Posts by Hadyn Green
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I remember all the world cup winners from 1987 ownwards. Do you remember the toing and froing of the Bledisloe in that period of time?
But that's 21 Bledisloes and only five World Cups. I can name all the Superbowl Winners from this year back some distance (I haven't tried to see, but I doubt it'd be 21 years)
Could you do the Euro winners too? And Champions League? And Italian Premier League (sorry I forgot the actual name)
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But, he says replying to himself, other than football what has Brazil got? Carnivale? Girls in bikinis? The Amazon? Nuts?
Now replace Brazil with New Zealand and football with rugby and you get an understanding of where we sit. Though I would argue that New Zealand is better at rugby than Brazil is in football.
Frankly, RWC 07 wasn't a good product -- the final stages were awful.. There were a few good games, but there wasn't a rugby occasion anywhere near as good as, say, the Munster game on this tour.
It had it's moments but they were more "OMG didn't that game get exciting" like Ireland v Georgia, or France v Argentina (the first one, which may have been the best game of the tournament) or Samoa v Tonga.
The pool matches, rather than being whole events, were seemingly marketed as filler before the "real rugby" later on.
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Ah, but then it occurs to me that you were asking me something else.
Actually I wasn't but I did appreciate the extra info. I was wondering if the Brazillians put more emphasis on the World cup because their version of Euro was less interesting. But it seems that is not a good assumption.
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@Giovanni re: Brazil
What happens when there is the big South American version of Euro? Or are their best players over in Europe?
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That said, I do like the Rangitoto design of Auckland. I think Wellington could have got a bit more Manawatu into the away strip though.
Coming tomorrow afternoon is the more "indepth" analysis of the unis and an interview with the head of Adidas New Zealand. (How's that for a teaser?)
But basically (and you can save up your abuse of me until then) I really like them...except the Highlanders' away strip. ick.
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And yet in the last 20 years the rest of the world seems to have managed okay.
Though only in one game every four years
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Robbie Deans is probably the greatest coach we've seen at the level below internationals in the professional era.
Except maybe Graham Henry. He won the NPC four years on the trot, won two Super 12 titles* (and was finalist in another) before he headed to Wales.
*technically three
Stir stir stir
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Whoops, just did a brand new post about Rattue. But feel free to keep ranting here
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Interesting seeing Henry’s comments about how he thought this year’s team is better than last! Which to be honest I agree with.
Except for the scrums, where we went from a team that could demolish anyone to a team that was just strong competition
The whole tour suffered from the lack of clarity around the interpretation of breakdown laws.
I totally agree. We're currently looking at a game where different top level teams all play by different rules. AFAIK the only other sport that currently does this is Major League Baseball.
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To those who want to listen to Hadyn's interview;
Naly you bastard!
Though I think I was just filler before Neil Gaiman