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@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
So yeah I think 130kg at the absolute most, any more and they just become latter day Bill Cavubatis.
We kind of think that, but all it needs is for a guy who is 150kgs to be some sort of freakish fit and mobile bastard and there will be arms race among the other countries to build guys as big and good.
Everyone has been looking for their new Jonah and some guys are getting close. Big Nemani Nadolo was even bigger though not as quick. Leicester Faingaanuku is 109kgs and quick and probably with scope to add a few kgs in a professional environment.
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@chris-b said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
So yeah I think 130kg at the absolute most, any more and they just become latter day Bill Cavubatis.
We kind of think that, but all it needs is for a guy who is 150kgs to be some sort of freakish fit and mobile bastard and there will be arms race among the other countries to build guys as big and good.
Everyone has been looking for their new Jonah and some guys are getting close. Big Nemani Nadolo was even bigger though not as quick. Leicester Faingaanuku is 109kgs and quick and probably with scope to add a few kgs in a professional environment.
Nadolo has played at around 130kg I think. I remember he made Jamie Roberts and George North look normal sized.
I don't think the 150kg prototype is really possible though because its so much harder lugging 150kg around than 120kg even if a lot of it is muscle. There's a limit to how fast the heart can power a unit like that, look at Grid Iron players. Enormous and strong but with the lung capacity of a smoker breathing through a straw.
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@chris-b at the end of last year TR Jnrs U12 team played a team from Auckland, and thier Front Row was 297kg, granted not as big as you state, but this is still 3 10/11 year olds, although they were not exactly athletic or mobile...last year the upper weight limit for U12's for Whangarei JMB was 55kg but we had kids around 30kg.
Seen a few this season, they were 100kg U13, but a few of these fellas were solid, fast and mobile.
Kids are just getting bigger!
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@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@chris-b said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I don't think the 150kg prototype is really possible though because its so much harder lugging 150kg around than 120kg even if a lot of it is muscle. There's a limit to how fast the heart can power a unit like that, look at Grid Iron players. Enormous and strong but with the lung capacity of a smoker breathing through a straw.
More focus on the Eugenics programme!
Aim for something like a silverback gorilla!
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In line with the thread topic, shocking performance by Stuff to have zero coverage (if they do have some it is well hidden) of the commemoration yesterday in Le Quesnoy.
This town is fast becoming the kiwi point of focus regarding WW1 contribution in France and the efforts of the local people to keep the history alive is to be applauded.Some good coverage here form Newshub https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2018/11/our-second-home-hundreds-of-kiwis-commemorate-le-quesnoy-wwi-victory.html
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@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Well, fuck.
Fantastic stuff. I might try this for lunch today.
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ha, I eat mine like that, not sure why, but I do, turns out I am a man ahead of my time!
Thursday is home made burger night, but I feel like a burger now
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@crucial the herald has been good too , there’s also a kids book about it that’s been out for a year.
Yeah. I linked to the Herald docos last week.
Just thought it was worth getting a dig in at Stuff, who didn't even have a correspondent there on Saturday.Le Quesnoy is also twinned with Cambridge, who have developed a very strong connection. The Cambridge town band had the honour of playing at the ceremony. This was the projection on the Town Hall the other night.
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@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 honestly, who throws a shoe?
that really hurt!
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@crucial said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Le Quesnoy is also twinned with Cambridge, who have developed a very strong connection.
There has been a few articles in the Waikato Times because of this connection.
I've been to Ypres for the Menin Gate Last Post ceremony but didn't have a chance to go to Le Quesnoy.
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@sammyc said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 honestly, who throws a shoe?
Classic episode. I love Homers response "Yes, once...." such awesome subtle humour. I'm so pleased the SJWs got rid of Apu though, his racist typecasting was really making me into a bad person and heaven forbid I keep laughing at a brilliant show.
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@bovidae said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@crucial said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Le Quesnoy is also twinned with Cambridge, who have developed a very strong connection.
There has been a few articles in the Waikato Times because of this connection.
I've been to Ypres for the Menin Gate Last Post ceremony but didn't have a chance to go to Le Quesnoy.
Check out this graphic showing (and naming) every NZ Soldier in the WWI Roll of Honour.
World War One Roll of Honour
