Captain Grumpy (2) ?
By The Spotter Jeez, Kane. We love you mate, but heck, it’s alright to let a small semblance of a smile flicker across that fraught dial of yours every now and again, you know.[…]
Monthly Archive: March 2018
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 24 March
A busy day keeping up in Plunket Shield cricket at the Basin. The women’s T20 at Pukekura Park against the Windies was washed out. Perhaps this was just as well[…]
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Ignoring the Scoreboard
It must feel really strange going out to bat in reply to a score of 58. Obviously it’s not a batsman’s paradise but you can’t let that total overshadow everything[…]
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80 words in 80 minutes. NRL round three
By Stephen Gallagher Thursday, March 22 Storm v Cowboys, AAMI Park, 21.50 NZT Seeing the Storm go down at AAMI Park two weeks in a row could almost be impossible,[…]
Into the Unknown
Day/night test cricket is still a new beast; there is just not enough of a sample size to make definitive observations. What we do know is that the ball (it’s[…]
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S.O.S.- ‘Sos’ departs
By The Spotter As a Rugby Union halfback for Wellington in the 1980s, fans would remember Neil Sorensen for his tracer bullet of a pass. The one that often set Wilson,[…]
Joshua :- Parker
The fight of the year has been labelled “the most meaningful heavyweight fight in a long time” and there’s no shortage of opinions on picking a winner. With two unbeaten[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 16 March
So Neymar really is a piece of work. Here he is with his sore metatarsal and sprained ankle, cheerily comparing himself to the recently deceased quadriplegic Stephen Hawking. Interesting times[…]
80 words in 80 minutes. NRL round two
By Stephen Gallagher Thursday, March 15 Sharks v Dragons, Southern Cross Group Stadium, 22.05NZT First up losers versus first up winners, and add in the fact these two are rivals,[…]
