@rapido said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:

The 2017 tournament set attendance records for a Women’s World Cup. The tournament drew 45,412 fans over 30 matches. The final was played in front of a crowd of 17,115, and the pool matches sold out.

37% of the entire tournament crowd was made up of the grand final.

Pool matches sold out? All of them? But that was 28,000 people? Confused ....

I remember the World Cup final was an excellent game, I reckon with some good marketing and a successful NZ run, the crowds could actually be OK.

@hooroo said in EPL 18/19:

@kiwipie said in EPL 18/19:

@mariner4life said in EPL 18/19:

Liverpool go to an in-form Arsenal, get a draw, and it feels like a loss. Seriously, Liverpool are unbeaten in the league through 11 games, have only conceded 5 times, and yet the gap to City feels like a chasm. 2 points, and a 13 better goal difference. City are turning the league in to a sprint.

There are some seriously crazy odds at the TAB for everyone except City to win the EPL
Liverpool $4.50
Chelsea $18.00 (!)
Spurs $31.00 (!!)
Arsenal $101.00 (!!!)

Grrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttt!!!!!

$101 for us! I need a dollar of that just in case!!

Almost worth putting some on all of those 4 just in case City blow up/have injury crisis/Pep resigns etc. $18 for unbeaten Chelsea who won the title the season before last is just incredible.

@mariner4life said in EPL 18/19:

Liverpool go to an in-form Arsenal, get a draw, and it feels like a loss. Seriously, Liverpool are unbeaten in the league through 11 games, have only conceded 5 times, and yet the gap to City feels like a chasm. 2 points, and a 13 better goal difference. City are turning the league in to a sprint.

There are some seriously crazy odds at the TAB for everyone except City to win the EPL
Liverpool $4.50
Chelsea $18.00 (!)
Spurs $31.00 (!!)
Arsenal $101.00 (!!!)

Just for @dogmeat Fulham get the first managerial sacking in EPL and bring in ... the tinkerman who just happened to win the title 3 seasons ago. Great theatre once again .....

But Fulham are just amateurs compared to my Notts County who have just fired their 2nd manager of the season (Harry Kewell).

Better wrap this one up now the domestic season is done. Really close for most of the season but our champion is Boongalaulau with Higgins 2nd and Mary 3rd.

If the sign of a top team in the EPL is averaging 2 points or more per game and the sign of a bad team is averaging 1 point or less per game ...

There are currently 6 top teams and 8 bad teams in the EPL. Small statistical size but there has never been such a disparity - last season ended with 3 top teams and 5 bad teams.

@sparky said in EPL 18/19:

Dreadful news for Leicester City. The owner's helicopter has crashed in a car park outside the club's ground shortly after taking off following a match.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-46006470

Not sure how this will affect the club long term - he does seem to have been the ideal rich overseas owner. For a start, they won the title which is still an astounding achievement but he was also well liked by the fans.

City won the big game game away to Spurs which means that it is looking like a 2 horse race for the title (which is not to say Chelsea are out of it being still undefeated with 7 wins and 3 draws!)

@machpants said in NZ vs. Aust - Japanese yawn edition:

You see mad eye hooper bursting a gut to limit beaudy getting towards the goal posts, the winger just leave him to it. He maybe a knob but he puts in a hundred every time

After he has retired, that will be my abiding memory of him. Sprinting to chase a back he has no hope of catching but never giving up.

@hooroo said in EPL 18/19:

United lose another (at home to Juve) The chosen one is on fairly shaky ground, I imagine.

They are beginning to look like plucky underdogs when playing the European elite. Positive thing for them is that they should still qualify if they beat Young Boys at home - although maybe Jose fancies the Europa where they can be more evenly matched.

Meanwhile City yesterday were frightening, they really could have run up double figures against Shaktar. With KdB back, their options in attacking midfield are spectacular and he balances up the ridiculous number of cultured left feet (2 x Silvas, Sane, Mahrez, Mendy).

A 2-2 draw for Spurs at PSV which leaves them staring at an early exit ....

@taniwharugby said in TSF Mitre 10 Cup Tipping 2018:

@kiwipie I reckon me, J77, FarNorthHayden & Gunner would all have been in the 2008 squad!

It was the fresh face of Fiamacho that helped though

I dug it out of the archive - Northland team photo from 2008 (man, look at those hairstyles) along with their overall placing

The Champ is Here 2
TR 6
Duluth 15
D-Up 25
J77 27
FarNthHayden 47

67 person comp that season. Overall winner was Brakdov with DK, BobbyDigital and Tim rounding out the top 5.