The Silver Fern

@booboo said in Important rugby records - All Blacks and others:

@Nepia said in Important rugby records - All Blacks and others:

@booboo said in Important rugby records - All Blacks and others:

@Nepia said in Important rugby records - All Blacks and others:

@MiketheSnow said in Important rugby records - All Blacks and others:

@African-Monkey said in Important rugby records - All Blacks and others:

@MiketheSnow said in Important rugby records - All Blacks and others:

This is the one that got away

Should have gone for a catch & drive when we were 22-26 down instead of going for the penalty

And Stephen Jones kicking it away at the end was criminal and moronic

I remember the test well, and yeah, was laughing with my dad at the time when Stephen Jones kicked the ball away at the end. It felt like Wales that day were happy to lose by 1 point, as opposed to go out and grab the win against a pretty inexperienced ABs side (something our current coaches would never have the balls to do).

Couldn't find a list of how many caps the NZ players had prior to this match, but personnel wise this is close to an all-time side

New Zealand:
M Muliaina (Blues); D Howlett (Blues), C Laulala (Crusaders), A Mauger (Crusaders), J Rokocoko (Blues); D Carter (Crusaders), P Weepu (Hurricanes)
T Woodcock (Blues), K Mealamu (Blues), G Somerville (Crusaders), C Jack (Crusaders), A Williams (Blues), R So'oialo (Hurricanes), R McCaw (capt, Crusaders), M Tuiali'i (Crusaders)

Replacements:
A Oliver (Otago), C Hayman (Otago), R Thorne (Canterbury), M Holah (Waikato)
B Kelleher (Waikato), M Nonu (Wellington), R Gear (Auckland)

Only three of those players would make an all time side (two if I was coach), and one was on the bench and nowhere near the player he became.

Who is the 3rd?

Ma'a
Edit: Just saw your edit. I've always been an MJ over McCaw on pure rugby ability ....

Yeah, ok, I respect your opinion, no matter how wrong you are ...

I respect that you respect my correct opinion even though you erroneously think it's wrong. 😉

@NTA said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:

@sparky said in Cricket: WTC Final Oz vs SA:

@Smudge Was the ICC Chairman man of the match or something?

It's like something the dictator of a small country would post on social media.

He looks like a young, Indian version of John Howard.

He has twice the forehead John Howard has

Play that violin you piston wristed gibbon. 🤣

@Duluth said in Shayne Philpott:

@Victor-Meldrew said in Shayne Philpott:

That means all the "Day in the Life" post are gone...? Bugger.

Unless @BartMan or the people that wrote them still have them

If they do turn up, we should repost some old classics on the website

Might have 1 or 2 in the archives - remember emailing them to people.

@MN5 said in Rank your AB RWC coaches:

@Duluth said in Rank your AB RWC coaches:

@MN5 said in Rank your AB RWC coaches:

Imagine if the fern was around in 99 ( actually for all I know it was in a simpler form…..)

Pretty sure that was the first year. Bart was running a NZ rugby site on the rivals board

Here's a screenshot from April 2000. The oldest I could find on archive.org

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Most of those users have clearly moved on with their lives 😉

Spam Donkey is you right? 😉

@SouthernMann said in Ta$man vs Otago:

If he's 5'9 then so am I. That has him the same as Mckenzie, taller than Kolbe, Weber and Smith. I think that would be a very rough estimate.

5"7 at best with Hurley. I've seen him in the flesh.

@Nepia said in All Black props:

@NTA said in All Black props:

Lomax: not convinced. And he's an Aussie FFS!

Being born in Aussie doesn't make you an Aussie (according to your govt). John might have done the prudent thing and not applied for citizenship for young Tyrel so as not to taint him.

is it time to revisit these predictions of Lomax et al?

@Chris-B said in Will Jordan's try scoring:

Yeah - especially if he shifts to fullback - which he probably needs to do to prolong his career.

Breaking it purely as a wing seems really difficult. There's always another freak just around the corner

So Jordan and Rieko both have a reasonable chance assuming Jordan moves to fullback. Score the bulk of the tries as a winger, then move to a position with better longevity but a lower strike rate

@Nevorian said in Final: Blues vs Crusaders:

At least one thing we learned about BB and RM in the last couple of weeks is they can both slot drop goals in pressure situations. May come in handy in coming weeks.

Not if Beauden is shitting the bed getting out of his own half 😉

@Bones LOL

@shark said in NZ tour of India:

@mariner4life said in NZ tour of India:

that's a throwback Black Caps result. Embarrassingly flogged with only our spinner showing some backbone...

Look winning in India has always been really fucking hard, and even more so now. But after that fucking pasting the opportunities not taken in the first test look even worse.

Yep. Where are all the fucking retards who were happy to play for a draw in the first test because we were more of a chance in the second?

what would our chance look like if we batted first though? Probably not rolled for 62

Just saw this photo on Facebook. Hugh Renton getting a bit of banter from his former team mates haha.

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@bovidae said in Openside flankers:

@mikethesnow Yeah, those are the two names I was familiar with. Duncan Jones is in the squad too.

Didn’t see Duncan
He was great for us along with Adam Jones

Scott Morgan had a few caps too

@nostrildamus said in Paul Coll:

@kruse said in Paul Coll:

@chris-b said in Paul Coll:

Fuck me - they've got one at Arthurs Pass!

Right!?

And yeah - that map is just the "unaffiliated courts".
Just looking at central north island... I'm gonna go out on a limb, and suggest that the population of Whakamaru and Mangakino combined - probably don't need a squash club.
Reporoa - doesn't really need a squash club, but it certainly doesn't need one just up the road at Waikite Valley also.

What I really want - is to con somebody into paying me for doing this.
Make a TV programme - based on visiting tiny NZ towns/names-on-a-map, meeting the locals, etc.

Would make it a shit-ton easier to organise actually getting into the courts, which are probably typically a "key is behind the bar at the local" type places I get paid for riding a motorbike around all the roads in NZ where you wouldn't otherwise find an excuse to check out get paid for playing some pretty fucking average squash (I don't really know the rules well, we've made up our own rules where it's pretty much a full-contact sport) show-case tiny towns, quirky locals, beautiful remote parts of the country

Effectively - yes - just another travel show, with a super-flimsy gimmick premise.

This is before or after your film review tv show, right?

I think it should be an all in one, a combo of that Ewen McGregor travel show and a review show.

He could also do a weekly read of the Grumpy Old Man thread as a bonus section.

Lets Kickstarter this bitch.

Mulkey: Winning title at LSU 'what I came to do' Mulkey: Winning title at LSU 'what I came to do'

Kim Mulkey said money wasn't the primary motivating factor for her move from Baylor to LSU. "I wanted an institution that I could be proud of," she explained. "I wanted resources to hire a staff to make me look good."

Kim Mulkey leaves Baylor after over 20 years and 3 national championships for her home state LSU. Huge move

@Kiwiwomble said in Crusaders vs Highlanders pre-season:

this seems to be working currently, don't know if it will stay up

Awesome Cheers for that @Kiwiwomble

Zarn Sullivan. Safe under the high ball and kicks far better (and longer) than BB, the incumbent AB fullback.

@Cpt-Kumera Good commitment!

@mofitzy_ Sanity prevails. For a while there it looked like Sexton was going to get the cake.