SBW out? Rieko to 12!

TSF version of Godwin’s law:

“As a thread grows longer, the probability of discussing the RWC failure or Akira Ioane approaches 1”

There's been some comments in the media that the current situation is similar to all the other Blues coaches. I thought I would check out the win percentages vs other NZ sides

Yes, the form of the NZ teams has ebbed and flowed but they are generally strong. Also, they are the one constant across the various number of teams, competition structure etc

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Umaga 6.7%

15 games 1 win

The one win was the first game vs the Highlanders (33-31)

If his team the next 5 NZ games (2 vs Crusaders, 2 vs Hurricanes, 1 vs Highlanders) he can just edge in front of Kirwan

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Kirwan 29%

24 games 7 wins
(3 Hurricanes, 2 Highlanders, 2 Crusaders)

Crap

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Lam 37.5%

24 games 9 wins
(4 Highlanders, 2 Chiefs, 2 Hurricanes, 1 Crusaders)

I think there has to be a note about the injury crisis in Lams fourth season. Crazy number of injuries, players with no NPC experience starting... locks in particular, we were starting our 7th choice lock with a loosie next to him etc

First three seasons prior to that injury crisis:
9/16 56.3%

This included the best streak since Henry: 6 in a row versus NZ teams. The streak Included all other NZ sides. That season was the last time the Blues made the playoffs

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Nucifora 50%

6/12
(2 Chiefs, 2 Highlanders, 1 Hurricanes, 1 Crusaders)

A bad first season cemented reputation then his team went ok (0-4 in that first year)

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Sloane 52.9%

9/17
(3 Crusaders, 2 Chiefs, 2 Hurricanes, 2 Highlanders)

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Various 1 season coaches all got 50%

Yes, even Jed Rowlands

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Henry 92.9%

13/14

13 in a row before losing the final in 98

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Clearly Henry belongs in his own category.

From 1999-2011 all of these coaches had a minimum of 50% success rate against NZ teams:
Rowlands 50%
Hunter 50%
Oliver 50%
Sloane 52.9%
Nucifora 50%
Lam 56.3%

Sure, thats not good enough, but they were competitive. They all got a lot of criticism in the press compared to the current coach.

Then came the injury crisis in Lam’s fourth season. I have never been convinced the right action was to sack Lam after that amount of injuries. He had very little support in the media and from the board so he had no chance.

The new normal of shittness has settled in under Kirwan/Umaga

@stargazer

I'm going. I will give comprehensive updates on everyone that doesn't play for Hawkes Bay

@Tim said in Crusaders v Chiefs:

@Hooroo Punch a teammate, punch the opposition, punch the missus?

This seems like a good time to bump these posts:

@chchfanatic said in NRL 2019:

kick the useless prick out and never let him put a jersey on again. Wife beaters are up there with paedophiles in my book. What a waste of talent. Fucking loser

@chchfanatic said in NRL 2019:

would you want him playing for your club. Imagine what message that sends to the female members of the club. I say go and get a real job mate.

@Stargazer said in All Blacks starting 10: Beauden Barrett or Richie Mo'unga:

No, he had low scores in the first 3 rounds. Currently, he's kicking better than BB, but obviously, if you average it, BB is still higher.

But if you ignore some of BB misses his %age is even higher

I wonder if Hillary told Jacinda about her links with Sir Edmund?

As told by Mark Steyn:

...in the mid-Nineties when she visited New Zealand and met Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Everest, and for some reason decided to tell him he was the guy her parents had named her after.

Hmm. Edmund Hillary reached the top of Everest in 1953. Hillary Rodham was born in 1947, when Sir Edmund was an obscure New Zealand beekeeper and a somewhat unlikely inspiration for two young parents in the Chicago suburbs.

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Eventually, when it was noticed that Hillary was born six years before the ascent of Everest, Clinton aides tried assuring skeptics that her parents had seen a press interview with Sir Edmund in his beekeeping days, Mr. and Mrs. Rodham apparently being the only Illinois subscribers to The New Zealand Apiarist. 

