Field Theory: Four Years Ago
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RFU generally refers to the English Rugby Footbal Union I believe.
Regarding the witchhunt for a scapegoat for friday, where does the entity known as "Auckland Regional Steering group for the Rugby World Cup 2011" fit into this kerfuffle. The name alone suggests at least they should have had visibility of the issues ?
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I found This quite informative as a bit of history...
Scragged, beaten and bitter
By Paul Panckhurst
Saturday 1st June 2002
This year will go down in history as the year the NZRFU, through a mixture of apathy, incompetence and childish behaviour, lost New Zealand the Rugby World Cup. Paul Panckhurst reveals, among other things, just why we couldn't get those stadiums clean.Don't call us, we won't call you
Once upon a time, there was a company with a couple of corporate boxes. The company was Fletcher Building; the boxes were at Eden Park. It was early March 2002.
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McCully: it's my waterfront now! <evil laugh>
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Can someone explain how they can do this?
s.48 of the RWC Empowering Act allows the Minister to declare something a permitted activity. That seems to me to be rather different from taking someone's land under arbitrary central government control.
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The name was officially shortened in 2006 with the removal of the world “Football”
Because the concept of kicking the ball brought back too many bad memories?
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Now do you see why I find the suggestion of the rugby union having any power in this funny?
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Administering shock treatment...
Government seizes control of Auckland waterfront
Too much, too late ...
so who will run the day-to-day?
Will Dame Margaret Bazley and the Commissioners
be flown in with help from the army?
Perhaps Gerry Brownlee can be sent in
to give an insensitive shake up as well...
Paula Bennett can press gang the unemployed
into cleaning and the like while Little Stevie Joyce
can direct traffic, with a cone on his head...It could be the '51 lock out all over again,
I wouldn't rate their ability to organise
a piss up for a foreign brewery highlyJeez, talk about loose cannons, and McCully is
Foreign Affairs Minister too...
Gawd help us all - hopefully this will
help them lose the election. -
Murray McCully
not so much a micro-manager
as a microcephalic manager... -
Steve Barnes, in reply to
Now do you see why I find the suggestion of the rugby union having any power in this funny?
No. The fact that somebody indulges in apathy, incompetence and childish behaviour does not exclude them from having power, unfortunately.
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Sacha, in reply to
I can only conclude that you may need to study up on the various organisations involved in the decisions. Hopefully Russell may post a new thread about this soon.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
I can only conclude that you may need to study up on the various organisations
Then you conclude incorrectly. That is the last thing I NEED to do, do I look Bothered?
Perhaps if you want to pin the blame for anything anywhere then may I suggest you do some studying instead of just dropping great gobs of other peoples work into your posts and criticising everything others have to offer. -
Radio NZ news says Len Brown is only just now being briefed about the waterfront takeover.
Which appears to mean that McCully announced it to journalists without telling the Mayor of Auckland.
Far out.
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Yes - the only way that "we" can save ourselves is to behave like a one party communist state - that one party being National and NZ becoming the National New Zealand People's Democratic Republic.
I am surprised that citizen Key and Co didn't pass a GFC Empowering Act .
The following - adapted from a Bob Beresford post on Radiolive website.
Message to fellow Citizens,
Len Brown very bad, he idiot, he the problem we make this clear, This never happen again in Party Central District, when we properly host next Rugby World Cup celebration real good time everybody have.
First we have spontaneous demonstration of affection for our Beloved Leader – John Key the First - with the only working NZ army LAV driving around square in circles, round and round, as happy workers army of mens and womens march around - perfect step - all their feet going up down, up down, up down, then they salute as they pass by Supreme Leader John key. He is sitting on balcony with benevolent smiling look, smiling at happy people who love him, all marching around Party Central with feet going up down, up down, all afternoon.
Happy revolutionary guards of Young National Party all around, smiling, everybody smiling and very happy. Happy, happy smiling peoples everywhere wearing John Key Badges.
Tourists can enjoy this display and then take trains to Rugby games and closing ceremony which is more better than Len Brown party but not as good as military display for birthday of beloved father of country First Citizen John key the First.
Who needs rugby then? Okay, we can do it anyway First Citizen so generous to people of world. No problems with trains, no problem with Len Brown. Too many people getting on train? - We take them off and take them away for questioning and cultural re-integration. Okay, if they stay on train torture worse no problem we have them disappear, no problem for them, no problem for me, no problem for you.
People on railway tracks?! No good. We make them push broken LAV around and around in circles then we show them love. They not understand how to love and respect Supreme Leader and they stop train from being on time, they most ungrateful. They make mistake of leftist ideology. Big mistake not to love first citizen..
Everyone else very happy to see games in National New Zealand People’s Democratic Republic, and also show much love to our beloved leader First Citizen John Key the First.
Rugby World Cup very easy. In National New Zealand People's Democratic Republic everyone very happy, very organised and very much love a lot of supreme leader John Key the First.
Much love and big ups,
Murray McCully - Special Envoy for Beloved First Citizen of the National New Zealand People’s Democratic Republic.
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Paul Williams, in reply to
Where's Jock Hobbs when you need him? Actually, I think I know the answer, he's unwell.
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Sacha, in reply to
actually I can't be bothered responding to that. say something halfway informed and I'll reconsider.
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Perhaps the Government could take over running the trains...
While they are at it they could Nationalise the Electricity Industry and the Banking and Insurance sector.
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Steve & Sasha: your bickering session is going ok, but I'd suggest taking a few lessons from the real pros at this.
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Sacha, in reply to
so long as neither of us has to become an embittered security analyst or anything
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merc,
I need to know, will there be jackets commemorating the takeover, CERA style, as seen on TV.
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Sacha, in reply to
a stylish rubber ducky outfit for glorious leader McCully perhaps
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IMHO - The whole RWC downtown event - the Great Booze up Party Central emphasis, the transport failure and finger pointing, the lack of toilets, the Waka crew crowding and assault and when they returned to the Waka they found they had been used as receptacles for discarded beer bottles and cigarette buts - has become churlish in the extreme.
4 years of planning and this is the face we present.
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Paul Williams, in reply to
the Waka crew crowding and assault and when they returned to the Waka they found they had been used as receptacles for discarded beer bottles and cigarette buts
I was really saddened to read this aspect of it all. Having felt like NZ culture/biculture was well and truly represented... what the hell to make of this? Kids and women abused by drunks, just not on, not ever.
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Just thinking, in reply to
I don't see those jackets outside of circus performances like "share an idea". Truth be told Gerry has to get everything made for him, so it may not happen for Murray McF*&k-up.
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What goes around...
Meanwhile at the centre of our Solar System...*
Spaceweather starts today's posting with the marvellous sentence -
"A comet is diving into the sun today."
It seems to be unnamed - so I'd like to name it 'The National Party'
(movie here)*Which surprisingly, is only occupied by a yellow dwarf star (no not Rodney Hide) and not Murray McCully nor John Key, much as they'd like to have you believe otherwise...
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the usual suspects...
In amongst all McCully's finger-pointing, Dave Dobbyn must be relieved he hasn't been blamed for the breakdown of the waterfront event... ;- )Is there a new big little slogan in the wind:
Auckland - the city of fails?Kids and women abused by drunks, just not on, not ever.
Meanwhile the Godwits arrive back in Chchch today.
Here's hoping the F*ckwits don't return to Ak's Fanzone on friday...
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