Teams for the Waikato club final. Hautapu is undefeated this season.

@Stargazer

"We then caught up Chiefs legends Tanerau Latimer & Jarred Hoeata "

@dogmeat Abdul Aziz will win NZer of the Year. Throwing an eftpos machine at a terrorist is far more impressive than deflecting a ball with your cricket bat. Actually throwing an eftpos machine at anything is more impressive full stop.

@kiwiinmelb said in NRL 2019:

every week the game they play in , is probably the game of the round that less people give a fuck about,

bit of a difficult one for the AFL,

but the Brisbane Bears were a bit like that in the beginning

Ironically the Brisbane Bears were originally playing precisely where the Suns play now in Carrara on the GC. It wasn't until they actually started playing in Brisbane (and started winning a few games of course) that they took off.

@Mokey a quick google (again didn't even read the links) suggests that his wife has contracted cancer and he quit his job to be her caregiver.

Now while this is laudable and the situation must be tragic for those directly concerned, I don't think it is NZer of the year worthy any more than a nifty paso doble is.

Napier Boys will host Feilding HS, this Sunday, 21 July 2019.

Games
1.00pm: 1st XV (#1)
1.00pm: 2nd XV (#2)
11.30am: U15 (#1)
11.30am: U14 (#2)

@dogmeat Did he win a broadcasting award this year? Other than that I have no idea. Don't listen to radio other than Radiosport, certainly not djs or morning crews or whatever the fark they are.

@jegga said in Fifty years ago today:

Yeah those whacky misunderstood soviets , this podcast gives a rundown on how awful their space program was . Basically the cosmonaut was given a craft so badly made he refused to go up in it and he was told if he didn’t they’d make his friend Gagarin go up instead . He died cursing them over the radio and there’s a picture of the worst open casket funeral ever in the link.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

Just read that and there's a link in the first paragraph that basically calls out the whole thing as bulshit.

I'm no Trump fan, but this put down is priceless "They’re the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle"

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1151451067437191168

@jegga the article you posted has a link to an update that refutes / questions a lot of the original.

The US were similarly cowboy-ish. I've just finished listening to 13 minutes to the moon and multiples sources are quoted as saying Apollo1 should never have flown although ironically the disaster was the reality check the program needed