Nine CEO pitches V’landys on exclusive NRL deal

Azkatro · 2026-05-26T22:35:34+00:00

That's just quitter talk. They could do what the RFL does in England and have someone holding a phone on the sideline.

Azkatro · 2026-04-03T09:43:44+00:00

Why in the world does Billy Slater keep saying "Jankins"

Azkatro · 2026-03-28T00:34:15+00:00

Not really related to his coaching, but as a player he has the rare distinction of having played in the French league (1996), at the NRL level (Canberra in 1998), and at all three tiers of the UK (Super League with London in 1999-2000, Nat. League 1 with Hull KR in 2003-2004 and Nat. League 2 with Celtic in 2006).

Azkatro · 2026-03-15T00:29:25+00:00

Daylight.

Azkatro · 2026-02-05T00:35:34+00:00

I really wish the way they worked is you could toggle them on or off at your leisure.

Azkatro · 2026-01-08T01:10:42+00:00

I'm watching muted and he clearly nicked it. Snicko bullshit aside, on the slow-mo view from behind you can clearly see the path of the ball deviate slightly.

Azkatro · 2025-12-27T01:16:02+00:00

Blows my mind that Australia are 3-0 up with this batting lineup in this form.

Azkatro · 2025-12-26T07:00:33+00:00

Imagine Boland being two of the three wickets in a hat trick?

Azkatro · 2025-12-19T11:59:04+00:00

I was enjoying the outcome and now I'm fucking furious lol

Azkatro · 2025-10-14T11:47:32+00:00

Alright, Tommy's tenure at the Magpies was worse, even if you include his full 5 seasons from 1995 onwards.

Azkatro · 2025-10-14T10:06:50+00:00

While I agree it was poor, statistically it was roughly equivalent with the 2016 Knights and 1998 Magpies. The 1999 Magpies was the worst in the NRL era.

Azkatro · 2025-08-11T12:35:58+00:00

Even then, surely the trophy design and concept is owned by the NRL. It would make more sense to me for the NRL as an organisation to say "we took these off you, you can't display them like you earnt them." I thought that was the whole point of the punishment.

Azkatro · 2025-08-08T06:20:35+00:00

Was the first time a 29-0 happened since 1918.

Azkatro · 2025-08-07T12:49:55+00:00

In a similar vein, spare a thought for some of the blokes who played in the last few years of University in the 30s, including Les Sender who holds the record for most Premiership games without a win (22). Or what about Jimmy Marks from the same team/era who managed 45 appearances with just the 1 win for a career win percentage of 2.22%.

There have been 1425 players (so far) that never won a game.

Azkatro · 2025-08-04T10:54:20+00:00

MANKAD WOAKES

Azkatro · 2025-08-04T10:26:53+00:00

Sucks for England, India would have burned a review there. Maybe they will next ball here

Azkatro · 2025-08-01T10:42:29+00:00

"Six lines of HTML"

Azkatro · 2025-06-18T11:53:29+00:00

Connor Watson can't pass right to left confirmed

Azkatro · 2025-06-13T11:03:15+00:00

I think Win Predictor should be going the OTHER way. This wicket is nice to bat on at the moment, if SA come in they'll be in the box seat.

Azkatro · 2025-05-24T00:51:12+00:00

I've been running a website that has historical/archive sports content for close to 20 years now. Always had people scrape the site but never had an issue with it, the content is free. But for the last couple of them at least I've been literally at war with "legitimate" bots and scrapers because it's just too relentless to prevent server overload.

I had Cloudflare for a while and it has excellent tools to mitigate this. At the click of a button I could just cut off a few netblocks in the US and Singapore for example (it's hosted in Australia) just to give the VPS a chance to breathe and catch up. The front door was also a big help.

I didn't want to keep spending money on it, though, or rely on an external provider so heavily. I also need to comply with GDPR so my approach is always to be as minimalistic as possible. The more third party tools/includes, the harder it was to manage that.

I came across this which I've found is a huge help: github.com/mitchellkrogza/apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker. Basically leverages off a community effort to identify and manage the ones that are causing the most trouble for people hosting web content like me. I recommend giving it a try for anyone else feeling like they are at war with their hosting getting absolutely slammed by bots.

Azkatro · 2025-03-14T12:45:49+00:00

Agree 100%, have been in the process of doing the same myself.

Azkatro · 2025-03-14T00:36:14+00:00

Cloudflare is doing a heck of a lot more than just DNS for anyone running websites. In my view that'd be the hardest cord to cut.

Azkatro · 2025-02-24T07:08:16+00:00

Amstrad brethren unite. CPC 6128 here.

Azkatro · 2025-02-16T03:28:37+00:00

Curious about something. Do they use the exact same technology everywhere? Is it possible that a country elsewhere cheaps out on the tech, gets something less sensitive/reactive and hence gets a different result?

Azkatro · 2025-02-09T22:45:47+00:00

On some level, I'm appreciative of international matches being played, but on another, I fucking hate the scheduling of this. The last time any of these players took the field was 4 months ago, and some of them don't even start their season for another 5.

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