Posts by Hadyn Green
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First of all let me say I can't believe I'm going back to arguing the reasons for New Zealand's loss.
Had the AB's continued to play the game in which they started the game kicking into the corners and playing the rugby in the opponents 22 they would have beaten France and England or Australia
I'm not entirely convinced. In the quarters France were the team least likely to "steal" the ball in the ruck and maul and they lost 10% of their own scrums. Their line out was also rubbish. With that info I would recommend a running game with chip or grubber kicks.
did I mention I'm free for any coaching role :)
Oh and finally if Banks doesn’t want the RWC that is ok. Develop North Harbour Stadium. Which is probably what they should have done in the first place.
Oh no! we are NOT getting back into this debate. If Eden Park doesn't get it it goes to next largest stadium: Lancaster Park. No more mucking about.
Banks probably wants a big national debate so he can hear his name in the news a lot. No debate, just "you don't want to pay, you don't get the game". I just feel sorry for the players and punters that'll have to deal with going out in Christchurch :)
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BTW best quote i heard this weekend:
As i walked into the pub to watch England (I put Britain above, my bad) play South Africa, the TV3 commentary team were still talking about New Zealand being knocked out. Andrew Mehrtens said "We probably weren't the best team in the competition"LOLZ!!!1!!
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But then, we sent a bunch of rugby players and they lost. I guess it's different when you send "gods" and they still lose.
Yes we have quite a bit of humble pie to get through yet
Or you are experiencing what most New Zealanders felt about the game. Instant disappointment, perhaps a little anger, and then acceptance. The reason being perhaps that you're not a Northern Hemisphere sports reporter* (or are you? :) ).
Many of the reports I read from "up north" recently trumpeted the British team's valour and bravery and gallantry and blahblahblah...
Perhaps if you were in Britain surrounded by rugby fans the feeling might be different.
*And of course SH reports ain't much better.
I can't quite work out why I was so annoyed at Byron Kelleher on TV3's World Cup wrap up
If you were like me it was because he was wearing his shirt unbuttoned quite a way with an over-sized bone carving while making excuses for why his team lost.
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Boy those Irish henchmen had some appalling accents!
Weren't they just?
"O'ho boy-o, let's have a wee look-see in dat dere coun-tain'r"
"Fiddly-dee-dee, potatoes and leprechauns"But too many things in the pilot were brought in abruptly. Matt's going through a divorce? Nathan's alive but not the Senator? George Takei is dead.
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What it actually shows is how weird the French victory over New Zealand was. Right now all I want to see (other than the final) is a one off test between the All Blacks and this Argentinean team.
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What are you all going to pod about over summer?
What we always podcast about...sport and crap.
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Y'all know we'll still be going over on our blog eh?
Heck it's only just over 4 months until the Super 14 (blech!), the non-muntery will continue -
And also there needs to be some discussion around the current fine-line between the All Blacks marketing machine and the MSM. Both the way that the media would report anything that Adidas or Heineken* might tell them about but also how they would "invent" stories and issues. Remember the locking crisis anyone?
*(I just discovered Heineken is in my Firefox spell-checker)
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Unless something flippin' interesting happens in the final and then we might do a postmortem
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The riroriro here have a slightly different tune from the riroriro around my parents' place in Taranaki. Regional accents?
A study in Britain found that many birds do actually have regional dialects. (no links because I'm being lazy)