Posts by Just thinking
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Russell, is it the score that matters or journey the game takes you on?
A shot is made from outside the box.
Will it curl in?
Come off the head of a charging run from a preplanned move?
Saved by the keeper ?
Fluffed by their defender for an own goal?
Or fly through untouched by all in a wasted effort?Either way the journey and multipul options an open game offers is a rewarding experience IMHO.
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Sacha, quite right a bad game of League beats a bad game of union, due purely to its structure.
As for cricket. I disagree with many who've studied the game. I see its modern incarnation coming from the class structure, to entertain the wealthy unemployed through their days & having to pay the poor to play with them. To count cricket as a sport is to ignore W.G. Grace - Shane Warne. It is entertainment, and an excuse to gamble, as it always has been.
There might well be a strong anti-rugby feeling in NZ, because of the thugby element that persists, 1981, and the way celebrated players get name suppression or light sentences or overseas contracts when convicted for crimes of rape and manslaughter, shooting seals?
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giovanni, boredom & despair? Surely not.
The transparancy of the game, simple rules (except for off side) holds the greatest potential for a free flowing game and excibition of skill.
Using the NZ context, it is completely different to a sodden game of rugby where the ball is wrapped up in a maul or scrum and dodgy doe is done to secure it. I never knew the rules when I played rugby and firmly refuse to learn them now. That is how it was always played.
Those quieter moments allow for the development of team spirit and songs to be sung.
Football is an event bigger than the game. -
Thanks Emma, buggar.
How far has it gone down the demolition route?
Would love to try and keep it by giving the long term costings ( crap new buildings need $$ repares).
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That BBC piece wasn't quiet the ass work I expected of an opinion piece but still held plenty of paternalism, of the Home country upon its colony and their rag tag ethnic make up.
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Too true, & lets not put too much into F*&ken anthems. I won't sing one of ours (God save the Queen) and am not familiar enough in te reo or sign for the other to give it a desent go,
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Wish I was there.
On the All White thing - can we change names for this cup?
All Whites in South Africa, ain't a good look.
How's about Keas & score a car sponsorship deal?
Or the New Zealand squad.
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Yes, the All Whites, needs too much context and awareness of the juxtaposition of the All Blacks to make sense and even then...
But yay - not quite the kid I was in 1982 - but yay!
8hrs to drink and think and still try and see the game - its gonna be close.
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Cute.
Is it the Hydo or the Grand in the last couple of camera shots? It's in danger anyways - notice the crows nest - cool.
I quite like the idea of open access CCTV (an oxy - but I'm tired) as opposed to a Police only access thing.
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Canada has taken a few steps away from the first nations in recent years, as we have with FS&SB.