The Silver Fern

@booboo there are a lot of Sharks souties. One foot in the UK other one in SA. Dick in seawater.

Not really a channel, but I'm slowing working thru all the Howard Goodall music stuff. From "How Music Works" thru to in-depth analysis of composers like Cole Porter, Bernstein and Lennon/McCartney. Some great stuff.

"More than 2500 swooping incidents were logged in Australia last season."
Gee, she has popular laundry.

I learnt that in 19th Century NZ, NZ government had Chief Rabbit Inspector, Benjamin Bayly.

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@brodean said in Rugby on Stan:

Is Apple TV a device?

Yep.

@Smuts said in Springboks vs Pumas I:

@stodders to be honest, I’m not sure who the coaches see as 1-5.

I’m in the minority (at least in my SA rugby chats), but I’d have Faf, daylight, Williams, Reinach and then a long way back van den Berg.

Faf is far from a perfect scrummie. But he’s the best ruck rat on earth for my money. A defensive menace who gets better as pressure increases and crucially makes everyone around him better too.

It’s probably too soon to tell if Williams has that killer instinct but I reckon we know Reinach doesn’t. Which is fine, so long as the coaches keep Reinach bracketed with a mongrel to deal with clusterfucks like Ellis Park, Eden Park or the RWC semi…

I hear you on Faf, but I’m not sure the coaches think he’s the 9 Tonyball needs.

I reckon he still has a chance of making the WC squad, if only to have on the bench with Pollard as the “reverse-choke squad”, tasked with coming on to wrestle back control of the game when Tonyball fails against a team that can catch and tackle near 90%, or the Boks run up against their 2027 Bryce Lawrence

@booboo

Yeah. Great player. Great team man. Great AB.

@taniwharugby said in Northland v Canterbury:

tackler stats

Nice, thats what keeps you in the game.
Nearly knocked off the team top of the table.
Have to think the forwards will be stoked by those numbers.
More of that this weekend.

@scribe said in Road Cycling:

And Niamh Fisher-Black second in the elite women’s race; an outstanding effort!

She sounded a bit pissed that she couldn't get over the line. She admitted that the other girl rode away from her on the cobbles, but was clearly on a very good day and had her chance and probably feels that she missed it.

I actually missed this race completely and for whatever reason Lantern Rouge didn't have the footage so no highlights from them, sadly.

I assume Mitchell gets a knighthood now too. The Brits like handing out titles to sports teams.

@jimmyb said in Otago v North Harbour:

Only just watched the game, Millar has had a good few games in a row. Pleasing to see

He's really benefited from not having to be the primary playmaker.

@nostrildamus he was into everything. Full game. One try and did he core jobs well.

@mikedogz said in Olympics Thread:

He could be a future Olympian

Sep 28 Ho, 13, youngest in history to claim NZ open title Ho, 13, youngest in history to claim NZ open title

Remember the name of this young fellow. Eli Ho created history when he won the men’s singles title at the New Zealand open championships in...

Love it. He'll be our Ho

Down the local park again today.
Force v Reds
Steady breeze almost directly downfield.
Very typical on this ground.

First the U19s; Reds 59, Force 50!
Crazy game, the Reds did not kick the ball out of defence when they ran into the breeze in the 2nd half.
Just pounded it up, that won them the game.
The Force did kick into the wind in the first half, and concede 40+. Very silly.

In the main game Force conceded 3 long range tries in the first 20 mins of the first half, while they had the wind.
That decided that game.
The Reds looked very good.

Now the interesting part of the arvo.
Down the local park, I just barged my way into a nice spot, right on the touchline.
Standing there a couple of minutes; this little guy steps in front of me.
Now, I haven't seen this guy for 40 years, but straight away I know who it is.
I'm thinking; fuuuuck that's LES KISS.
I'm right next to the Reds bench.
So, for the rest of the game I'm checking out his style, probably more than the game.
Very understated, he wasn't actually coach of the day, but I could hear him chatting quietly to the guy who was.
If he wanted a change, they made the change.
He was up and down, but never demonstrative, calling several players over for a few quick, quiet words.
Never raised his voice.
UNLIKE HIS ASSISTANTS, who were all Nick White types FFS, and were trying to ref the game.
At one point the Reds were marched ten for back chat. But it was right next to the bench, and dont think it was the players, I think the ref got the shits with the Reds bench. Fuck I did.
Very imprssed with Kiss' style, can see why he got the gig.

Very impressed by Ah Kuoi as a lineout forward. His timing is excellent.

Waikato were shit, Bay fed off errors. The Waikato halfback had an absolute mare.

Physical game though, some huge hits

Jordi seems to step up when Beauden not there, like he becomes the leader and not the listener

@Bovidae said in Taranaki v Wellington:

Get Brad Cooper in the ABs as the attack coach.

And Jarrod Hoeata around the forwards!

@booboo said in Instagram not showing:

Hey @Duluth

It appears Instagram isn't loading.

Any reason you know of?

@booboo said in Sports Memes:

Is it just me or is Instagram not loading on here?

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Will post in Tech thread.

@bayimports seems to have same issue.

seems to be working now

@Grooter I love watching an 8 hit it up like he does, this is something we lack in the ABs, so often our guys slow as they come into contact or step into it looking for the 50-50 off load or quick recycle which rarely happens with today's defences.and our cleaning.