Rhys Gower

Wallabies, Qld Reds, College Pigskin, PJ, Hills with snowy bits on top.

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@brumby_fan But #rugbyunity 🤷‍♂️😂

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That entire 80 minutes was quite the referring performance. Mindboggling.

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That’s a solid win by @redsrugby …. Lineout not great but lots to like. Loving the beast-mode from LSL this year.

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@waratahjesus Hamish McLennan has obviously got your passcode and stolen your phone

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Ricky Stuart is going to have a complete meltdown after that Broncs win and it’s gonna be delightful to watch.

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Jeez that’s a brutal ending, Fraser will be kicking himself.

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Tasty last 15 or so from the Reds. The pigs stepped it up big time … excellent grunt work 👌

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HJH plays way too lateral. He’s gotta start straightening his outside backs up.

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@brumby_fan @fictillius This is clearly Brisbane. Otherwise known as the Paris of the South Pacific.

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@HuwTindall @steve_l15 Henceforth, we shall refer to the great man as Champ Kindinui.

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This is worth the read.

[Barry Rosen @brosen1501]

I was thirty-something years old when Iranian students dragged me into a room and told me I wasn't going anywhere. Four hundred and forty-four days later, I walked out. I've spent the decades since trying to make sense of what happened — and what keeps happening — between our two countries.
So don't talk to me about Iran like it's an abstraction. I lived inside that confrontation. I felt it.
Which is why I'm not ready to write off this ceasefire, even though everything about it is maddening.
Negotiations in Pakistan may produce nothing. The talks could collapse before they get started. I've seen American diplomacy with Iran fail more times than I can count, and usually for the same reasons — too much pride, too little patience, and Israel holding a match in the corner of the room.
But here's what I know in my bones: another war won't break Iran. We just tried. It didn't work. Iran doesn't break — it absorbs, it adapts, and it waits. I watched that stubbornness up close for 444 days.
What bothers me most isn't that Iran is winning this moment — it's that we handed it to them. Tehran's framework is running these negotiations. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Still collecting tolls. Trump looked at their proposal and called it workable. I never thought I'd see the day, but here we are.
Iran wants everything on the table — sanctions, enrichment rights, American troops out, and a deal that covers what's happening in Lebanon and Gaza too. That's a lot to swallow. And Israel, which wasn't invited to this conversation, is already making clear it has no intention of being constrained by it.
That's the part that worries me the most. Because if Israel keeps bombing and Washington can't or won't stop it, none of this holds.
And yet — and I say this as someone who has every reason to distrust Tehran — I don't think we go back to all-out war. Not because anyone has suddenly gotten wise, but because the math doesn't work. A second round ends the same way. Iran still controls the Strait. The global economy still flinches when Tehran flexes.
What we're heading toward isn't peace. It's something smaller and more precarious — two countries silently agreeing not to destroy each other today, with no paperwork and no guarantees.
I know what it's like to survive on something that fragile. For 444 days, that's all I had.

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@RugbyReg Wilso must be up there with all-time try assists too 🤣

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@SVG__Collection Telegraph Road. Dire Straits.

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@Howdog @BruceMundell

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@JWDrennan @UlsterRugby Could be his name?

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This should be a reminder to us all as to why Australia is bloody ace 👌

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

During the 2001 Australian Federal election, pranksters followed around Prime Ministerial contender Kim Beazley in an attempt to sneak fake microphones into his interviews just for the fun of it

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@RugbyReg @brumby_fan Bloody Nudgee 🤬

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@Correct_Q @jaketapper @jmclghln It’s 💯 both. Any researcher or statistician will tell you that the make-up of the sample and the framing of the question have a massive say in the “results”.

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@HuwTindall @AreRohitBhai 💯

Shitloads of people even say thanks when getting on a bus, like in a “thanks for stopping the bus at the stop for the bus so we can get on the bus” type of way. #manners

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@RicFinlay Same seems to happen with interest rates getting passed on. Rates go down and it’s at least a month before the punters see that, rates go up and nek minit ….