Posts by Stuart Coats
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Strictly no target should be unattainable, but some targets should be inconceivably unlikely, so that the team captains can base their strategies around them.
So, if you had been NZ and had decided not to enforce the follow-on, what target would people have set India to win that game (based on us batting at 4 runs per over during our second innings).
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There have been some bloody fabulous test draws. That wasn't one of them.
And yet, if we were Indian supporters we'd be hailing it as a great draw, rather like we did here
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Oh, and I just thought that Stalemate does contain the word stale. It also contains the word mate. And if I was cleverer (and faster) I'd have worked that into my previous post!
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You know who enjoyed the game? Garth George. How can you defend that test cricket fans?
I enjoyed the game.
I don't like Garth George.
The fact that we agreed on this makes the world a slightly less animostic place, if only breifly. And surely that is beauty enough in itself.
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Maybe he started off wanting to say "a quantum leap faster"?
Which he probably didn't say so as to stop his constiuents getting confused
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Stuart, that's not Luddism. You'd have to start smashing things to qualify.
Well, there was that incident involving me, a wall and a recalcitrant laptop but that was probably more frustration.......
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I also confess to luddism here, but can someone tell me whether wireless could conceivably work, and whether that would be cheaper?
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I was talking with someone at Australian Opera last year, and they estimated that 50% of their audience, especially during the summer months, were people from outside of Sydney who went to see their productions simply because they were on at the Opera House. That is a huge number obviously, which shows the pulling power of that building. I think not just the building itself, but its location. As a tourist to Sydney you WILL see it. It is also close to all major transport options. That's not even talking about its beauty, the fact you can sit there in the sun during the day etc.
I would be interested to know similar audience numbers for Circa Theatre here in Wellington. It also enjoys a great location for tourists: anyone who goes to Te Papa , and most tourists do, see Circa.
I am sure that was the idea behind the Arts Precinct that was mooted for Auckland. But, like Graham, I would love to see an arts-based building/precinct on the Auckland waterfront. Although that may well kill off the argument as put out by Metro about the cultural capital - Auckland would win it hands down in that scenario! -
Haydn - go on, tell us your baseball story.
Mine's all about going to see the Dodgers in LA when I was 10 -
McCullum makes it and I breathe a sigh of relief