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He requested messages between Ashley Bloomfield and Siouxsie Wiles. The MoH replied with:

"I note there is a reference to you in one of the text messages. To clarify Dr Bloomfield’s intent: this was to reassure Dr Siouxsie Wiles that your new blog The BFD has less reach than your former blog Whale Oil."

https://fyi.org.nz/request/16708-messages-between-dr-ashley-bloomfield-and-dr-siouxsie-wiles#incoming-65057

I've made a graph of the cases infectious in the community.

https://preview.redd.it/iyuhk8sdjko71.png?width=2125&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d000a54a00983a01fc5bd8701f19776069ffb33

It shows that the numbers have been pretty flat for the last few weeks, and the spikes in cases we've seen have largely been driven by "expected" cases (i.e. mostly household contacts).

Of course, any case infectious in the community is a chance of further transmission, so not great. Although as the PM said in the 1pm update yesterday, a lot of the exposure events they generate are not resulting in new infections.

I am not saying I agree that this will be a good idea, but there is some logic to why the selectors would still do this. I think there's a pretty good chance he'll play.

So assuming they're fit, Latham, Conway, Williamson, Taylor, Nicholls, Watling, Jamieson, Southee, Boult are all locked in to play.

That leaves 2 spots, and most likely they will go between Wagner, Patel, Santner, Mitchell, CdG

Wagner arguably should also be locked in, his record is as good as Southee and Boult and he's done well against India.

So that leaves one spot for the other 4. If you want to play Ajaz, that means a long tail. Jamieson would be batting at 7. While he is probably good enough, it's a lot of pressure

This was a pretty unusual match in the history of the AC, being much closer than most other matches.

In only 33% (12 of 36) AC matches has the losing team won any races, although this is becoming more common, with none of the 4 last full AC regattas being whitewashes (the 2010 DoG match was though).

However, in only 6 AC matches in history has the losing team won more than 1 match, including the 36th AC. In four of these (1920, 1934, 1983, 2013) the losing team won most of their matches first, before the eventual winner staged a comeback.

This AC match was different in that the teams were even to begin with, but ETNZ dominated the latter half of the match. The only comparable match was 20

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Anyone want to make some predictions on the results for the semi and final?

No prizes for being right, apart from the glory.

Predict a winner and scoreline for the semi (best of 7) and final (best of 13)