@cantab79 said in AB Test Team v France.:
Can't believe people are seriously suggesting that Steve Hansen has not called up Akira Ioane because he is saving him for the Maori team. Is there any precedent to back up this theory? Luke Whitelock has outplayed Ioane at both Super Rugby and Mitre 10 Cup levels this year, and that's why he's been selected.
How does that pie taste?
Look. Tana and BOD have buried the hatchet and are sharing a laugh.
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@booboo said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Japan v Ireland (Pool A):
Apparently BOD was a pundit on the Irish coverage and didn't take the result well. If anyone has the footage and can post it I will be eternally grateful
Was on the ITV coverage.
He had the look of a man who's swallowed a wasp during during a live TV interview and that distracted him from the fact he's also having a severe bowel spasm.
Excellent.
A quarter final exit is an Irish tradition isn’t it?
Planet Rugby’s Ireland fans are still delivering gold
“We knew all of this in advance.
That’s why Joe player what he felt was his best team.In cooler weather, better ref, neutral location both teams given the same amount of rest and our B team puts 40 points on them.
Do we really think that Japan making the quarters wasn’t just what WR wanted?
At this rate Japan might make the semis or better.
Reminds me of Korea/Japan WC in the football.”
Also a whole thread about how bent Gardner is
http://forum.planetrugby.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=91481&sid=5594db999ca625c55956a0becc14a9dc
I don’t remember bok fans being this graceless at all and their team came back and gave ours a hell of a game in the semis.
I hope Heneke Meyer had a smile on his face last night .
The only downside for Japan is no one in their pool is going to take them lightly so they’ll be playing their top side if possible.As a neutralish observer (I was obviously backing Japan) I didn't notice any obvious issues with the officiating. Did anyone? (Haven't read the thread.)
What are their specific whinge? Or is it just victim mentality?
Some of them have been saying Japan had an advantage because they play in the super rugby comp and are more used to the way Gardner refs .
Victim mentality, delusions of grandeur or just ungracious arseclowns? Take your pick
According to comments on the42 Ireland were beaten by some fella called Hugh Middity.
He wasn’t on the team sheets but must have been there because everyone is saying “Hi, Hugh Middity”
@allblacksfan72 said in Are there any All Blacks wildcards left ?:
How about George bridge? Has all the qualities needed for test rugby
A red and black jersey?
Can someone please correct this thread title. It is doing my head in.
@Catogrande said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
@MajorRage said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
@Crucial said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
Freedom of speech still exists - anyone (in most countries) - anyone is free to say anything. What happens as a consequence is the debated point
A society where you can lose your job for legally expressing an opinion is not a society which has freedom of speech.
Sportsmen and woman who express an opinion and speak out for gay rights (rightly) aren't dropped from their teams - but those with an opposite view are.
As you say, sport reflects society.
Legally, I can call my boss a fucking piston wristed gibbon. I can shout it from the rooftops if I want, legally.
Freedom of speech means I can’t lose my job?
It would help us enormously if we knew who you worked for.
Self employed?
SBW is there over Laumape for a number of reasons (experience in general, experience at RWCs) but most importantly he is the better player for the gameplay and structure.
He is there to be in pod one which involves bending the line and recycling quickly out to the second playmaker.
NL is great at bending the line but his ball handling is not at SBWs level.
I probably would have had NL there over Crotty but concede that loses some squad flexibility.
NL is just unlucky not undeserving
@NTA said in RWC Final: England v Springboks:
As for Sinkcler and Itoje not wearing their medals: I have no problem with that. They're young men who just lost the biggest game of their lives. They were hurting, but tomorrow they'll look back and appreciate what they learned.
My comparison is getting a silver at the olympics. Would be all sorts of shit thrown at someone that refused to have their silver medal put around their neck or to rip it off straight away.
See the Olympics are respected as the pinnacle. What Itoje and Sinkcler did was disrespect the very competition they were aiming to claim glory from. 'If we don't win it then it is shit' was the message they gave.
Sport means sucking up your disappointments as well as revelling in successes. It also means respecting the oppositions achievements.
Petulant cocks, both of them.
The arrogance meter has reached new heights in these last few pages.
@Baron-Silas-Greenback You made a statement that 'Brexit remorse is a myth' then accuse others of believing only what they want to believe!
As quite a few on here that are currently in the UK have stated clearly. They have had and heard these discussions first hand, have talked to remain voters that regret either their vote or the outcome of it. No one has said that these numbers are big nor representative but they do actually exist. They are not a myth.
If your original statement was meant to mean that a re-vote would not be different then actually say that. To deny other peoples own personal experiences and demean them as 'quaint' is incredibly arrogant.
