NPR

Taranaki Snapper wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:16 am Do you like apples?

mrbrownstone wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:36 am Bugger. Tough season for Canterbury - third one point loss, and second after the full time hooter. I question the decision to take Drummond and Burke off with 20 to go in a tight game. All went to shit after that.

mrbrownstone wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:36 am Bugger. Tough season for Canterbury - third one point loss, and second after the full time hooter. I question the decision to take Drummond and Burke off with 20 to go in a tight game. All went to shit after that.

Carter's Choice wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:44 am

mrbrownstone wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:36 am Bugger. Tough season for Canterbury - third one point loss, and second after the full time hooter. I question the decision to take Drummond and Burke off with 20 to go in a tight game. All went to shit after that.

We had possession, albeit on our own goal line, with 70 seconds to go. Enari kicked the ball away and we never touched it again, evetually losing the match 9 minutes later. Why didn't we ruck it out 2 or 3 more times and close out the game? That was so un-Canterbury like.

Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:49 am Why does Canterbury insist on taking off a class halfback like Drummond at the 60 minute mark so often?

They have lost a number of crucial games partly due to subbing in a clearly inferior 9 at crunch time.

It makes no sense.

mrbrownstone wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:54 am

Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:49 am Why does Canterbury insist on taking off a class halfback like Drummond at the 60 minute mark so often?

They have lost a number of crucial games partly due to subbing in a clearly inferior 9 at crunch time.

It makes no sense.

It's driving me insane. Probably cost us two wins this year. Enari is a good player but I don't think he has the maturity yet to close out a tight game like this as well as Drummond can.

Enzedder wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 4:53 am Just as well the All Blacks won - the Cantab National Party supporters would be suicidal otherwise.

Mr Bungle wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:05 am Some old All Black and provincial battlers playing in the Blair Vining tribute game kicking off shortly live on Sky.

Jb1981 wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:58 am

mrbrownstone wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:54 am

Jimmy Smallsteps wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 2:49 am Why does Canterbury insist on taking off a class halfback like Drummond at the 60 minute mark so often?

They have lost a number of crucial games partly due to subbing in a clearly inferior 9 at crunch time.

It makes no sense.

It's driving me insane. Probably cost us two wins this year. Enari is a good player but I don't think he has the maturity yet to close out a tight game like this as well as Drummond can.

Formulaic coaching - you swap your halfback after an hour. Is it a coaching maturity issue with Thorne not being prepared to move away from the status quo? It’s frustrating.

Turbster wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:50 am

Mr Bungle wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:05 am Some old All Black and provincial battlers playing in the Blair Vining tribute game kicking off shortly live on Sky.

How did that vets game go Bungle?

Mr Bungle wrote: Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:20 am

Turbster wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:50 am

Mr Bungle wrote: Sat Oct 17, 2020 3:05 am Some old All Black and provincial battlers playing in the Blair Vining tribute game kicking off shortly live on Sky.

How did that vets game go Bungle?

A good laugh and a good turnout. Here’s a link to some footage of the day. Alatini still got those twinkle toes.

https://www.facebook.com/56918111914/p ... 128351915/

Turbster wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:18 am

Mr Bungle wrote: Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:20 am

Turbster wrote: Sun Oct 18, 2020 6:50 am
How did that vets game go Bungle?

A good laugh and a good turnout. Here’s a link to some footage of the day. Alatini still got those twinkle toes.

https://www.facebook.com/56918111914/p ... 128351915/

Thanks heaps.

Monk wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:32 am apropos of absolutely nothing.

I was reminded of the times - was it in the early 80's? - when new zealand rugby crowds consisted exclusively of men wearing plaid lumberjack-type jackets.

was it a particular brand?

bring them back!

When William Broome, a New Plymouth menswear retailer, invented the Swanndri® bush shirt near the end of the nineteenth century, he couldn’t have foretold that it would become a kiwi icon. It has been featured on a postage stamp, and is such a loved item in many people’s wardrobes that Te Papa launched a nationwide competition inviting people to send in their favourite Swanndri® stories. Te Papa staff were amazed by the number of people who referred to their Swanndri® bush shirts as ‘Old Faithful’!

The winners of the competition were Ron Mitchell and D J Miller.

The Swanndri® business all started when Broome designed a short-sleeved woollen overshirt and immersed it in a special (and to this day, secret) waterproofing formula. He patented his invention on 23 December 1913, and devised the now famous Swanndri® logo – a swan in a circle. He had his shirts manufactured at the Bruce Woollen Mill in Milton, Southland.

These garments were quickly adopted by outdoor workers like hunters and farmers, and became renowned for their warmth and waterproof qualities in all weathers.

In 1927, a tailor named John McKendrick added a hood, a laced front, and long sleeves to the original design, creating the olive green 103, the Swanndri® bush shirt as we know it today. McKendrick’s firm – Jack Mack Limited – began to produce the Swanndri® bush shirt, and pay royalties to the Broome family.

In September 1964, Jack Mack Limited bought the rights to the Swanndri® trademark. In 1974 the company name changed to John Mack Limited then, on 12 March 1975, they were bought out by Alliance Textiles Limited in Oamaru. As the new owners of the patent for the Swanndri®, Alliance Textiles developed the wide range of Swanndri® garments that are available today.

The Swanndri® is now a unisex garment, worn by everyone from farmhands to holidaying yuppies. It is still made of New Zealand wool, shrunk in a special process to increase its moisture and wind resistance. Together with jandals and togs, the bush shirt is one of the great Kiwi ‘uniforms’, symbolising our love of outdoor life.

Text originally published in Tai Awatea, Te Papa's onfloor multimedia database (1998).

Kiwias wrote: Sun Oct 04, 2020 12:35 am

Trapper wrote: Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:58 pm My memory is fading but didn’t Hewson wear gloves and pantyhose to protect against the cold at one stage?

Seems to ring a bell, but that may well be just my dislike for him showing through.

Kiwias wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2020 1:18 am Canterbury are not looking very settled at all. None of the players seem to have any idea of what the others are doing. I am a long way from being sold on Prinsep as a captain.