Super Rugby AU Grand Final - Reds v Brumbies - Saturday 8th May 2021

[Purce]

In the immortal words of the Baron- RED RED RED! RED!

Uppa QLD! Heading for pre game festivities now, hoping for the same outcome as the last Reds final I went to!

 

[Wilson]

Pretty standard for basically an extra 'bench' to warm up.

It is, but he was named in the bond side, so it seemed like he was pulled late. Different for some of the other fringe players as well - Sorovi just played a full game for Wests.

 

[TSR]

Its always been thus.

Media propaganda is nothing new, but there are massive differences between the way media conducts itself now and how it did 20 years ago.

 

[upthereds#!]

It is, but he was named in the bond side, so it seemed like he was pulled late. Different for some of the other fringe players as well - Sorovi just played a full game for Wests.

Hmmmmm well well maybe there has been a niggle at the captains run. Guess we will find out!

 

[Brumbieman]

Media propaganda is nothing new, but there are massive differences between the way media conducts itself now and how it did 20 years ago.

Not really - the internet has been the modern day equivalent to the Gutenberg printing press. 20 years ago, all media was owned and controlled, Lock Stock and Barrell. The internet has created an open season/cage fight for the distribution of information.

The printing press did the same thing, and it broke the Church/Monarchies monopoly on the control of ideas.

It simultaneously allows for forbidden ideas to be spread around the world with ease, but also the propagation of utter bullshit.

There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

 

[dru]

42,000!

 

[Adam84]

Massive lines

 

[Up the Guts]

Not sure about leaving Daugunu out of the starting side. Reds backline looks like it lacks a little bit of strike power.

 

[dru]

Not sure about leaving Daugunu out of the starting side. Reds backline looks like it lacks a little bit of strike power.

In Brad we trust. Or perhaps Jim.
They'll be fine.

 

[Brumbieman]

Alright, lets go!

 

[dru]

Excellent Welcome to Country

 

[dru]

Was it Lonergon just bundled Tupou out the road like a rag doll?

 

[A mutterer]

JOC (James O'Connor) with the early settler! go the red!

 

[Up the Guts]

BPA the definition of not supporting your weight.

 

[Pokinacha]

Good to see Banks has greased up his legs as usual...

 

[A mutterer]

yeah banks took a couple of steps to the right in that 'standing his ground'

 

[Dismal Pillock]

Bumbreeze back with the manbun should be carded just because manbun.

 

[dru]

The reffing has been spot on.

 

[dru]

Nice work Brumbies

 

[Up the Guts]

Tom Wright’s a genius with the smallest bit of space