Posts by Naly D
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The other thing in his favour is that he’s not as embedded as the rest of them. How can Craig McMillan, Kiwi Harris, and Kyle Mills possible be objective?
Wait, you're calling Smithy unbiased? Jesus, he's probably the most one-eyed of the lot. And that's why I like him. I want my commentators to be cheering for my team, why the hell should an all NZ commentary team have to remain objective in a NZ/AUS match in any sport? [And yes, I realise the commentators were split in this game, which was also awesome. Particularly when the Aussie talking about Broom said 'I don't know anything about him' and there was a deathly silence from McMillans end... Which never got filled. Macca, do some research bro.
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I have fond memories of watching cricket on TV3 at my grandparents after school [where I'd go each day] and seem to remember two Andre Adams era ODI's in particular - the one in Wellington against England where we got 244 and they got 89 and the ODI I judge all ODIs against.
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Yeah, what Caycos said.
Also, for me, it seemed like whenever I was at home there was always something on SS1 or SS2. Mainly skeleton/luge/bobsleigh/hockey.
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Nvm
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and this is the piece Amy is talking about I think
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The AB's were poisoned deliberately in the hotel. Only they were affected out of all the guests.
I was too young to know anything about that RWC, but I've always thought that they just got on the chop in their hotel room and used that as an excuse. Wasn't it only the three Brooke boys that got it?
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For some reason, my favourite sporting movies (ice hockey ones tend to be pretty average, except for Mystery, Alaska, and that's not really about ice hockey), are American football ones: Friday Night Lights, Varsity Blues, Remember the Titans. Which is ironic, because I can't get into watching the actual sport.
I loved the Mighty Ducks movies.
But then again, the first one came out when I was 4.
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You could almost postulate that a better story would have had the Springboks losing to the multi-racial world-famous team and learning valuable lessons about what they could aspire to be, etc, etc - more of your Cool Runnings-type ending. Or, even, a story which had them realising that the All Blacks would be difficult to beat because of their racial-harmony-blah-fishcakes, and then beating them at their own game, as it were, by being awesome and overcoming their divisions.
And the third movie could be Invictus 3: Rise of the Steyns...
As for sports movies, I liked Leatherheads in a 'this is a great pisstake of the sports movie genre' kind of way. And Radio in a 'this isn't about sport really' kind of way.
But best sporting movie? Friday Night Lights. The opponents in that are 'sort of irrelevant' Lucy
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Did you know that Skoal is a chewing tobacco brand in the US?
And there's a beer called Skol?
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surely one can put a lower bound on the number of gay All Blacks by simply counting the ones with handbags?
What are you implying about Tana?