The Silver Fern

Equally as absurd as that trophy was Fitzy clearly getting product placement in by lifting it together with his water bottle 😄

@Billy-Tell said in Formula 1:

I see Keanu reeves has taken up racing. Won’t want to be dropping below 80 km/hr.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/keanu-reeves-ap-indianapolis-indianapolis-motor-speedway-hollywood-b2624439.html

@MajorRage said in Barnes autobiography:

I'm certainly one for thinking rules shouldn't be set for the lowest common denominator (Which they are), but you also can't keep your head in the sand when your changes are blatantly not working. We saw 3 yellow cards and a red in the world cup final for fucks sakes. How can it possibly be explained that the changes are having an effect, when 4 people got sent from the field in the biggest game of their lives for indiscretions? The only thing you can do is actually change the rules and/or the way it's refereed to try and reduce controversy.

💯

WR do themselves no favours by not acknowledging their preferred course of action is clearly not having the desired effect and worse, is ruining the game.

That being said, it would help if the TMO wasn't a 🤡

I saw the headline yesterday but the article didn't open so I just assumed it was Stransky! Geez

@canefan said in Embedding photos:

Just tried again. I can see a slide but it doesn't seem to want to move when I either swipe the line or the icons. S22+. UPDATE: I can only seem to access it by going to landscape view

The spoiler and help buttons don't move, you need to slide the bar from anywhere to the left of them.

@Chris-B said in Black Caps coach 2024?:

@ACT-Crusader Wow - Stead's really fashioned an extraordinary record.

I wouldn't have picked him to have been statistically more successful than Hesson.

Hesson built the team that Stead inherited. Of course his record since the WTC reflects a changing of the guard and long-term injury absence

For those who didn't watch game 5 (like me) the team wore black armbands for this:

@pakman unseen? Hardly. Still evident v Japan

@stodders said in Serena Goooone:

@MiketheSnow said in Serena Goooone:

@Machpants said in Serena Goooone:

https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-retirement-in-her-own-words

And I'm spent

She's spouting that if she was a bloke she could still be playing

Fuck off

As in men are allowed to compete for longer, or that her genes are discriminating against her?

Well she'd have been pregnant less often.

Better today - yesterday I was hitting page loading issues.

@Kid-Chocolate and decided to become a citizen of Kazakhstan because they gave her funding to play. Good on her I say.

Now if the Aussie they love to hate wins, a cherry on top for this non-Grand Slam…

@Toddy said in Roland Garros 2022:

Nadal into the final after the semi final was cut short with Alex Zverev injuring his ankle.

20 seconds in - looks sore

Such a shame. It was shaping up to be a good match

@Bovidae said in NCAA championship game:

@ACT-Crusader Who have you got to win it? UConn?

It would be great to see a first-time winner.

Really hoping Florida Atlantic. Love how they play and they are the unlikely F4 team, even though 3 out of the 4 are playing in their first F4.

That Miami v UConn game is a flip of the coin matchup. Both can catch fire. UConn have dominated their opponents in the tourney with all winning margins 15+ points. The switch has flipped since that heartbreak loss in that Big East semi to Marquette. Sanogo and Hawkins are tough covers because not only can both score but they pass well.

@nzzp said in Winter Olympics 2022:

thread derailing, but hey

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Anna Bolic, I beleive, old old news 😉

@Kirwan said in Slow speed?:

@Duluth said in Slow speed?:

just gave it a restart

Plugin with a memory leak?

You called?

Or did you?

I don't remember.

Liam Lawson gets totally ripped off in the final race of the German DTM championship. Leading the title race with an almost insurmountable lead, gets taken out of the race by the second placed driver in the title race early, then the two leading Mercedes slow down to allow the 3rd runner to overtake and win the race and the title. Lawson probably should have tried to stay out of trouble tussling with the second placed driver at the start, but I don't know what you can do in such a crowded field.

Lawson will have to console himself with a F1 junior trial at the end of the season

@antipodean said in Saffas going?:

Quality over quantity. Time to go back to Super 12.

The round robin S12 was the best format. Sure it was pre-kids and there were more stars, but I was interested in all games including the games in SA. The home and away conference round takes away from the Mitre10 cup and I'm bored already

Black Caps contracted players for 2020-21:
Tom Blundell, Trent Boult, Devon Conway, Colin de Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls, Jimmy Neesham, Ajaz Patel, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Neil Wagner, BJ Watling, Kane Williamson, Will Young.

In: Conway, Jamieson, Patel

Out: Todd Astle, Colin Munro, Jeet Raval

@rancid-schnitzel said in Worst All Black RWC exits:

@booboo said in Worst All Black RWC exits:

@rancid-schnitzel said in Worst All Black RWC exits:

@dogmeat said in Worst All Black RWC exits:

@rancid-schnitzel Still had 6 of the pack that would play in 95 RWC Final and 96 SA tour so should have won IMO.

Fox had retired and Little broke his leg so options were limited I guess. Mains should have selected Preston but for some reason despite him being halfback against the Lions he never made the tour.

Preston (a good goal kicker and decent fly half) was on the bench for some reason. Actually I know the reason - Mains had a major hard-on for anyone from Otago.

I’ve never actually seen a replay of the game but was that disallowed try fair?

I'm struggling to remember but was it a foot in touch? And I have a vague recollection I grudgingly accepted the decision...

I think so. If a fair try had been disallowed I’m sure we’d still be hearing about it.

Fuck. Wouldn’t we just 😳