Pakman was at Dublin 1991, Ellis Park 1995, Twickenham 1999, Sydney 2003 and Cardiff 2007. He's watching on Sky.

Irish have no chance.

@tewaio Yes. A bit concerned that Owen Franks will have lost his pace when he returns.

Last 20 rewatch. Was our worst period:

• Big gaps close to rucks, esp. for Koroibete try, after Tupou twice made good ground.

• ABs passing to no one -- Patty T after SW takes kick off at 33-19, Taylor after great Savea break from 22 -- and Patty T drop in contact.

• Poor kicks gifting possession -- Laumape grubber, RM kick which Beale ran from goal line and could have led to end to end try but for Read covering.

• More easy metres from pick n go, leading to Hodge's second.

• Moli poor defensive alignment attacked, second time big hole when Beale scored.

• At 40-26 Read taps penalty rather than kicking into Oz 22?

• Moli under pressure at scrum.

• Last try from good scrum on our 10 metre -- Oz momentum wasn't checked (our forwards on wrong side field), leading quickly to final try.

Takeaways:

1. Gave away possession by forcing things rather than being patient (5 times!). Treasure the farking pill!

2. Defence round ruck abysmal.

3. Fast Oz ball meant they several times made 40 metres in a blink, and once five out were clinical.

@Jaguares4real said in TRC: The All Blacks against the Springboks (version 98):

@Yeetyaah

You misinterpreted my post

Simply put Cane is more versatile as a player than Cane

ala Hooper is with Pocock

You've got me with that one.

@sparky said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

England Vs New Zealand in the RWC Semi Final. It's happened before.....

No one who saw Jonah's brilliant quartet of tries in Cape Town will ever forget them.

Pakman certainly won't. As I walked up the stairs in the stadium I was thinking that English were getting too confident, and thus ultimately dangerous, and we needed to give them a good spanking to keep them in their place. Five minutes later Jonah did his thing!

He also scored in pool game 1999 (best atmosphere I've ever experienced at Twickenham) following which Dayglo dropped a knee on him. The big man got up angry then clearly thought, 'You're not worth it'!

For completeness, I was also at first game of 1991 Cup, the only other time the sides have played.

So 100% and doing the right thing by getting my ass to Yokohama to ensure the record remains intact.

@antipodean said in The Folau Factor:

@chimoaus said in The Folau Factor:

His termination had nothing to do with him being a christian though did it, otherwise half of rugby players would be terminated. He was terminated because he breached the code of conduct. Surely saying my religion gives me a free card to use hate speech at work doesn't fly in today's society.

Depends if you think quoting religious texts is hate speech. I doubt he'd be quoting it in earnest belief if he wasn't a Christian.

What if I was an extremest and I was saying all non believers will die a fiery death, all non "insert religion" will die if they don't believe "my religion". If I approached a non believer in my work place and said John, sorry to say but you will die a painful fiery death unless you join my religion, you are a horrible person for not believing, you are sentencing you and your family to a horrible death. Do you think that would be tolerated?

Anyway I think it will be a good case to set a precedent and hopefully stop others spreading hateful speech in name of their religion.

I accept the nobler intentions of what you say, but who is to determine the extent of religious speech versus hateful speech? Does the Federal Government now step in and determine what passages can remain in the bible/ koran/ torah etc? Section 116 of the Constitution specifically prohibits such action: "The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion"

I must say this whole debacle only serves to highlight to me how much I abhor the Brand values bullshit of commercial Rugby. It's going down somewhat of the same route as e.g. Apple, where the creation of an Apple persona, with its associated plethora of 'right-on' values, is a mechanism for gouging excess profits from its fan base (customers in old money).

I don't watch rugby as some sort of moral endeavour and I certainly don't implicitly sign up for the various rugby unions' 'values', which are spouted in such situations.

The level of hypocrisy is breathtaking. Anyone with any awareness realises that some of the pro's are women beaters and general psycho's/arseholes, having values which don't appear to be part of rugby union ideals.

The ARFU would do itself a favour if it adopted a code of conduct which didn't pontificate on which legal off field values were acceptable (or not) and just stuck to promoting the entertainment and athleticism of the sport.

That way IF repeating Christian beliefs would just be one man's view. Those who don't agree can simply chose not to be Christians, in much the same way I chose not to be Muslim, or Hindu, etc..

End of rant.

@booboo Looked for him. Must be on outer?

Surprised no one's posted here as read about in UK: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/122023431/helen-clark-peter-gluckman-rob-fyfe-on-deficiencies-and-inaccuracies-in-isolation-system

@Bones said in Brexit:

@pakman consultant for a software/solutions company.

Seem to be quite a few of your brethren on the Fern!

@Bones said in Brexit:

@voodoo said in Brexit:

@Bones said in Brexit:

@Paekakboyz yeah, can't say I buy into that one eh...

Where are you at with the decision re moving to Oz?

No rush eh, will see what develops here over the next few months and start to look at options around the end of the year.

Why, you hoping for someone to pay your rent in aus?

What line of business are you in?

@Bones said in Coronavirus - UK:

Oh dear.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/the-swan-inn-ashford-pubs-reopening-coronavirus-lockdown-a4488836.html

Hanging offence!

@Bones said in British Politics:

@Rembrandt said in British Politics:

Defund

Eureka! Now I know why blonde haired, blue eyed Bonesetta is always trying to get me to go for a "nice walk" and I instantly recoil.

Are you sure she's yours?

@Tim said in What are you listening to, right now................:

This David Gilmour track is a banger.

@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@pakman said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@pakman said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

Two straight questions: (i) how many NZ passports are there; and (ii) how many passport holders live outside NZ?

Used to be said when population was 4m, that there were 4m passport holders outside NZ.

One would hope that info would be online, but it doesn't seem to be easily accessible. Looking through DIA reports, I would estimate 3.5 million or so passports in circulation based on numbers issued in the past 5 years, but that will be able to be updated after the DIA annual report for 2019-2020 is published. Citizens in and and out of NZ also isn't obviously online, so I asked Stats NZ that question.

Thanks. Will be interesting to see response!

Stats NZ replied, apparently they don't know how many citizens there are.

She'll be right, mate!

@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@pakman said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Godder said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

Two straight questions: (i) how many NZ passports are there; and (ii) how many passport holders live outside NZ?

Used to be said when population was 4m, that there were 4m passport holders outside NZ.

One would hope that info would be online, but it doesn't seem to be easily accessible. Looking through DIA reports, I would estimate 3.5 million or so passports in circulation based on numbers issued in the past 5 years, but that will be able to be updated after the DIA annual report for 2019-2020 is published. Citizens in and and out of NZ also isn't obviously online, so I asked Stats NZ that question.

Thanks. Will be interesting to see response!

@JC said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@pakman Aha, but I’m not over 65!

Good answer!