Posts by Mikaere Curtis
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Nothing so intolerant as a Greenie questioned, eh?
Does this mean Dan is a Green ? Great, let's get him on some billboards at the next election; maybe we'll score Craig's vote :)
Actually, I didn't see any ads after the game - too busy preparing for a scheduled retail therapy session. Unlike those poor guys at St Lukes that Russell saw, I was in for some focussed power shopping. Immersing yourself in seriously funky apparel does wonders for any sense of disappointment.
I think you've raised some good points about the Barnes affair and the IRB's role. I feel sorry of Paddy O'Brien - his role is to support his refs, even the embattled Barnes. Can't be easy spinning this one.
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Twisting it a little - but a mouthy git/sniping prick is exactly who we needed on the field - a Mashall or Weepu - not a porn star - shud've known we were fked then.
If you mean Greganesque referee ear-chewing, then I'll concede that (sometimes incessant) direct communication is a masculine value, and has been used to some effect in test rugby.
However, I wouldn't classify it as sniping, which seems to be Tom's speciality.
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But rugby is about strong male values, and blubbing (in public while the game is still on) isn't what I expect from test match hardened All Blacks.
I am so glad your anally retentive, hopelessly retarded, minimalist emotional palette is rejected by rugby heroes such as Dan Carter. Boys need emotionally capable men to look up to, not the throwsback of yesteryear.
I agree that rugby espouses many masculine values. But those values don't include being a sniping prick. Then again, given your coprolitic emotional rhetoric, I suspect you will disagree.
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You ride your luck and luck wasn't on the AB's side, but to say that the best team didn't win on the day (quoting the guy from Haka here) still seems counter to the culture somehow. It's more of a soccer thing, and believe me I grew up among that rubbish - I'd rather it weren't part of the discourse at all than on the few occasions when it makes a certain amount of sense.
Uh huh.
It appears you fail to see the totally soccer-style hollywood that predicated McAlister's erroneous sin binning.
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I'll take the All Blacks results under Henry (circa 42/48) or our historical results against France 34/46 (yes, I just watched Campbell) any day over a RWC quarter final presided over by a n00b, out-of-his-depth referee any day.
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Are you saying that the ABs couldn't have won the game yesterday?
No, I'm saying the ref had an undue and disgraceful influence on the outcome. And dispute your assertion that it is correct for a ref to favour the host team.
Like I said earlier, the serious game-changing decisions (tries/yellow & red cards) ought to be confirmed by the TMO.
And the ABs need to get some really good sports psychology onboard to help them deal with these pressure games.
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You play to the conditions and guess what, when you play against the hosting nation you also play to an extent against the ref.
Are you saying that the ABs won in 1987 because they had hosting rights ?
Paul Waite is right on the money.
That being said, I would like the next cup team to be able to slot a drop goal from anywhere in their opponent's half.
Plus I'd like to see some moderation of important rulings from the quarter finals onwards. Any yellow card, red car or try should be sent to the TMO for confirmation. At the very least, this would have prevented Barnes' ignoble performance from getting as out-of-hand as it did.
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I think Russell made an excellent observation on Bfm's Hard Word before the cup began. He said that if it were a 3 match series, he'd back the ABs to win 100%. But in a knockout match, you can never be sure. And so it proved.
Mitchell's team was good, and Henry elevated them to greatness and I'd like to see Henry stay on.
I didn't pay attention to the '91 cup, but all the other cup losses have been from teams with nothing to lose and everything to gain. To my mind, the ABs have never been in that position, apart from maybe the Baby Blacks after the Cavalier tour.
They obviously have a problem adjusting to the pressure of high expectation and empassioned nothing-to-lose opposition. The problem, as I see it, is that they so rarely find themselves confronted by these high pressure games. Lately (and I mean for the last few years) the ABs been in crush/thrash/trounce mode, which is no preparation.
I remember Hamish Carter saying how he managed to turn his 2000 Olympics below-par performance into 2004 gold medal. He took Sarah Ulmer's advice: "Just enjoy it".
Which is hard to do with the ref making an international disgrace of himself and handing 17 points to the other side.
Yes, I blame the ref. But I also blame Argentina for upsetting France and pushing them into a quarter against the ABs. And now I hope they go on to win the cup. I want a Falkland's final.
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If the ABs win:
Whisky, it goes with everything
...including French toast
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Bjork will be great, can't wait. And rocking out the Rage can only be a good thing too.
BUT, did anyone else notice that they'd skimped on an entire speaker stack on the main stage this year? It left the sound very muddy on the left side. I certainly hope they do not do the same at next year's BDO.
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Yesterday on the bfm Wire, Kevin List from Scoop said that he had a source who indicated that this line in the article:
John Key just has to keep his head down, and is happy to campaign as "Labour with tax cuts"...
was originally drafted as:
John Key just has to keep his hands off himself in the shower, head down, and is happy to campaign as "Labour with tax cuts"...
Methinks they should have left it in...