The Silver Fern

That team is boring as fuck

@JK said in Dad advice sharing thread.:

@Paekakboyz said in Dad advice sharing thread.:

@JK has jnr given any indication of what he'd prefer?

Yeah he initially was keen to repeat U10 as bowling wont be as fast but he would also then need to deal with the shite bowling he encountered last year that sometime doesnt even land on the pitch!

Anyway, since I've posted it looks like the 3 other lads in his team from last year are all keen to play under 11 (well thats what the parents say) so looks like we are going for that. Club said would apply for a dispensation from Auckland Cricket for them to play U11s BUT the kids would need to be available for Under 10 reps if selected

Update....got that dispensation so the lad is playing up a grade in under 11s. 3rd game of the season and he picked up a hattick today and all of them were bowled. Slowest bowler in the team but pretty much always a Yorker or just short of and if you miss then he hits. Proud dad!!!

Edit - vid of hattrick ball

You can see how little he is vs some of the others

@MajorRage said in Going Vegetarian / Vegan ..:

Look, it's all the rage, we have a thread about a meatless BK burger, we have a thread about eating meat in Austin, and a dedicated thread to BBQ'ing ... so lets get one going.

Firstly, asking for a friend.

Secondly - so has anybody done it?

Yeah had a friend that went full vegan a couple of years back. He died pretty soon after though.....

.....to me anyway

@MN5 said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:

@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:

@sparky said in Wayne Barnes gooone!:

What a piston wristed gibbon! Fucked the ABs over in 2007 big time.

I've always maintained if that had happened to a British team or SA he'd have been hounded out of the game. No way in hell the Saffas would have accepted him to ref them ever again. And tbh I don't blame them.

As to the online abuse, the internet and social media have always been a sewer in that regard. Not sure why people are continually shocked after a quarter century.

I cant stop reading this with a lisp, exactly as Mike Tyson would

Farken cracked it on the weekend with the pre match pep talk. Always try give the lad a bit of a rev up on the way to the game and try and inspire him to put in a good performance.

Usually its very much "do this", 'don't do that' sorta stuff and basically telling him to make sure he gets involved and not swan about in the backs. This week I was crapping on (pretty much all I do) to him about leaving everything out on the field in terms of his effort. I said "if you were to sit back and watch a replay of the game, how would you want to feel about how you played? What would you want to see?" Immediately he said that he would want to feel proud of his efforts and not be seen to be slacking off. I said "That's a good idea Phin, make yourself proud of your performance"

Well what a game, 4 tries and could have been 5 (just touched the sideline apparently). 14 tackles, multiple good runs, clean passing and catching, lots of support. It really was something to behold. He knew it to. When he came off at the end of the game he gave me one of those smiling nods (kinda led by the chin and eye brows at the same time), you know the one. He was chuffed and quite frankly so was I. Only cost me $4.80 too in performance payments.

@snowy said in Dry July:

What is dry July?

A whole month of the wife playing hard to get.

Sounds shite

@mariner4life said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

@JK said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

@Chris said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

@george33 Spot on mate on the tips you gave us

I posted the whole team yesterday - other than Lomax's post initial selection injury

Dam straight

Its amazing that anyone actually gives a shit about this.

Pretty laughable that it makes the lead story on the news. What has this world become...

@Bovidae said in All Blacks v Japan:

Dunn how they can call the bench "Impact" when Havili is involved

@Chris said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

@george33 Spot on mate on the tips you gave us

I posted the whole team yesterday - other than Lomax's post initial selection injury

Teaching my 8 year old son how to kick goals yesterday and I smacked a couple over from out near half way (albeit pretty much straight in front) and he asked why I didn't kick for the all blacks. Could only offer up that I can't tackle for Shit. Also slow, unfit and couldn't throw a skip pass to save myself

JKjnrs first hardball cricket season is done and dusted. Fair to say...he is hooked.

Batting and bowling really improved over the season. Fielding too actually, really sharp when it comes to throwing down the wickets, just needs to work on those first time clean pickups.

Ended up as leading bowler for his team is terms of number of wickets, strike rate, average and economy. Batting not as good as just doesnt hit the boundaries the other kids do but gets bat on ball a lot and keeps runs ticking over. Only got out 5 times in the 15 games he played so thats pleasing.

Made his reps team too for takapuna and won the north harbour competion as well as a quadrangular tournament where they smashed each of University, Cornwall and Howick-Pak who are much bigger and strong clubs. First time takapuna has done this at that age level so pretty big acheivement for the boys.

Now on to the rugby season!

How GOOOOOOD was that???

Best Father's Day for ages!!

Entertaining game and brilliant result.

That performance is exactly what was needed to get New Zealand right behind our girls, and this World Cup in general.

Dream start to the tournament!

@Hooroo said in No kids, any regrets?:

@chimoaus said in No kids, any regrets?:

@Hooroo Thanks for sharing, yes can be tough that is for sure. The wife had some big regrets in her 30's when friends etc were having kids, but now we are past that age it's not really an issue. We couldn't bring ourselves to tell the MIL at the time, she took it pretty hard. My mum was ok as she already had plenty of grandkids.

The only "gloat" time is when I catch up with a bunch of mates and their families and we have a massive bbq late into the night and having to see/hear them deal with their kids first thing the next morning.

I generally smile and roll over for some more sleep

Mine can make coffee now and cook bacon and eggs in such situations. They first 8 or so years though......useless

A couple of mates and I Decided while drunk at New Years to surprise the boys with a trip to Wellington to watch blues v canes, and we hoped the blues would have had a better season but ah well the lads still loved the surprise when we broke it to them at 11am Saturday after they’d finished their game. That was about the highlight.....

2pm flight got delayed 230 then 3pm then cancelled as the part they had used to repair the plane was the wrong part. AirNZ told us we were rebooked to the 7pm flight but hell that wasnt gonna work. The combo of dad rage and sad 7 and 8 year old boys seemed to get the desired impact and we were rebooked to the 5pm flight so looked like we still had a chance. 11 of us in to koru and a good session was had. Extended session too as 5pm got rescheduled to 545 then 620 then 630 we boarded and finally took off at 7farken25!!! Landed before half time and shuttled to the ground and into the lounge for the last 30mins so at least the kids got to visit the caketin and witness the canes tear us a new one.

They also got to experience classic wet and windy Wellington weather on Sunday, a (lost?) whale in Wellington harbour and te papa. Oh and and another extended koru session thanks for more delays coming home Sunday night.

Couldn’t really tell you much about the rugby. Best I read the posts above to find out what happened in the 50mins we missed.

@TeWaio said in Black Caps v Australia:

We'd have rather got Marsh than Head I reckon

Yeah but I do love getting head to start the day

@foobaNZ said in All Blacks vs England I:

I like the 15, for the most part, but, when Jordan & Roigard return it will be significantly better.

100%

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

I find the whole celebration of Silver and Bronze at the Olympics a bit odd.

Second place is just another losing position.

It's winning that is everything!

I dunno, some people would be pretty stoked to get a medal and be recognised as one of the best in the world. For sure, some people will be disappointed if they legit thought they were a chance for gold, and fell just short. Others, may have performed on the big stage with personal/life time bests, possibly higher than they ever thought possible. No wonder they are celebrating!

@hikastags said in All Blacks v France III:

The Myth of Damian Mckenzie facebook page sure likes to be taking credit for the "leaked" backline.

Had a look and they aren't taking credit - just said they had been "sent a leaked backline" and also that they "didn't think it was legit."

Hah and then in another post askes for "apologies from those who doubted his leaked team".

What a porkchop after even doubting it himself