Posts by LegBreak
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Yup; the music gets me too, and I used to actually quite like Blur.
HG; this is an organisation that does not elect its CEO and gets an old family friend of the President to perform an Independent Review. And now you’re expecting a focus group?
Tew will go ice-skating in hell before that happens.
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Night rugby is about the only thing you can blame on the Northern Hemisphere money situation though RI.
The rest is all self-inflicted.
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Absolutely correct about the Super 14 starting too early. Supposedly this is to get one up on the NRL, but it’s the NRL that benefits here, because people are actually wanting it to start when it rolls around. There’s a real arrogance about it too, meaning other sports (esp. cricket) just have to fit around it.
Afternoon games is a given too (good point Dan re the Phoenix), but when the NZRU is getting most of its money from overseas SKY subscribers that’s a tricky one. No excuse for the shortage of afternoon games in the NPC or whatever it’s called these days though.
So these two reasons are behind the gradual disillusionment in the game, but it’s really taken off over the last year, and that’s down to the disaster of last year. Not so much what happened but the way it’s been rammed down our throats.
Last year’s Super 14 was clearly a shambles. No-one was consulted (I like Haydn’s idea of a focus group, but I assume he’s taking the piss) about it. We were told This Is How It Will Be. So that’s a big part of the year gone, and meant we had an All Black side in free-fall by the time the RWC came along.
The back-room reappointment of Henry was breathtaking really, I still haven’t got my head around that one. Is there anyone out there who is seriously looking forward to seeing any gloating smugness from that panel should we demolish England in June?
And then, just when we were starting to get over it, out came the “review”, crammed full of corporate bingo
Oh, and having a CEO who was never elected doesn’t help either.And damn you for posting that Haydn, I was having quite a good, rugby-free day up until I read that :)
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Just out of interest Russell B
Why are you giving Wishart the oxygen of publicity?
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Buy this, I need the Attention
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Not so sure about the diminishing time given to each funeral Jean.
The father on Tuesday who said he hoped who ever received his daughter’s donated eye “also received her vision” seemed to get a fair bit of airtime.
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At least the family of the guy killed by lightening last week were saved this cheap voyeurism because of the bigger tragedy, which fortuitously involved youth.
Not sure I totally agree with you about the dignity bit Craig, but if I say what I really think about the constant “They were too good for this world” theme throughout the week I’ll probably get into trouble…
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OK, I’ll say it.
Does anyone else think that the Elim church was perhaps too open with the media during this period of greif?
The televising of the assembly when they read out the names of the victims being one case that springs to mind.
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Tussock,
That rings a bell; was that the 56 or 65 tour?
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…or “Olympic torch relay”