SBW and Crotty both injured.
Fuck me, that's never happened before.

The lesson I took from this is Foster is a shit coach.

From GAGR -
"It's pretty inspirational that the Boks are even playing in this tournament. Seems Etzebeth and many of their forwards suffer from serious chronic medical conditions, severe forms of arthritis, perhaps, and struggle to go more than 14 seconds without being attended to by a legion of medical staff for a minute or two. Leaving the care home -- whence I assume they all reside, what with all this constant need for medical attention -- must be a pretty daunting experience. They have displayed true courage simply by turning up to Australia, let alone finding the willpower to partake in a match of rugby union football."

@Tim said in All Blacks 2022:

If Smith is unavailable, who wants Christie to start?

The Irish.

@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

A post on social media from Russell Coutts;

I'm heading to Wellington next week to join the protest. It's the first time I've ever felt compelled to join a protest.
I'm not anti-vaccine (I'm vaccinated) but I'm definitely against forced vaccinations.
I'm also strongly opposed to the ever increasing erosion of our human rights and the growing limitations on our freedom of choice. I believe in having the freedom to be able to question so-called "expert" opinion.
I'm against discrimination and the "them and us" society that is being promoted by our current political leaders.
I'm against creating different rights, laws and privileges based on Race.
I'm also against the irrational Covid rules that are currently being mandated in New Zealand, a few examples being;

• The 10 day quarantine that still remains for international travel.
• The absurd rules where our kids (vaccinated and unvaccinated) can sit in the same classroom and play sport together inside the school yard, yet are prohibited from playing sport together outside the school yard.
• The absurd rules that prohibit two young unvaccinated brothers, living in the same household, from sailing together in a sailing competition because they would be within two metres of each other while sailing their boat.
• The rules that require one to put on a mask to walk to and from the bathroom inside a restaurant when masks have already been removed while eating and drinking.
• The contradictory rules that allow unvaccinated people to take a domestic flight (with a negative Covid test) but prohibit a young unvaccinated kid from competing in their sport (outside school).
• The fact that our kids are forced to wear masks at school (even when it's well known that the surgical masks most of them are wearing are highly ineffective).
  Finally and perhaps most important, I'm against the fact that some of our mainstream media have received payment from the New Zealand government conditional on them promoting government policy, propaganda and spin.
  So yes, I'll be joining the protest in Wellington.

Are the protestors sure he isn't going to defect to the govt. if offered a better deal?

51 players.
Unlucky Akira, you were the 52nd.
Honest mate.

@frank said in AB EOYT 2018:

51 players.
Unlucky Akira, you were the 52nd.
Honest mate.

Fuck, I was taking the piss Steve.

I also agree with my more left leaning friends on this forum that there is probably not fraud of any significant scale. The US system is very decentralized. It is difficult to cheat on a massive scale. If you vote twice, your original vote plus the fake ones are thrown out.

I also think the mail-ins should have been counted at first if possible. Even if legitimate, the late dumps after the election day vote at 4 am give the perception of suspicious minds (and trust me that is the majority of Republicans) that the Dems knew how much was needed. But to be clear, I don't believe there has been mass fraud unless proven.

Trump should NOT be going around saying that. They should simply get their lawyers and court litigations and quietly go about the checking and recount processes that may be needed.

If Trump loses, and it seems he almost certainly will, there will be a tiny fraction of militant right wing extremists wanting to, shall we say, do something, in revenge if the major perception is the Dems won by fraud. Trump has a responsibility to shut the fuck up about this. But the horse has bolted.

I am withdrawing my support for him for the time being unless it is proven it was a steal by the Dems because I think he is being irresponsible for the whole country and you can still do all the checking through litigation anyway.

@stargazer said in All Blacks 2021:

@frank I don't see the need to add skin colour. Just keep it to "safe".

Nah - safe white boy is way funnier.

The sweet, sweet tears of Phil Kearns.

@voodoo said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:

Friends was great for what it was. Millions of fans can't all be totally wrong.

Yes they can. Cos, as George Carlin said, people are boring.

I found Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad to have some periods of tedium in them.

It was very clever, but the endless lawyerly yappings of Saul, and the whining teenage victim cries of Jesse Pinkman (How could you do this Walt??????) got a bit boring.

Robin Williams was never that funny. (1 in 10 jokes landed)

Nick Cave is pretentious as fuck.

Friends was weak American comedy, still is American comedy, and will always be weak American comedy.

John Cleese has not even been mildly funny since A Fish Called Wanda.

British gameshows with comedians on them generally add up to way less than the sum of their parts.

@MajorRage said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

@Frank said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

@MN5 said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

@Frank said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

Worst NZ TV I have ever seen was the last few minutes of the Covid fundraiser where they made a train and did the "Thank you very much" dance.
So contrived, so awful.
But, luckily, I can't find it on YouTube,

That sounds absolutely horrific.

Found it. Go to 7hours 58 minutes.

Christ on a bike.

Cringeworthy doesn't even begin to cover it.

It's got it all.

@MN5 said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

@Frank said in Cringy New Zealand TV moments……:

Worst NZ TV I have ever seen was the last few minutes of the Covid fundraiser where they made a train and did the "Thank you very much" dance.
So contrived, so awful.
But, luckily, I can't find it on YouTube,

That sounds absolutely horrific.

Found it. Go to 7hours 58 minutes.

Worst NZ TV I have ever seen was the last few minutes of the Covid fundraiser where they made a train and did the "Thank you very much" dance.
So contrived, so awful.
But, luckily, I can't find it on YouTube,

@OomPB said in Boks v Pumas 2:

@Frank ja sure, nothing special about them. Actually boring like hell gameplan. Foster's All Blacks are very exciting and special.

Nothing special about the ABs either.
I just don't like the superiority complex I see in some Bok supporters (and it happens with AB supporters too). That regardless of the results, they are the best.
You're not like that are you?

@OomPB said in Boks v Pumas 2:

One thing about this Bok group with its bad gameplan is that they can beat any team on a given day anywhere if they get it right.

Same thing applies to 4 or 5 other teams. Nothing special about the Boks.

@OomPB said in Boks v Pumas 2:

Very disappointed performance from the Boks. Expect that they would at least try to play more expensive. They miss Damian Willemse big time who can at least spark something.

Our season changed so no URC for Willemse, Amm, Mapimpi, Hendricks, Malherbe, Kitshoff, Etsebeth and Kolisi until January.

Next two tests will be vital against Ireland and France.

Our players is now use to NH conditions.

Some SA supporters at my work were so convinced of the great Bok depth and superiority, yet the ABs turn around and win the rugby championship.
Have the Boks been that great since the World Cup final??

@Stargazer said in So what did we learn from Bled2?:

@No-Quarter Not that I know off, but Jordie been close in at least one test (about half the world screamed he should have got a red instead of a yellow in one test), was it last year or the year before? I think it was "a raised leg in a challenge for the ball in the air" incident.

Changing Jordie and Havili between tests, depending on the opponent and game plan, is not constantly chopping an changing. The combinations with Havili have already been formed. Jordie already seemed to slot in perfectly. The back-up needs game time. This can be off the bench, too. I think that 23 jersey will fit Havili well.

Are you Havili's agent?