SBW and Crotty both injured.
Fuck me, that's never happened before.

@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:

If Smith is unavailable, who wants Christie to start?

The Irish.

From GAGR -
"It's pretty inspirational that the Boks are even playing in this tournament. Seems Etzebeth and many of their forwards suffer from serious chronic medical conditions, severe forms of arthritis, perhaps, and struggle to go more than 14 seconds without being attended to by a legion of medical staff for a minute or two. Leaving the care home -- whence I assume they all reside, what with all this constant need for medical attention -- must be a pretty daunting experience. They have displayed true courage simply by turning up to Australia, let alone finding the willpower to partake in a match of rugby union football."

@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

A post on social media from Russell Coutts;

I'm heading to Wellington next week to join the protest. It's the first time I've ever felt compelled to join a protest.
I'm not anti-vaccine (I'm vaccinated) but I'm definitely against forced vaccinations.
I'm also strongly opposed to the ever increasing erosion of our human rights and the growing limitations on our freedom of choice. I believe in having the freedom to be able to question so-called "expert" opinion.
I'm against discrimination and the "them and us" society that is being promoted by our current political leaders.
I'm against creating different rights, laws and privileges based on Race.
I'm also against the irrational Covid rules that are currently being mandated in New Zealand, a few examples being;

• The 10 day quarantine that still remains for international travel.
• The absurd rules where our kids (vaccinated and unvaccinated) can sit in the same classroom and play sport together inside the school yard, yet are prohibited from playing sport together outside the school yard.
• The absurd rules that prohibit two young unvaccinated brothers, living in the same household, from sailing together in a sailing competition because they would be within two metres of each other while sailing their boat.
• The rules that require one to put on a mask to walk to and from the bathroom inside a restaurant when masks have already been removed while eating and drinking.
• The contradictory rules that allow unvaccinated people to take a domestic flight (with a negative Covid test) but prohibit a young unvaccinated kid from competing in their sport (outside school).
• The fact that our kids are forced to wear masks at school (even when it's well known that the surgical masks most of them are wearing are highly ineffective).
  Finally and perhaps most important, I'm against the fact that some of our mainstream media have received payment from the New Zealand government conditional on them promoting government policy, propaganda and spin.
  So yes, I'll be joining the protest in Wellington.

Are the protestors sure he isn't going to defect to the govt. if offered a better deal?

51 players.
Unlucky Akira, you were the 52nd.
Honest mate.

@frank said in AB EOYT 2018:

51 players.
Unlucky Akira, you were the 52nd.
Honest mate.

Fuck, I was taking the piss Steve.

I also agree with my more left leaning friends on this forum that there is probably not fraud of any significant scale. The US system is very decentralized. It is difficult to cheat on a massive scale. If you vote twice, your original vote plus the fake ones are thrown out.

I also think the mail-ins should have been counted at first if possible. Even if legitimate, the late dumps after the election day vote at 4 am give the perception of suspicious minds (and trust me that is the majority of Republicans) that the Dems knew how much was needed. But to be clear, I don't believe there has been mass fraud unless proven.

Trump should NOT be going around saying that. They should simply get their lawyers and court litigations and quietly go about the checking and recount processes that may be needed.

If Trump loses, and it seems he almost certainly will, there will be a tiny fraction of militant right wing extremists wanting to, shall we say, do something, in revenge if the major perception is the Dems won by fraud. Trump has a responsibility to shut the fuck up about this. But the horse has bolted.

I am withdrawing my support for him for the time being unless it is proven it was a steal by the Dems because I think he is being irresponsible for the whole country and you can still do all the checking through litigation anyway.

@stargazer said in All Blacks 2021:

@frank I don't see the need to add skin colour. Just keep it to "safe".

Nah - safe white boy is way funnier.

The sweet, sweet tears of Phil Kearns.

Scott Barrett my Man of the Match.

@Machpants said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

That's a bollox penalty and card. Hopefully last we see of Karl tho

He's there for his test rugby nous according to Fozzie.

@Nepia said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

@broughie said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

@Machpants he has been on for about 5 minutes. Give him some slack.

That's not the Fern way, Brodie has topped the tackle count yet the consensus on this this thread is that he's been lying down all day.

There we PGS in for a try.

It must fuck you off that Scott Barrett has been bloody good.

Leicester F has been solid as fuck.

Bundee Aki looks overweight.

@broughie said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

@KiwiMurph even with his mistakes Barrett is head and shoulders above anyone else.

You mean Jordie???
I don't think he's head and shoulders above Will Jordan.

NOT HIGH FUCK OFF

@Steven-Harris said in All Blacks v Ireland - 1st Test:

For all the negative discussion pre match about Scott Barrett, he’s been a total success as a big ball carrier ..
Great having that big extra body

He carries the way I'd like Akira to.

Fucking "Highlight Reel" does it again.

The initial major go-forward Ireland got from that phase was when Ardie rode the guy to the ground allowing him to make 3+ meters rather than crunching him.