Incessant Sledging is oh so Passé
By The Spotter Sorry, Kris Shannon. As much as I usually agree with what you come out with (and I do miss your interesting and eclectic Weird World of Sports column in the[…]
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Vale to three top men of the ‘8’ Jersey
By The Spotter Gary Seear, then Mac McCallion and just this past week, Dylan Mika. It’s a sad, premature farewell to three prominent members of the NZ Rugby family. And all played[…]
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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.[…]
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,[…]
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The Modest and the Moronic
By The Spotter On one side of the great southern oceans a Samoan sorcerer waved his wooden wand and turned eleven Englishmen to dust. Away over on the side and not long before, a[…]
The Bumbling Blues- Rugby’s Ultimate Passion Killers
By The Spotter There won’t be much indepthness in here, more like lament. The Blues-Chiefs last night, especially the first half: To borrow a J Marshall-ism (just this once- you have my[…]
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Eden Park- Number One Polariser of the Moment
By The Spotter Ignore the jingoistic-type tripe from Eden Park’s CEO with a shady past, Nick Sautner about how the place is the perfect amphitheatre for cricket. That’s his job to[…]
72 and Doully Also Hit to the Boundary
By The Spotter I’m going into bat for Simon Doull a bit here, even though Kane Williamson on Tuesday evening put up seventy-two compelling reasons why I possibly shouldn’t. I don’t know[…]
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NZR: World Cup Champions in Self-Servitude and Hypocrisy
By The Spotter Get Hurricanes Rugby coach Chris Boyd drunk off his face then and he’ll probably tell you exactly what he really thinks of Steve Hansen and NZR (NZ Rugby). But[…]
Is Ice Slowly Melting?
By The Spotter It was an unpredictable outcome about which the incorrigible ego-maniac Trump somehow tried to take credit for. And it is an outcome that should by rights be the[…]
