Posts by Naly D
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I'd have though that Tauranga's team might be called The Zimmer Frames or The Tauranga Sprawl.
What about the Tauranga Riot? [Referencing events at the Mt. around New Years]
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Hadyn, you forgot the new rule where whenever a scrum goes wrong, the referee plays duck, duck, goose with the front row and whoever catches him gets the feed on the next one...
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Yeah it's 24 Simon. The ARU has told the aussie teams they can only protect 22 players now, to allow more players for the new franchise.
Me, I reckon that teams should be able to protect 15 players, everything else is up for grabs.It's pretty ridiculous at the moment - Hamish Gard wasn't even in the wider training squad at the start of the season, yet he was in the starting XV for some matches.
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And while you make sense here and I see the potential for it:
- the co-option of genuine community spirit to a commercial enterprise. Why do the teams have those twee names now? It's mostly so the promoters have the option to transplant the side off to Los Angeles with the brand intact, should that ever look like a smart financial move.
The Wellington Hurricanes dropped Wellington to acknowledge their geographic area included Taranaki, the Horowhenua, Manawatu, Hawke's Bay, etc [and the same with the other teams]
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the related attitude of a lot of commentators that the rest of the rugby world (for instance) ought really to play at about the level of Italy, such that NZ could guarantee a win every time.
Yeah, like Tony Greig when any cricket team tours Australia, or those Aussie commentators in any league world cup, or ESPN when any team plays the US at the Olympics/FIBA champs [remember their shock when NZ made it to the quarter-finals?!]. Or the F1/A1GP commentators [who are British] favouring Hamilton and Button over any other driver over the past 10 years?
Nationalistic bias is the given right of a commentator - Hell, Jedi is the worst of the lot.
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Both. "yay. go crusaders. woo."
That's more or less how it was too, until 'Hey, here's some more exciting stuff to talk about!'
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Anything would look good with these
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AFAIK, adidas policy is to review the All Blacks and Super 14 strip every 2 years. I'm fine with that. I'll buy the new strip at some stage - not so I can keep up-to-date, though that has something to do with it, but because when I buy that jersey, I like to think it means that I own the tarsus' of Dan Carter, or Joe Rokocoko, etc.
And if I didn't buy that jersey, well they wouldn't be able to see, because I'd take the tarsus with me.
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@LegBreak True. But what about Clint Newland or Sione Lauaki or Kieran Read? Not the best forwards when it comes to retaining possession...
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As above, but played solely by each team's cheerleaders.
Ridiculous! The Highlanders' cheerleaders are too drunk to stand, let alone play a match.
By 'remove' a player, would it be done by lucky draw or what? Because what's to stop a team faking an injury to a prop or something to remove them from the field...