@Frank said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@No-Quarter said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

So now that I've had time to reflect on this, I'm even more angry at the government.

They took 100% of our rights away for more than a month while they implemented the most draconian lockdown in the world. We all went along with it for the greater good, and we got rid of Covid altogether.

And for what? If the virus spreads again, and based on what we are seeing it seems almost inevitable that it will, what then? We can't go back into lockdown. There was debate about whether the cure was worse than the disease with the first one, if we do it again that will almost certainly be the case.

So what was that lockdown for? What was their long term plan? Close the borders until an unlikely vaccine is created? But then if that was the plan, why are they granting exemptions when it only takes one person to spread it far and wide again?

Or are these politicians so hopelessly out of touch that they think they can just do the lockdown again if need be?

I don't see anything coherent around what our long term plan is for this.

Wonder what Baron is thinking?
Can we let him back on for one day just to read the blistering critique?

He wasn't banned, it was self isolation.

Meanwhile in Brazil.

“The better team” never loses a game 19 - 3.

Worth a try

I'm an old fashioned git too.

Useful or not as a rule, I suppose it does get kids used to following appearance rules for when they matter later in life. Be it hi-vis vests, or realising that facial tattoo's are fine so long as you don't then expect to work for Emirates, etc etc. I guess I'm also a grumpy old git who gets fed up of all such media stories trying to fuel outrage on relatively trivial matters...

Today was always going to be the happy/sad day of lockdown for me.

Happy: today is Mum's 80th birthday!
Sad: her rest home is only 1.5km away, but it may as well be on the moon for all the good that is at the moment.

The very very slight silver lining of Alzheimer's is that covid-19 is mostly a background thing on the news to her, and she's not worried about it at all.

Work has been busy in lockdown, which has certainly made the time fly. The downside is that there are people out there in some pretty difficult situations, and where there are answers for them - the answers often aren't happy ones.

Vaea Fifita: the Akira Ioane that they do pick...

@ACT-Crusader - Weka was one of the Thames Valley Mafia along with @Fonzie and Bart, but we co-opted them in as Bay fans . @aucklandwarlord was also on the terraces at Eden Park on a certain day that we might have mentioned once or twice. @King-Goober-XL was another regular Bay fan around that time.

In 2004 @bayimports finally got to (mostly) bury the memories - and end of game footage of him - from the stands at Eden Park in 1996...

Unlike Steve Braunias with his ongoing 'Secret Diary' series, @JP & I eventually figured out that there's only so many Day in the Life satires that you can write before you start repeating the same gags in a different guise. Think we did either five or six of them in the end - they were all a huge amount of fun to write - with plenty of stifled laughs at work as iterative e-mail versions were sent back and forth. The one for Phooey included a couple of local knowledge lines about the Hong Kong rugby scene from @BartMan - it was the first one we did and the content flowed quickly!

Mountie @brain-man made a few Bay related posts from London in the mid 2000's but was sadly lost to a car accident on the Kaimai ranges in 2009. For those in Hamilton there's a memorial bench dedicated to him outside College Hall on the Waikato Uni campus: https://www.wu.ac.nz/fmd/memorial_trees_plaques.shtml - Brains was a good keen Varsity man and an absolutely top bloke.

"Varsity W.U.R.F.C. Eat, Laugh, Drink, Play, Nude. In loving memory of Varsity Legend Matt 'Brains' Goodlet"

There's an impressive army of vehement Facebook posters who would have completely locked down the NZ border to everyone four weeks ago.

I'm not sure how they found to time to study medicine alongside their qualifications in volcanology and mine re-entry, but they've found a way....

'He doesn't play for the Crusaders?'

Sounds like Payten had at one point made a considered decision to stay. Then...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/league/warriors/300073619/have-you-run-that-interview-todd-paytens-lastminute-warriors-uturn

The burn for Gatland is that even Stop, Hammer Time couldn't have achieved a worse win-loss record in Super Rugby Aotearoa.

Surely there must be some infringement we can conjure up to overturn this try too?

Some of the officiating this season is enough to make you stick to cricket.

@Bones said in Chiefs v Crusaders:

@No-Quarter said in Chiefs v Crusaders:

@Bones said in Chiefs v Crusaders:

@taniwharugby said in Chiefs v Crusaders:

@Bones when have I steered you wrong?

In this thread!

@No-Quarter yeah I posted up the law. Refs ruling it like forward pass when it's different.

Sorry I missed that. Yup amateur hour.

Crusaders too good in the end, but that kind of decision is similar to what drives people crazy when it happens to their team against the ABs. You just can't afford really basic mistakes like that going against you if you want to have a chance, especially when it directly leads to a try.

Also brings into question the supposed intentional knock on by Stevenson. His hand was facing backwards...

A deserved yellow card for persistent efforts at avoiding tackling.

Time for a givealittle funding campaign for a one way charter flight to send Gatland back to Cardiff.

@Toddy said in Chiefs v Crusaders:

@ACT-Crusader it's clear the Gatland way of coaching is rubbing off on the fans

RocketLab can send him away on a test flight about now.

@Chris said in Chiefs v Crusaders:

@mariner4life

Beaten by “quote “ a shit crusaders side Chiefs by 15

A mere 28 unanswered points in the last ten minutes. Easy...

@Kirwan said in Chiefs v Crusaders:

@sparky said in Chiefs v Crusaders:

Really bored of the Chiefs and their fans always blaming the officials. The Chiefs had the chances to take this one and should be kicking themselves for not doing so.

Umm, hi my name is Kirwan. I’m am not a Chiefs fan.

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Backward out of the hand?

Ummm... what is Weber thinking?