Posts by Daniel Wilton
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Beervana was a great day/evening out. The only that disappointed me was unlike last year the food was only overpriced as opposed to overpriced and varied as it was last year.
I appreciate that it is a beer event, I was little disappointed that I couldn't spread the load of an 8.9% Christmas beer with a nice whitebait fritter sandwich or the like.
Next year we will be taking friday afternoon off so that we can attend the show and be able to chat to the brewers, there were just too many people there on the Saturday
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Uniform question
How come the Warriors does not have the stitching in the same way that the lions jersey does. It has the same panel lay out but not the stitching.
I personally think that this would further enhance what is the best thing about the warriors this season. Their jersey.
Also why weren't Canterbury wearing an alternative strip on Saturday against North Harbour. I almost needed high def to make the two teams out
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The games weren't fun to go to anymore; the crowds were pathetically small and disengaged from the game happening on the paddock and there were too many breaks in play which interupted the flow - maybe rugby has been taking a cue from American football or gridiron.
Two Refs simpler tackle ball rules, matching numbers in the lineouts all of these things would make rugby flow better and be more fun.
The NRL is great to watch at the moment.
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My father loves to rant about what is wrong with rugby. We had massive yarn about it while at the Singapore Gran Prix last year (oops name dropped, anywho)
His thoughts were divvy the Ab's up around the country, I know that logistically this wouldn't work, but you could stop current all blacks moving to provinces with high concentrations of players.
I also had the bizarre idea of opening up All black selection to international based players. (one condition is that you must at least 3 npc games and 2 club rugby games per session) once again logistical nightmare and potentially weakening domestic rugby.
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And, I say this as an amateur sports administrator, how can you run a province which jumps between amateur and professional competitions? One year you need to sign a bunch of players to contracts and find lots of money to pay them, the next year the contracts are player agreements for no money. One year you need to employ more staff to cope in the 1st division, next year you're down to a couple of staff and amateurs running the rest.
My understanding of the sponsorship structure is that only top teams have secured multiyear deals with their sponsors. The teams that are at the bottom of the competition have revolving sponsors (including B.O.P's string of failed finance companies) As far as the wages go most of the top players wages are met by the NZRU
Teams such as B.O.P. Hawkes Bay and Northland are not composed of solely professional players. As I recall some of the players who weren't on super 14 contracts put in the best performances of last years NPC.
That is the essence of what is wrong with super 14 it is all about money. It is about selling more merchandise, shitty marketing (I am talking to you Hurricanes)
I think what I am really getting at is that the current model doesn't work and needs to be overhauled or scrapped
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Super Rugby get rid of it.
Super Rugby is a waste of space it is flawed in that it offers token recognition to the junior partners of the franchises (how many tasman based all blacks ever played an NPC game?
The first issue is the Arrogance of the NZRU saying let's chuck another couple of teams in there we will just start earlier. So you summer sports get stuffed.
What is needed is something similar to how the football (Soccer) is organised in structure and adopt a premier competition based on the premier league. Multiple divisions played over two rounds.
The highest placed teams enter into a champions league format competition that includes clubs from around the southern hemisphere.
The two round structure would mean that you wouldn't end up with the ridiculous situation that the Air NZ cup presented that has seen Waikato play in Wellington once in the last since the format change (and they were awful)
Automatic promotion relegation for the bottom and top 2 teams in each division
Introduce a cup that is competed by all of the provincial teams in New Zealand.
Introduce a salary cap
Introduce a transfer fee to all clubs (i.e. stop teams like Canterbury and Wellington buying in a the talent, does anyone else remember Ben Herring absolutely dominating the Wellington loosies before they brought him) The fee would also apply to international clubs and would put money back in the coffers of club rugby.Sometimes ex-players don't make te best administrators.
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Crispy brown on the outside, but still succulent and tender in the middle.
mmmmm......done professionally
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I have to say that while losing your temper is unacceptable.
The guy that he is nutting off at, doesn't do anything but bait him. I do like the like the line about him being a "nice guy, but.........."
and what does "done professionally" mean? would it be ok to go out for a beer with him?
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I think that there needs to be some more thought in the new legislation about the Woddstock Bourbon and Cola.
I was working on Friday night and gentleman who had spent a considerable amount of time consuming said beverage tried to take my head off after I refused him entry to the bar I was working at.
Even though I had politely told him it was 'full up'. Oh well it may be something that the Nats get right.
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But I've observed them asking for it off their parents over the 37 years I've been alive and I've never yet seen a taker, with the exception of extremely sweet alcohol. That I have seen children return to. I feel the sweetness throws out that data a little, since it's obvious that children like sweet things. Is anyone going to ask me for scientific evidence of that?
I think that you have made the point that everyone has been trying to make and that is that we tend to prefer sweeter things when we are younger.
and you have made a case for why RTD's need to be knocked on the head. The sweet factor