Did anybody watch the Boks vs Argies?

Yet another technically perfect decision at the end, which made no sense in reality. Look at from 2:58 in the video.

Basically, Argentina scored a match winning try, which the ref then went back to the TMO for something in the prior phase which didn't really have an effect (outside of the sliding doors theory) on the try being scored.

Surely, common sense states that for an obstruction, which happened right in front of the AR and Ref, if they can't call it at the time, then its' not clear enough.

FWIW I reckon the SA player milked it for all it's worth.

@jegga love the way she fucks up and just gets on with it.

There was an earlier American Idol contestant, Crystal Bowersox, who I thought was fantastic at Joplin. I bought her first album and it sucked major shit.

@Paekakboyz said in What are you listening to, right now................:

And yes it was good!

Early signs are promising ... certainly going to more 10,000 days than Opiate though.

@Bones said in MOTM vs Australia, Bledisloe II 2019:

@sparky yeah that's the feeling I'm getting - the votes thrown his way seem to be more aimed at the fact he looked adequate and didn't shit the bed. To me he was one of the more ordinary players on the park and made some errors, but was comparatively good when compared to SBW previously.

I texted my old man when he came off that I thought it was his best game in a long time.

Dominant tackles, some good offloads and his try was very Nonu-esque. I just thought our backline functioned a lot better with him in it.

As somebody who enjoys a good spar with @Baron-Silas-Greenback it is bloody annoying how often he's right with these things ...

Anybody but Wales.

Welsh fans are awful people. I probably think that as I see in them, what most people see in NZ fans.

I don't want Boks or Aus as then they would also have 3 cups, and I quite like us being ahead out on our own there. I wouldn't mind England or Ireland.

Not posted for a while ... too many other things going on (some good, some not). I've not done much running either, I think about 70km total in last 28 days. So not bad, but not at the level I was at.

But in other news ... I got in to the London Marathon!

Running for guide dogs UK. I'm kind of happy but now kind of shitting myself. I mean, it was great fun virtue signalling telling everybody I'd applied and it was my aim etc ... but now I've got to actually do the bastard!!!

Oh shit.

@Rapido said in Bledisloe #2:

@barbarian said in Bledisloe #2:

Another Monday on the Fern, another day of post-Bledisloe pain.

At 60 minutes with the scoreline at 24-0, I thought we had actually played OK. Our attack looked pretty good, and had just been let down by a few key execution errors - the last pass to Hodge, Lealiifano's kicking, etc.

The game was closer than the scoreline suggested, though we still weren't the better side.

But then the last 20 minutes were pretty horrible. The less said about them the better.

What it showed was the Wallabies aren't as good as Bled 1, and the ABs aren't as bad. We've got one or two games in us, so I'd think the 2015 scenario may be best case - play well when we need to and hope the draw falls our way.

All Blacks great first 10 but only got 3, then Aus dominated for 10 but missed their 3 (or 6). Then the Mo'ouga basically intercept and the quick follow up.

Sliding doors .....

Aus could knock anyone out of the RWC is my take away, but I don't think they can win it. Lacking some composure, but if it all clicks watch out. But it can't all click for 3 consecutive hard weeks.

I do wonder about the sliding doors concept. I.e - just what would have happened if ALB had got that intercept in Bled I.

It felt like the Aussie back row killed us in the first one, so I still doubt we would have have won. But it would be a 14 point swing, and then the red card is in doubt too ... although I have a feeling that red card is going to be good for us in the longer term.

@mariner4life said in Non Electric Vehicles:

i've been given one of these to drive for a couple of weeks

it's a very slight upgrade on the Kia Rio

https://www.landrover.com.au/vehicles/range-rover-velar/index.html

Beautiful cars those - my neighbour had one on loan whilst his RR Sport was being serviced. He called it the reverse tardis.

Currently the biggest stalemate in the world going on.

US the latest to have a say about how they won't do trade deals with anybody who threatens peace in Northern Ireland.

To me it looks like we are heading for a soft "hard brexit". A no-deal in reality, but a lot of workers / residents rights exempted and temporary passporting of certain things. There is insufficient time for any sort of a new deal to be made, and Boris has made it perfectly clear that we will leave October 31st and he cannot accept the backstop.

Either that or the EU will fold. But I think they'd rather see turmoil in the UK than that.