 Another week in New Zealand sport come and gone, and currently the rugby season in that state of flux, no test matches, the NPC, ANZ Cup, whatever you call it just warming into it, so the games having no great meaning at the moment - although tomorrow nights Waikato clash with Canterbury a traditio0nal game with plenty of feeling, so perhaps the start of the real NPC.
So a slow week to be sure, the highlight the rant from Matt Gunn (http://www.radiosport.co.nz/ThisWeek/41230.wma about 11 minutes in) that may, or may not have had something to do with this piece about how crap Radio Sport has become. While the opening piece from our resident 'gutless wonder' seemed quite reasoned, offered criticism and solutions, the Shackle Dragging Wog food loving reply wasn't. Stay tuned, as I am sure this is not over - read the thread (Radio Sport dummy spit) in the forum, but be prepared to sign your name to it...!
Other than that slight highlight, there has been Ricogate, with Rico 'show me the money' Gear not wanting to play for Tasman, and wanting to play for Canterbury. Well diddums, you shouldn't have signed to play for them then you bloody brain surgeon. Pretty bloody simple, but then, so is Rico by the looks of how he has handled things since signing for Nelson Bays at the end of 2004. No sympathy for the man from this quarter, and not much from this quarter either (TSF forum - Rico Gate).
Worth a mention after sneaking back onto the representative scene for Auckland, Derren Witcombe. Worth a mention for two reasons, one, he has returned from that career threatening injury, and two, we're lacking a second hooker at All Black level still. Oliver is stuttering along on about three cylinders - as I have mentioned before, he needs to stop reading books with big words, and start eating some raw steak and driving nails in with his forehead again. Hore, just not quite up to it at set piece time. So that leaves a spot wide open for a genuine backup hooker to Mealamu. Also in the chase, historically anyway, Waikato's Tom Willis. he'll need a big NPC though to push for an EOYT spot. He had the goods - just needs to see if they are still there. And of course, the New Zealand Junior captain Corey Flynn. But digressing, Witcombe back on deck, good luck to that man.
And the 'stars' in the papers again - Pieman Dunning leaning on a taxi cab door and breaking it while pissed, and copping a fine from NSW rugby. Fair enough. Then another incident, this one a tad more serious, a former Kiwi and league international that is being done for a date rape type thing - farking disgusting. This wanker still has his name suppressed, but rest assured, when he can be named and shamed, we'll be leading the way. Well, not a wanker actually, but a rapist, the lowest of the low.
And I haven't commented on the shit that is flowing about the new All Black haka and the throat slitting gesture. But I will now. First off, we won't buy into the shit about drawing strength into the body, the throat slitting gesture is about getting ready to come and kick some arse - your time has come chum, and we're about to beat you to a pulp. But that is all that it means. It doesn't mean that kids are going to start running around and slitting their own throats, as the Einstein Wobbly coach Knuckles spasticated on about, and used as a reason for the All Blacks not doing it. If that was the case, then perhaps any one of the million and three violent movies being screened at the moment around the world should be banned. The weekend tabloids in New Zealand jumping on the bandwagon too, as it is the thing to do at the moment, 'haka bash'. Typical NZ tall poppy syndrome. A simple solution though for all these wanting to defuse the All Black haka. Treat it as nothing special, just a part of the game, like having to listen to the oppositions national anthem, part of the process you go through before kickoff. Don't be tossers and do the tackle bag thing after the haka - that is showing that you are thinking about it. Don't talk about it at all during the week before the match - you don't talk about the anthems or who is going to sing them or how the All Blacks are going to warm up - bottom line, just dont bloody treat it as something special, as that then MAKES it special. Let the All Blacks haka away into the night, and then get on with the game!!
Well, maybe not lots of sport happening, but plenty of talking about it and shit happening...
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