The Silver Fern

@voodoo said in RIP Warney:

@shark he probably didn't spend 30 hours per week fucking about on the Fern....

As I say, he skimped on the 9 to 5 job. 🙂

@rotated Santner himself on Newshub last night.

Story and interview below.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2022/01/blackcaps-v-australia-one-day-specialists-focus-on-domestic-super-smash-rivalries-after-tour-postponement.html

@kiwimurph said in Auckland v Canterbury:

That must explain why Ardie is the AB number 8 - his renowned towering height.

1.88 according Mr Google (cough, cough bullshit). 2cm below adequate.

@siam do you think she wants to hear about this?

@shark they're not just the same ones you can get on aliexpress?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001961129283.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.274c71c7VG2gz0&algo_pvid=c0c2e933-b355-4ed3-be2f-9e25b7870477&algo_expid=c0c2e933-b355-4ed3-be2f-9e25b7870477-7&btsid=0bb0623116206132863295610e14b0&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_,searchweb201603_

@nepia said in Rugby on TV:

only took me about a year of using it due to male stubbornness to not look it up)

I've done 3 years at least. Trying for 4. I wouldn't be grumpy if you told me the trick though. Certainly not looking it up.

I actually use a universal remote so will have to dig out the Apple one if I am going to lose face over this.

As for savings, I think that you guys have a different situation in Aus. I still have Sky for the rugby, for reasons already mentioned, but now have to pay extra to get the cricket, F1, etc.

@chimoaus said in The Cane vs Savea Debate:

I think Pocock and Hooper showed you cant just put two great players out and expect it to work. I feel for Ardie because clearly, he is good enough but Akira, Sotutu and Cane is simply better balanced. And Ardie would benefit the team more coming on with 30 to go with those three starting IMO.

The bench should be used and thought of in a strategic way, there is nothing wrong IMO of having a different type of player who is simply better suited to tired defences, and I think Ardie is that type. BB was electric off the bench early in his career and was a great weapon for us. Not sure we have that right balance with the bench just yet.

Not to go too off topic but I think RM is that type of player as well. Thrives when the defenses are tired and the game is opening up a bit, but is a possum in the headlights against an aggressive team in the first 40 - 60 minutes. Injecting him and Ardie fresh with 20 to go would be a bit of a nightmare for teams to defend against. I agree with you completely we are not utilising our bench as a weapon the way we used to.

Feel sorry for the son, at least it seems he had a good relationship with his dad.

@Yeetyaah Nah just the best combined combination, on paper.

@Stargazer Might have to loan some players from Ta$man.

@barbarian said in NFL:

Falcons are an embarrassment of a franchise. Just egregious behavior.

This comes days after they were crowing that Bill Bellichick didn't make their top 3 coaching finalists

What a clown show.

@shark And yet we still missed the playoffs that year. I remember the Stormers putting 50 on us at Eden Park that year. We really did underachieve that year and should have pushed for another title with the side we had.

Warning: 40 minutes long

@mariner4life alongside Blake Gibson and Akira Ioane.

@booboo said in EOYT Revenue Sharing:

@Catogrande said in EOYT Revenue Sharing:

@booboo said in EOYT Revenue Sharing:

@sparky said in EOYT Revenue Sharing:

@Higgins said in EOYT Revenue Sharing:

@sparky That may be true but Wales will need to be able to finance their team and other than Six Nations games the only other side that fills most of the NOrthern grounds to capacity is the All Blacks.

Wrong, Twickenham makes a lot of its money from debenitures which are sold years in advance. Almost all games against Tier One nations are 82,000 sell outs. Lots of the crowd aren't really there to watch Rugby, but to have a sing song with thousands of others with bars nearby.

Given England is losing 700 people a day to the Coronavirus at the moment and the UK PM is in hospital. Threatening them at the moment (especially with a basically empty threat) is an appalling negotiation strategy.
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Do you think anybody is going to play for nothing in this day and age, even Wales or Japan?

The ideal is that it is a reciprocal arrangement but that is difficult in practice. Easier for a SH nation (or 2 or 3) to come up here and play 3 test matches v different opposition every year or so with little in the way of internal travel than it is for a NH side to play tests v multiple opposition down under. Consequently the NH sides tend to tour one country and play 2 or 3 tests but only every so often. Plus of course you guys get to host the Lions tours as well. Add in different degrees of revenue generation and costs as well as the overcrowded schedule and it is very difficult to get an equitable outcome.

Again, I'm not necessarily talking 50/50. But both sides generate the revenue. Both sides should share it. In whatever form equitable is.

Sure, I understand that, but I’ve not got anywhere near to thinking about the split. Just contemplating the complexities of it all. Not forgetting that what might work between say England and NZ might not work between England and Aussie, let alone say Wales and SA or Fiji.

Kelleher half-back half-forward. The guy really likes both groups equally.

@nzzp said in All-Time Favourite NZ Rugby XV:

@ACT-Crusader surprised you didn't play Carter at 10 and 12 🙂

Nah. McCaw needs his tackle practice so Mertz at 10 it is 😎

And as for the AB captain that led us to historic and glorious Bledisloe victory in 2003, a key man off the bench for this side.

@TeWaio said in All-Time Favourite NBA Team/Players:

Awesome thread.

Favourite:

C - Shaq
PF - Garnett/K.Love
SF - LeBron
SG - Kobe
PG - Doncic/Iverson

Hatiest:

C - Embiid
PF - Draymond Green
SF - Durant
SG - Harden
PG - Kyrie/Simmons

Jeez that hatiest team is filled with jerks.