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Or Sonny Colbrelli

Tom Dumoulin

Ah Man. So very sad to read this. Go well bru. Kevin , my condolences to you and your family.

I know we mostly a bunch of strangers , Kevin, but sending all the support and love possible to you and your family as you deal with this.

Hang in Barry. Strongs bud, 2 weeks done and dusted.

OK, so we actually can play rugby properly in this great land. Hope you were watching Alistair. Lions picking up where they left off last year. When Elton playing in these patterns he's got some quite sublime skills

And that's how you score a try to win the game. Cracker Sharks. So good to see enterprising rugby. Not many sides won from 15- 3 in Canberra before. #patricklambiemachine

Hang in bru . We all rooting for you Barry

Eish, Sharks looking fit this year. Hope results match that.

STRETCH Eish bru. Ignoring your for example story, how can you even DREAM of having Sharks in B div while Shebeen's Stormers are in the A. Focus dude.

Eish, Barry. All the very best to you brother. Hang in

Global impossible. Just too many teams and different conditions. SH Tournament on the face of it a good idea. Just need to be competitive across all divisions and groups. If only we had the bucks to bring a few NH stars here for SuperRugby. Or even kept our own. Would be a different game

Wait till we start winning again and playing properly. That's when it gets exciting. No fun when we ( all our teams bar Lions in past few years ) playing ***. I'm optimistic for this year. Looking forward to it starting next week. Getting boring belting everyone in the cricket. Rugby at least a fair fight. WRT cricket, at least we know what All Black supporters feel like now

RIP Dan. Always a respected player. Really sad.

Pointless that thing biting me. Heart would have stopped looong before it got a chance

Can't you bunny hop?

I've got the new Nespresso version, stand alone with 4 different froth settings. It's fantastic, works cracker and can clean it in the dishwasher when necessary

Photochromic lens technology and polarization don't go together. They are separate techs and you pick one or the other, depending on application. Agree with post above from doc, stick with photochromic lenses for MTB riding.

Ah man , that was beautiful. Davie well played bru. So chuffed for you and well deserved. The place went berserk when Andile slapped one into castle corner to set it up. Sweet as

Cadence, feel your pain brother. Picked up my new Stage 7 weeks ago, hour into its first ride, I binned it really hard, complex clavicle fracture and 6 ribs. So got a brand new machine that's just sitting irritating my wife at home.

Yeah, not sure how all our sides get up to the point we all believe they should be at. Don't think there's any one single reason for our kakness. The players generally play their hearts out, they seem fit, just get hammered when up against better sides. The consistent stream of our players to other leagues world over can't help. Early doors, it was just the chaps nearing end of their careers who went for a season or 2, but now the lads go straight from school in some cases. I have no issue with those decisions, rugby players are like any other profession world over who migrate to find perceived better employment or opportunity. It is what it is. The leagues with the most bucks will remain the strongest. However that dilutes our base here at home, and the loss of experience and talent each season just leave a hole that can't be filled. I don't know the solution. Either increase the team numbers to increase the player pool, and accept for a while standards will be more ***, or drop the number of franchises and concentrate the talent that you have. But we have to maybe swallow hard for a while and accept that we ain't top dogs anymore. I have spent my rugby life knowing that we could win any game at will, and each loss was just a blip in the radar, but our class would always shine through. Maybe not so much anymore and that's what makes us sad. And indifferent.

True story. But not just scoreless. Clueless, helpless , luckless and aimless as well.

After the Sharks dismal showing this morning, I thought it won't get worse . I was wrong

Nooo. I love a Pyga as much as the next fella, but there is NOTHING that beats a caravan holiday with your mates and your family. That first beer around the newly lit campfire , still in your riding kit from the ride you just got back from is the finest thing you will ever taste. There's a reason they hold their value

@ Captain/ Iwan, take an average stage race in SA ( W2W/ Sani / J2C) as your benchmark. Assuming you could pick any model you liked from this new range , would you pick the RC or the Spark ? Again assuming you racing?