A Place Called Home
By Hamish Girvan How about a place called Home? Looking at solutions not problems Last weekend in Wellington yet another All Black test was lost. Don’t get me wrong it[…]
Tagged: administration
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Stadiums and Booze; Easing Back a Bit
By Paul Montague Should drinking in our stadiums at big sports encounters be a right? Or a privilege? If we are ever to change mindsets about getting tanked on booze[…]
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Rugby Union in the pre Internet years
Sometimes an innocuous tweet can reveal something. When Beauden Barrett takes the field against Wales B on Sunday it will be his 100th "test"50 as a starter, 50 off the[…]
MISSING International Rugby League
By Stephen Gallagher Does anyone remember the glory days of international rugby league? It doesn’t feel like that long ago there was some sort of resurgence. 2019 was the first[…]
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Collected Memory: the future of the NZ Sports Hall of Fame
By Jamie Bell In the 1990s, I was a sports mad kid growing up in Central Otago, deep in a sports mad country. While we had the opportunity to see[…]
No Ordinary Times and Games
By The Spotter The final of the ICC Men’s World test cricket championship is to be staged from June 18-22. Any potential victory for New Zealand over India though could[…]
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That Was The Week That Was
Considering the Blackcaps and White Ferns haven’t played, it’s been quite the week for New Zealand Cricket and their partners. Last Friday a report out of Hawke’s Bay regarding[…]
Rugby’s big headache
By Scott MacLean A little over a month ago I wrote in this space about the events of the fourth and final Bledisloe Cup Test that saw All Black Ofa[…]
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Righting Past Wrongs
By Andrew Dunford Wellington, 24 September 2020 BREAKING NEWS New Zealand Rugby (NZR) today confirmed its intention to retrospectively cut short the All Blacks’ 1972/73 tour of the British Isles,[…]
One in Seven
By Aiden McLaughlin Can you imagine if, after all the discussions of the last week, New Zealand Rugby had turned around a few days ago and said ‘We regret to[…]
