Closest I’ve been to banning someone for years.

@Stargazer said in Bledisloe #1:

Ah, another TSF meltdown. Everyone completely overreacting as usual.

If you don’t meltdown after nearly conceding 50 in a Bledisloe game something is wrong with you

Too long, didn't read.

@KiwiMurph said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

@akan004 said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

Akira must be feeling great right now. Poor guy.

this has pre-meditated change written all over it - Frizell was always coming back

Conservative selection group, perfect game to test Akira out in with the top team. Frizzell's had three goes and been adequate at best.

Akira had 29 mins against a fired up Aussie side and had an excellent performance. Would make more sense to see if he could sustain it.

At six , is absolutely clear that Akira is now ahead of Frizzel.

@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

Level 3 lets more people go to work, but it's hardly a huge improvement on level 4 in terms of the cage doors opening.

However, in good news, apparently, not only is our curve flattening, it's exponentially reducing - halving every 5 days. At this rate, we are probably looking at a total of 6-8 weeks at levels 3&4 (so another 2-4 weeks) and then back to level 2.

The rest of the world is rightly envious of that, because they're generally looking at months of the equivalent of level 3+. 4 weeks seems a bit early to be rolling out the civil liberties flag - human rights and civil liberties are critically important to the NZ democracy, but the most important right is the right to life because the rest are not much use to dead people.

And a cratered economy is a damn sight harder on people on the other side.

This is exactly the sort of scare mongering that drove that poll result.

The original justification for this lockdown was not to eliminate the disease but to prevent our health system from being overwhelmed. That has been achieved and over the last four weeks process and capacity has been added to help even more with that.

So let’s move down the levels fast, test appropriately, contain regional reoccurrence, and get back to normalise life.

Even today Cindy was downplaying the huge impact this is having on the economy. “Doing in tough” is not even close to what’s coming IMO.

So who would have though James Fucking O’Conner would have completely outplayed an All Black ten?

What a great way for Smith and Henry to retire.

@billy-tell said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@canefan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@gt12 said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@majorrage said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

I notice this morning there are a couple of articles on the herald about how NZ reputation taking a hammering MIQ etc etc.

Articles are premium so I can't read them, but I do wonder if the editor has realised that NZ media is arguably the biggest problem due to their complete and utter inability to seriously question the government.

I strongly doubt that, but I did see this pop up in my feed, which makes me wonder if the media has realized that now there is some value in questioning the government (either that of the FB algorithm is working perfectly):

Mike Hosking

Mike's Minute: Doesn't the Government see the damage it's doing?

I don’t need to wade through the detail, the Herald has that if you want the finer points. But yet another gargantuan scandal is unfolding once again invol

Bloody hell. I read that article and was staggered no-one had thought this sort of stuff thru.

Sure, it's tricky for any government to deal with the pandemic and loads of mistakes are going to be made at the start like pensions for people trapped overseas - but you get on and fix them. This is incompetence on a grand scale and that it's allowed to continue shows a lack of political leadership bordering on callousness.

Why are you so surprised? Without the distractions of covid19 and the Christchurch mosque attack, what have they done? Kiwibuild? Nope. 1M trees? Nope. Auckland light rail? Nope. Eradicate child poverty? Nope Nope Nope. That's a whole lot of futility

I point you to the NZ politics thread for a partial list of completed work I compiled.

Are you a government spokes person? It’s like you’ve been sent here as a propaganda minister. I suppose it brings some balance.

I've found his posts useful and informative. It's important to understand others point of view, and what they are trying to do. Doesn't mean I like the content, but it certainly helps me land on my opinions.

@crucial said in All Blacks Squad for France:

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks Squad for France:

This thread is starting to resemble the good old days around AB selection time ,

All we need is Toeava to make himself available .

DMac is the new Toeava

Toeava could play ten.

Shameful day for New Zealand. Our reputation around the world is getting embarrassing.

@Windows97 said in It’s Razor. Robertson New All Blacks coach.:

Unfortunately I feel that that NZR hasn't really set Razor up for success.

A lot of criticism of the appointment of Fozzie was that the process was predetermined before it begun hence we "didn't get the right man for the job".

NZR has made it very easy for the exact same criticism to be thrown at Razor (in fact I guarantee it if a losing streak comes along).

Hopefully he wont be in that predicament as he's simply a better coach but oh, how the media will turn...

Big difference between the two men’s record as head coaches, be hard to pull that card here.

I wonder if he's going to the World Cup as an observer? Would be vital as a learning experience wouldn't it? Or just disruptive?

@taniwharugby said in It’s Razor. Robertson New All Blacks coach.:

@Kirwan given preparation seems to be a big part of his successes to date, he has alot of months to get himself prepared for his first naming in what, May 2024?

Geez, that is a long time to wait now...

It's weird having two All Black coaches. Modern times I guess.

@kiwi_expat said in It’s Razor. Robertson New All Blacks coach.:

@Kirwan said in It’s Razor. Robertson New All Blacks coach.:

@Bovidae said in Foster, Robertson etc:

This place will be fun if we get a repeat of the Cantablacks of the Mitchell/Deans era. There might be some TSF favourites on the outer.

I'm not going to be surprised if that's exactly what happens.

I really don't see that, Razor has about as different as a coaching philosophy from Deans as you can get.

Robbie had a gameplan & built the team around that, he never wavered from that and it cost him with Aus.

Razor is quite the opposite, he looks at what he has available & builds a gameplan around accentuating their strengths.

The question is whether he sees what is available outside of Canterbury. We won't know until he selects his first squad, but it's the sort of mistake an inexperienced coach would make.

We've seen it slightly with Foster, Cane as captain. Sowakula's bizarre selection.

@KiwiMurph said in Foster, Robertson etc:

Press conference starting

Link?

@Bovidae said in Foster, Robertson etc:

This place will be fun if we get a repeat of the Cantablacks of the Mitchell/Deans era. There might be some TSF favourites on the outer.

I'm not going to be surprised if that's exactly what happens. Here come third pick journeymen Crusaders.

Lets see if he proves me wrong.

Game will be won or lost on the lineout, similar to the GF. And without Patrick and Eklund having the yips, it's going to take a herculean effort to get up, even with the Crusaders being in a similar position with their lack of depth being exposed by the Drua.

Will be a cracking game.

@Stargazer around the body.

If you are going to show acts that need to be looked at, the Blues guy getting dropped on his head is a good place to start.

Apparently if two Canes players do it it’s not a yellow card.

@taniwharugby said in Hurricanes vs Blues:

@Kirwan while that shows clear separation, I think his arm regained 'contact' before it touched the ground, meaning it was again in 'control'

For me, the much clearer part of it was the fact it was well short, and even the post grounding roll didnt seem to make the line.

You can't regain control by forcing it on the ground.