Posts by giovanni tiso
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Am I the only one the current lead on the Herald (''Pampered' All Blacks, not Henry, take the blame') profoundly annoying? First of all, "take the blame" suggests it's the players themselves who are doing the taking (native speakers are invited to correct me on this). Secondly, since when are the people who write comments to the Herald synonimous with the "New Zealand public" invoked in the first line of the piece?
I guess four years ago the New Zealand public consisted of to talkback radio callers, which is possibly even worse, but come on...
Are there any Aucklanders on Public Address willing to go to the airport on Wednesday and offer a slightly different take on what the New Zealand public is like?
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I meant to reply to Charles' post, of course, which is now on the previous page.
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Ah, yes, but as Chris 'The French pose absolutely no threat to the All Blacks' Rattue would say
You take a considered stand and you take your chances in these things. It is the columnist's lot, and an enjoyable, invigorating one whatever the outcome.
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Actually, Stephen Jones is right, and we have to deal with it.
Whoa, I wouldn't go that far. When you make the other team complete 173 tackles, you must be doing something right, and the other team is doing something simply enormous. Both teams have to be given credit (the French more so) for a classic game. Jones has often been found wanting in that department.
Why do we put some much meaning into it?
It sure beats waging actual wars.
Are you saying that the ABs won in 1987 because they had hosting rights ?
I'm not. Are you saying that the ABs couldn't have won the game yesterday?
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Nice message for the All Blacks from Paul Waite at Haka.
Uhm... if by nice you mean: you were beaten by the ref, guys, we're right behind you, then I guess it was nice. It's an awfully simplistic way of looking at it, though, and I would hope that most players would reject it. You play to the conditions and guess what, when you play against the hosting nation you also play to an extent against the ref.
Don't get me wrong, I come from a long line of bad sports and my first two reaction are always going to be "it's a crap sport anyway" and "in my head we actually won". But would you really say that it wasn't the best team who won on the day, is that what you take out of the game?
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NZ Have won 100% of the Rugby World Cups held in New Zealand and won 0% of World Cups held on foreign soil.
Roll on 2011...
Here's another. If the All Blacks are to soccer what Brazil is to rugby, then Brazil went from 1970 to 1994 without winning a world cup. 24 years.
Roll on 2011...
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Wouldn't a France-Argentina rematch in the final be great?
Yes, it would be tremendous. I'm almost glad we lost.
(Seriously, there is such a thing as taking it too maturely, Russell.)
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This is totally beside the point (really, who cares), but the accountants at TV3 must be huddled in a corner sobbing just about now - I mean even more than the nation at large. Did anybody notice that after that ridicolous scam of theirs about the fact that really they were broadcasting the game mostly for the sake of PNG and the Pacific rather than NZ, McKay proceeded to welcome the viewers from the Pacific well into the second half?
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So long Graham Henry, then, another coach who will be remembered as a failure since nothing counts in between World Cups anymore, and that's truly a shame. Meanwhile, I'm sure that Chris Rattue will get to keep his job. A sad, sad commentary of the times we live in.
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There isn't really any need for regional rights holders for online content.
Lots of sports highlights and events can only be viewed in certain countries. The CBC coverage of hockey and the Italian Serie A highlights come immediately (and painfully) to mind. Two soccer world cups ago I couldn't listen to the Italian national radio broadcasts for a whole month (not just the game commentaries - the whole thing) because they blocked overseas listeners for the duration of the tournament.
For this RWC there is an exclusive North American web platform - I wonder if it means that people in North America can't purchase the service from the RWC website.