@taniwharugby said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@hooroo hows Ricky BAker looking tomorrow?

Average, he was re-shod yesterday and is a bit foot-sore this morning. In saying that, sometimes they are sweet race day. Will make a decision in the morning.

Tattyboglar having a burn on Monday at Te Rapa in the first

@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@jk fuck just back the field mate!!

I was on Youngstar on a "Winx Out" market the other week, and was super impressed. Probably go that way.

So many internationals always makes the form hard to pick, but Best Solution looks pretty good value.

Even though it is our business, True-Love always looks at the Australian and NZ racing before making any hard plans on weekends. Hotels must have TAB Trackside too when away. It really is great having someone look after these important aspects of life.

Better still, often she prefers me elsewhere when racing is on so Golf is mostly a go on Saturdays!

@donsteppa said in Harry and Megan Visit:

@hooroo probably the visit by Charles and Di, I have a similar vague early memory from the early 80s

I think you're right. I remember it was a big deal for Mum and she got me a union jack to wave.

Dad went to golf

I don't mind the royal family but I do especially like Harry out of the lot of them. Screw protocol if that was actually the case but look how much that hug made to that lady. What a dude!

Looks as though the Aussie are really happy to see them. I wonder if we will show the same enthusiasm.

I remember lining the streets when a roral vist happened in about 1980 ish. I can' remember who? Maybe the queen? It seemed a big deal

What a frightening episode and a great result. Kudos to the dad!

@taniwharugby said in AB EOYT 2018:

@stargazer said in AB EOYT 2018:

@booboo From the article below:

Before secondary school, Cameron played in the junior grades for the Marist Rugby Club, but was then committed to playing for Cullinane College.

His final season in the Cullinane 1st XV was in 2014 when he left school for Lincoln University in Christchurch where he made an immediate impact, playing for the Canterbury provincial team.

Cameron came of age in the 2017 Mitre 10 Cup, making an assured performance in the semifinal in just his third provincial outing for the red and blacks, as Canterbury marched to the Mitre 10 Cup title.

Cameron first came onto the national radar in 2014 when he was plucked from Whanganui's small Cullinane College and named in the inaugural New Zealand Schools training squad.

The all-round sportsman was already well known in Whanganui, having played age-grade rugby.

Last season he was in the New Zealand Universities squad to tour Japan, but only had one game before being injured.

Looking at the allblacks dot com website, he wasn't named in the 2014 NZ Schools squad. Found another site with the teamlist of NZ Schools Barbarians of that year, and he isn't on that list either.

Looks like a young Merhts in that pic

That pic is of him passing, not missing a tackle?

@mariner4life said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:

@act-crusader said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:

@duluth said in The Māori All Blacks' tour to the Americas:

@act-crusader Donald would be the last one

Who?

Yeah forgot about him. No wonder the jersey was so short for him....

don't you even slightly besmirch the good name of a World Cup hero. You bow down to the guy that heard the call of a nation from a whitebaiting batch, and strode in to our rescue. This man was the hero that we needed after all those Canterbury/Crusader 10s had failed us over and over again.

Amen Brother! Amen!!!