It wont be surprise that in 2040's Rugny and ice hockey world cup be in Dubai or UAE and NHL teams would play 2 games in mid east as they do in Europe.

Andy Seems Arab oil bought basketball , Dubai plays in Adriatic league, new formed super club in Dubai [link]

Sorry for your loss Rod, I know this second time once you lost your cat as i remember. Hope pain will be healed time heal everything.

I would agree about rankings and there are big difference between those levels

Just noticed that if you order Candlemass albums alphabetically, you get 5 singers on the first 6 albums

there are first row on RU today is NZ, SA, ENG, IRL, FRA, ARG, AUT, WAL, SCOT… A second row FIJI, SAM, ITA, URU, JAP, GEO, ROM and other row with RUS, SPA, CHI, US, CAN, POR, NAM

Don’t forget Samoa those guys are from the same wood of NZ , they need better, technical staff and discipline