Posts by Russell Brown
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I'd have said one serious and one dubious but that's just quibbling...
Paul Waite at Haka is incandescent about the refereeing performance. You have to wonder about the wisdom of giving a game like this to a guy in his third year of professional refereeing.
But ... the idea is that you're good enough that you overcome things like that.
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Sigh ... and the burden gets a little heavier. It's a long time since I've seen an AB team so hesitant at the breakdown. They just looked spooked at times, when they had the winning of it.
I feel sorry for Ali Williams in particular -- lost amongst the post mortem will be the fact that he had a magnificent game.
I'm really not sure Carter was fully fit going into the game, and Mils at centre looked like ... a fullback.
And, yup, it does make it harder to swallow that the game turned on two serious refereeing blunders.
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Oh, and also: as The Standard pointed out Key was dishonest in subsequent interviews about the context in which he made the "war is over" blurt. The guy's all over the place.
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Oh, and for anyone who is still interested (and do hope you'll mention this Russell) Fran O'Sullivan has an interesting column on Phil Goff's Iraq-induced political Alzheimer's.
Indeed, I was planning to mention it. I was planning to observe what a bogus argument it was. Of course no one turned a hair when Goff used the phrase "post-war" four years ago, just as no one would have if Key had said it then.
But in the interim perhaps hundreds of thousands of people of people have died, more than four million have been displaced (many as the result of ethnic cleansing), and it's still too dangerous for a UN presence.
Accusing Labour of being unwilling to discuss Iraq when National has issued a "discussion paper" on foreign policy that leaves out Iraq altogether is more than a little disingenuous.
And then there's this:
Iraq now has an elected Government whose claim to legitimacy is undermined by a ruthless insurgency operation which many US and Nato defence analysts believe is sponsored by neighbouring Iran.
What does she mean here? That the government is on the opposite side from Iran-backed militias (palpably untrue)? Or that its legitimacy is undermined because it's on the same side?
I like Fran, and I appreciate the fact that she pops in here occasionally, but this is one of her going-into-bat-for-the-establishment columns, and they're never good.
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In May 2003 the conflict seemed to have ended. In 2007, that appears not to have been the case. Phil Goff's comments, when placed in their proper historical context, appear sensible.
Or to put it another way, if Key had said the war was over in May 2003, when Goff used the phrase "post-war", it would have been unremarkable.
To use it in 2007, while thousands continue to die, is somewhat ill-advised.
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Check this out!!
Un excellent blogueur néo-zélandais a réalisé une étude statistique assez poussée qui concerne les 8 équipes encore en lice. On se croirait à la grande époque de la palette de Canal. En plus, visiblement, la France a toutes les chances de gagner si l'on en croit les chiffres.
And guess which excellent blogueur they're talking about?
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Would I vote for such a paragon, you ask?
S/he would be my FIRST CHOICE!
Well, if you're voting for people on the basis of what they don't know, Mr Banks is surely your man then.
Sure you don't want to reconsider? ;-)
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Who?
(Sorry, just a reminder that some of us are atheists about sport as well as imaginary friends).
You mean you reject the existence of Doug Howlett?
Oh, and I actually did know he was Tongan.
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I agree with Kyle's summary. McDonald is almost never out of position and kicks well. He doesn't pose as much of a threat in lose play himself but is just as good at putting people in space as Mils if not better.
I think so. He returns the ball very well - he's not the guy who'll score your tries, but he will run straight and offload.
I must say, it's a testament to Mils' class that none of us seem to be worrying about his ability to click into No.13 mode at a few days' notice.
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