Posts by Hadyn Green
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Thus, the closing 'Tomorrow Never Knows' loops around to the Rolling Stones via Madchester and Primal Scream
And now I want to buy a CD for the first time in... a very long time
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Field Theory: In Judgement, in reply to The Ruminator,
I've always been puzzled how lil ol' NZ was able to co-opt the best sporting colours in the world.
I'm pretty sure we got them through rugby. Our first official colours were navy blue and gold (a colour design recently used in All Black training jerseys). If I'm allowed to cite something I wrote many years ago (pdf)...
In 1882 the first rugby team from overseas visited New Zealand when New South Wales toured both North and South Islands late in the season. In 1884, a New Zealand team, wearing blue jerseys with a gold fern, returned the visit, after winning all its matches in New South Wales.
In 1888-89 the New Zealand Native Team became the first team from New Zealand to visit Britain when it undertook the longest ever rugby tour. The team played 107 games across Britain, Australia and New Zealand during a tour that lasted 14 months. This tour was four years before the formation of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU which is now the NZRU).
Then according to Ron Palenski in A Century in Black:
In 1893 the NZRU stipulated at its annual general meeting that the uniform would be black jersey with a silver fern and white knickerbockers.
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Field Theory: In Judgement, in reply to Emma Hart,
I'm voting for their fabulous away strip.
I'm kind of over rugby teams playing in pink after Stade Francais' series of amazing ones
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Field Theory: Good News Everyone!, in reply to Richard Irvine,
You don't reckon Samoa or one of the other islands deserve a go at This Kind Of Thing? Would be more fun to watch IMHO.
Yes I do is the short answer. The long answer adds another "yes" to the start of the sentence. Be nice if they did Japan on the way to Europe and Samoa, Fiji, or Tonga on the way back.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Full-on First Person, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s an achievement that sees her become the first local female solo act to ever have two number one songs
Wait, she's from New Zealand?! TIL
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That Lorde video reminds me of this one
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Field Theory: iSky and I, in reply to Yamis,
so if you miss a few weeks for being away on hol or other reasons then it would get a bit pricey.
That's the genius of on demand, you never miss games :) Plus I have a team that I support so there's a reasonable chance those two games a week on Sky (both the nationally televised games which tend to only feature "big" teams) won't be the game I want to watch.
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Yamis,
Hope you didn't pay too much for NFL League Pass. It was free last year (might have been a short running promotion but it came in the first week or two).
Yeah that's why I said "subscribed" :) I had the free thing and it lasted the whole season (I signed up a workmate mid season). Interestingly when I logged into it with my account but in Japan it said I had to pay, so it was strictly a NZ freebie.
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Peter Darlington,
Hard to see where the improvement is with this.
Well you don't have to bother recording it. Any game you want live (I assume most of these games were shown delayed). The ability to go back and watch any game you want or any part of any game. The ability to drop Sky.
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As wider response to this...
You'll have to ask yourself whether you want to pay $150 per Premier League season in addition to your Sky subscription. There is a downside to the disaggregation of content monopolies, at least in the short term.
...and other similar questions: LOL no.
I subscribed to NFL Game Pass last season and MLB TV this year. For this I get every game in the pre, post and regular season on demand and in full HD.
Do I watch every game? I watch all the ones from my teams (or at listen to the radio for MLB).
Is it better than Sky? Oh fucking HELL YES! One game or maybe two per week of randomised teams, most of whom I don't care about (or worse, actively hate). You won't find yourself craving the other stuff when you suddenly find yourself rolling in content. You do miss the other stuff a little, but you get over it (though Champions League not being there will suck).
I have a 100GB cap at home on Snap ADSL (not even VDSL) and I have yet to have a problem with the quality or size of the games being played. The best part, if you watch the on demand version later, all of the ad breaks are removed.