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JustPlodded

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  1. It was my fault folks…
    I have been making good money off anyone playing the Warriors this last decade and made the fatal mistake of putting $$$ on the Warriors this week. 
    I won’t fall for that one again in the next decade !

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  2. Spot on Alan.
    Labour and the other activists had everything in place and forgot only one important thing… the silent majority.
    They found out on election day!
    TVNZ and Newshub are finding out via advertising revenue.

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  3. We used to watch the 6 o’clock news every night since… forever. 
    I can’t remember the actual night, I think it was sometime in one of the covid lockdowns, that I said to my wife “why are we watching this rubbish”.
    We switched to Newshub for a couple of days. Same message, different reporters.
    Then no more news at 6.
    I will watch it one more time in the future, the night Simon Dallow announces their final news broadcast, in Te Reo of course.

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  4. 11 hours ago, Hesi said:

    From Newroom June 2022

    The two-year refurbishment of the Ellerslie Racecourse has bought Avondale Racecourse some respite, but its thoroughbred racing licence comes to an end in 2025/26. At that point, all bets are off. Newsroom has learned that the owners, the Avondale Jockey Club and their national body NZ Thoroughbred Racing, are already in commercial talks to turn over much of the valuable 30 hectare property to housing.

    NZ Thoroughbred Racing chief executive Bruce Sharrock wouldn’t reveal much. “Given what’s going on in that part of Auckland, and Auckland in general, it’d be pretty foolish to think it would be anything but housing,” he tells Newsroom. 

    “I would suggest it’s an extremely valuable piece of land. There are discussions underway, there is a plan in place, but it is commercially sensitive.”

    Sad isn’t it. For the best part of a century Avondale racecourse was covered in sports fields (11x rugby fields from memory) with thousands using it every week and other sports like touch football in the evenings. Now it looks destined to be a sea of low cost townhouses crammed together in an otherwise nothing suburb. Progress ??

  5. 5 minutes ago, Maximus said:

    Max felt the jersey didnt fit at all well after just 1 race, so handed it to He Who Just Plods ..n'est ce pas?

    MM

    non non monsieur !

    I have a miss already. So you got le outfit 😉

  6. 2 minutes ago, PWJ said:

    LB cracks on past Geoff

    A thesaurus is needed by PJ. Anyone living near him rush it over please.

    In the last couple of days we have had …
    “Geoff rolled by Rees.”
    “LB cracks on past Geoff.”
    Where the terms “edges past” and “squeaks by” would have been perfectly adequate 🤔
     

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  7. 24 minutes ago, Howard Atkinson said:

    I was a 100m/200m sort of 400m runner, not a 800m/1500m sort of 400m runner . . .

    Try being a 50m/100m sort of 400m runner and you go to your older brother for advice on running your first 400m race…
    ”Just go hard as you can all the way” ! 
    Suffice to say the last 50m of my first (and last) 400m race was not pretty! 😬

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  8. 50 minutes ago, richie said:

    Motukarara trots😉😉

    18 horse fields, all of 25-0-0-0 form, on grass?
    Sounds like a challenge only harness fans could dream up.

    PJ will probably throw in more from Outer Mongolia… or was that Tasmania ? 
    What could possibly go wrong?

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