Posts by LegBreak
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What ended up happening with that mast anyway?
Should be a monument to the whole thing at the Viaduct.
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Team New Zealand was not a national team either, despite masquerading as one.
And isn’t there an Emirates in the name somewhere these days?
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gener = gender BTW.
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And in this area, NZ Hockey takes the cake. Black Sticks for men, and then after an expensive branding exercise (~$50k from memory) they came up with a name for the women’s team.
The Black Sticks.
I thought the women were the Black Sticks first (in the Mandy Smith era).
As soon as I wrote that I had the feeling I had it the wrong way around.
Which kind of reinforces how stupid the whole thing was.
If you've got a name for a side, make sure the other gener version of that side is, well, different.
And if not, make sure you don't pay for it.
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I like the non-official versions like Les Tricolors for the French.
Yup; that’s it.
The organic ones are fine, but the ones dreamed up by some marketing department are fingernails down blackboard.
And in this area, NZ Hockey takes the cake. Black Sticks for men, and then after an expensive branding exercise (~$50k from memory) they came up with a name for the women’s team.
The Black Sticks.
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I grudgingly accept nicknames for provincial / franchise sides. It gets the kids interested.
Nicknames for national sides leave me cold though. And that includes the New Zealand Men’s Rugby team; although I accept that tradition makes that one a bit different.
But I will not accept a name that YELLS AT ME.
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From chairing a kids’ game show to chairing parliament.
The full circle for Lockwood.
Looks like a tradition is forming for giving the Foreign Affairs portfolio to someone you need but want to see as little of as possible.
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BTW, it gets worse. It’s spreading far and wide. For example, in Dunedin at the moment, the following game is taking place:
OTAGO VOLTS vs NORTHERN KNIGHTS
Just settle down please.
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Whoever approved that capitalisation should be named and shamed. And possibly shot.
I don’t like to be yelled at by a team name.
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And 22 after 80mins would be a very slow run-rate.
Oh I don’t know.
Ponting’s Australia would have probably got through about 10 overs in that time.