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[Scout @GGreer1001]

I hear the Magpies of Collingwood are sick of clarifying that they are not the Magpies of Hawkes Bay (and visa versa) and the confusion is killing them both. Same colours too. The market is just so dumb, they can't seem to grasp the difference ... FFS.
These are all examples that will be put before the Court along with many more. The NZR is going to have to convince a High Court judge that the consumer is going to get these two organisations, the Chiefs from Papua New Guinea competing in the Australian based NRL competition and the [Gallagher] Chiefs from Waikato in the Super Rugby competition, confused. [Bugger; I turned up to the wrong game again]. And the risk of having this scrap and the NZR being unsuccessful in either the interim or permanent injunction application is millions of dollars in damages. A very brave NZR board.

[Scout @GGreer1001]

NZR don’t have to do it. They must consider, on a cost benefit analysis, that seeking an injunction is worth it.
They will have more information to move forward on than the general public of course. In the NZR favour, in addition to the trademark registration, is the fact that they engaged with the NRL a year ago (it seems) when the PNG announcement was first made. So this isn’t a last minute action. Perhaps they can extract a cash settlement from the NRL in return for waiving any enforcement rights. But litigation of this nature is extremely expensive and you would have to have a slamdunk case (which they may well do, particularly in a NZ jurisdiction) coz if you lose, you also have all the NRLs costs to bear. You’re talking millions. This is a play not for the faint hearted.

[Scout @GGreer1001]

Yes. Anyone interested in the importance of ‘the fan’s’ perspective when seeking to increase the audience should listen to the interview of Peter V’Landys with Mark Bouris in August. A fascinating insight into the growth of the NRL and the importance of the product from the fan’s side of the aisle.

[Scout @GGreer1001]

Someone should do an in-depth study on why crowd attendance and support for rugby has fallen so significantly in New Zealand, bucking the trend of other professional sports worldwide, including rugby, which have seen crowds maintained or mostly grown . New Zealand is a real outlier in this space. I cannot think of any other sport that has had such a huge loss of support, particularly in such a relatively short space of time, given the heady crowd numbers of the early to mid 2000s. There is a PhD paper in it? Genuinely how did it happen? How did the organisation, the NZR, charged with maintaining and promoting the game of rugby in NZ apparently drop the ball to such an extent. It had the crowd numbers. Support was huge. It was there. Genuine passion and interest And they lost it, both in attendance and broadcast numbers. Quite incredible when you think about it.

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But did that money, that extra $97.8 billion of spending go to building real assets for the country? New schools, new hospitals, new bridges, new roads, new transport systems etc? It must’ve gone somewhere. We, the people who paid for it and are paying for it, must have received or acquired something meaningful to show in return for the almost $100,000,000,000.

[Scout @GGreer1001]

@matt_horncastle Now do rates.

[Scout @GGreer1001]

@matt_horncastle Great work. Just keep turning up. Run Harry Ell. Slow up - fly down.

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@ThoNg676733 Sting⭐❤️

[Scout @GGreer1001]

On any objective analysis, Cleary was underwhelming in the Ashes series. Absolute daylight between him and Munster for example. Not knocking Cleary, he did little wrong, and will never know, as no parallel universe to test it, but Moses (or Deardon) would’ve added considerably more spark in my humble opinion. And spark is what’s required in that position. But Cleary will go back to the Panthers machine and no doubt perform superbly next season…. and so it goes.

[Scout @GGreer1001]

“ …I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about … “
“Oh, thank God you’re here” said Sweeney. “I’ve been waiting for a chance to speak on the subject for so long but I have no presence on social media and few followers. So it’s so nice to hear that you wanted to give me the opportunity to speak.”
FFS! The conceit of the interviewer.

[Scout @GGreer1001]

As Frost himself said late in life, this is his most misinterpreted poem and encouraged people to re-read.
The thing is, the two paths are the same. No difference. But the narrator credits himself for his success in life by choosing the one less traveled. But neither had been traveled. “Both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black…”
And his reflection is done with an almost pompous tone “telling this with a sigh”. A sigh. And “… I - I took the one less travelled….” Two I’s. And use of the word “Hence”.
The older I get, the better I was….

[Scout @GGreer1001]

A pretty damn good peace of poetry IMHO. She was married to James K Baxter, who also knew a thing or two about poetry. As a Maori, and quite extraordinary woman, she clearly saw her heritage disappearing some 80 years ago when she wrote it. Fair enough. The white heritage that swamped her culture may itself be swamped by recent trends in immigration. And so it goes.

[Scout @GGreer1001]

@averagehiker Very cool. Nature at work.

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@averagehiker That’s hiking right there! Beautiful. A great space to start off again from to resume the odyssey. You’ll be back.

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@averagehiker Looked like it just got better and better with each passing week. You’ll be back. All the very best!

[Scout @GGreer1001]

@averagehiker Go you!! I look forward to the updates.

[Scout @GGreer1001]

@averagehiker All the very best! You’re an inspiration. Starting in New Mexico I assume. Is your intention to do the whole thing in one bite or do it in stages with time back home in between?