Posts by Edward Siddle
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peter's idea about trinations in the mid year between world cups and tours in the other years is something i definitely support. i'd also push the whole international window back to sept/oct somehow so that those games are played in better conditions, and then once they're finished the ABs can go off and play the northern hem teams (or they could even come down here - make november the inter-hemisphere touring window - it's not like the weather is that summery by november anyway). rest of the season is for whatever configuration of domestic stuff they come up with.
more day games.
season not to start before april, so i can enjoy my cricket and work up a bit of enthusiasm for the oval ball stuff.
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i stand corrected about leo. i thought they had some guy in a funny top hat back in the day?
i remember seeing the BOP against the Central Vikings (remember them) in 1997 at the Rotorua 'Stadium'.....they had a great big volcano that went off every now and again, it was great! do they still do that? brought a whole new meaning to 'steamers'.
someone mentioned the radio, above, and indeed, that is often how i keep up with rugby matches these days. all a bit strange really, how i've gone back to how i used to digest the game when i was about 8 and there was only a one hour highlights show every saturday night at about 5pm. how else was one to follow Otago getting thrashed again (they weren't much good in the early 80s).
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oh and as for night rugby, i just simply don't watch it, either live or on tv. it clashes with my wife's television interests and getting the young one to bed. sky tv would no doubt tell me to get a double connection installed, but i'm not going to do that. so until they play more in the afternoon, or else outsource all games to australia and play them at 10pm nz time, the game is basically not on the agenda for me. I wonder how many others who actually do have an interest in rugby have the same issue? i remember day time games as best of both worlds. i could watch the game in the afternoon, and spend time with people who didn't like rugby in the evening (or with people who did like rugby, but by then preferred to put the stereo on loud instead).
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I'm pretty sure Jimmy Southgate is on the right track about how the Wellington team became the Lions. In the early to mid 90s they were sponsored by Lion Brown and that was pretty much the basic beer around town. Consequently they had a Leo the Lion mascot patrolling the touchline at Athletic Park as much as beer advertising as doing mascot duties. At some point everyone just started calling them the Lions and then I think it actually got picked up by the WRU itself. So it was kinda organic - if you can call being prompted by beer advertising 'organic'.
I take my daughter to the Phoenix games. I'm somewhat heartened by the news that there was plenty of noise at the rugby, because my experience has usually been that rugby crowds mostly just sit in glum silence except when there's a big shove on or their team scores. Football crowds make their own entertainment, and I can tell you it really is entertaining watching a five-year-old chanting "same old aussies, always cheating" when the opposition infringes.
Just a shame the stadium is actually such a p***-poor venue for anything that is played on a rectangular field.