Posts by Yamis
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Richard Aston,
Weepu was playing with a virus which I did wonder at the 50 minute mark when they were lining him up to come off as he wasn't obviously injured. You saw he was crook when he came to the sideline and then he still went back on and slotted a crucial penalty. Came out the next day that he had the bot.
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Hard News: The Sound of Music, in reply to Craig,
@Yamis - HK2001 was a bit high rotate; one of the other songs you are probably thinking of was Jennifer Lopez "Let's get loud". Rough through a Pims hangover.
Ah yes, now it comes back to me. I don't know if I'll ever recall the third song though. 3 songs for 3 days... even teenagers on a camping holiday don't torture themselves that much.
On rugby crowd atmospheres in NZ, they are pretty lame. People go quiet when it's tense or their team isn't going well, they cheer when their team scores a try and clap a good kick and that's about it (I know, I've been one of them many times). The All Blacks chant is about as rowdy as they get. We have NO 'songs' it seems for any of our rugby teams in the country. In terms of the crowd singing them of their own accord.
Warriors crowds are louder and get into it more but again, we've got no songs or chants either.
The Phoenix are well supported though. It's European ripoff stuff but they get stuck in nonetheless.
So long as crowds in NZ don't make any real noise of their own I have no problem with the music (although the choice is generally mediocre). If we want it gone then make some noise!!!!
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Carter goes through an incredibly long and ritualised kicking routine, starting with a specific number of closer ones without a full swing and then gets further out and so on and so on. I'd say the injury was just his body's way of saying, buggar this, the weather's warming up, where's a beach?
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I was at the Hong Kong sevens in 2001 and I nearly went stark raving mad. Imagine being there for three long days when they had clearly only brought the rights to THREE, yes that's right THREE songs which they played on a loop.
On was Tom Jones's Sex Bomb, there was one by a female American artist which I've forgotten and one other. And that was it. It was astonishingly cheap and shitty way to treat your punters.
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I'm sure you're right James but it'll be a hard thing for Key to pull off because he doesn't like to piss people off. He's a 'sense the mood' leader, not a 'from the front' leader.
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In Korea I was the owner of an "Alien" registration card. We all wanted to keep them as a memento of being Aliens but we had to hand them in on departure.
Sucks not being able to use my ray-gun anymore.
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Wait a minute. You were in the shower with John Key on Morning Report?
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Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Fully booked != Profit bonanza. A hotel that isn't going bust needs to have 70-80% occupancy anyway. So a few nights booked out might mean a 30% or so revenue uplift for those nights
What would hotels expect? To be fully booked for months before and after games? They were only ever going to be booked for a night or three either side of games in their area. For some areas that was two games, for somewhere like Wellington it's half a dozen and for Auckland it's 11 games, though several of them were back to back.
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I heard them say that accomodation was fully booked in Wellington before the last weekend.
Thing with campervans is yeah sure, they aren't staying in a motel or hotel but they are still spending a decent whack of money while they are here. They are paying the campervan company, filling up at gas stations, and obviously buying food and rugby tickets amongst other things.
If people aren't going to restaurants now then maybe there will be a big surge in visits after the RWC. Doesn't hurt some folk to cut down their discretionary spending in these tight economic times when we keep getting told we don't save ;)
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Field Theory: Four Years Ago, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
That's funny Sofie. For a minute I thought they'd flown to the wrong country altogether.