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Machpants

@Kirwan said in Highlanders v Blues:

@mariner4life said in Highlanders v Blues:

@Gunner said in Highlanders v Blues:

@Kiwiwomble I think @Kirwan was referring to the fact that NZ cities (except Auckland) are more like small towns on a world scale.

Auckland is a village on the Chinese scale

Or even the US or UK scale. But we are talking about the NZ scale. Clearly only one city, and a few towns with delusions of grandeur.

we'd be about 5th in the US.

But not even in the top 50 in China.

Fun fact: USA is the third most populous country in the world. If they had another billion people, they'd still be third.

That's interesting, I assumed US cities were much bigger, but they're pretty spread out. Compare UK where AKL would be 4th not 5th, to UK pop 66 million rather than US 328!

Duluth

Back to the game..

Ofa's been putting in a couple of these hits every week. The best defensive prop in NZ

Machpants

@Duluth Not much arms from the thug in 8!

Duluth

@antipodean said in Highlanders v Blues:

Ioane was superb at eight. Frizzel is becoming the clear firm blindside flanker in the competition IMO.

Ages 25 & 26

About the same age Kaino was when he nailed an AB spot

taniwharugby

@Duluth expect there were plenty of hits in the Tu'ungafasi backyard when they were growing up, as Isi puts in some big hits too.

KiwiMurph

@nzzp said in Highlanders v Blues:

@Kirwan said in Highlanders v Blues:

@mariner4life said in Highlanders v Blues:

@Gunner said in Highlanders v Blues:

@Kiwiwomble I think @Kirwan was referring to the fact that NZ cities (except Auckland) are more like small towns on a world scale.

Auckland is a village on the Chinese scale

Or even the US or UK scale. But we are talking about the NZ scale. Clearly only one city, and a few towns with delusions of grandeur.

we'd be about 5th in the US.

But not even in the top 50 in China.

Fun fact: USA is the third most populous country in the world. If they had another billion people, they'd still be third.

That's deceptive.

There's a big difference between city populations and 'metro' populations in the US.

San Francisco's 'city' population is 800k but the San Francisco-Oakland metro is nearly 5 million (not even counting all of Silicon Valley).

Auckland's wider metro population is probably close to 2 million - but that would put them around 35th in the US of metro populations.

Nepia

@KiwiMurph Is Auckland one city at the moment or a number of cities?

Snowy

@Nepia said in Highlanders v Blues:

@KiwiMurph Is Auckland one city at the moment or a number of cities?

It's a fucking super city. Don't start me...

Nepia

@Snowy said in Highlanders v Blues:

@Nepia said in Highlanders v Blues:

@KiwiMurph Is Auckland one city at the moment or a number of cities?

It's a fucking super city. Don't start me...

Stargazer

Trying to update injury list.

Did they say why Blake Gibson and Josh Goodhue were withdrawn from this game?

Tim

@Stargazer Unfortunately no.

Stargazer

@Tim Hmm, that will be a ? then.

I missed part of the 2nd half. Did I read somewhere that Papali'i got injured, too?

Tim

@Stargazer Bang on his hip, apparently. Not clear if going off was a precaution or a necessity.

trodthesod

Have heard Hoskins Sotutu will be back for the Crusaders game.
Thought Tony Lamborn had a handy game,so altogether the Blues loose forwards have covered themselves in glory.Hope Dalton Papali’i’ ‘s injury doesn’t curtail his great season.Akira back to six I suppose.

cgrant

@Yeetyaah
Hard to find a good restaurant there ... And the city center is dull.

Yeetyaah

@cgrant maybe for someone over the age of 30

Duluth

@trodthesod said in Highlanders v Blues:

Have heard Hoskins Sotutu will be back for the Crusaders game

Heard anything about Robinson?

trodthesod

No haven’t heard.He would struggle to start now anyhow I suppose.

Nevorian

@booboo said in Highlanders v Blues:

Smith milks a bullshit penalty.

Fark that's awful

to be fair big Karl was laying on his side and he would be all of a good metre wide

MajorRage

@Yeetyaah said in Highlanders v Blues:

@cgrant maybe for someone over the age of 30

Or to put it another way .... 99.95% of TSF demographic.

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