@KiwiPie hey mate, I think something is wrong with this weeks form? It seems to be in edit mode or something?

@baron-silas-greenback said in 2018 Black Ferns:

@hooroo said in 2018 Black Ferns:

@baron-silas-greenback said in 2018 Black Ferns:

@stargazer said in 2018 Black Ferns:

What exactly is the need for a reason? Were people queued up outside and large delays ensued? or is he just virtue signalling over a non issue?

This is the small thing about the whole game I support. If you are going to have and advertise a game, don't open the gates on kick off. (I'm assuming minutes is only a few minutes)

If I received a kick in the head and started to enjoy this rugby and I had planned to go to this game, I would have turned up 20-30 mins beforehand to be part of the build-up/grab a beer and a pie

Has anyone actually complained? Shown they were inconvenienced and couldn't get a beer and pie before the kick off?
I bet not. You just have a virtue signalling tweet showing how woke someone is.

I'm assuming so as how would he have known gate opening times. It's not something you would generally monitor?

@baron-silas-greenback said in 2018 Black Ferns:

@stargazer said in 2018 Black Ferns:

What exactly is the need for a reason? Were people queued up outside and large delays ensued? or is he just virtue signalling over a non issue?

This is the small thing about the whole game I support. If you are going to have and advertise a game, don't open the gates on kick off. (I'm assuming minutes is only a few minutes)

If I received a kick in the head and started to enjoy this rugby and I had planned to go to this game, I would have turned up 20-30 mins beforehand to be part of the build-up/grab a beer and a pie

@stargazer said in Bledisloe II:

@taniwharugby I guess people who watch rugby like I do - watching 1st XV games, age grade games (U16 is borderline, but I'll watch U18 and up) - won't mind differences in pace, strength, skill between the different teams. Watching games without comparing, just enjoying what's offered at that particular level. Other people won't bother watching women's rugby because of prejudice (and have no clue or don't care about the progress made the last few years). And then there are a lot of people in-between.

To me you are what chilli competitors are to the culinary world. A very small minority, passionate, but far from the norm.

That isn't an insult by the way.

@stargazer said in Bledisloe II:

@hooroo Obviously.

What I meant is that the timing of when it is being played probably won't be the reason people decide to turn up to watch.

@stargazer said in Bledisloe II:

@kiwimurph I hope the NZ crowd will turn up for the Black Ferns game as well. It has been made so easy to watch them play by making it a double-header. People only have to turn up earlier; that's all.

And want to actually want to watch the black ferns. I want to watch that game as about as much as watching the Mens NZ Netball team

@kiwimurph Neat!

And so it should too.

Prefer our home test purely for the reason when Retallick does awesome stuff, I can whoop very loudly without worrying about waking True-Love.

@stargazer said in Bledisloe I:

@rancid-schnitzel Again, things change. It doesn't have to be an (old) existing tradition. Why can't they start a new one? You find it bullshit; they obviously don't. It's not up to us outsiders to judge what's relevant to the indigenous peoples of another country. Cultural expressions can be anything: dance, song, poems, or a "welcome".

I agree with this. Traditions have to start somewhere.

@booboo said in Bledisloe I:

6-5 at the half.

On the whole I feel we've been on top but for crying out loud we've blown some opportunities

Yeah, we’re not playing too shit. The aussies are playing pretty well too so it’s a good match to watch.

Brodie is the Winx of rugby. Just deadset fucking freak!!!

Is Naholo a bit shit or what?

Nice of him to realise that he should have got 10 in the bin so he does fuck all to make up for those 10 mins.