Posts by Naly D
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Wow, Stanaway's report was terrible.
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Having said that, if the French were deliberately avoiding Nonu and Sivivatu, they won't make that mistake again. Conrad rules.
Attacking teams tend to plug the centres, particularly off lineout ball. But quickly going through the English, Welsh and Wallabies Tokyo tests, Smith is either above or just below Nonu in the completed tackle count
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WTF was going on with the TV coverage?
Not to mention the part where we took a quick lineout and had to watch a replay for 5 or 6 seconds as play continued in the background.
It's been bad the whole tour, not just that game - it happened against England with a 22 dropout, and lineout cameras were horrid. Against Italy, I think it was, it kept switching cameras during the throw.
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I completely agree with you Hadyn. It took me two days to write this, because I had no idea what to do.
Personally, the Wellington test against Aus was better. The forwards were more dominant, the midfield exploited the rush D - if Sivi, Jane and Mils had broken the line as often as they did against France, that would have been a cracker.
But then again, I don't like games where one side isn't in it. The game against England was the most enthralling. If it's tries the masses want, then just give up now and play Fiji and Samoa in the first test of the year again.PS: The uniforms were good? So you're fine with the ABs not having white socks? And I prefer the tracksuit tops that France wore down here to the ones they had on the weekend.
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"We now pointlessly cross live to Porirua where some kids are playing cricket to talk about football."
The AW's had an open training session in Porrirua from 2.30 - 5.30 yesterday, so most likely there was a media session after that. So instead of sending the reporter to a studio for a live cross, they'd do it in the field. Where the reporter was
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I call it the Nascar of Wellington but without intending to be so derogatory!
Oh, NASCAR is so exciting right now, if only you knew the political shitstorm that was going on between drivers [who think their safety is at risk], fans [who are bored and sick of being dicked around] and the organisation [who are saying stfu everyone]
I am pretty sure Brad Thorn will still be locking the All Black scrum in the 2051 RWC, where he'll pass away peacefully in his sleep the night after the final.
Earlier this year after the birth of his newest daughter he said he won't be around in 2011.
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What’s going on?
People are nostalgic.
One uniform that I find quite jarring this year is the Man United home strip with its rugby league V.
I like it, it's an improvement on last year's strip. If you check that link Hadyn put up, the Hammers strip between 76 and 80 looks more like a league strip that football
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My ex-brother in law is sitting on a box full of Viking's jerseys he purchased when they went belly up, unloved and unlamented.
I'll buy one, if he wants to offload one to me now. It will go well with my Auckland Knights t-shirt and teal-era BLACKCAPS shirt. [I'm serious]
One of my favourite childhood memories was having Norm Hewitt sign my favourite Spiderman cap after a Vikings win in Palmerston North. This was just after his whole violent drunken rampage, but I had no idea what that was all about at that age. I 'won' a Vikings poster off 2XS just after they started and I had it on the bed above my roof. Not even Man U ever had that pride of place. I loved that team, and when they folded [again I had no idea what that was all about at that age] I stopped following sport, except Man U.
Ahhh, memories. Christian Cullen really was a legend, wasn't he?
What interests me is how sports uniforms relate to contemporary fashions. Do shirt collars reflect whatever is hot in menswear at the time?
Well, chinese collars are all the rage in NZ rugby unis, but [aside from hospo workers] I don't see people wearing them on the street...
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What about the jersey of the team that was possibly the most exciting in NZ for a 9-10 year old
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You mean the one with no chevrons? (hence not a League jersey at all)
I was always told that the use of the V's in league was originated in Australia [so not where the game started] in 1929, 34 years after Northern Union began, and that to this day it is a mainly SH deal? Though in 2007 the Great Britain side used V's in its final season
I'm deliberately not calling them chevrons because I didn't know that was the technical term. You shoulda linked to uniwatch's design competition in this post!