The Silver Fern

Its that moment no one has been waiting for.... mostly because we can see who the winners are already.
But awards need a ceremony, so without further-a-do....

The Winners are .....

Best Gifer - @mariner4life
Best Memer and you true King of Memes - @RoninWC (Prick)
Spirit of Covid - @Snowy
Broken Record - The Fern for never getting off Fozzie's back, well done us.
Best Meme - Bear having Goldilocks read to him
(This one?)

Best Thread of the Year - Lockdown Check in
Best Come Back - @jegga
Most Level Headed - @Donsteppa
Best Stats Nerd - @Stargazer (for all things sugby stuff)
Best Sauce - @bayimports
Best Sports Poster - @Stargazer

Sporties - Favourite Cricket moment of the year.
Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor hitting the winning runs in the WTC Final.

Sporties - Favourite Cricket player of the year.
Kyle Jamieson

Favourite Sportsman/woman (Non Rugby/Cricket)
Lisa Carrington

Favourite Sporting Moment of the Year (Non Rugby/Cricket)
Lisa Carrington winning 3 Golds at the Olympics

Favourite Rugby Player of the Year
Lisa.... Samisoni Taukei'aho

Most Improved Rugby Player
Samisoni Taukei'aho

Favourite Rugby Game of the year.
A Tie, All Blacks vs France and Jordie kicking the winner vs Boks at Townsville.

Well there you have it, a big congrats to all the winners (not @RoninWC, clearly proving quantity over quality wins every time.)
@Stargazer you can tell everyone you have something in common with Lisa Carrington and Samisoni Taukei'aho, you are all 2 time winners of a Fernie/Sportie....

A big thanks to @Duluth for allowing this to happen again this year after a false start earlier in the year. Its been a tough year again for most of us here, the Fernies were an attempt to add some cheer and laughs, often at my expense.
Happy the 2nd time round made it to the end even though it didnt go as originally planned.
..kinda hoping to bring back the glory days of past Fernies....there was at least one of you that was a fan...

Anyway my small moment of power has come to an end, thanks again to @Duluth and the other Mods for humoring me and for their input...though i cant believe they actually made @MajorRage a mod.

Congrats again to the winners (not @RoninWC )
@MN5 maybe you need to double up on your double ups to have some chance of winning next year..

Lets all hope 2022 will be a better year, a possible return to some sort normalcy.
@Barchen
A year of less pandemic shit, better times with work and family and where friendships can survive or maybe begin again..

No apologies for how weirdo this is going to turn out.

Merry fucking Xmas...

Can one of the mods be kind enough to pin this please, you can unpin the other threads..ta

Pinched from Facebook..

The Blues win a Super Rugby trophy, the Black Caps a Cricket World Cup.
The world has gone mad..

@MN5

could use glue but based on the evidence theres a good chance that would be abused as well.

@antipodean said in Sporties - Nominations - Favourite Cricket Moment of the Year:

Three test series whitewash of the Indians in India.

Thank you, Nominations are now closed for this award.
The Winner will be announced soon....

I assume Sir JK will be ringing the ex girlfriend to apologise?

That’s a loose forward trio you should only see play in a midweek game back in the 90’s.

So India were lucky to come away with a point from the earlier rained out group game.

2018 Bledisloe

Points scored.

Beauden Barrett 60
Qantas Wallabies 45

Tries scored.

Beauden Barrett 6
Qantas Wallabies 5

Gutted about this all Northern Hemisphere Semi Finals draw

Guptill not needed in the test side, Taylor not needed on the T20 side.

Good thing we have a ton of depth in our batting as so we don't require any of those guys.

Isn’t it good to see a series played between teams who respect each other and don’t have to resort to bully tactics and acting like classless bogans.

Shitty thing for Brodie and his partner to go through. Speaking from personal experience it’s something that takes a long time to get over

Some of the comments and replies over in Reddit are gold, heres a few of the best ones..

A kiwi whitewash without Kane, no less....
-Did it without Santner in two tests too

Before the series started, we all knew nothing could stop a 3-0 victory. So sad to see test cricket dying with predictable results such as this

Smh my head, new zealand should stop scheduling series with such minnows just to boost their wtc chances

It was over once Pant went down..
-just like my dates

Where's the chest pumps and screams now..

@Duluth said in Missing Persons:

A thread to keep track of who hasn't found their way here yet

Taken from the most upvoted in the last month and/or active recently with a lot of posts

@ACT-Crusader
@sparky
@nostrildamus
@brodean
@Landers92
@Victor-Meldrew
@Darth-Sader
@Jet
@MajorRage
@Nogusta
@Machpants
@Nepia
@dogmeat
@Snowy
@Yeetyaah
@Paekakboyz
@Steven-Harris
@Frank
@chimoaus
@Gunner
@kiwiinmelb
@Winger
@Rapido
@Rembrandt
@hydro11
@Damo
@Kruse
@Mattasaurus
@Stockcar86
@kev
@akan004
@barbarian
@reprobate
@Godder
@Dice
@ARHS
@Toddy
@mikey07
@SammyC
@Nevorian
@junior
@BerniesCorner
@TeWaio
@Tordah
@SBW1
@george33
@pukunui
@mimic
@DaGrubster
@Chris-B

Getting closer to finding them all

Izzy might have gotten more sympathy if he included Vegans and Hipsters on his list.

Tana 4 - BI Lions 0

Who would have fucking thought just over 4 years ago we would make 2 consecutive CWC finals.
No matter how it goes on Sunday thats pretty fucking amazing.