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@MN5 said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:
@sparky said in 2025 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia:
Possible Lions Test team
Porter
Kelleher
Fagerson
Itoje (c)
Beirne
Conan
Pollock
Earl
Gibson-Park
Russell
Van Der Merwe
Tuipolutu
H. Jones
Freeman
KinghornCowan-Dickie
Genge
Furlong
Ryan
T. Curry
A.Mitchelle Scotland team
F. Smith
DalyOnly six Scots starting ?
Yes difficult to take that seriously. You don’t get that many Scots starting in the Scotland team.
@Siam said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #3:
World rugby's biggest game advertisement in the fallow years between world cups and is influenced by an insecure refereeing system but the gin swillers will be reminding themselves "controversy lasts far longer in the advertiser's eye than a pure spectacle, and think of the clicks we'll get!"
Even the perpetrator knew he was offside playing at the ball!
Still our beloved team only really have themselves to blame
Taking nothing away from the Lions who will take more pride than us over the drawn series.
It was a great series and none of us predicted it thus.
one question though:
Did it feel lucky to draw that?
honest question from an unquestionably biased kiwi
edit: The question was aimed at Lions supporters (lest I lose my arrogance)
Honest answer? Yeah we were lucky in the end. Lucky on a couple of counts, firstly in that for much of the match we were outplayed and only some uncharacteristic balls ups from NZ kept us in the game. Later on we got nearer to parity and if you're there or thereabouts with 10 minutes to go you have to feel that you have a chance of nicking the game. So lucky but dissatisfied. Secondly the non penalty. I did think is was sort of accidental at least instinctive rather than deliberate, but to me it was definitely a penalty. Whether or not Barret would have slotted the kick is another matter and if he hadn't then you lot would just have had something else to make you spew
We rode our luck over two tests and overall the better team did not win, but that's the beauty of sport. Winning great but you watch because of the uncertainty.
Gatland's legacy will go down as a two-time undefeated Lions head coach (a fact he has reminded us of a couple of times already) but in truth this time round he was very lucky. There was no cunning master plan to out-coach NZ. Fair play to him in Australia four years ago, he got that last game spot on though.
I have to say, I find the piling on to Sam Cane a bit distasteful. He’s been a great servant to NZ rugby and has bided his time behind McCaw for many years, maybe his best years. He’s in a shithouse place now and not in great form but also part at a dysfunctional back row.
May not be justifying his captaincy or place atm but does not warrant some of the shit you guys are piling on himself .
Well. Shit. In one way I'm happy that we played positively and were (very) competitive but of course pissed off that we ultimately lost two tests that we could have won.
Hats off to Borthwick and the coaching team to have changed the dynamic so much from the non-rugby we were playing up until match 3 of the 6N. A real chalk and cheese turnaround.
As I feared, the lack of real quality and any depth really in the front row came back to haunt us. If we'd been more competitive in the scrums, particularly in the first match, then maybe we draw the series. In today's match it was our discipline as much as our scrum weakness that cost us. Oh and Barret coming on and being the freak that he is.
Well done NZ a good series win from a standing start. Roll on the Autumn series and the 6N. I am actually looking forward to both with some anticipation.
@jegga said in Add Fidel to the 2016 body count:
FFS, how is Yoko Ono is still alive?
A macrobiotic diet. She lives off dead beetles.
Nice quote from David Warner following Faf Du Plessis ball tampering of a couple of years back.
"We hold our heads high and I'd be very disappointed if one of our team members did that.
"The rules are in place for a reason. If you're not going to use them why bother having them?
"If you're going to overstep the mark, be prepared to get fined and miss Test matches."
Well, I watched the game at home and was amazed at the England performance. I thought we had a chance but... Even though we were pretty dominant more or less throughout the game and it was ours to lose almost, there was always in the back of my mind that you just cannot trust a Kiwi to know when to say enough is enough. Having said that I felt reasonably comfortable with four minutes to go and two scores needed but even then... hmmm.
I didn't watch it at the pub as a 9.00 am kick off would have meant ruining the rest of the day but at around 11.40 I got a call from a mate. "I'm down at the Royal Oak and I need someone to talk rugby to. I can't go home and talk to her". So the rest of the day has been washout really. No complaints though.
Thanks to all who have posted congratulations and compliments on our performance. That takes a bit of doing, especially after the success you've had.
No where's that bottle of red?
@mn5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@rocky-rockbottom said in Re: Movie review thread...:
The Living Daylights (1987)
"Timothy Dalton" "TIMOTHY DALTON"? Who the fuck is this weasel-eyed fluffybunny? This wooden wiener is about as suave as goddamn cock cancer. Compared to his illustrious predecessors, messrs Connery and Moore, he looks like he bought his clothes in the fucking supermarket.
"Timothy Dalton". May as well be Tomoko fucken Dildostein for all he's got to do with my Bond franchise. HowTF did he even pass the screen test? His dad must be the goddamn director.
Did the dishes. Read up on the footy. Basically stalled until this bland Where's Wally twat got OFF my telly.
