The Silver Fern

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New Zealand have asked World Rugby to clarify France's plans not to select some of their top stars for next summer's three-Test tour against All Blacks.

@voodoo if anything it’s a compliment. a shit Richie McCaw > good Peter O’Mahony QED.

Cane showed the mouthy Irish git exactly that in the QF. He was immense that night, inviting reasonable comparison with the Incomparable. Takes some going to make the ludicrous a serious consideration, even for just a game.

Go well, Sam Cane. They asked the impossible of you: leave the jersey better than you found it. You failed gloriously, honourably. Coming up to the scratch over and over, seemingly undaunted by the heavy yolk of your responsibility. Unbowed by a broken neck, still less the critics’ ludicrous, invidious comparisons.

Each of the 99 times you toed the mark reducing the awful weight of that famous jersey for the next few men to shoulder.

@mariner4life said in NRL 2022:

Salary cap jumps basically 25% next year. Some boys about to get paid, and some bad contracts suddenly won't look so bad.

But of course, there has to be a loser, and outrage. And guess what? It appears NRLW players on social media are as dumb as their male counterparts

Their cap jumped, but the cap is basically the same as one highly paid player. This is unacceptable to some. They should get heaps more. Lets just remember there are 6 teams in the comp. and they play 5 games and two finals. in front of 8 people. that's it. You are dreaming ladies.

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The reforms of the early to mid 90's brought down the average nights stayed in hospital significantly for various situations... for better or worse...

I vaguely recall a stat that new mothers used to stay in hospital an average seven nights after giving birth, until the Crown Health Enterprise reforms of the hospitals, which was eventually down to 1-2 nights.

That stat is about right. In fact for a routine birth they encourage you to leave immediately and head to another facility like birthcare

Which is a fucking incredibly good example of how little NZ government/bureacracy gives a fuck about actual people. My wife had about 10 days in hospital following her C-section (it's about 5 for a regular birth) and they taught her how to be a mother, how to feed, change, deal with screaming etc. etc.

Seems to have gone down the midwife at home model for post-birth support. Someone I know from school has been very active in the 'childbirth is not a medical event' movement (or whatever they call it) in recent years in staunch support of home births.

People have forgotten how dangerous childbirth can be for the mother or the child. You don't have time to fuck around when the cord is wrapped around a kids neck (which happened to us).

If we were home, and had to wait for an ambulance, get to hospital, get a surgeon, emergency c-section, my daughter would have died or suffered significant brain damage.

Being in hospital for child birth is a good thing.

I'm still traumatised by that experience and I was in the hospital (at 3am, wife unconscious and with me with the baby). And I was in Lower Hutt!

I won't go into details but my wife would have died if we weren't in hospital for our first son. Home births are a fucking idiotic risk to take.

And mothers are put under huge pressure to have them. I had to watch a midwife arguing with a doctor in front of my wife for the first kid. I just talked over them both and said what I wanted to have happen (doctor lead birth). Didn't make a new friend.

look, while i respect a lot about what they do

i have no time for midwives after the breastfeeding bullshit we were put through with our first. And stories like this seem to suggest the entire profession has been taken over by a particular ideology, and that trumps the actual people involved.

Oh yeah - we had real trouble here, wife had trouble with her milk coming in and the entire experience just made her feel like a failure of a mother over something she had no control over. In the end a Plunket nurse just whispered to her "I'm not supposed to tell you this, but just give the baby formula".

And magically problem solved...

And also having a baby on formula meant I could actually spend some time with the little nipper, wife would go to bed at a reasonable hour and I would stay up and do the late night feed. Wife would get a good sleep and I could actually spend some time bonding with the baby and actually helping out instead of the wife having to bear it all.

I truly do not have a bad thing to say about putting a baby on formula, especially in our case when the wife milk just wasn't happening. So much better than seeing so called "experts" who do nothing but waste your time and achieve (&$^# all aside from making your wife feel horrible.

So honestly (&%^ them all - aside from that lovely Plunket nurse 🙂

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I like how we’ve all gone with the high road on this and no one has been immature enough to point out that she actually has the word “ semen” in her name as well as having internal testicles .
Did anyone else notice that ? Semen , I mean if you ignore the ya on the end it’s right fucking there .

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<p>Yeah name rings a bell, can't find Cullens book, I'm sure I have it somewhere. I did think it was a stroke though. Our ol boy Paeks should be able to confirm if he reads this thread.....</p>
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<div>Can confirm bro - they were a primo combo for Kapiti College's first 15. I was a few years behind Cully and those two were giants. I remember <span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Daryl </span>was bigger and just as talented. I think he'd left school by then (Cully stayed as he was eligible for another year of NZ schoolboys) but everyone who played rugby at our school went to his funeral. Fark, that's a distant memory - that was the first funeral outside of family passings I'd been too. Really sad.</div>

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<p>To be fair, the ref is very clear and precise, I quite like his methods. Jaco Van Heerden I think his name is. Perhaps one to look out for</p>
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<p>I thought the ref was very good.  He reminded me of Joubert with his communication to the players. </p>
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<p>I recorded the game and watched it this morning.  The Chiefs' kickoff receptions weren't very accurate but I wonder if the large shadow across the field was part of the problem.</p>
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<p>Barnes and Hoeft still have some work to do with the forwards but I thought the scrum was OK considering 3 of the first choice T5 aren't playing (4 if you include Hika from the starting XV).  Seu impresses me more with every game, in fact the loose forward trio all played well.</p>
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<p>As mentioned earlier, Cruden needs to start goal kicking if he wants to be considered as the AB 1st 5.  Ngatai showed those subtle touches of class like Conrad with his ability to find space where it appears there isn't any and provides a good kicking option.</p>
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<p>An interesting final decision by Leitch to kick at goal.  It helps the PD.  5 pts banked.</p>

@Cyclops said in Super Rugby News:

@Duluth said in Super Rugby News:

Tim Perry.. of all the players who had multiple starts for the Blues he was the worst. Second place is miles behind him. Think of all the crap players that played for the Blues over the decades Tim Perry was number one. Well done.

Managed to win three super rugby titles though!

Didn't really watch him at the blues but he was decent for the crusaders and ultimately managed to push crockett out of starting his last final.

Not to mention a fairytale end to his career winning the M10 Cup with the Mako in his final match.

Six test caps.

And even memorable for the Blues....

Pretty solid, Tim! 🙂