Posts by Yamis
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Hard News: The Thread, It Is Open, in reply to Yamis,
Bugger it, we get Sri Lanka.
Batting first we'll need 280+.
Batting second and we'll be chasing 280+.
I know it's cricket cliches 101 but we will have to get the same kind of tight bowling effort, applying pressure throughout, some brilliant fielding to save 20-30 runs and a better batting effort than we saw the other night. This Sri Lankan batting lineup on a pitch they grew up on are not going to have a mental breakdown and be bowled out like the squareheads were.
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So, anybody watch the cricket?
How good was that bowling/fielding/hassling effort from us!!!!
Sure, an inevitable spanking by Sri Lanka will follow but still, we watch sport for good days like that one.
Fingers crossed that England some how conjure up a miracle tonight because it's 28 years since they last beat us in a cricket world cup. Mind you, we've only played them 3 times in world cups since then. 28 year streak sounds impressive though.
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Field Theory: Hospital Pass, in reply to Scott A,
Anything else would have to involve taking tickets off people who have already paid for them. And regardless of any "card is subject to change / act of god" provisos, that would end up embroiling the RWC Limited in expensive legal action, not to mention costly PR issues. Because while the earthquake was an act of god, it was a human and organisational choice to take tickets off people who had legitimately purchased them when a viable alternative (Eden Park) was available.
I'm sure the fine print on the back of the tickets say they can do about whatever the hell they like including full body cavity searches at the entrance to the ground. When a concert gets cancelled because the bassist had a sore toe there's no legal concerns that force the musicians into returning and honouring those tickets that were sold. They just have to refund them.
On the point of taking tickets off people who already bought them, they will be doing that for the 4 pool games that get moved to smaller grounds than AMI and Eden Park anyway. The capacity for AMI is about 40,000 while most of the grounds being proposed for the moved pool games are 10-20,000 less.
I heard on the TV news last night that people in the UK were already cancelling their trip out here for it.
I love a good argument on a Thursday night.
Right, off to watch My Skyed Time Team. Enjoy your evenings....
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Field Theory: Hospital Pass, in reply to Richard Wain,
Um, Scotland v Georgia? England v Romania? etc... not exactly quarter-final material... 30,000 should be plenty for those games...
I don't get your point and you seem to have missed mine as well. There are people saying that Dunedin couldn't cope with all the people coming in to watch a game down there which doesn't make any sense since they are already scheduled to do just that.
It doesn't matter if they host a pool game, quarter, semi, final, or intergalactic supersonic supreme finale, they still only have a capacity of 30,000 so that's all that they would need to host.
The argument that they couldn't host 40,000, 50,000 or whatever for a quarter final is redundant. They wouldn't need to as only 30,000 tickets would be sold.
The argument that Auckland is a better alternative for the quarters because they can fit more in which will generate 10 million more dollars (4.1 million going to repairing the uninsured turf at AMI) is a good one.
But saying that Dunedin can't cope with 30,000 when they are already penned in to do that isn't.
If the line of thought is that they need to make sure that all existing ticket holders can go see the moved matches then it falls over when you look at the fact that various other smaller venues are being lined up to take the pool games between Argentina v England, England v Georgia, Argentina v Scotland and Australia v Italy. Grounds mentioned so far are Nelson, Invercargill, Napier and North Harbour (amongst others I'm sure). And they are all much smaller than AMI Stadium.
Just quietly, I think they've made the right call moving to Auckland for the quarters.
Just a bit sucky for those down south that's all. :)
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Ummm, some of you seem unaware that Dunedin IS ALREADY hosting three games in this tournament. They will be soldout, their WILL BE 30,000 people at the games.
If you think they can't cope you should quickly write a letter to the WC organisers to let them know so they can move the games out of Dunedin before they get a nasty surprise. ;)
People will travel into towns and cities for games and when they are over they will move out again.
I don't get all the weird, they can't do it, it's impossible stuff, especially when they have hosted 25,000 dozens of times before for tests and will be doing it this time around and will continue to do it again in the future.
Dunedin matches:
Scotland v Georgia
England v Romania
Ireland v Italy -
I can now answer my own post.
The four teams that will be playing in those quarters will be New Zealand (A), France (A), Argentina (B) and England (B) (Tonga and Scotland being outside chances). Maybe England and the NZRU were trying to look after their own backsides by ensuring a nice easy 'travel' schedule after pool play. ie. none.
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Agreed, we should have played Japan in Tokyo instead of Aussie the other year. Would have sold the ground out. I mentioned elsewhere a couple of days ago that next year would be the ideal time to go play a test there. That it won't be competitive is irrelevent. We play Pacific island nations periodcially and win by a 100. We play Ireland, Wales and Scotland every year practically and they are teams we have never lost to, or haven't for 60 years in the case of Wales.
Bring it on.
Moving the quarters to Auckland is a bit sucky. They could have played them in Dunedin. I'm not sure who the likely teams are that would be playing those games.
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I regularly see NZ news stories totally misreported in Korea, and Korean news stories totally misreported in NZ. So this has led me to conclude that half of the international news we get is bollocks and the other half may have the odd fact in it. If you want something verging on the truth you have to go straight to the source of the news. And then of course filter it for bias.
I've only been to Tokyo for a couple of days and was totally disorientated/lost by the immense size of the place. And I was living in the greater Seoul region at the time with it's 10 million in Seoul and 18 million in the greater region. I guess if I lived there a while I'd sort it out.
If Tokyo did have to evacuate/move south in a hurry is it doable in a day or two or is that sheer lunacy to even attempt it?
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Hard News: The Thread, It Is Open, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Kiribati is about 3 to 4 meters above sea level not 1, but yeah, they get any decent sized waves and they're in serious trouble. Hopefully the waves have died out considerably by the time they reach there. It is an extremely isolated country.
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Yeah, those pictures are unbelievable. Horrible seeing the vehicles driving and then completely wiped out by that wall of water and debris.