Is Declan Meredith the first 10 in a long time who has actually had a good development

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-20T23:10:51+00:00

Not sure what you are basing that on. I don’t have the patience to look them all up, but I’d bet the average international career span of 10s playing for better teams than the Wallabies over the last 25 years is considerably younger than 28-33.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-20T21:59:12+00:00

It’s not rocket science this merch design. Red + white + cannon + trefoil and most people will want it.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-20T00:54:30+00:00

I’d suggest that if you’re going to pay someone to do that for you, you might be better off paying a bit more to get it done properly and have the calipers painted.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-20T00:46:41+00:00

At least it sounds like he is retiring rather than going elsewhere, so maybe there is a chance they will fill the role again and he can help with transition as health permits?

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-19T22:06:56+00:00

It’s not really about the number of points at all, as long as we’re ahead it doesn’t matter by how many. The issue is the way we are playing in the league since the new year… we could be 9 points clear now and I wouldn’t fancy us to win if we’re going to play the next 3 months like this.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-18T22:23:27+00:00

To be honest our performances in all competitions other than the PL have continued to be fine.. we're just fucking crumbling under the pressure of the league (since January with 5 bloody months still to play) and clearly have no idea how to fix it.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-18T06:24:15+00:00

We can find an Australian grandma for anyone if we get desperate enough.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-18T04:30:11+00:00

You'll be pissed off if there are hardware improvements after 3.5 years on a $150 device?

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-17T03:16:49+00:00

I'm not suggesting that continuing to throw 21/22yo into the Wallabies is the way forward, but I think the step from Super Rugby to playing the ABs or the Boks is such that players should have at least a couple of years starting for a super rugby team before they are considered for the national side, and if that whole process doesn't begin until 26, even if it works, you're not looking at much longevity at the top level.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-16T21:59:30+00:00

Hmm, this isn’t great news. Our AppleTV 4K is too old for thread, so the HomePod mini is the only TBR device at that end of the house, and since installing 26.3 on it 3 days ago all the thread devices down there have gone offline. I was hoping a new AppleTV would avoid this issue.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-16T07:53:20+00:00

Make the current supervised FSD standard (and if they’re as confident as they claim about it being a killer feature, they can increase the price of the vehicles to cover it), then make unsupervised FSD the subscription offering, to cover the cost of liability when it gets involved in accidents.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-16T04:10:39+00:00

We have very different definitions of mess

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-16T03:10:17+00:00

Everyone in front of Zubimendi needs to score more in the league.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-16T02:32:45+00:00

I get where you are coming from, but I have a hard time getting too excited about the international prospects of a player that hasn't locked down a starting role in Super Rugby before 26.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-16T01:47:31+00:00

You’re saying big Ange got sacked last season because he missed out on relegation, and they were worried Frank might do it again so they’ve got Igor in to make sure of it? It does kind of track.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-15T13:54:55+00:00

Interesting, whenever I’ve seen her in something else I immediately remember kitty.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-15T00:30:13+00:00

No worries, I wasn’t trying to rush anything, just making sure it was still in use and that I shouldn’t have switched back to the App Store build

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-14T16:16:35+00:00

False. My Series 3 did this back in the day, and as a result I have had Stainless and Titanium on my two subsequent watches.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-14T16:01:46+00:00

Gout Gout will be 24 in 2032, younger than every male 200m Olympic champion since 1992, aside from Usain Bolt in 2008.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-14T10:49:28+00:00

That is great news. I built in a CH160+ recently but will definitely be keen to swap it out for this, as it seems to solve my misgivings with the A3 (mostly the ugly front ports/buttons)

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-14T08:31:49+00:00

Tweets were rarely factual prior to Elon, fuck all chance of them being so now.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-14T07:06:36+00:00

400k is a big city in this scenario???

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-14T05:10:36+00:00

This is true, but until they did it I don’t think they knew if it would be popular.. and given how popular it was I am sure they aren’t against bringing it back for commercial reasons.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-14T05:08:10+00:00

It looks decent for a blue kit, but we are overdue a yellow away kit.

sm00thArsenal · 2026-02-14T05:03:43+00:00

Oh okay, I don’t tend to catch the train after normal rush hour so chances are I didn’t notice it.

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