@kiwiinmelb "Nice guns, Sonny".

"Thanks, Jack - I like your hair".

@Siam said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:

Wags out. Baby coming.

But don't worry Henry called up

Don't know why Mrs. Wags can't do this on her own - the delivery is bound to be short, or very short!

@mn5 said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:

Shit team in a shit location. lucky the Warriors are on

DO NOT diss Nelson you Queensland Bogan fluffybunny.

Ignore him, MN5.

What would a fucker who lives in Cairns know about locations? He's choosing to live in a swamp, inhabited by nasty, poisonous biting creatures - and that's just the people, don't get me started on the wildlife.

In fact, do. Go to the beach - get eaten by a crocodile. Go for a run - get bitten by a snake. Go for a shit - get bitten by a spider. Go anywhere and get bitten by dengue-ridden mosquitos or some other fucking insect largely unknown to science.

Go to the pub and be entertained by Tex Morton and his pet bantam, Stu - singing "Blue Bayou" - a song about living in a swamp.

In summary, he wouldn't know a good location if it bit him on the arse - and in Cairns it probably will!

Well done, lad!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/126150980/paul-coll-becomes-first-new-zealander-to-win-the-british-open-mens-squash-title

Biggest win by someone from Greymouth in a while.

Dave McKenzie won the Boston marathon, but he was from Runanga.

How have I never seen Pinky the Loving Cat before?

Well, that was pretty exciting and given that I hate losing far more than I like winning, I'm remarkably sanguine about the result.

I think some of you guys are being pretty harsh on the execution. The Lions defence was extremely good - no weak links - and I think the ABs decided they needed some pieces of magic to score. Maybe a lack of patience at times, but the two tries we scored both had a fair degree of magic to them - especially the second one. Taking pop passes into a close defensive line and getting smashed isn't the best way of retaining the ball - but, it's also a good way of breaking the line. On another night we could have scored four or five tries - we certainly created opportunities - especially in the first half.

I haven't really seen a massive decline in Hansen's coaching - we just came up against a team chock full of talented players and with the depth to match and possibly better the advantage we usually get from the subs bench - particularly once we lost a few players.

On the final penalty, I guess Poite will give a Gallic shrug and say something like "Il n’est pas la bonne décision, mais c’est la belle décision."

Which means, "It is not the right decision, but it is the beautiful decision." At least that's what I typed into Babelfish to get that result!

@sparky said in Savea goooone Skudder in:

@Crucial Selling Comics.

Worst Wing Ever!

Right now, the Crusaders have won the same number of games as the Australian teams combined.

@Kirwan said in US Politics:

In decades of observation, the most egregious management fuckups are done by people who can't do the simplest shit right. They're the same arsebandits who try to use Excel as a database.

The things I have seen built in Excel over the past 20years...

But, I wanna talk about Windows 8.1. I mean that was terrible. So terrible. Really bad. An affliction on the American people. And everyone else. And I was the only person to tell the truth about how bad that was. So bad. And so-called experts here tried to tell me it was good. Sad. Very sad. I mean Bill Gates. And by the way Bill Gates is a great friend of mine. And a great American. He's done so well. But even Bill Gates said how bad Windows 8.1 was. It was so bad Bill Gates gave everyone a free upgrade to Windows 10. So just listen to me in future. No-one knows more about IT than me. And halfbacks. Even Nepia will tell you that.

@mariner4life

@kev Yeah - next RWC is going to be interesting in a crap-shoot sort of way.

To win, you're probably going to have to play hard, dominate the collisions - but, that runs greater risk of something going horribly wrong and playing 60 minutes with 14 men. But, if you button off a bit and lose the collisions - if something doesn't go wrong for the opposition you're going to find yourself on the plane home.

Having a few little oompa-loompas in the team, who will attract high shots from giant locks might be a valuable commodity!

@kev I'd want to see some other angles, because the first one often doesn't show a proper picture - but, you can't really risk even minimal initial contact with the head.

On the plus side, Marius likes to be involved, so you'd imagine he would've had a few looks at different angles in his TMO box.

@kev I'd want to see other angles, but the first contact looks to me like Scott gets him in the back of the head?

@nzzp That looks quite citeable.

@booboo As above for Will.

Probably Jack Goodhue onto the bench for Ennor, since he covers 12 and 13 - so it's more balanced than the juggle at 12.

@Billy-Tell I'd give Will Jordan another week off, to make sure he's fighting fit when he comes back - and I think Leicester will benefit more from going again.

All going well, I'd now be planning for LF to play all three tests vs Ireland, with Will replacing Sevu for test 3. If all the wings stay fit, LF might not get that much game time later in the season, so use him now while there's good reason to rest the others.

Good!

That was quite authoritative after the first 20 minutes.

The Irish calibrated and I'd say right now they're good enough to beat us given the chance, but they're not better than us.

A few suggested changes for test 2 - Aidan Ross to the bench for Big Karl; Sami T. to start; Akira to 6 if his foot is fixed and the locks shuffled accordingly - PGS slides out of the 23; Ennor does likewise and replaced by a midfield back.

According to me, this makes us better. Everyone else can go again.

Jul 1  /  Sport

Tour de France: Lampaert in yellow as Thomas rallies after clothing error

Yves Lampaert won a rain-drenched opening time trial in 15 minutes 17 seconds, while Geraint Thomas was slowed down by his gilet

Pogacar already putting a bit of time into his rivals.

Just a handful of seconds for Vingegaard and Roglic, but someone like Caruso is almost 50 seconds down already.

Drug raids on Bahrain Victorious later in that article. I'm not surprised - seems to me there's a lot more "not normal" performances than a few years ago.

@Ludraman I'd take James Lowe over Big Leicester - but, not over Sevu Reece or Will Jordan.

All my Mako boys!!!

@mariner4life Give the ball to Jonah!!!

Yeah - Reuben used to go to lock on occasion - especially for the Crusaders vs Jaapie teams and we'd run them off their feet.