The Silver Fern

@gt12 oh he’ll fit with the Wiz just fine - in that he’ll continue to jack shots and put up numbers on a losing team.

Trae is absolutely shit. A 6’2 nothing on D that shoots 40%!from the field and a pathetic 30%!for 3 this year

Great trade for Atlanta

@booboo said in The Darts:

Yeah. Am with @voodoo here.

Regular afternoon drinks at the pub at Uni we threw quite a number of darts. With a couple of mates in particular. I was the third best of the three of us. But did get to throw at least a couple of 180s. Mis-spent youth ... or mis-spent student loan ...

Now 147 on a snooker table is not believable...

I had a 140 once - just spun the white back too far after sinking the pink and left a cut that I just missed.

Gutted

Ok, that’s not true - I think I’d have been lucky to have ever made even 4 shots in a row on a full size pool table. Those things are like aircraft carriers!

@MN5 said in The Darts:

@voodoo said in The Darts:

@MN5 said in The Darts:

@sparky said in The Darts:

Luke Littler has thrown 14 180s to Gian van Veen's eight. This has been close to perfection at times from the Nuke.

14 more than I've ever thrown in my life and I've been playing darts since before he was born.

I think he's a slightly better player than I am.

Really?

I don’t play darts that much - don’t even have a board at home. But I’ve thrown 180 a few times. Maybe it’s not too late to find my calling ‍

I’m not calling you a liar as such…..but I think you must be mistaken. Best I’ve ever done is 140 ( not quite 180 )

Mistaken? I can fucken add mate, it’s not that deep.

Congrats on your 140

Do better

@MN5 said in The Darts:

@sparky said in The Darts:

Luke Littler has thrown 14 180s to Gian van Veen's eight. This has been close to perfection at times from the Nuke.

14 more than I've ever thrown in my life and I've been playing darts since before he was born.

I think he's a slightly better player than I am.

Really?

I don’t play darts that much - don’t even have a board at home. But I’ve thrown 180 a few times. Maybe it’s not too late to find my calling ‍

@canefan whilst I (obviously) disagree with Mariner's assertion, and I agree with you on kids bball being torture now - I can't hate Steph for it. He's a joy to watch, clearly the best shooter of all-time by a significant margin, and by all accounts a great guy.

He's just also the guy who showed we misunderstood the math

@mariner4life if hot take = terrible take, then you’re spot on

@nonpartizan said in All Blacks 2026:

@Frank said in All Blacks 2026:

Ardie seems very concerned with his image. That's a hard pass for me as AB captain.

Roigard or Taylor.

Taylor is 100% AB captaincy material. As in born for the role. Only reason would be if he didn't want the responsibility or it was felt it might infringe on his own game.

He will be 36 by the time of the RWC though - hopefully his body holds up

@Bovidae That's an ADDITIONAL solve - the fact that they're doing it now is dumb, but it does not mean they have to double down on their stupidity like this

Why not just allocate the top 6 to pools based on current rankings in a way that looks best like it’ll keep 1 and 2 apart longest, then have a draw for all the rest to make up the pools?

That way we avoid this situation, and still get a chance for a fun lopsided pool with 3 competitive teams that probably weren’t going to make it all the way anyway

It’s absolutely stupid. Rugby hating itself again and again

Sure we are #1 and #2 now and may not be in a years time - but if the draw has to be done now then it’s the best info we have. And every sensible tournament since time began tries to have the best players/teams meet as late as possible, ideally in a final where we get to see the best against the best on the biggest stage.

@nonpartizan said in NBA 25/26:

Mavs upset Nuggets.

Thing I kike about Flagg is his herky jerky style of movement. He doesn't affect a cool style of play he's just limbs all over the place.

He’s super active - and way longer than o realised he was

Nuggs lost Murray for all of the 4th and they got run over. Now on a 4 game road trip

apparently the early finish will cost Cricket Oz something like $4m in revenue

@booboo said in Wales v All Blacks:

@canefan said in Wales v All Blacks:

@booboo said in Wales v All Blacks:

@Nepia said in Wales v All Blacks:

I thought the ref was fine

We've certainly had worse.

I didn't blow up at any of her calls in play, so sm iInterested how our Welsh posters saw her given my lack of indignation.

She was bullied out of awarding Jordan's try though.

She'll do plenty more tests.

I thought WJ was held up

Don't agree. She was talked out of trusting the evidence of her own eyes by an inconclusive super slomo.

Not true mate - the TMO showed her the footage and said he couldn’t overrule and she went against her own decision anyway

This looks pretty close to the speech I imagine Razor gave the lads this week

@bayimports said in All Blacks 2025:

a purple monkey dishwasher event

I have never heard this phrase before, but I plan on using it on my kids at the first opportunity tonight

@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:

@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2025:

@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:

@Jet said in All Blacks 2025:

Just got an email from Allblacks shilling the new Adidas x Marvel universe collab gear.

Fuck off you absolute bunch of wastrels.

Win some fucking rugby matches.

Tossers.

forgot to change accounts bro?

No im just furious.

Look what we have become.

sure, but it's pretty grouse stuff bro - get in!

@antipodean said in All Blacks 2025:

@Old-Alleynians said in All Blacks 2025:

@Victor-Meldrew

I am told after Taylor's 100th in Argentina - only the Crusaders players in the squad went to his room to drink with him. I cannot say who the source is so take it as you will.

If true, this all comes back to the original squad and Razor taking a giant shit on the form players of SR and instead bringing in the grossly undeserving.

So much for his vaunted man management and motivational skills.

Really?

Firstly, I can't see how this story is true - or if it is, it would have been a super select invite list at Taylors doing, just a couple of close mates, likely spur of the moment or something.

I just can't see the non-Cantab players hating Razor so much that they refuse the chance to honour a bloke like Taylor who has been an awesome AB and seems very well-liked by all.

We all like to hate on Ardie for his game, but can you imagine him saying to Codie "cheers for the invite bro, but fuck that, Razor sucks, I'm not coming"? DMac? Sami?

Just nah

@Bones said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@sparky said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

@Bones said in Wales Vs All Blacks:

Oh good, a club level at best ref.

She'll be better than the terrible ref we had yesterday. (Setting a low bar).

Maybe, but only in the bits where she can keep up.

If we start Reece, Hollie will have to slow herself down to adjust