The Silver Fern

How the he'll was he supporting his own weight...

That being said, ref been good for the most part

Oh man, our 9-10 have both been poor

Haha wtf has our game come to.

And that dumb play going for the try in the traffic only to be held up

And those inaccuracies as we get a little.momentum

Lennox is playing well

Wtf RR

Well Nock did well on the counter there...although he's missing elsewhere

How has Nock let that happen....made them look good

So looks like Parker was off at 40

13-3.

Too much poor kicking and handling from us.

Expected us to concede in that last few as we often do, so score reasonable reflection i guess.

Be good if Nock bossed his pack now.and again

@booboo said in Straya!:

Pump high level alarm went off the other day

mine went off with all our rain this week, fortunately, I know I wasnt gonna encounter those....

@antipodean I watched that episode on Brysons Youtube channel, quite good fun.

Gotta say, I never used to like Bryson when he first hit the scene, but I do like him nowadays.

@MN5 my guess is the piece of pizza replacing the 'A' would have worked better if flipped up the other way?

If thats not it, I got nothing.

Chris Apoua apparently ruled out, Corey Te Whata-Colley onto bench, be his first game back for Northland after an achilles injury in 2023, is a player I have always rated, lose a fraction at scrumtime but gain a bit of physicality

@Higgins that certainly sounds like it'd be more accurate than alot out there.

Rateable are a waste of time, the online calculators out there are only as good as.the data put into.them, but even they are quite often well out.

@Higgins well, some valuations supplied by registered valuers are not that great either, many of those supplying them do so alongside a market valuation so thier qualifications to provide a rebuild one are a bit limited.

I believe there is a select committee looking at that issue presently....Quantity Surveyors are supposedly best qualified to provide the most accurate ones.

Evidence suggests 85% of NZers are underinsured, and some supposedly >50%.

As to your 10%, sadly that is about normal for many areas, but by the same token, down on the past few years increases most saw.

While less impact to residential consumers, some huge changes to Fire Service Levies in 2026 that will see large increases to the levy charged for those owning commercial property, down to how these are.charged as opposed to a rate increase.

Easily my favourite tipping comp, and so much better with more competitors

@Chris-B yeah it must be quite scary and then having to deal with the aftermath, I mean, where do you start.

Even with insurance, there are limitations on what they can do particularly with limited manpower and qualified feet on the ground with such wide-spread devastation.

somewhat related thread diversion....I went to a seminar last week that was looking at construction costs, in particular, under-insurance (something Kiwi's are pretty good at) and some of the data was scary.