The Fijians were on the wrong end of a lopsided penalty count aganst the Argies who managed to score a try in injury time of the second half to win as Fiji had a player in the bin (the second carding against them!)

Having said that what is happeneing in the bowl division with what looks like the bottom eight teams having just the one match on the final day. Seems starnge to spread the tournament out by a day but chop the best part of half a dozen games from the bowl not to mention straight knock out in the cup division with the losers of the quarter finals heading to the aftermatch function with no more games.

Presumably this reduction must be because of the inclusion of a womans division? Surely they can use two fields to ensure the continuation of the programme what we have become accustomed to over the years.

@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket 2019/20:

What I'm trying to say here is, how dare you try and talk shit about an all-time CHAMPION of the game who's an Aussie and would never stoop so low as to fake an injury against the POMS and sit out a game while his Aussie BROTHERS battle on without him.

Is this a different person to the one with the very same name that got a one year ban for being invovled in the ball tampering cheating episode?

Right then, we are going to have to come up with a non racist word to describe deep pocketed, short armed tight fisted folks. I would like to suggest the name of a country but that too would probably be ruled to be racist so will start the ball rolling with CRC McJock. Will need to apply some to to get a frozen closed wallet through lack of being opened open again and then some Raid to be applied to kill off the moths that will escape!

The Highlanders jersey looks like it originally started out a dark blue but has been through too many hot washes and has faded badly to get to then look it has in the photo above. Interesting to note there is no sponsor name on the front of the Crusaders jersey, it would suit SBW ideally as it saves him the expense of having to tape over any offending advertising on it! Could this be an indicator of a sudden change on mind and a return to his first Super Rugby franchise might be imminent?

@canefan said in Planes:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/117712266/us-signs-off-2-billion-sale-of-five-hercules-airplanes-to-new-zealand

Looks like we will buy new Hercules aircraft instead of changing to another manufacturer. Good solid option

Holy crap, that's over $400,000,000.00 for each aircraft. The price must include a huge amount of spares and technical support and backup.

@Stargazer He laced up his boots for the Magpies way back in 2013 or thereabouts before shunning us for the Western Force. By all means get him involved in the coaching/technical side of things as from memory can't recall him setting the world on fire in the black and white hooped jersey all those years ago so it might be better in investing in future prospects when it comes to members of the playing squad.

@No-Quarter said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

I'd like them to find the guy and slap a ban on him (2 -3 years) to send a message. I think Kane apologising on behalf of all New Zealanders is over-egging it a bit.

Jeez, that's jumping in ahead of Jacinda. She will be annoyed about missing out on the press coverage of her being first in the queue to apologise.

Looks like his Press Pass for free admittance to matches under the auspices of the NZRFU might be in jeopardy. Good on him though as he is echoing the thoughts of, well who knows how many but certainly mine anyway.

Without having seen the fixture I'm picking there were more security staff on duty than spectators. You might be pushing to include the ticket sellers and gate keepers as that would probably have increase the attendance by precisely nil had they been included. Counting the subs controller, ball boys and reserve referee might have seen the number of heads present exceed single figures. Honestly who could get any thrill out of watching live an encounter between the NZ Womens 2nd XV and Papua New Guinea on a mid week day time slot?

@Machpants said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:

@Higgins Nah we are cos we beat them

But we lost to England in the semis and the Boks finished behind us in pool play so it did not have any effect on who we played in the playoffs.