There was a lot of focus on the venue leading up to the ABs do or die game at the weekend.
Sadly, as Chris Rattue noted in good old Granny, the ABs reached their nadir in Hamilton instead of nirvana.
Smit will go down as a colossus of world rugby, in the pantheon with the likes of [...]
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Oh the irony.
Those Cheating Aussies are accusing the All Blacks of cheating at scrums.
Former Wallabies prop Andrew Blades has accused New Zealand of employing dubious tactics to disrupt the opposition’s scrum in the Tri Nations tournament.
Yep, it’s got nothing to do with the fact that Wallabies have got a crap scrum.
Asked how he thought the [...]
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From news reports it looks like the Maori-Boks game is back on.
On the sporting front, what could be better than the Boks fronting up to the Maori challenge at Soweto* in a 120,000 seater stadium.
The original problem was that the South African teams were not allowed to play against teams selected on racial grounds.
The solution [...]
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Richard Boock likes to get up people’s nose.
And good on him too.
Too much of the New Zealand sporting public acts like they’re been at the bottom of too many rucks or gone too many rounds with Mike Tyson. Without head protection. And without ear muffs.
Over recent weeks, there’s been a couple of issues that are [...]
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As an introductory comment, it’s great to see a sports portal emerge in NZ which provides a place for incisive, thoughtful and analytical blogs (and also this one).
So big ups to the team at NZsport – now, do I get any prizes for the most gratuitous plug for another site??
While I’m at it, it was [...]
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