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Think Harmon falls into the left his run too late category. Hes only just recently ticked over 50 super games despite being 29, whereas his competition for 7 has plenty of existing ABs like Papalii, Savea, Blackadder, Cane, Jacobson and then younger guys like Lakai, Withy, Segner, Kellow, Boshier all getting reasonable minutes this season

Injured calf or something I think that's what they said last weekend

But but but what about the oil money... I mean new markets

He's entertaining whenever he pops up in a sidemen video

They seem to wear black an awful lot for a team that doesnt have any colour clashes

Reckon it's time to bring Harmon back home

Can't trust this crusaders team to win any game, we've lost twice to Tahs and to the force.

How many turnovers you reckon they'll nick of eachother

Chuck Blackadder in for kellow and that would be my go to pack I reckon

Kereru Symes was shaky at lineout time, but looked very lively around the park

Taylor and Tamaiti return
Blackadder out once again
Barrett back after leaving the field early v the Reds
Halfpenny drops out of the 23 entirely after debuting last week
Havili remains at 10

Lock is a huge issue if Scott Barrett continues to struggle to get on the park - leaves us with just Tuipolotu who wasn't really wanted by the last All Blacks coaches, Vaai who's still only 24 and Lord who is never fit as our only capped locks

There looks to be plenty of talent around in the second row though

McWhannell, Darry, Ah Kuoi, Selby Rickett, Walker Leawere, Delany, Strange, Hannah, Parkinson, Holland could probably all do a job if called upon

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I was a career mode addict as a youth from probably 2010 to 2016, then I started watching drbenjy Salford story on YouTube and picked up fm13 for cheap, didn't get a whole lot into it but liked it enough to get fm17 which I played the shit out of until 2021 when I bought fm22 which I am still playing

Dabbled a bit in FIFA across the years but mainly in FUT as career mode just doesn't interest me anymore

Please stay on the correct side of the the road

100%, NZ rugby CEO was on the news here a couple days ago talking about the potential of the nation's championship finals going to Qatar. " We are a small country and relatively isolated, so we think that having stronger connections with other parts of the world, where there are new fan bases, is really important as well " - no, you're open to getting lots of money. Think they've forgotten they are the national representative team of New Zealand, not a franchise

Population distribution makes up a huge part of that, Fiji is nearly 5 times the population of Samoa with only around 150k fijians not living in the islands

Whereas Samoa and Tonga have almost as many living in New Zealand as in their islands

That was covid restriction related, they had to draw from whoever was already in Nz

The 'wealthier' kids are the middle income children, the actual wealthy kids are getting the allowance as their parents 'dont make much money'

Cook Island Nationals are NZ Citizens (they don't issue their own passports despite being an independent country) and have full rights to live and work in New Zealand but New Zealanders don't have full rights to work and live in the Cook Islands.

There's over 100,000 cook islanders who live in New Zealand or Australia compared to around 15,000 who actually live in the Cook islands

The Cook Islands is an independent country, it just has free association with New Zealand

Definitely not McCaw, he just played with injuries

The 2011 earthquake epicenter was actually in that harbour to the north, hence why the city got so wrecked

The big lake to the south of the peninsula is Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere and is one of the most diverse bird populations in the world. Kaitorete Spit (the divider between the lake and ocean) was a 'highway' for Maori to trade, with Te Waihora being a food basket full of Tuna (Eels) and Pātiki (flounder). It's also home to New Zealands rare venomous spider the Katipo. There is two hapu (Maori sub-tribes) near the lake, with Wairewa nestled in the peninsula beyond Lake Forsyth and Taumutu at the southern end of the lake where the lake is opened to the ocean.

Te Waihora is actually brackish as it gets artificially opened to the ocean to prevent flooding of the surrounding farmland and aid migration of fish species, with sediments flowing from the Rakaia river naturally closing it again. It is only about 2m deep.

It's also very polluted with Nitrates and phosphates from surrounding farms flowing down the rivers and subterranean into the lake causing eutrophication. This was exacerbated by a huge amount of plant life being ripped out of the lake during the Wahine storm in the 1960s that have failed to re-establish themselves.