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@Stargazer said in Bledisloe #1:

Ah, another TSF meltdown. Everyone completely overreacting as usual.

If you don’t meltdown after nearly conceding 50 in a Bledisloe game something is wrong with you

@crucial said in All Blacks Squad for France:

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks Squad for France:

This thread is starting to resemble the good old days around AB selection time ,

All we need is Toeava to make himself available .

DMac is the new Toeava

Toeava could play ten.

Helps with disappointment that a quality bloke is lifting the trophy

Nah, you lose the ability for a Japan vs SA or Ireland upset if you do that.

I like the alternative of the plate competition I saw mentioned the other day, so there is more to play for after the top two pool spots.

@sapetyvi said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

Cn one of you clear the air by posting some photos of her? I don't know how to get them from instagram to the fern.

No. She's my first officer and you reprobates can't have her.

do you get her to hold your cock and then aim for turbulence?

Fuck your drinks passengers, I'm getting a jerky handjob

What the fuck did I just watch? Can someone ban jegga? Or me?

Considering it for not having seen Airplane.

@KiwiMurph said in Blues v Highlanders:

Im not gonna rip into Tana too hard cos it's a long season but cripes you have to question some things. Blues need SBW at 12 as soon as they can - Moala is a beast but his distribution aint much chop - Rieko barely sees the ball at all - let alone in space.

The game plan seems to be not to use our backs until we have won a bomb. We had the same issues last week with Francis at 12.

Collins has given us nothing on attack, Duffy only seems to be good at catching bombs and we leave a player like Nanai on the bench!

With so many players having poor games, it's hard to tell if it's a good game plan or not I suppose. But I don't think it suits the players we have.

So two strikes against Tana here, selection and game plan and what the hell is Jackson doing with the set piece? Two hookers that can't hit their target and the scrum is inconsistent as all hell.

Highlanders shouldn't get away without any criticism as well, they were equally as poor as the Blues and only scored a try because Ranger is a shadow of his former self.

I took my son to this game and he spent a good portion of the second half making a blindfold out of his flag. The guy behind me (in full Blues gear) commented that he wished he had one too.

@Stargazer top post. But that is a warning for bringing facts to a discussion.

@Canerbry said in Blues v Hurricanes:

@Kirwan

I read this thread going "fuckin stop moaning Kirwan", then read your self-righteous defenses, so this is the tally this thread:

Kirwan's Posts criticising the Ref: 17
Kirwan's Posts pro the Blues: 15
Kirwan's Posts criticising the Blues: 12
Kirwan's Posts criticising the Canes: 1
Kirwan's Neutral posts (no apparent bias): 11
Kirwan's Posts complaining about being called biased: 2

Bah, who am I kidding, time to fact check!

More accurate totals;

Constructive feedback for the officials: 11
False dawn praise for the Blues: 13
What the actual frak Blues? 13
Stupid Ardie Savea is too good: 1
Neutral: 12
Tiresome posts explaining what a discussion forum is for: 6

57 posts from kick off to the final whistle
1 traditional post hating on TJ
109 max heart rate sitting on the couch

Typical shit French ref performance

I just cancelled mine, and they replied pointing out that they gave me entertainment and soho for free as an alternative, are you sure?

So I think they are hemorrhaging subscribers.

The real problems start when the army starts having to enforce it.

New lockdown enforcement

@Salacious-Crumb said in Coronavirus - Overall:

Yikes. You guys who’ve been tested weren’t joking.

And it felt like every millimetre of that picture. Horrible.

@alftelf said in A full strength NPC?:

Sponsor update from HB Rugby, could be a much stronger NPC - hopefully..

"Mitre 10 Cup – There are some really positive discussions happening about this which is exciting for us. Several scenarios are being looked at with one sticking to the current format and distributed draw, secondly an option to establish a 14 team competition with a full round robin like the old days. There is a very good chance all Super Rugby players will be available from the start with the cancellation of the planned Super Rugby competition. All Black test matches are under severe threat so AB’s could be introduced and additionally the majority of players who were playing in Japan, France the UK etc have returned to NZ and indicated that they would be keen to play. We have been told that here are more than 50 players who have returned with the likes of Kieran Read (Counties Manukau) and Brodie Rettalick (Hawkes Bay) who would turn out in provincial rugby as they just want to play. Sky TV now don’t have the televised rights for cricket so can be more flexible on start and end dates to competitions as they want the rugby content for their viewers and the provincial competition is very important due to the ability to connect throughout the whole of NZ. "

If we get this, we need to get as many people along and watching on sky as possible so they get a message this is what we want!