@Will_G said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

Itoje

Oh, hi

What brings you back here?

@paekakboyz said in Is Umaga doing a good job?:

Wish there was a 50/50 choice

It’s not tiddlywinks

@SammyC said in Censorship and the Mosque Shooting:

I tried to read the book, it’s fucking boring.

I haven't read it. Not interested in it. The quality isn't the reason it was removed

@SammyC said in Censorship and the Mosque Shooting:

Surely whitcoulls as a private enterprise have the right to sell (or not sell) whatever stock they please?

Of course. Do you think people are saying they don't have the right?

People have the right to ridicule that decision

@SammyC said in Censorship and the Mosque Shooting:

It’s still easy to get in NZ for anyone with internet and a credit card so I don’t see why it’s such a big issue? If you want the book go and buy it somewhere else.

What is being discussed is the direction the culture is moving. We're moving to a culture where a growing number of people are intolerant of hearing other ideas.

Corporate culture generally plays it as safe as possible. This company has made the calculation that the culture is on the side of the censors. They are happy to take the backlash from people who think a variety of ideas should be heard, to appease the people that only want their ideas heard.

I hope other companies come to a different conclusion. So yes, complaining loudly about this is important.

Those that want something as benign as this censored are using the emotion of a tragedy to censor things they don't like. It's worth repeating that Peterson is despised by people like the shooter.
Those pushing for the censorship would've banned his before the shooting if they could have. They have manipulated a tragedy to get their political goal. It's gross opportunism.

People across the political spectrum should be pushing back. Regardless of if they like JP or think he's boring. This is not the way a mature and confident culture should act.

@Toddy @taniwharugby

It was 2001. Last minute Rupeni try to steal the game 44-43

That game was as good as anything he did for the Blues in 2003. I think it was Howlett that he cruised past for the last try

@Toddy said in All time Super Rugby XV (all teams):

@taniwharugby I know it's not Super rugby but I figured you may remember better - didn't he have an absolute freak game for Northland against Auckland in the NPC - or am I remembering that wrong.

He was amazing and James Arlidge had one of his best ever games. A crazy high scoring game

@hydro11 said in NPC v Super Rugby:

I don't think domestic cricket uses any of the same grounds. Eden Park maybe the only one?

and that's only the Eden Park Outer Oval, not the main field

@NTA said in Coronavirus - Media Discussion:

I tried to italicise those paras above but didn't work?

I edited it.. you have to do each paragraph.

Yes that's crap. I look forward to nodebb updating their composer (a few months away at least)

@barbarian

FDA & CDC fuckups

FDA didn't authorise private kits. The first batch of CDC kits failed. I think the rules have relaxed since the initial govt mistakes

@Machpants said in Gaming/VR:

My (pre CV lock down ordered) Quest Link arrived today - problem is it is USB C to C, my PC only has A and the PCIe card I ordered has not arrived, unlikely until post CV lockdown. So Half Life Alyx sitting in my steam library unplayed

First world lockdown problems

I wiped the dust off my old gaming laptop yesterday and installed HL Alyx

First impressions are very good. It was a similar to when I first played Resident Evil on the PSVR... it's another significant leap forward in immersion

The textures are way better than any other VR title I've played. Valve have got this scaling very well too.. 'Ultra High' settings was playable on a moderate machine. I dropped back to 'Very High' to make sure the frame rate stayed smooth enough for VR

@Canes4life

@Canes4life

You've asked about when Akira is off contract multiple times. You've said you want him at the Canes
You aren't fooling anyone by changing your story now

FYI Akira is still under contract..

Anyway let get this thread back on track. It's getting filled up with some crap about mediocre Canes players

I look forward to seeing who the Blues recruit next. The bad old days of not having a quality ten seem so long ago. Imagine trying to recruit players without a quality ten? It must suck for the supporters of teams like that. They would be left defending imports like Prinsep

Maybe start an Aussie virus thread? There's enough TSFers based over there