I'll state it quite clearly. I have spoken to many people on this subject both before and after the referendum. Conversations that I would not belittle as 'quaint'. Among those discussions were not only leave voters that are not happy with the direction things have taken but leave voters maintaining their position, remain voters accepting the will of the vote and remain voters that are disgruntled.
These are not figments of my imagination from the other side of the world. These are real conversations with a random cross-section of British society. For you to sit and call them quaint and bullshit is frankly an insult both to myself and to the intelligence of the people who made the comments.
There are people that voted leave that regret it. Fact. Would they number enough to swing the result the other way if we all went back in time? Don't know. But that does not equal Brexit remorse being a myth as you have ascertained many times.
Funniest thing about your posts on this matter is that you fail to see the irony in calling out remain voters as maintaining that they are right and everyone else is wrong.
@mooshld said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
Pure Evil - Joffrey, Bolton, Cersi, Euron types
Evil but think they are good - Dany, Tywin, Sparrow dude
Good but flawed - Robb, Jamie, Jorah, Theon, Hound
Good - Everyone who lived till the end.
You missed..
Good but thick as shit - Jon Snow
Having Ygritte continually saying 'you know nothing Jon Snow' over and over was the biggest foreshadowing on the series.
Meanwhile at Millbrook, it’s a cracker arvo watching DMac, BB, Goldie and Izzy smash it around in a T10
@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@Crucial said in British Politics:
There’s no way the beeb would go down the paid route without there own interface
iPlayer provides any GUI- already requires (like Netflix) sign-in and email verification, logs your IP and uniquely identifies the device you're using - and is linked to the TV licencing database. (check out their T&C's)
The BBC has said it expects most of its output to be watched streamed rather than on traditional channels in the next few years. Then Netflix et al will be competing with them head-on.
And we get back to the infrastructure argument again. There’s no way that they will be allowed to not provide a service over terrestrial broadcast.
@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@Crucial said in British Politics:
DTT subscription services are definitely possible. My point was that they require a set top box.
Not necessarily. You simply use a software token instead of a hardware token on existing STB's and TV's- as used on mobile banking apps. On older sets a CAM module could be used.
My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that while a software token may grant decoding it won’t provide a GUI. There’s no way the beeb would go down the paid route without their own interface
@voodoo said in Tipping 2020:
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Did I really select Highlanders? I struggle with that spread sheet as the top row doesn’t remain fixed.
Must have clicked wrong button on phone as would never think the highlanders would win
Ahh, here come the excuses, must be Round 3...
Some of us just learned to accept our shitness years ago
He'll stick around like a bad smell. Pretty sure there will be appeals for appeals etc etc if not just an appeal on sentence.
His lawyer made it clear today that he still proclaims innocence.
@Nepia said in TSF upgrade 19/02:
@Duluth said in TSF upgrade 19/02:
I don't think it is a settings problem
If you navigate to the end of the thread does it remember that position the next time you go into it?
Nope.
Example 1: Clicked on the Indian Cricket Thread - it went to page 33. Clicked through three more pages to 30. Closed thread. Clicked on it again and it's back to 33.
Example 2: Clicked on Blues v Bulls thread, went to page 2. Clicked to page 1 (the most recent post). Closed thread. Clicked on it again and it's back to page 2.
That is what it’s meant to do isn’t it? Go to the most recent post rather than than last one you read (if you are reading backwards)
@Nepia said in TSF upgrade 19/02:
@Crucial said in TSF upgrade 19/02:
@Nepia said in TSF upgrade 19/02:
Just logged into my account on one of the work PCs and same thing - still going to start of threads or in the middle of threads if there are lots of pages (100+).
Could there be anything I've missed on the settings page of my account?
What do you click on and from where? Maybe you navigate differently to most of us?
Normally, pre the update, I just click on the Thread title and it would go to most recent, now it goes either to the first page or middle of thread. "Sort By" is set to newest to oldest.
I didn’t think that ever worked for me. If I clicked on the thread title it used to go to the start. Only through testing this have I found it going to the last read post (presumably according to the cache).
I always click on the far right in the time of the last post
@Donsteppa said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
Why did they schedule a test match in Wellington at the end of Feb??? Everyone know they Welly summer is between the 15-17th Jan every year.
#DontScheduleTestMatchesInWinterI missed that memo, I just assumed there was no Wellington summer at all.
Maybe not at the Basin but we have been in drought in Upper Hutt. I have been working from home and days around 30 have been common place. It has been a battle to keep the garden going.
Currently however it is pissing down. Safe to say no more play today
@Nepia said in TSF upgrade 19/02:
Just logged into my account on one of the work PCs and same thing - still going to start of threads or in the middle of threads if there are lots of pages (100+).
Could there be anything I've missed on the settings page of my account?
What do you click on and from where? Maybe you navigate differently to most of us?
@nzzp said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
Jamieson! Again!
That same length and direction I was talking about. That's how Paddles did it too.
