Today’s the day. 24 years on from the year our cup was won and it’s back home again. Some (me) would argue that the intervening years have been a fairly terrible time for NZ rugby. The birth of the tri-nations, emergence of super rugby, the abolishment of the NPC, the removal of tours, yearly trips … Read more
What if we live in a mutually exclusive world? Can we have our cake here and eat it too in the rugby world cup later in the year? Or will we be using up our proportion of luck, skill and talent to have success in the CWC? What if the success of our cricketers is … Read more
6 Nov, 2010 – Twickenham, England. Not quite the victory we were looking for. In fact, we were a bit lucky to hang on in the end, being a man down, due to the appalling refereeing by Frenchman Romain Poite , who attempted to whistle us off the field. Allowing the try after Ashton was five … Read more
Late to post on this (its been a busy week). But two seconds before kickoff and sitting at computer now. Got the feed from the iphone hooked up to the big screen so we’ve got it live in the house. Can’t see any way at all that the poms can win this one. No matter … Read more
Venn Diagram – Chance of Success with Stephen Donald in All Black team Kicking Capabilities of Stephen Donald
After witnessing the mighty ABs hit the ‘aimless wandering’ button and take an injection of ‘this game is already won’, our illustrious leader had this to say:“I thought they played some brilliant football early on and we were just hanging onto their coat-tails,” said Graham Henry. “We pulled it back, got some ascendancy but we … Read more
Poms 42 – Skirt wearers 20 While the scoreline made it seem like a one sided match the skirt wearers played well for about 50 minutes and looked like creating an upset. They reasoned however that Wilkinson would fall apart after 60 (which he unfortunately didn’t), and that they themselves wouldn’t make any mistakes. However, … Read more