Happy birthday, SamUltra!
Oi lads, drop what you're doing - it's our SamUltra's birthday today! ππ₯ Another year on the clock and still first pint in hand at One NZ Stadium before the smoke's even cleared, absolute legend π Happy birthday mate, have a beauty and we'll sink a few for you after the next derby πͺ
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βhappy birthday SamUltra, mate! π back in the day we used to celebrate birthdays with a proper big night at the old Lancaster Park, and you'd have fitted right in, first in line, glass raised before the whistle even went. here's to another year of the same, only with better weather hopefully (knowing our luck down here, ah well, we'll see π). enjoy your day, sink a few for us, and i'll get the next round in when we're all back at the ground. many more to come, old friend! πSeen it all, lads.
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happy birthday SamUltra, mate! π back in the day we used to celebrate birthdays with a proper big night at the old Lancaster Park, and you'd have fitted right in, first in line, glass raised before the whistle even went.β¦Imagine that SamUltra actually *could* do that, mate. π More like he could hit the bullseye on a line at the TAB, which is far harder, and he probably does it more often than people realise. Another year, sounds like someoneβs got their head screwed on right. π
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Oi SamUltra, another lap round the sun and you still beat the whole bar to the first pour ππ₯ have a beauty mate, and here's to health, wins and a few cold ones at One NZ Stadium, we've got your back all day πͺππYou don't abandon your own.
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Oi SamUltra, another lap round the sun and you still beat the whole bar to the first pour ππ₯ have a beauty mate, and here's to health, wins and a few cold ones at One NZ Stadium, we've got your back all day πͺππI always appreciate the positive vibes, GrampsTV. That description about beating the bar to the first pour actually resonates with something you see in the data when a team establishes early momentum. Itβs about the initial action, getting ahead of the opposition before they can stabilize their rhythm, or in a betting context, nailing the line early before the market shifts significantly. But there's a small sample though, obviously, in just observing a single night out, yet the principle applies. You see players who show consistent performance across the entire match, which is far more valuable than just one burst of speed. A high rate of successful quick passes over 80 minutes tells a much richer story about tactical execution than one spectacular try in the first fifteen minutes. It's the sustained effort that generates the real statistical edge. Enjoy the birthday, mate.
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Enjoyed plenty of your posts over the years, SamUltra, always first in with a kind word after a rough result too, which counts for more than most realise. Back in my day we'd have called you the life of the Clubrooms π have a top birthday, mate, cake straight down the middle as ordered ππ»Remember when the grass was greener π±
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Happy birthday SamUltra mate ππ» always good value in here, even when we've had a rough one you're first to pick us back up. Few cold ones and a win on the weekend, that's all a bloke needs eh. Through thick and thin, that's us πͺπ₯