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Ranfurly shield, get ready to grab the popcorn
#1
Looks like it got broken into two at an after party, white powder found on it and a player arrested!
https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provin...eld-broken
#2
This chap thinks it may be plaster, from earlier repairs.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/03/ranfu...ion%20says.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
#3
(03-10-2023, 02:31 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: This chap thinks it may be plaster, from earlier repairs.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/03/ranfu...ion%20says.

Yeah I was reading about that.
Turns out that its not even the original shield anymore as far as the wood bit goes, its been replaced.
I would have thought they would have retained the original wood even if it was old and worn, gives it a bit of its history.
To me the split looks so straight that its likely split on a glued joint as its likely made from several pieces glued together.
The old wood may have held up longer!
#4
The definition of a storm in a tea cup. Sad really.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
#5
(04-10-2023, 12:10 PM)nzoomed Wrote:
(03-10-2023, 02:31 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: This chap thinks it may be plaster, from earlier repairs.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/03/ranfu...ion%20says.

Yeah I was reading about that.
Turns out that its not even the original shield anymore as far as the wood bit goes, its been replaced.
I would have thought they would have retained the original wood even if it was old and worn, gives it a bit of its history.
To me the split looks so straight that its likely split on a glued joint as its likely made from several pieces glued together.
The old wood may have held up longer!

I was surprised that it seemed so flimsy really, thought they'd have made it from something more solid - & kept part of the original to somehow include that with it.

(04-10-2023, 12:25 PM)zqwerty Wrote: The definition of a storm in a tea cup.  Sad really.

Yep, it is indeed - hardly worth getting upset over.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)


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