The Silver Fern

@Smudge said in Rough tips and other bets...:

Thanks to @Hooroo for the Well Written futures tip for the 1000 Guineas before it had its first start and was paying $61. It's now $2.80...

Paid incredible odds for both starts too.

It’s fucking excellent. I love how Euros are rising above it and crushing them

@Duluth said in Fern Outage:

@Hooroo said in Fern Outage:

Incredible amount of time and effort put in by Duluth and Kirwan to solve this.

For reward, if you know you’re a bit of a dickhead or you spam a whole of on inane shit (like The Open location) then maybe post a bit less so they don’t have to deal with your shit.

I’ve taken my own advice.

You're a bit fired up there

If this happened a week ago it would've been quicker to resolve. I was in the middle of setting up the new forum server. So I decided to try and complete that at the same time.. but it was taking too long

So we're still on the old box and that migration will happen later

The pork chops I refer to are the reason for the fire up they know who they are.

Incredible amount of time and effort put in by Duluth and Kirwan to solve this.

For reward, if you know you’re a bit of a dickhead or you spam a whole of on inane shit (like The Open location) then maybe post a bit less so they don’t have to deal with your shit.

I’ve taken my own advice.

@SouthernMann said in The decline and fall of the Melbourne Cup:

@Hooroo said in The decline and fall of the Melbourne Cup:

Pub was pumping, people were punting. Going off!!!!

Great day.

Mafia Whispers race two at New Plymouth if you like money

Looks a good 1000m horse right now. The winner looked quality running away from the field

She blew like heck and took a bit to recover. She didn’t love the soft 7 I don’t think.

A lot to like

Pub was pumping, people were punting. Going off!!!!

Great day.

Mafia Whispers race two at New Plymouth if you like money

I think the Cup had its biggest ever race betting turnover here in NZ last year. I love the day and the theatre of it. Not many breed two milers so it’s a bit of a stand alone race in that sense.

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of India:

Whatever else he does in cricket from now on, Santner will be forever remembered by a generation of Indian fans.

How good!! Deserved to.

I thought they would demolish us after that first test humiliation but a different set of players stood up and smoked em again.

I’ve never looked more forward to a dead rubber than this test. Even if we get pumped, it won’t matter as we have already won!!!

What a decade plus of cricket we have been able to enjoy. Eseentially ever since McCullum was made captain we have had so much to celebrate

Who has most tries? (In Bali and only watching updates through you guys)

What happens if draw after extra time?

Black caps as we are going to get fucking crushed in the next two games.

@Kirwan said in All Blacks vs Wallabies I:

We all agree that if we lose against this Wallabies side Razor should be sacked?

What will happen is we will fucking crush them and it will all be falsely roses

@voodoo said in All Blacks MOTM v Boks II:

Surprised to see a bunch of people Cane. I thought he was useless today. Missed tackles, gave away an idiotic penalty, guilty of ruck watching, zero link play and did he even attempt a jackal?

He’s a terrible 7 these days

I’d love to he his stats for last night. I thought he was everywhere, making untold key tackles.

How fucking poke is Talea? Can’t and won’t tackle and can’t catch.

The hooker and anyone but a back

@Kiwiwomble said in NPC Crowds:

i think the NPC needs to be appreciated and marketed as something to enjoy and celebrate in its own right, we dont go watch a club game just because we might see some up and comer, its enjoyable in it own right, stand in the sun with a beer somewhere often close to home and therefore easy.....

They do do that though. (Sans promoting the beer) and it’s still pretty poke. Watched the Waikato. Northland game last night and it is club rugby in disguise except they don’t have anyone watching it

The entertainment product of NPC died a very very long time ago and now only die hard support it onsite. That wanes every year a bit more

The fact that when the minnow type teams do splendidly and get the crowds, it suggests that maybe it should be played more provincially in smaller town stadiums.

When Waikato played a preseason shield game at Matamata, it was chocka. It suited the product

Pretty pathetic at the main grounds. I saw Canterbury played in Rangiora and that had a marginally better crowd.

Is the last year Sky are hosting it???

It would be better played at the regional grounds rather than these big stadiums as it’s a pretty shit product now.

I’ll say it now to let itself bite me on the arse

Comedy Auckland!!!!