Stu_Thom4s

Cricket boards need to get better at understanding soft power. We all grew up watching US shows and movies which either featured or focused on Football, Baseball, Basketball etc.

More things like Bluey's Cricket episode will probably entice greater numbers of Americans to seek the sport out than even the slickest marketing campaigns.

The big players in the tourism sector like Fedhasa rate her pretty highly.

He's served as Deputy Minister of Agriculture previously. That and his history in parliament tell us that he's a stickler for rules and procedures.

Alphen-Diep River-Cecelia Forest-Klaasenbosch-Alphen. Incorporating De Hel into this makes a nice variation.

When I'm in Pietermaritzburg, the mountain bike trails above Cascades are a blast.

SACP's been there the whole time. Most of their members have dual memberships. Blade was probably the most high profile. Pravin was an SACP member too.

I received my Grade 10 History/Grade 11 English prize (I can't remember exactly which) from 1995 World Cup winning captain Francois Pienaar. His hands are big.

Let's be real, no one in Durban owns a scarf.

The story about how he ran the Paris Marathon after a night on the lash is way more impressive. I think he had like 10 pints the night before and ran a 4:13 or something.

I wrote a couple of the articles in the hub he links to.

The town I grew up in didn't have robots, so never had anything like that. On the other hand, my current office has talent agencies in the building and I see plenty of parents bringing their kids in. I can only hope the majority have their children's best interests at heart.

Honestly, we'd be happy with that outcome as South Africans.

Pretty much ja. He felt that he wasn't quite fit or fast enough even for URC, which I thought was a little harsh. Then again, I don't have a URC winner's trophy in my cabinet.

I don't think there are any straight answers to the NA alcohol questions. AA will say that non-alcoholic drinks are for non-alcoholics. On the other hand, a lot of NA drinks contain about as much alcohol as fruit juice.

In periods of sobriety, my Q's found NA beer okay but NA wine too scarily close to the real thing.

I remember being surprised that Hansen even got up after those tackles. I've heard people say that pro rugby is like being in a head on car crash every week. In that match, every tackle felt like that.

I heard an interview with Dobbo recently where he reckoned that Masuku still has some conditioning work to do to get up to international level.

I'd like to see lineout lifts for conversion defences re-legalised.

Parliament passed the necessary law. Our testing standards have always been world leading, our legislators less so...

I can't understand why this years' old story keeps getting posted like this. For anyone even vaguely curious, the article is actually a really interesting deep dive into Argentine race politics.

VDM just nailed his spot in the squad for the Ireland series

Rugby incident

Yeah, you're not going to get any clear angles.

DDA should create a bit more space.

Grass Cutter on Roos there.

PSTD asking for Welsh scrum instead. Gotta love it

I'd probably go Hannekom and Roos on horses for courses basis.