@kiwiinmelb "Nice guns, Sonny".

"Thanks, Jack - I like your hair".

@Siam said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:

Wags out. Baby coming.

But don't worry Henry called up

Don't know why Mrs. Wags can't do this on her own - the delivery is bound to be short, or very short!

@mn5 said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Shit team in a shit location. lucky the Warriors are on

DO NOT diss Nelson you Queensland Bogan fluffybunny.

Ignore him, MN5.

What would a fucker who lives in Cairns know about locations? He's choosing to live in a swamp, inhabited by nasty, poisonous biting creatures - and that's just the people, don't get me started on the wildlife.

In fact, do. Go to the beach - get eaten by a crocodile. Go for a run - get bitten by a snake. Go for a shit - get bitten by a spider. Go anywhere and get bitten by dengue-ridden mosquitos or some other fucking insect largely unknown to science.

Go to the pub and be entertained by Tex Morton and his pet bantam, Stu - singing "Blue Bayou" - a song about living in a swamp.

In summary, he wouldn't know a good location if it bit him on the arse - and in Cairns it probably will!

How have I never seen Pinky the Loving Cat before?

@sparky said in Savea goooone Skudder in:

@Crucial Selling Comics.

Worst Wing Ever!

Well, that was pretty exciting and given that I hate losing far more than I like winning, I'm remarkably sanguine about the result.

I think some of you guys are being pretty harsh on the execution. The Lions defence was extremely good - no weak links - and I think the ABs decided they needed some pieces of magic to score. Maybe a lack of patience at times, but the two tries we scored both had a fair degree of magic to them - especially the second one. Taking pop passes into a close defensive line and getting smashed isn't the best way of retaining the ball - but, it's also a good way of breaking the line. On another night we could have scored four or five tries - we certainly created opportunities - especially in the first half.

I haven't really seen a massive decline in Hansen's coaching - we just came up against a team chock full of talented players and with the depth to match and possibly better the advantage we usually get from the subs bench - particularly once we lost a few players.

On the final penalty, I guess Poite will give a Gallic shrug and say something like "Il n’est pas la bonne décision, mais c’est la belle décision."

Which means, "It is not the right decision, but it is the beautiful decision." At least that's what I typed into Babelfish to get that result!

Right now, the Crusaders have won the same number of games as the Australian teams combined.

@Kirwan said in US Politics:

In decades of observation, the most egregious management fuckups are done by people who can't do the simplest shit right. They're the same arsebandits who try to use Excel as a database.

The things I have seen built in Excel over the past 20years...

But, I wanna talk about Windows 8.1. I mean that was terrible. So terrible. Really bad. An affliction on the American people. And everyone else. And I was the only person to tell the truth about how bad that was. So bad. And so-called experts here tried to tell me it was good. Sad. Very sad. I mean Bill Gates. And by the way Bill Gates is a great friend of mine. And a great American. He's done so well. But even Bill Gates said how bad Windows 8.1 was. It was so bad Bill Gates gave everyone a free upgrade to Windows 10. So just listen to me in future. No-one knows more about IT than me. And halfbacks. Even Nepia will tell you that.

Firstly, good effort Wallabies. Turns out last week's first half effort was more of a fluke than the second half.

I was wondering about that - but, we were at home this week and struggled to win.

Secondly - fail on behalf of the AB coaches not to identify that. We spent quite a lot of this game playing like the result was a foregone conclusion and buried ourselves in a ditch for a while by not playing proper test rugby.

Thirdly - Man of the match - Nepo Laulala. If our scrum had been less dominant in that game, we would have been well beaten. Coles and Moody can take residual credit. No more of this Ofa bullshit, Hansen!!!

Fourthly - second man of the match, Rieko Ioane. Looked like an AB back out there, when several others didn't.

Fifthly - show some class Chieka. It's not fucking soccer!!!

@mariner4life

@Duluth As far as I know - but, not sure why he's playing in Auckland and not for Waitohi, or at a minimum in ChCh.

@Chris said in Crusaders v Hurricanes:

Best option to give Paea a start I think he is going to surprise a few critics ,he hits hard in defence and runs with power. .

Paea was very good for the Mako - though mainly off the bench. I think he was a good pick-up.

I'm keen to see how he goes. Not lacking in physicality for this level.

@Bones Some workhorses - not quite as damp a squib as the backline, but not many in the conversations about AB greats.

@Bones The whole starting XV looks slightly ropey while Jerry was in the bin.

A bit of cavalry on the bench!

@antipodean said in AB squad for the Bledisloe Cup?:

Nothing says experiment like All Black Ben Blair.

http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/teamsheet.asp?MT_ID=2072

Decent AB debut for Benny!

@antipodean That NZ Parliamentary team should switch to league - they're approaching NRL standard(s)!

@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup - news, injuries etc:

@Yeetyaah Isn't Kerr-Barlow still in France?
Edited: I just checked. TKB is still contracted to La Rochelle. It won't be him.

Google tells me Messam is in NZ - running a coaching clinic in Tauranga three weeks ago.

36 yo.

My money is on Liam.

Really unfortunate for Blackadder, as well.

Bided his time behind Read and Taufua and now, when the chance to stake his claim is there, he's spending the whole season (pre- and post-lockdown) injured.

@Hooroo And she was winning by the 2300 metre mark!

I'm reminded of the Duke brothers at the end of Trading Places - "Get those brokers back in here. Turn those machines back on..."

Hey Gats....

Stop!

Hammer time!