The Silver Fern

Lawson in the points finishing in 8th place in Belgium. A McLaren one-two with Piastri getting the victory.

Liam Lawson eighth at Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix after well-timed pass on team-mate

Joe Root has overtaken Jacques Kallis (13289) so is now the third highest run scorer in test cricket history.

With Noah Hotham under an injury cloud and may need to be replaced, who is the next cab off the rank? Xavier Roe, Kyle Preston?
But please no Christie.

Scheffler has now converted 10 straight outright 54-hole leads, a stretch that dates back to the 2023 WM Phoenix Open and includes 3 majors. He joins Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player as players to win the Masters, PGA Championship and Open Championship before age 30.

I feel there are still more questions than answers right now.
This may ruffle a few feathers but DMac's best place in test match footy is coming into the game as an impact player. I'm not convinced with Beauden as our starting 10 either.
Fabian Holland has taken to test match rugby like a duck to water.
Time to move on from ALB, Reece and Tuipulotu
Clearly daylight between Roigard and the other halfbacks. Ratima has been average this series.
Jury is still out around Proctor at 13 but RI is not the answer so maybe Proctor just needs a bit more time in the saddle.
General play kicking has been poor as has receiving kick offs and exits.

Well no surprises there, Scottie Scheffler wins another major championship.

Black Caps in action tonight against South Africa.
Starts 11pm NZT. I believe Three Now has live coverage?

@Chris said in Crusaders 2026:

I hear most of the squad is signed or has been re signed main areas are who the 3rd HB will be Drummond or Chapman maybe.
3rd First five James White or look for an experienced option.
Find a place for Oil Mathis maybe at Fletcher Andersons expense.
Maybe replace Strange if he goes overseas he has a contract in front of him.
Liam Jack probably will get that spot if Strange does move.
6th Prop stick with Finlay Brewis or look elsewhere.

I'd be surprised if Drummond sticks around for Super next year as he is likely going to be the third or fourth ranked halfback behind Hotham, Preston & possibly Louis Chapman in the mix too.

Would be nice to see a player like Tommy Fleetwood or Victor Hovland win.
Would be great if there was a left field winner though. Like two years ago in Brian Harman

Wild stat - the test in Dunedin last weekend was Cam Roigard's first test match in NZ despite having played 10 test matches before that.

So who leads the Haka this year? Rieko? maybe Codie or Ardie?

Thank the lord they've seen the light and selected Rieko on the wing.
Also pleased to see Ardie at 7, his best position. Fantastic to see Billy Proctor at centre. My concern lies with Beauden at 10. We should be blooding a new 10 with the world cup only 2 years away. I don't believe we can win a world cup with either Beauden or Damien as our 10.

Stoked for Fabian Holland. Hopefully his Mum who had been in NZ visiting him has extended her stay to watch her son make his debut

@barbarian said in Golf:

Yeah devastating for Tommy. Such a deflating finish.

Keegan throws a massive spanner into the Ryder Cup though. Clearly one of the form 12 American players, so does he pick himself? Does he stand down as Captain? Surely the latter as the idea of a playing captain is both very entertaining and very outdated...

He will likely qualify as one of the automatic picks now anyway as I think since he won this recent event it puts him up there amongst the top six now.

The best story out of this squad naming is Fabian Holland. He took a punt as a 16-year-old back in 2019 to leave his family and all he knew behind to come down to New Zealand because of his love for rugby and the All Blacks and six years later is named in the All Blacks. Love that his mother coincidently is currently in NZ visiting him and got to share in his joy of being named.

I think Caleb Clarke can count himself lucky to be there. He didn't score a try for the Blues this season.

@SouthernMann said in 2025 All Blacks Squad v France:

George Bell. Canterbury's third string hooker. Boys needs to go aomewhere that he won't be stuck on the bench.

Bell will be duking it out with Moananu in a couple years time I believe as it wouldn't surprise me if Codie Taylor either hangs up his boots or heads overseas after the next world cup.

Brodie McAlister you would have to say his decision to move north to the Chiefs has paid dividends.

Peter Burling joins Italian syndicate Luna Rossa for the 38th America's Cup

Qld are in again!
The storm connection of Grant and Munster