I enjoyed this one. It was a bit 'dark'. Pretty certain a few people who knew Fleming said he said Dalton was his personal favourite Bond.
Necros was one of the coolest henchmen too, better than that homo Dario from LTK
Doubtful seeing as he died 23 years before The Living daylights was made.
And don't forget the police also raided Cliff Richard's house and seized all his computers. Everyone's worst fears were confirmed when they found he'd been making new music.
Autopsy Club latest news.
Meeting this Saturday.
Open mike night.
@ARHS said in The recent troll account:
Can someone please clarify?
If you haven’t been told, then it’s probably you 
@DMX Interesting your view on the Barret v Mo'unga discussion. I've never felt that Barrett was a fantastic fly half - and I realise that this may lead to me being virtual lynched on here, but to me he does not seem to fit too well for some of the key duties of a 10. His kicking game is a bit off, his game management is not up there with the likes of say Carter, BUT he is without doubt a fantastic, almost freakish, rugby player and has to play. I can see the argument for having him at 10 as he is so good that you want to get the ball to him as often and as quickly as possible, but I think I agree with you that the extra space he gets at 15 is perhaps more suited and allied to that, you have a bloody good 10 in Mo'unga to bring a little more control to the game.
A very nice problem to have.
Off to dig a trench and search for my tin hat...
@snowy said in Happiness Scale:
@mn5 Yeah. I don't give up easy.
She's a fantastic woman, but man she can bring me down. I don't know.
I am always reluctant to offer marital advice to anyone as you can never know all the intricacies: however I will say this. Never make a life changing decision through a knee-jerk reaction.
Hope it all improves for you both mate.
@Hooroo said in The Time Has Come To Log In:
@erps You're not an ex-St Pauls lad are you?
If so, I think it was you that told me to check out the fern when discussing rugby at a party in London!
We're not in a blame culture here you know. Own your own mistakes.
This result was the worst possible outcome. Obviously a win would have been the best, but this narrow loss will likely vindicate Borthwick idea of non-rugby and we'll be on this same fucking journey for another couple of years.
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
My dog used to do disgraceful things like running over a kids sandcastle then pissing on the ruins. There are no words that placate an irate parent in that situation .
Whilst that is at the same time amusing and hideous it pales into insignificance to the bloody mutt that my sister brought to stay one Christmas. We decided to go down to the beach for a walk Christmas Day morning which was a bit of a mistake as we'd forgotten the annual dopey-fuckers Christmas swim so the beach was rammed. All the normal walkers and dog walkers etc got shunted off down one small part of the beach. This too was packed. This bloody dog shot off to run around the beach with all his new mates for all of 30 seconds before he crouched down with his back legs shaking. Hunched over like an oriental bridge, squeezing out a giant turd about a third of the size of its own body Being that cold time of year the thing was steaming like The Flying Scotsman and all the other dog owners were trying to get their dogs away before they ate it. Anyway the dog finishes up, scratches at the sand and buggers off. Only it wasn't finished. The turd was stuck in its arse, sticking out about 8 inches. Could we catch the dog? Could we fuck. Meanwhile all the other mutts on the beach were going wild chasing the bloody thing. We tried getting to go in the sea in the hope the offending article might get washed off but the dog was having none of it. Anyway eventually my sister caught the dog, took out her plastic bag and with one hand on the dog's collar she used the plastic bag to grip the offending Richard and tried to yank it out of the dog's arse. This was harder than it looked as the dog was not enjoying the experience and was seemingly clamping its arse cheeks together. After much swearing and tugging she got the turd out of the dog (I swear to this day I heard its arse shut), only to be rewarded by the dog turning round and biting her.
My kids wonder why I won't have a bloody dog.
We’ll done NZ, enjoy the moment my Kiwi virtual mates but go on and finish the thing.
Now I realise that I'm not such a movie geek as many on here and consequently will be late to the party more often than not. However. Dunkirk, Finally managed to align the planets to allow me to view this with the fragrant Mrs Cato. No kids in attendance and the added attraction of a glass or two of Macon Blanc. Much anticipation.
What an appalling experience. In itself the film was OK, though I was quite surprised to see such a dramatic story so over-dramatised. Not so much the various storylines but the cinematography. Whilst this was something of an annoyance the real problem lay closer to hand. Mrs Cato would just not shut up. She managed to keep up a barrage of inane questions throughout the film that completely fucked up any chance I had of enjoying the film or understanding the continuity. Such gems. "So who are the goodies here?" "Who is that bombing that ship? Is it us?" And the absolute piece, on seeing a pleasure boat in the middle of the English Channel - "Is that a German boat?"
To be honest I should have realised this would not go well. The poor dear has been binge watching a series called The Crown which is basically a Royal version of Home and Away. However she has taken this to be pretty much a documentary and affords it factual and historic status. This has now filtered through to anything from 1920 to 1990 and affords her an insight into the Royal family, UK politics, the Second World War and anything to do with Winston Churchill that I can only wish for.
Sod this, back to the Bourne films and John Wick for me, she can't stand that stuff.
1 exasperated married man out of 5 dashed hopes.
