@Chris agree re: Sodhi, that's a match winning spell, by far the best bowler of either side.
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I enjoyed the sprint race, though it was inevitable Max was going to overtake Hamilton at some point.
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@Mr-Fish said in Movie review thread...:
@No-Quarter said in Movie review thread...:
@Mr-Fish I had only seen the American franchise, which is fun as an action monster bash shit up type movie, so I wasn't expecting any kind of deep story line, but Minus One is a genuinely amazing film
Definitely recommend you catch the one that came out a few years back, Shin Godzilla - very similar vibes!
We really enjoyed that, love how horrific they made Godzilla as well. Not as good as Minus One though as the story and character development wasn't as good, but still very cool!
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What an absolutely diabolical article. The sooner legacy media dies the better.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in DEI:
Speaking of MI......our village hall has applied for a grant to refurb the (single) disabled toilet. We were asked to answer this question in the application:
"It is a requirement of the Foundation that any grants be used to build and grow diversity and inclusion in rural communities. To what extent will any grant (if awarded) directly benefit the local minority and LGBTQ+ community? How and how often will this be measured by your organisation?"
That really is mind boggling and just highlights how crazy things have gotten in some areas. I assume that's a stupid generic question that they ask everyone, but disabled people are by far the most disadvantaged people in society, and it's not even close. To actually pose a question like that in relation to upgrading a disabled toilet... Christ.
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I am seeing the same craziness in Auckland as well, every day there's some new lunatic doing something crazy. I think the economic fallout from the response to the Pandemic down here is having a pretty disastrous effect on mental health across the board. Gonna get worse before it gets better I think.
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Twitter had some teething issues when Musk took over while they tried to remove all the terrible code and activist bullshit. It's now undoubtedly far superior than it was before, and it's nice that arbitrary bans for incorrect opinions appear to have stopped.
For me, he should focus next on removing the porn accounts and addressing a recent issue where people are posting unrelated stuff in the replies as it takes away from the conversation. I.E. people are tracking viral tweets and just trying to promote their own content in the replies instead of responding to the original post.
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@Mr-Fish thanks, will watch it with the boy this weekend and revert back
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@Mr-Fish I had only seen the American franchise, which is fun as an action monster bash shit up type movie, so I wasn't expecting any kind of deep story line, but Minus One is a genuinely amazing film
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Surprisingly, one of the best movies I've seen this year was Godzilla Minus One. The boy is a huge Godzilla fan so went to see it with him and was blown away by how good it was. Don't need to be a Godzilla fan to enjoy it. It's Japanese with subtitles though.
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Nah he amassed 17 points from coming either 1st, 2nd or 3rd in our polls throughout the year. By Bok II he was burnt out and had a quiet game, and after that they seemed to just favour Frizzell for reasons unknown to me.
Edit - the chat about him not being given chances was in the seasons after that I believe, given he'd proven he could do it at the top level already.
But enough about the past, this thread is about looking forward
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@Kiwiwomble your memory fails you then. These were the MOTM standings in 2021 after the 2nd Bok test at the end of our season:
Current standings:
17 Akira Ioane
10 Sam Whitelock
10 David Havili
9 Jordie Barrett
9 Aaron Smith
9 Dalton Papali'i
8 Rieko Ioane
8 Brodie Retallick
8 Luke Jacobson
7 Ethan Blackadder
5 Codie Taylor
5 Samisoni Taukeiaho
5 Dane Coles
5 Will Jordan
4 Quinn Tupaea
4 Damian McKenzie
4 Beauden Barrett
3 Richie Mo'unga
2 Sevu Reece
1 Scott Barrett
1 TJ Perenara
1 George BowerI think more than just a couple of games that year.
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I remember when Fozzie first took over and talked about the need for more physicality on defense. He then got Akira absolutely humming for a season and I thought we'd turned a corner, but then Akira got burnt out and we just kept going with wet blanket Frizzell after that waiting for his 1 out of 100 decent games to occur. Our loosies are looking really strong this year.
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For a lot of these guys it's pretty obviously a fetish
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
The concern for me is Robertson built his team around Richie and Sam, so him chasing them and talking about relaxing the rules for overseas players makes me think he's just going to try and implement his Crusaders game plan at test level
Or it's about our shallow depth currently at 10 and at lock.
How about we wait and see how the ABs actually play before jumping to conclusions.
We haven't even heard Razor speak about the Whitelock piece yet.
I don't think our depth is as shallow as people are making out, especially at lock.
We haven't had a world class 10 in a long time, which is a big reason we have struggled of late. Relaxing rules so a bog-standard test 10 can still play for the ABs is absolutely bonkers and comes across as a bit desperate.
On lock there are stacks of names being bandied about that have the potential to fill the huge holes SW and Brodie leave. We also already have a world class lock in SB.
We just made the RWC final and should have won bar a couple of missed penalties. We now have a few players retiring, and the core of the team remaining, like all teams around the world. We don't need to panic and start relaxing rules or begging players in their twilight to come back. We should be looking at the talent we have available and developing that.
I completely agree with this though:
How about we wait and see how the ABs actually play before jumping to conclusions.
However I am far too impatient to wait for that
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The concern for me is Robertson built his team around Richie and Sam, so him chasing them and talking about relaxing the rules for overseas players makes me think he's just going to try and implement his Crusaders game plan at test level, and believes they are best to do that for him. As I said earlier, the lack of international coaching experience may expose him - Super rugby and test rugby are so far apart these days, e.g. Richie was a superstar at Super rugby, probably the best ever, but was really just bog standard at test level as it's a different ball game.
TBH this isn't what I expected of him. I thought he was the guy that could take any team and make them greater than the sum of their parts. Starting to think Whitelock has been the brains at the Crusaders?
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