The Silver Fern

Another nice afternoon for some club footy today, that, in contrast to all the tight games last week, this week saw some bigger scores in all games.

I went along to watch Hora Hora host Mid Northern who alongside Kamo & Moerewa/United Kawakawa still remain unbeaten after 6 rounds.

Game started well, and the home sides loose trio of Rory Woods, Jaycob Matiu and Terrell Peita were keeping HH in the game, with Peita and Woods in particular prominent on both sides of the ball.

For Mid Northern, thier pack set the platform, led as always by Jordan Olsen, playing at 8 today.

Jade Stewart at 10 controlled the game well, while thier locking duo of Terepai King and Darcy Holwell were busy on both sides of the ball.

MN were up 28-7 at the break, although the game was closer than that, but the 2nd half saw the injection of Rob Rush who made his impact felt at the first few rucks he cleaned out and showed his step up in quality.

HH hit back early in the 2nd half when Peita bagged a double, but MN hit back immediately, and then a 4 try spell in 15 mins from about 60 mins put the game away, although HH 8 Rory Woods had the final say as they went down 51-19.

For HH, Woods and Peita were prominent in the 1st half, while Woods maintained this, Peita was a bit quieter in the 2nd, Kobie Scutt and Kobie Walters both had thier moments for the home side.

MN seem to be playing well as a team, with no real standouts in the 1st spell, Kiwi Duncan had his moments but sometimes his decision making lets him down, although scored a cracker of a solo try in the 2nd spell with great stepping off both feet to beat defenders and gas to finish.

In the 2nd half, centre Zac Shanks who is usually a loosie showed some classy with ball in hand and deceptive pace, while Jade Stewart had a good game guiding them around at 10, while Rob Rush was into everything as you'd expect with a player of his calibre, props Lemisio and Apoua both had thier moments to show thier running skills while they ensured MN had a dominant set piece.

All the other results were as expected, although score lines bigger than I'd expected and a couple blowouts, none moreso than the MUKK v Waipu where the scores were tight at 17-13 at half time.

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@Kirwan 27-19

Blues picked Sotutu as their MOTM

Time to tip everyone - some tough choices this weekend I reckon https://thesilverfern.com/tipping-submit/

@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:

If Bon Scott hadn't removed himself with drink and drugs we probably wouldn't have known Brian Johnson

Sounds like someone needs more Geordie in their life….

@antipodean said in Hubris:

This popped up in my YT feed. Amusing and quite frankly alarming as I haven't trained since prepping to go to France last year.

Doc says another week and the internal stitches should be dissolving so I can start training again. I already know it will be worse than the above video and certainly not as funny. Perhaps once you get over 50 there's such a thing as muscle amnesia?

That was pretty cool, I liked his honesty and humbleness. I’m shocked he only managed FOUR dips though !

You really do have to use it or lose it especially as the time passes.

Thank goodness I have a garage gym ( which is also a garage bar but only when I’ve done said gym work )

If anyone wants to dig into the math, this is super interesting.

Aug 15, 2023 What do I think about Community Notes? What do I think about Community Notes?

Key takeaways for me is you can review the notes voting and see why it was surfaced or hidden. That sort of transparency is crucial for a context based system like this.

Algorithmic based fact checking is a great way to handle the current polarisation where each side is trying to promote its own facts.

In any case, this is a dramatically better system than the previous regime.

The avalanche of new features is also a benefit to the app for me. Some will hit, others won’t.

I’m tempted by the grok summary of news events and how they are going to expand that. Some interesting kernels of features starting to emerge.

We had a good ten years of very little innovation, certainly not the case anymore. Almost too much to keep up with.

Looks like these had broken again. There was a small change to the instagram urls so I had to update the pattern matching.

Should be good now. No idea how long it was broken

[Edit] Actually there seem to be a couple of different urls styles now. So not every embed was broken. It works for both styles now