Recent content by Highlander35

1 extra fixture is not worth the lucky loser nonsense

I wasn't tracking every minute between the drinking and the miserable weather, but per the phone timeline the old man and I left the ground pretty leisurely at about quarter to 11, joined the queue 5-10 minutes later, and didn't get on the train until midnight, with what I'd guess was at least...

Do any of you have any insight as to whether the post game timeframes for getting a train at Olympic Park station after the game are standard for high attendance games or if they were a unique function of the lightning delay? I would be deeply concerned about the Semis, Bronze Medal and Final...

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It will be interesting to see if there is further consolidation or exits from the market, particularly with DAZN taking over the Foxtel portfolio (and presumably the Binge, Foxtel Now and Kayo platforms) and other carriers like Paramount having very low penetration.

The window was already pushed back after the 2019 RWC no? Games went from being scheduled on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th weeks of June to 1st, 2nd and 3rd weekends of July, notionally to allow for Super Rugby to conclude prior to the window.

Full H&A is great. Can you squeeze the approx 23 gameweeks required (18 games + 3 weeks playoffs + 2 byes) in before the first weekend in July for the mid-year internationals? If this were an ordinary year, that would mean having round 1 be on Jan 24-26, rather than Feb 14-16 as it was this...

Conferences aren't a terrible idea in and of themselves and it actually makes for quite a neat little season: H&A against in conference, 2 Home against other, 2 Away against other, plus a super round. Fewer home games kind of stinky but what else can you do. A two stage league is just crazy.

I'm pretty sure the NZRU nominated the AB XV as their "next senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team of a Union" back in 2022, unless I'm mistaken.

I wouldn't imagine there to be a single individual under about 23 years old using this site

The Scotland team for the Maori All Blacks game has a lot of senior names missing. Obviously they could just be cotton wooling them for the fixtures which may have an impact on World Cup Seeding, and none of them would really be in line for test selection over the current players, but...

NZ probably follows the current format: 1 Exhibition outside NZ, 6 tour games in NZ, 3 tests. You can't really make too many further changes compromising the opponents you play (i.e. 5 Provincial Sides + a high quality rep team) or your preparation: e.g. playing the Wednesday game before first...

It'll be interesting to see if there's a bit of a shift back to established connections in places like the Front Row and centers now that Farrell has had a chance to see most of the alternates on the pitch.

I've got little doubt wherever stupid ideas occur the fund will be sniffing around, but there's a pretty massive difference between maybe contributing a team or a sponsorship and a complete sportswashing "takeover" like they did with LIV Golf, or they seem to planning to do with the ATP/WTA, or...