The Silver Fern

Reading back through the thread a number of posters mention watching Wrestlemania on TV. I don't remember ever seeing a Wrestlemania on TV, I can only remember them on video and having to book them out. IIRC Wrestlemania was already a couple of years old when WWF Superstars of Wrestling started on TV in NZ. (Looking at Wrestlemania 1 on wiki and not many of the wrestlers are still alive. Mr T is the only one from the main event.

Is my memory faulty or others?

Hart Foundation and Bret Hart were always my favourites, even when they were heels.

I like forward to seeing Super Leicester in the NPC, surely, since he made the Top14 his bitch, he will top all the relevant stats, most tries, most running metres, most rucks won, most walking on water, most turning water into wine, most tackles, most lineout wins.

Luckily the Magpies don't play Ta$man this year so I wont have the pain of seeing him run in 6 tries against us.

@mariner4life said in Rugby on Stan:

i find Stan tends to just slip a bit, while Kayo on the same internet is rock solid. I am generally nearly a minute behind by the end of a test match.

What i do love, especially when watching a replay of an overnight test (because my days of waking up to watch live are behind me) is skip intro and skip halftime.

It's interesting that the performances of the streamers seems to vary from state to state, as your experience with them appears to be the exact opposite of mine.

@voodoo said in Rugby on Stan:

I find Stan great - the platform not the personalities, I mean - easy to work, great functionality and plenty of replays. Not really sure what else I would want tbh

Me too, I haven't had the issues Booboo has, way better than the piece of tutae Kayo app, I am fucking annoyed at them for putting the price up due to getting some soccer rights though.

When did Stuff start requiring a log in to view their site?

@Bovidae said in School Rugby 2025:

@Nepia Rotorua will win by 20+.

Sadly I agree.

@Bovidae said in School Rugby 2025:

Midweek games:

Super 8
Palmerston North BHS 30-7 Napier BHS
PNBHS win back the Polson Banner after six years and with it secured a home Super 8 final , likely against Rotorua BHS.

CNI
St John’s Hastings 5–36 FDMC

Sadly I think it will be RBHS, it's highly unlikely that NPBHS will beat RBHS even if Hastings beats Hamilton (which is difficult up there with the South African era reffing standards. )

My finger are crossed though.

@No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2025:

@Nepia said in All Blacks 2025:

@No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2025:

Does he have Aderns PR team or something?

Maybe we need the politics section back so you righty tighties can keep it in your pants on the sports threads.

It wasn't meant as a political post, she did have a good PR team probably not as good as Beauden's though TBH!

No one has good a PR team as the Barrett family.

@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:

About 40 players out on the weekend. Had to forfeit 2s.
Fourteen of them front row.

So guess who played a full game* at tight head prop for first grade? This dumb fuck...

The guy opposite me was half my age and twice my size, but I managed to hold him off mostly thanks to my Fijian second rower and bringing the big bastard down low where he was very uncomfortable. I reckon our scrum gave away about 200kg.

We lost 76 to 5 but scored the last try.

*The ref - who I know - mercifully called it off with 6 to go

Last try wins.

@Bones said in Missing Persons:

@Nepia said in Missing Persons:

I'm back, thanks to a Saffa poster on Planet Rugby and a few goes at remembering a nearly two decades old password.

Wait.... you hadn't been logged out in two decades?

I guess I must have been at some stage, but it would have been closer to the time back then so I would have remembered my password. When I update my laptop I just transfer everything across including all my saved passwords on my browsers so I haven't needed to remember it for a while now.

@No-Quarter said in All Blacks 2025:

Does he have Aderns PR team or something?

Maybe we need the politics section back so you righty tighties can keep it in your pants on the sports threads.

I'm back, thanks to a Saffa poster on Planet Rugby and a few goes at remembering a nearly two decades old password.

FFS, no lock reserve.

Locks are 6's and 6's are locks now.

I too enjoyed Superman but would only give it 3.5 hoha dogs out of 5 pocket universes.

I thought it took a while to get going and like most modern blockbusters had too many fight scenes.

But definitely a Gunn movie, very funny at times, and his trademark musical fight scene.

A welcome change from the Snyderverse, and DC looking good going forward.

@NTA You had two free Gold Class tickets????? Nice work.

I was going to say Arthur Jennings, but no tests and I don't think the Solomon born in Fiji played any tests either.

Bernie Fraser.

@Bovidae said in WR U20 Championship 2025:

The Wiseman YC was very soft

What is the point of having mitigation in the laws when you don't apply when an attacker ducks into contact?

@zedsdeadbaby said in NPC 2025:

I’m sorry, what on earth is this “fly halves” we speak of

Fucking Cantabs ... has a sly look at the Magpies list to make sure they haven't done the same.

@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v France III:

Too many Chiefs

Too many Reece's.

We've had three years of "Super is shit because the Saffas aren't here", now we've got a page of the thread full of the "Saffas were shit".

@mariner4life said in NRL 2025:

they sold out 5 straight games up to the Penrith game? Manly was just under that, and their average crowd for the year is just under stadium capacity?

And this only looks "bad" because last year they sold out every single home game (something no club has ever done)

Maybe take your boring repetitive "warriors hype train" whinge and jam it?

GFY, I didn't say it was bad, I was asking a genuine question because they sold out every game last year. Even in the sellouts this year there's been noticeable empty seats (they didn't look like 5 sellouts in a row on the idiot box), maybe corporate box assigned ones or no shows if the prices are still relatively cheap?

@bayimports said in NRL 2025:

Jersey Flegg top 8

That was a crazy comeback by the Jersey Flegg team: