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David Skippers  /  Jul 3  /  Waratahs

Waratahs team v British & Irish Lions: Tongan Thor part of strong Wallabies presence for tour clash

he Waratahs have named seven Wallabies in their matchday squad for Saturday's eagerly anticipated clash against the British & Irish Lions in Sydney.

15 Lawson Creighton, 14 Andrew Kellaway, 13 Lalakai Foketi, 12 Joey Walton, 11 Darby Lancaster, 10 Jack Bowen, 9 Teddy Wilson, 8 Hugh Sinclair (c), 7 Charlie Gamble, 6 Rob Leota, 5 Miles Amatosero, 4 Fergus Lee-Warner, 3 Taniela Tupou, 2 Ethan Dobbins, 1 Tom Lambert

Replacements: 16 Mahe Vailanu, 17 Jack Barrett, 18 Daniel Botha, 19 Matt Philip, 20 Jamie Adamson, 21 Jack Grant, 22 Tane Edmed, 23 Henry O’Donnell

@Bovidae said in SR U18 Development Squads 2025:

Nico Stanley is missing from the Blues squad too.

Blues were asked on social media if he was injured and they just said he was “unavailable this time”

Just kicked off

@MiketheSnow said in Transgender debate, in sport, in general:

Couldn't find the trans thread in off topic

There you go. I just moved it now

@MajorRage said in Error message:

This is new. Only on the iPhone. Not desktop. Any thoughts?

Should add. Only happens on Unread Topics.

Yes someone else reported that today

No changes have been made to the forum for ages

I can't force it on my iphone

@Kiwiwomble

No idea why. I've adjusted the blacklist.. maybe that will help

The game from 2000

rugbydatabase team lists

@Nepia I think so

@Nepia

They're probably counting/estimating unique individuals.

@Kirwan said in TSF Update - Politics forum gone, New server soon:

Coming back, it's been great to see the quality of the information in sports threads

It's interesting how that evolves.. A few years ago Otago/Highlanders threads were a bit shit. A handful of quality posters have completely changed that

Some general updates

Politics Subform

It's gone

Too many complaints/shitty behaviour and less and less people were reading it. 'Contentious Threads' section was a last ditch attempt to fix things. It failed.

Apologies to @MiketheSnow @Catogrande @pakman @Victor-Meldrew etc The UK thread was good, if all the others were like there wouldn't have been a problem

Also we have some changes coming up over the next few months which are more likely to be successful without that sub forum

So no chat about politics, politicians, elections, foreign policy, wars, climate change please

I'll move a couple of threads over to 'Off Topic' like the tranny one as that impacts sport

New Server

A new server has been purchased

I'll be doing a practise migration this weekend and hopefully the real one early next week

That will give us a decent hardware speed boost, a few more methods for combating bots/AI scrapers etc. Also we have been stuck on an older version of the software for ~12months because of some prerequisites.

After that I'll open up the forum to the public again

New Toys

Lots of new features coming

Me and @Kirwan have put aside some time for coding TSF enhancements. We have a list of new stuff we're working our way through that we want to use ourselves

I think we're already the best place to keep track of the NPC. The new stuff should make that lead even bigger

@Landers92 said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:

David Havili, Shannon Frizell, Shaun Stevenson and Folau Fakatava all confirmed to be playing for the AUNZ Invitational XV against the Lions

Hopefully a few more recent BaaBaas get added to this list. I'd like to see Beehre, Sotutu & JRK involved

There was an article that briefly mentioned the sky viewership. Apparently it was up 15% this year

@Bones

Yeah he's not small. I just think he'll wind up larger. It looks like he is still adding quality weight between competitions

@Frank

Maybe. Lock is his correct position though.

118kg and should be able to get a few more kgs on that frame

He uses a lot of hairspray to keep that combover in place

@Rembrandt said in UFC / MMA:

Tuporia is phenomanol

His run in the last 3 fights is amazing

Volk, Hollaway, Oliveira all by KO

Volk is really hard to KO, that was the only time Max has been knocked out and Oliveira hadn't been knocked out for 8 years

Wednesday at 10pm NZT

Ref is James Doleman

@MajorRage said in Formula 1:

Held off Alonso for 50 odd laps too as on same strategy

They've been stuck together a lot this year

Also, Alonso had DRS for most of that and Lawson did not.