@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:

Decent win after a good start from Sri Lanka. Kind of bummed for their skipper going on 97 but glad we stopped him - he's the spine and most of the functioning organs for the Lanks

Aus played it right. Solid start to ensure they get 280+ (which is generally too many for the Lankans) and then have a go later in the innings. 320 was always too many.

As I said with the Black Caps win though, can't read too much into it. This is a very poor Sri Lankan side, they'll struggle to win another game from here.

@SammyC said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@No-Quarter said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@SammyC said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@Siam said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@Hooroo said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@Rembrandt said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@canefan said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@canefan said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@taniwharugby said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

so he has plead not guilty to the 90 odd charges against him, a trial date is likely to be May next year...

They need a media blackout for the whole trial. Don't give the grub any oxygen

I don't know about this. They live streamed the Breivik trial in Norway. They even provided a stream with an English interpreter. It just showed him to be the nutter that he was. Reckon that may be the way to go rather than have him be this mysterious figure.

That actually sounds a good idea. This guy is not going to be the sharpest tool in the shed

Yep, honestly this media blackout and jailtime for having or distributing the video and his manifesto is only making him and his ideas infinitely more popular in the dark recesses of the internet.

YEah but who cares about the 'dark recesses of the internet'? Most live in the real and light world of life

Our prime minister seems obsessed by it

Does she? Can’t say I’ve noticed.

She initiated the "Christchurch Call" to target people like Tarrant and ban them from social media to stop them spreading bad ideas. It won't work (stopping the ideas) but it is a big focus for her.

Cheers

Hardly obsessed with the dark recesses of the internet then. Christ there's some hyperbole on this thread.

Hey it's the Politics Forum. It'd get pretty dull in here without a bit of hyperbole to spice things up.

@SammyC said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@Siam said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@Hooroo said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@Rembrandt said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@canefan said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@canefan said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@taniwharugby said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

so he has plead not guilty to the 90 odd charges against him, a trial date is likely to be May next year...

They need a media blackout for the whole trial. Don't give the grub any oxygen

I don't know about this. They live streamed the Breivik trial in Norway. They even provided a stream with an English interpreter. It just showed him to be the nutter that he was. Reckon that may be the way to go rather than have him be this mysterious figure.

That actually sounds a good idea. This guy is not going to be the sharpest tool in the shed

Yep, honestly this media blackout and jailtime for having or distributing the video and his manifesto is only making him and his ideas infinitely more popular in the dark recesses of the internet.

YEah but who cares about the 'dark recesses of the internet'? Most live in the real and light world of life

Our prime minister seems obsessed by it

Does she? Can’t say I’ve noticed.

She initiated the "Christchurch Call" to target people like Tarrant and ban them from social media to stop them spreading bad ideas. It won't work (stopping the ideas) but it is a big focus for her.

@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:

@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:

@booboo said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:

@rotated said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:

@mofitzy_ said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:

The previous highest number of abandoned games in a World Cup was two, in 1992 (Australia) and 2003 (South Africa). We are now at 4.

Two games were abandoned in 2015 also. Aus/Bangladesh due to rain and the NZ skipper abandoned the final on the third ball of the match.

You mean at the toss?

It still haunts me today that we chose to bat when our number one strength in that tournament was Trent Boult. Letting him at the Aussies when it was hooping around would have put them on the back foot to begin with. Grrr.

At the time i didn't hate the decision. Had we scored 300 they would have been under enormous pressure. And there was no reason not to think our top order was capable of that.

Aussies bowled beautifully, and we cracked. Simple as that. Fuckers.

I was worried as hell about Starc in that tournament, he was in the form of his life and tearing teams apart; including us in the round robin. Letting him have first crack meant we were always going to start on the back foot, and Aussie ruthless as they were never took their foot off our throat.

Sure it probably wouldn't have mattered overall, but at least if Boult had been given the ball we could have put them under the pump to begin with. As it was Boult was largely nullified as they just blocked him out given the small total they were chasing.

Is it wet this time of year in England? Would it have been better to play it later in the summer?

@canefan said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

@Rembrandt said in Christchurch Gunman in Mosque:

Anyone know why the u-turn over terrorist charges? From memory they weren't going to go down that route as it could result in more of a shit show

They haven't said I don't think. I disagree with calling it terrorism. They should reduce it to what it was, some quack with a gun

There's a fair number of people that believe that if the perpetrator is brown it is terrorism, if white then it's not. So I think that may have played into the decision to charge terrorism.

I kind of agree with you though, it's not easy to discern the ideology he was following as he is just all over the place and appears to be more of a troll trying to start conflict than anything else. You could call him an ethno-nationalist I guess but then he praised black people in the States so...

@booboo said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:

@rotated said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:

@mofitzy_ said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:

The previous highest number of abandoned games in a World Cup was two, in 1992 (Australia) and 2003 (South Africa). We are now at 4.

Two games were abandoned in 2015 also. Aus/Bangladesh due to rain and the NZ skipper abandoned the final on the third ball of the match.

You mean at the toss?

It still haunts me today that we chose to bat when our number one strength in that tournament was Trent Boult. Letting him at the Aussies when it was hooping around would have put them on the back foot to begin with. Grrr.

@Rembrandt the change my mind things he does are good. I felt initially he was too harsh on students given he's had plenty of real-world experience now, but the last one I saw he'd toned it down a bit and was having some good dialogue.

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

@Bones all good bro, I have kids who ruin my jokes like that too.

I get that too, they always ruin my absolutely hilarious jokes.