@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@voodoo - it is why I'm always a bit hesitant to book the family trips with them. Flew to NZ Solo on Jetstar in 2017, but if they fucked up it was only me impacted. Having to put up with wife/kids pissing and moaning about ruined holidays has been done exactly once in my life and never again.

@Snowy said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@NTA Did you get an email from Air NZ about getting credits for your flights? They will hold a credit for you until you can rebook.

I was reading that is for domestic NZ flights only at this point. International flights are under different consideration, while they try to work out reductions in scheduling etc.

https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/travel-alerts?eventid=2mq80zEvWe6XaLqz0LJg

My mistake - cancelled flights out to April. Looks like our route doesn't appear in April so fingers crossed.

If they aren't running the flight, I'll be going hard on the "you aren't offering the service I paid for" but we all know the fine print will get you

Given circumstances, there might not be a rugby season to watch that weekend as planned

Hotels at this stage have charged us the night we land (midnight touchdown) but the one we booked in the Tron hasn't charged us from what I can see, but that was a non-refundable apparently. Just lock the credit card and come to terms

I got my US flights held for a year as well.

@shark said in A full strength NPC?:

I'm crossing my fingers for the first full-strength provincial comp since around 2005 or so.

This could give them an interesting data point about the interest in such a comp as well.

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@Kirwan said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@No-Quarter said in Coronavirus - Australia:

So to answer your question, I'd say once we are confident our health system can cope with the increased demand we can then start re-opening.

Which I think you'll acknowledge isn't actually an answer...

What is missing on this side of the ditch is a clear indication to Australians that we need to x for this long in order to achieve the desired end-state.

We have 585 ICU beds in the entire country, according to the article Stargazer linked to earlier today.

I think the most I’ve seen in use from the virus is around 12. So for us it’s charting the expected peak use of that from the increase in cases. (And having spare capacity for normal medical cases)

Once we have passed that, and have more wider and quicker testing, we will move to targeted lockdowns for outbreak areas.

So they have a plan for ending it, it depends on how well the lockdown has been adhered to.

I’m expecting them to add another two weeks on when they check the progress after 14 days.

Is that being well communicated in NZ, because unless I'm missing the announcements, it isn't here. What would make it more palatable would be a daily explanation of the remaining capacity and the date by which we would overcome our ability to treat serious cases. This would also assist people in understanding how long these restrictions were expected to remain in place.

Yep, the entire point is to prevent overwelming the health system. We get daily briefings on what is expected, and it's clearly communicated that we won't see the impact of the lockdown for at least 14 days from when it started.

They are less specific of the timing aspect as it's reliant on the lockdown impact. So I'm expecting after 14 days to start hearing phrases like a few more weeks may be necessary.

@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:

@No-Quarter said in Coronavirus - Australia:

So to answer your question, I'd say once we are confident our health system can cope with the increased demand we can then start re-opening.

Which I think you'll acknowledge isn't actually an answer...

What is missing on this side of the ditch is a clear indication to Australians that we need to x for this long in order to achieve the desired end-state.

We have 585 ICU beds in the entire country, according to the article Stargazer linked to earlier today.

I think the most I’ve seen in use from the virus is around 12. So for us it’s charting the expected peak use of that from the increase in cases. (And having spare capacity for normal medical cases)

Once we have passed that, and have more wider and quicker testing, we will move to targeted lockdowns for outbreak areas.

So they have a plan for ending it, it depends on how well the lockdown has been adhered to.

I’m expecting them to add another two weeks on when they check the progress after 14 days.

@Canes4life said in Blues 2020:

@Hooroo only way the Blues can get higher is by playing more games than everyone else.

Or beating the dross below us, away.

A bit of mental damage from that loss on display here. And great comedy