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    Duluth

    @Duluth

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    • RE: All Blacks Squad for France

      SBW out? Rieko to 12!

      0_1527822020037_retard_coach.png

      posted in Sports Talk
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    • RE: Chiefs v Brumbies (round 4)

      TSF version of Godwin’s law:

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

      posted in Rugby Matches
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    • Blues win percentage against NZ teams

      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


      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


      Kirwan 29%

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

      Crap


      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


      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)


      Sloane 52.9%

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


      Various 1 season coaches all got 50%

      Yes, even Jed Rowlands


      Henry 92.9%

      13/14

      13 in a row before losing the final in 98


      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

      posted in Sports Talk
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    • RE: Coronavirus - New Zealand

      I want to have a thread where I can make my political points and no one can disagree with me.

      posted in Coronavirus
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      Duluth
    • RE: Bledisloe Two: Auckland, October 18

      I'll mention a positive

      Great to see Hodgman get a bench spot. He's been on a steady improvement for a few years now. A well earned debut

      Plenty of other spots to disagree with.. in particular Sotutu should've got a start

      posted in Rugby Matches
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    • RE: Blues 2018

      @stargazer

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

      posted in Sports Talk
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      Duluth
    • RE: Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November

      Cane/Sotutu/Ioane

      Savea on the bench

      posted in Rugby Matches
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      Duluth
    • RE: All Blacks starting 10: Beauden Barrett or Richie Mo'unga

      @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

      posted in Sports Talk
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      Duluth
    • RE: Crusaders v Chiefs

      @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.

      posted in Rugby Matches
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      Duluth
    • RE: NZ Politics

      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.
      
      -------
      
      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. 
      
      posted in Politics
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    Latest posts made by Duluth

    • RE: Australia v India

      Aussie wins the toss and bats first

      Consensus seems to be that the pitch is drier than normal. Already has a crack in it

      Australia
      1 David Warner, 2 Marcus Harris, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Matthew Wade, 6 Cameron Green, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood

      India
      1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 5 Mayank Agarwal, 6 Rishabh Pant (wk), 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Shardul Thakur, 9 Navdeep Saini, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 T Natarajan

      posted in Sports Talk
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      Duluth
    • RE: Blues 2021

      @KiwiMurph said in Blues 2021:

      It's going to be interesting what the Blues do at 12 early on without Faiane.

      If Chocobares is not coming then it gets interesting.

      You could put Plummer at 12 but they tried that in 2020 for Blues and it failed against NZ teams - Blues only 2 losses in SRA came with Plummer at 12. There other options are rookies or Rieko/Tele'a at 12.

      Tele'a would be my pick. The biggest question would be over his distribution.

      Plummer is still learning at 12 and makes some bad reads on defence. Long term he'll wind up at 12 though

      No way to moving Ioane. It's a waste of pace. Also look at highlights of the Blues tries last year - a good portion were created by the combo RI at 13 had with Clarke. I don't want to break that up.

      posted in Sports Talk
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      Duluth
    • RE: Automatic return to "recent"/"categories" tab and error messages

      @dogmeat said in Automatic return to "recent"/"categories" tab and error messages:

      @Stargazer I've been getting that error msg ever since the last upgrade

      That's almost six months? You should've mentioned it

      posted in Tech Help
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      Duluth
    • RE: Automatic return to "recent"/"categories" tab and error messages

      @Stargazer

      Ok, no idea. Nothing is changing or has changed recently (apart from bumping the service maybe once every 3 days)

      I haven't seen it myself

      There's a few things I need to update. That'll happen in about 2 weeks, hopefully it improves after that

      posted in Tech Help
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      Duluth
    • RE: Automatic return to "recent"/"categories" tab and error messages

      @Stargazer

      How often? Once a day?

      I have had to bounce the service a bit recently

      posted in Tech Help
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      Duluth
    • RE: Embedded Facebook videos.

      @Duluth said in Embedded Facebook videos.:

      Ok, I was planning on doing a software update in the middle of this week. I'll try another method of embedding FB videos when I do that

      Too busy.. will get to this in a couple of weeks

      posted in Tech Help
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      Duluth
    • RE: US Politics

      @Paekakboyz said in US Politics:

      "The war on (insert noun)"

      One of the worst politicians on this over the last 50 years has been Joe Biden. Various crime bills and 'war on drugs' bills etc. The racially charged language he used really didn't help either.

      Harris of course is a Prosecutor who aggressively sent drug users to prison. On the media circuit last year she joked about her own drug use.

      Of the 25 of so Dems running for President last year they picked the two worst candidates for this issue

      posted in Politics
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      Duluth
    • RE: Know any good Java developers?

      @Hooroo

      Employee

      posted in Off Topic
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    • RE: Know any good Java developers?

      @NTA said in Know any good Java developers?:

      Yeah I'll kick it around on SM and see what kicks back.

      Oh and the question was put on the TSF because of the location of most people on here.

      I doubt they'd hire an Aussie based developer but they would hire more Kiwi's

      posted in Off Topic
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    • RE: Know any good Java developers?

      @NTA said in Know any good Java developers?:

      Can we name an industry or is it more general work?

      Most of the customers are federal/state govs. Enforcement, anti corruption etc

      The Dev doesn't need to know anything about the industry

      posted in Off Topic
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