Posts by Yamis
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Henry Rollins tells a good story about what Iggy did at a festival gig during his performance where The Cure were coming on afterwards and had all these flowers in pots out on stage to decorate their upcoming set.
It features a lot of blood, dirt and broken terracotta.
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Andre:
I started playing rugby as a 6 year-old. Tackle rugby. No one was badly hurt and it was a lot of fun. Rippa rugby it wasn't...
Andre, that's primary school stuff. When I was at primary school in the 80s they had the same thing with touch rugby introduced to get ALL the kids playing it, girls included, and they also had kiwi cricket as well.
Funny thing is I played in sevens tournament for schools (which still exist) and there were roller mills trials and all that stuff... which still exists.
And then there's the hundreds of rugby clubs round the country that exist for parents and kids who want to get involved. They tackle, they keep score, they fall over and cry.
This BS idea that its the schools fault if they are trying to encourage kids to stay fit and healthy rather than belt the hell out of each other in some All Black production line is a modern nonsense.
We have rugby clubs.
In my experience anybody who gives a stuff about getting their child to play league, rugby, cricket etc joins one and that's where they learn the game. Leave the schools to get kids involved and the sports clubs to get into the finer points. I mean seriously, are we expecting a primary school teacher to teach the kids how to clean out a ruck in their afternoon PE class? I'm sure there's some who know how but exactly how many things is a school teacher expected to know and do? They don't work for the NZRU.
It's time some people stopped living in some fantasy land and went out, joined a club and saved the world.
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I think it very much depends on the sport. Netball seems to have issues in this regard. I'm only going anecdotally because the last time I was near a netball court was about 1990 to watch my sisters play. But in the sports I am involved with (rugby, league and cricket) I have never heard peep from a parent who thinks its too competitive or that their kid should have more game time. Maybe more at primary school but by high school everybody is after blood!!!! There's certainly plenty of anecdotal evidence for parental input and involvement on the sidelines becoming more negative in nature. The sporting bodies and referees are certainly noticing it more and more.
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What is the real cost of the box on that basis?
I'm selling my (secondhand) freeview box on trademe. I'll let you know ;)
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My argument is about children missing out. Going to school and having their wealthier friends ask whether or not they are watching it etc. We are encouraging a split between the haves and have-nots that seems at odds with our stated beliefs as a nation. We spend lot on encoraging kids to play sport but these events will inspire children in a way that a Push Play campaign never will.
I agree with your sentiment and it's something I've lamented as well but sadly that ship has long since sailed.
If you don't have SKY then you basically do not watch rugby fullstop. Seeing a sport once every 4 years (and often it's on in the wee small hours) is not going to have the effect I think you think it will have.
If you want kids watching cricket, rugby, league and other sports they have the chance to play in NZ then it needs to be on regularly and that dried up aside from the odd single delayed game once a weekend on at some late time donkeys years ago.
Besides, there's 2 years for people to sort out their recpetion situation if they are that desperate.
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I love the Whip-it chant "we're number Two, we're Number Two".. And the coach saying "Yay, we came second out of two teams!" It could be adapted perfectly by the PC bunch ruining our school sport...
Seriously, what an utter load. I've grown to expect it from many people though because it's what other people who know nothing say so it must be true because my kids primary school netball team didn't take the score and I was astounded so the whole country has gone to hell in an apple cart.
As someone who actually works in a school and coaches and manages teams and who actually takes trainings and gets out there watching school sports every week all year every year....
I can declare that the kids are as competitive now as they've ever been and my school provides ample opportunities for them to play rugby, league, cricket, netball, curling, bowls, badminton etc etc etc And yes we do keep the score, in every game I've ever been to and one team does lose and teams get points, and make playoffs and finals and cry when they lose and jump on each other in jubilation when they win and the NZ league team does win world cups and the cricket team does make Champions trphy finals and we do win gold medals at the olympics and we do produce professional soccer players...
FFS.
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Andre:
I wouldn't have caught the rugby as a kid on that basis. Love of our national sporting team is something that binds us together as a nation. Not everyone agrees (Paul etc) but the majority do...
A regularly trotted out generalisation.
The WC quarterfinal loss in 2007 was on a Sunday morning around 8am on free to air TV (TV3) and had 1,000,000 viewers.
What on earth were the other 3,000,000 doing?
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Exactly.
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I'll give you guys a first hand account of what this fight meant.
For weeks and weeks my students were asking me who I thought was going to win the fight and they all reckoned Tua would in a knockout.
Then last night while I was watching TV (some crappy soccer) I heard screaming and yelling outside about ten past ten and thought, hell that can't be what I think it is. Sure enough, I went outside and the cul de sac that is through a reserve from my house went absolutely apeshit with everybody outside screaming and yelling celebrating what I knew must be a Tua knockout.
And now I read that hundreds of people were swarming outside his house in Mangere.
That's what the fight meant to a good chunk of our community and probably perfect timing as well.
I guess that's modern Auckland(/NZ). There are huge parts of the city that people can be completely disconnected from, having no idea whats pushing their buttons.
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Nice Danielle. I'm gonna have to use that one sometime.