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Been a great 24hrs. Labour smashed in the election, ABs win a knockout game in legendary fashion, and I’m sitting here waiting for Kylie Minogue to call because I’m clearly getting everything I want.

Closest I’ve been to banning someone for years.

@george33 said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

@Canes4life many times just putting out what I've been told

Keep doing it.

Kind of the point of a forum, telling us what he's been told doesn't mean it's accurate guys.

@Snowy said in Im leaving:

@sparky said in Im leaving:

This thread is absolutely peak Fern. It will never, ever be superseded.

Test ignore.

People were genuinely upset when I deleted that. From memory it was half the size of the forum Database in one thread.

Since Duluth took over running the site such transgressions are in the past.

As for @Winger, I've been off an on running this forum for 22 years (fucks sake). Over that time, people have come and gone and come back again many times. Hopefully, you'll be one of them. I disagree with you about many things, but the good thing about that is it makes you examine what your opinion is.

Wish we didn't have to moderate you so much though, that's a bit tiresome.

The best advice I can give you is it's just people talking on the internet. We don't change anything here, we won't win elections or even really change people's minds. It's a good place to keep up to date on sport and let off some steam, it's not that serious.

If you think you are spending too much time on here (that's happened to a few people), just post less.

With some of the new features coming from Duluth, the Fern will be the best place to follow Rugby in NZ. He's really outdone himself.

Anyway back to the popcorn.

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

@1kiwi said in All Blacks Vs France, Test One, Dunedin:

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.

To paraphrase Ramsay Bolton from Game of Thrones, "Anyone who thinks Richie won't be wearing the 10 jersey at RWC2027 hasn't been paying attention".

Barring injury of course.

Don't shoot the messenger!

Not if I have anything to do with it;

Man, that's an impressive post, very interesting write up.

Worth pointing out that sometimes you can measure the worth of a player when he's not there. Blues have an Akira shaped hole in their forward pack this year.

@chchfanatic said in It’s Razor. Robertson New All Blacks coach.:

I reckon Razor might go out of the box and get someone like Wayne Smith into the coaching setup somewhere.

That’s so in the box it’s almost cliche at this point.

Let’s get the best analytical coach of the past 30 years on the team, masterstroke!

Apologies for the site being down, was out of our hands.

A crucial part of the infrastructure got locked, and we are having trouble getting back into it. To get us back up and running we have a backup URL;

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Awful analysis, incorrect conclusions, zero insight. Wrong about pretty much everything

and the direct to the forum url is;

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Probably going to have a few things broken over the next week, just let us know in here and we'll keep cleaning up.

@Stargazer said in Bledisloe #1:

Ah, another TSF meltdown. Everyone completely overreacting as usual.

If you don’t meltdown after nearly conceding 50 in a Bledisloe game something is wrong with you

Just to add to Duluth's post, I think the Politics threads were the most useful during the Covid lockdowns to allow people to let off steam. It was a pain in the arse to moderate (the rest of the site barely needs any).

IMO it was time to move the focus back to sport.

I've had a busy start to the year with work, and have been taking a break from the Fern. Thankfully, that's returning to normal and I can get back to updating you all about Akira Ioane.

Coming back, it's been great to see the quality of the information in sports threads. Highlights to me that forums still have a place on the interwebs, especially as hubs around shared interests.

We have some interesting stuff planned, as we start rolling things out we'll get your feedback to keep improving it.

@KiwiMurph said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

@akan004 said in Argentina One: Parramatta, 14 November:

Akira must be feeling great right now. Poor guy.

this has pre-meditated change written all over it - Frizell was always coming back

Conservative selection group, perfect game to test Akira out in with the top team. Frizzell's had three goes and been adequate at best.

Akira had 29 mins against a fired up Aussie side and had an excellent performance. Would make more sense to see if he could sustain it.

At six , is absolutely clear that Akira is now ahead of Frizzel.

Lol, something to piss off everyone. Several hilarious selections.

So who would have though James Fucking O’Conner would have completely outplayed an All Black ten?

Have to be impressed with these selectors making us miss Foster. Unless you are from a certain province of course.

Some truely terrible calls in that squad.

What a great way for Smith and Henry to retire.

Merry Xmas everyone.

Managed to escape Auckland, now have a 6hour drive ahead to get to in the in laws.

Once there I have a bottle of whiskey to drain while the kids go off and parent themselves.

It’s 8.00am and it feels like 30 degrees.

@crucial said in All Blacks Squad for France:

@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks Squad for France:

This thread is starting to resemble the good old days around AB selection time ,

All we need is Toeava to make himself available .

DMac is the new Toeava

Toeava could play ten.

Helps with disappointment that a quality bloke is lifting the trophy

Nah, you lose the ability for a Japan vs SA or Ireland upset if you do that.

I like the alternative of the plate competition I saw mentioned the other day, so there is more to play for after the top two pool spots.