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@gurusculler @Markedw Love this share mate, thanks

@Markedw This from Stan Grant on Substack. @stangrant1/note/c-248734620?r=kgang&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@stangrant1/no…

I don’t care what you think of welcome to country. There is no excuse. Totally Unaustralian to boo during Anzac Day. Anyone supporting that here on twitter please unfollow.

@Julieat30 @waratahjesus Plus you’re probably still recovering from your Bula Round reconnaissance mission

@waratahjesus Harder when it’s our bye I guess and a looooong way to travel.

SupeRugbY remembrance pants.

@BMcSport We need to see Harry Wilson at 12

A thought from the walk with Tommy the 🐶 this arvo: Could this Crusaders experiment hand Dave Rennie and the All Blacks their Andre Estherhuizen?

@HuwTindall Enables a 6:2 doesn’t he

Pete Samu has to be in the Wallabies chat somewhere. So much experience and versatility. #WARvMOA

@lewis_goodall Is Sue Gray available?

Lib Dems call for Privileges Committee to investigate Starmer and suggestion his misled Parliament. Here we go again.

@Julieat30 @insiderugbymark Yeah, you lose the stone wall too. Still one of my favourite grounds

@insiderugbymark The perspective in this photo doesn’t tell the full story 🤣. Massive drop down to the golf course below. Not too fun chasing the ball over the touch line on the western side. But great viewing watching from the clubhouse side above the ground as the sun sets over the ocean

This is what sun set looks like from Cottesloe Rugby Club in Perth, Western Australia. It's on grounds like this across the world that our beautiful games needs to grow so that the majority of you on X can keep watching your URC, Sup[er Rugby, and International games. If we dont keep growing participation of the sport then we are in trouble. G'day oz RUGBY FANS. #rugbyaustralia #rugbyperth #perth

@ianprior90 @HuwTindall Love it mate 👏👏

@Calingram @HuwTindall Absolutely! Fish out of water amongst this crowd…..but a pretty cool moment to reflect these days having been not deemed good enough for QLD schoolboys. Dream big kids!

Gregan and Smith then daylight.

@balumbah @HowGoodIsRugby Community connection, meeting the guys at clubs always helps. And there’s a nice little promo for kids’ memberships if you buy at the club store at the moment. There’s seats there, might as well fill them.

@HowGoodIsRugby Making it a game day experience.

Growing our Game

@HuwTindall @balumbah I’ll second that

@balumbah would love to see it

This is awesome. Why doesn't every team do this? Like what is the excuse? This is a 5 mins recording and 10 mins of edit.

@gurusculler @Peter_Fitz A bit like when our centres were called Elton and Stirling

Trying to convince doubters that #rugbyunion isn’t a game for posh private schoolboys when there’s a remote possibility that the Wallabies 2nd row might comprise 3 chaps called Jeremy, Darcy, & Miles is an uphill battle. Fetch my leather elbow patches, @Peter_Fitz #classwarfare

@dropindes @westernforce Mate, we 2 from 7 in a 14 game season. If not now, when? 🤣

@Calingram @westernforce Too early... we've been hopeful before and it ends in tears😉

The @westernforce run home is against 10A, 5H, 7A, 4A, 6H, 10H, 7H based on current ladder. No games against NZ teams, do I dare to dream?

@WilburMNC @ChalynRugby @HuwTindall This thread worked on so many levels 👏

@ChalynRugby @HuwTindall Noah who?

Donno > Carter #REDvFOR

@johnshenton1982 @IBloodyLuvRugby All it took was playing in an strip that looked like the Eagles 🤣

It’s an Easter miracle, we made the back pages 😉 #WesternForce #SuperRugbyPacific

@biscuitman007 @HuwTindall But we’d need an annual A game vs against SA and or NZ to capture eligibility of our kids before they take OS contracts 🤣 Would that work @DaveWessels ?

@HuwTindall @Calingram This is the big problem with Super rugby and why we can’t compete at international level. Let players go overseas and run national club comp with existing clubs and remaining players. We are getting nothing from SR.

Can anyone tell me how many more games Tom Hooper will have played with one injury interrupted Prem season than if he was still at the Brums?

@HuwTindall @westernforce Still got to show up and win them

@Calingram @westernforce It's about as good as you could imagine. Three at home to finish too!

@wombat_wood @westernforce That’s the problem though, it would impact Brumbies and Reds chances of a home final to drop against us.

@Calingram @westernforce Wld be nice…….we need an Aussie team to get on a run…….otherwise some old finals results and no home playoffs 🥵🫣

@Julieat30 @westernforce 🤦‍♂️ of course it is 🤣

@Calingram @westernforce The 5H is a NZ team of course. But no more away matches in NZ. Once we finish in Fiji we don’t leave Oz

@TheBlackWallaby @Yaqiu Very well articulated mate 👏

Your post is honest, and I respect the 15 years you’ve spent in the human rights field. But I have to point out the deep irony here: a Westerner like me has to explain to you why the idea that China could or should simply become more like America was always a fantasy. You’re Chinese. You grew up with the system. You should understand the reality of every day. China is not America with different paint. It is a completely different civilisation, built over thousands of years on its own foundations: deep coordination, authority rooted in results and history, relationships that matter more than written rules. America runs on the opposite code entirely. The real offence for many Chinese people and why you’re getting the reaction you are getting is this: the quiet Western assumption that your civilisation is just a defective version of ours waiting for the right upgrades before it meets us at some “enlightened level” of human rights. That dismisses millennia of Chinese success as some kind of temporary glitch. It turns Chinese people into ignorant natives who need saving from their own culture. It’s the same paternalistic arrogance that has always sat at the heart of Western human rights work in China, the idea that we in the west understand dignity better than the people who actually built one of the world’s oldest continuous civilisations. You’re making the mistake of projecting the Western universalism glitch onto your own people, and that’s why everyone who is Chinese hates it. The hope that China just needed the right reforms to match the West was never realistic. It was a Western projection all along. Human dignity is real. But pretending it only comes in the American or western flavour is the actual mistake. The appropriate response isn’t to keep waiting for one side to rewrite the other. It’s to accept the differences and learn how to navigate them for common progress.

Friday afternoon musing: I entered the human rights field 15 years ago hoping to make China more like America. Increasingly, though, I feel America is becoming more like China. Still, I have faith in our fundamental longing for human dignity. We just need to hang in there. TGIF.