@antipodean said in Has Hansen gone stale?:

2011 was cathartic for me. Going back to back in 2015 made me as happy as Test rugby could. If we do the three-peat in 2019, I'd suggest the RWC could be irrevocably damaged.

Let it burn

The lions strike back

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus memes:

@MiketheSnow said in Coronavirus memes:

My next door neighbour has just been diagnosed with COVID-19 and rushed to hospital.

He's been put on one of the new Dyson ventilators.

He's picking up nicely now.

Oh Man! I was typing a reply saying that is a good news story and then realised the thread I was in.

You almost got sucked right in..... I'll get my coat

@NTA said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

@canefan said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

@NTA said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

@nzzp said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

Seriously, though, we talked about this with Henry as well. They will put systems in place to generate the players with attributes they need. Hansen's just done this wtih props - get mobile, or get gone. Simple.

It's about systems. We don't have any of note.

MacQueen and his team came together at just the right time and it took more than a year to get them pointed in the same direction

Was McKenzie on track before he fiddled and got caught?

Hard to say. From all reports, he had his favorites and would stick with them regardless.

Maybe his attitude was better (or better expressed) than Cheika. But look at that tweet from Quade - does that look like the culture was of a high standard when that guy is your first choice?

Genia's got an attitude problem as well. Many in Australia will refuse to countenance that.

While the Reds were winning, nobody cared

Some of the bad eggs, like Genia, are gone now anyway. You guys need new up and comers and someone to change the culture. Wait, I have just the man

@virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

A lot of fathers here, just imagine your little girl brings home her new boyfriend to show you. In walks that fat fuck, do you reach for the machete you have stashed in the shed or run next door to grab your neighbours .22 ?

I think you'll need a .303

TSF is like an island in a sea of shit right now

At a bar 1km from Yokohama stadium. It is stonking hot and sunny. Lucky the beer is cold

@R-L said in Hawt discussion (lots of PG13 gifs/pics):

I do miss baron though....

Use a bigger scope

@MN5 said in The Folau Factor:

@Rembrandt said in The Folau Factor:

Should have just glassed his girlfriend or shat in a hallway, pissed in his own mouth or maybe some sort of gang sexcapade like those much better role models out there.

In other words a typical Saturdee night when Craig Gower was playing

Foolah didn't mention bestiality. So Mitchell Pearce is in the clear right?

@gt12 scary how sophisticated the info war has become. Hillary certainly failed to do her part, and the GOP did the rest

@Siam said in US Politics:

@canefan that facility that allows the rich to ward off a common audit annoys me far more than trump and biden. That's the real scandal in this distraction.

Its always been this way. The rich have the power, the rules never apply the same as for the rest of us

@Siam said in US Politics:

@canefan exactly, the bigger issue is why anyone can get away with this, (if it's true - honestly mate I don't think I can trust anything on a screen anymore )

He is very litigious, so I guess you can pay the lawyers to protect your position as long as you wish. I would have thought that the IRS would act against him if he was avoiding tax, just like anyone but even more so because he's had attention drawn to him

@Siam he's been blocking access to his financial accounts since he ran the first time, his voters didn't seem to care about it in 2016, and it didn't move more people to get out and voters to stop him either

@Catogrande said in US Politics:

@Winger @canefan I agree whole heartedly with the idea of minimising tax if possible but if you can’t see that a guy with Presidential ambitions ought to hold himself to a higher level or at least that there will be a perception he should, then I despair.

I agree with that too. I can't believe that a man with his wealth could pay that little tax lawfully. But who knows

@R-L said in Hawt discussion (lots of PG13 gifs/pics):

@MN5 I duno a few of you are a bit braggy... @Snowy has got an online persona no one would want, not even sure he wants it. Maybe he should rebrand.

Like identity theft you mean?

@Winger said in US Politics:

@Frank said in US Politics:

NY Times release a report showing Trump has paid jack shit in federal income tax for ages.

So what (if its true) UNLESS he evaded tax. (Only a fool pays more tax than required). So if its unfair look at those that were in power and set the tax rules up.

Huge difference between evasion and minimising tax using the existing rules

@Kruse said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@canefan said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@Kruse said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Got my ticket a couple of hours back.
Hoping for a great game to wash the taste of my last live rugby from memory. Fucking fuck Yokohama bullshit fluffybunny pommy twats.

Yeah that wasn't what we had in mind....

I nearly mentioned you in that post... to say thank you VERY much for that ticket (sarcasm emoji).
Bastard.
(but seriously, cheers, even if the game turned out to be shite).

Haha. Yeah, me and the boys spent a fair amount of cash on that trip. Turned out that our team performed about as well as our 5 man haka in front of a bunch of Sony corporate guys in Golden Gai the next night

@Kruse said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Got my ticket a couple of hours back.
Hoping for a great game to wash the taste of my last live rugby from memory. Fucking fuck Yokohama bullshit fluffybunny pommy twats.

Yeah that wasn't what we had in mind....

@nzzp said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

@KiwiMurph said in Bledisloe One: Wellington, October 11:

Juicy odds for the Wallabies.

I think so - first outing for new combinations, new coaches, disrupted buildup - we could be ripe for the plucking.

Or be well up for it. Is it the first game for the oz as well?