example. One season he was breaking the 6Ns try scoring rec...

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