The Silver Fern

The assistant coaches are just as much to blame as Robertson, I'd clean them out too. Ryan is the new Teflon Don

@Duluth said in Avatar Coercion:

@Kirwan

Or this?

That should be mine

@Duluth said in Avatar Coercion:

Oh chchfanatic doesn't have an avatar

John Hart

said in Avatar Coercion:

@Duluth said in Avatar Coercion:

First names I can think of: Dodge, frugby, jet, reprobate, steve harris, african monkey, Frank, virgil, pakman

SouthernMan needs an Auckland-centric avatar.

Dammit, I was too slow

@Duluth said in Avatar Coercion:

First names I can think of: Dodge, frugby, jet, reprobate, steve harris, african monkey, Frank, virgil, pakman

SouthernMan needs an Auckland-centric avatar.

@Duluth said in Website updates:

Things look a lot better when people have avatars too. Maybe we need that thread where we assigned people avatars against their will? Bring back some bullying

THIS.

Long overdue.

With all the kicking two fullbacks makes sense to me.

Chopping and changing the midfield from week to week isn’t going to improve the combination. I liked the hard running from Ahki

Barnes shrugs

I’m pretty happy with the spine of the team, the new hookers look very good. We defend well, strong forwards, good set piece.

Backline attack hasn’t improved from last year, but I suspect that’s not the players, I’m looking at the attack coach there.

@KiwiMurph said in Force v Blues:

It's pretty hard to excited for this Blues team until they start making some selection changes.

Like what? Injuries aside, and the charmed Nock, what changes would you make?

Nock? Seriously, WTAF.

@Duluth said in Blues vs. Chiefs 2026:

@Kirwan said in Blues vs. Chiefs 2026:

If I had to isolate a single factor for each team it would how poor Nock was when he came on, and how crafty Vaai was.

Darry and Ofa were going well too. Their replacements were fine but just not at the same level

Yeah, true. But nothing like the drop off for when Nock came on. I know it’s not cool to point this out, but the ginger half back is a very good player

@Tim said in Forum is on a new server:

@Kirwan said in Forum is on a new server:

Bot traffic is going to ruin a lot of the internet.

Is this because of all the AI companies scraping? Maybe agents as well?

That’s part of it, yes. The other part is bots are extremely good a pretending to be human now too.

It’s an expensive arms race.

And for love of god, can someone in NZ start coaching passing in front of a player? The amount of attack ruined by players having to stop, or jump for a pass, or passes just going into touch.

Maddening

If I had to isolate a single factor for each team it would how poor Nock was when he came on, and how crafty Vaai was.

His highlight for me was waiting for the ref to call use it before wrapping up the ball in that crucial maul.

I liked how our forwards went, Dalton was huge out there, we looked strong. New hookers looked really good.

Backs had similar problems to last year, not taking advantage of the possession and territory the forwards got them.

Is O’Halloran a handbrake?

Bot traffic is going to ruin a lot of the internet.

The infrastructure Duluth is putting together to protect against this is a time consuming task.

Ben o’Thief up to his usual standard, man he’s terrible.

@Chris-B. said in Highlanders v Crusaders (round 1):

Jordan looking like a five-time World Team of the Year player. Nearly won it on his own.

Kind of sucks for the tournament that he had to start on the bench.

@Bones said in Forum is on a new server:

Not complaining at all, just reporting.

I'm not finding it any faster and on the odd occasion it's slow like when there were bot attacks (plus just had a 503).

Do you have any browser extensions? Only mobile?

I saved mine as the local app again (deleting the old one), and it's super quick for me. Just need to isolate the difference for you

Warren Gatland would be a terrible choice IMO.

@kidcalder said in Scott Robertson:

@junior Wouldn't mind a DM also I couldn't find anything and it seems like a huge deal whatever happened

Sent what I got sent

Well, if that rumour is true, it's a doozy. Pretty disgusting