Super 14 and All Blacks for 2006

By /
Image hosted by Photobucket.com Image hosted by Photobucket.com Image hosted by Photobucket.com Image hosted by Photobucket.com

Next years rugby season is starting to be fleshed out.

Whilst the All Black games have been announced there are no actual dates so, someone who is as anal about such things, may be left wanting more. Yes, I am!

But the Super 14 (fourteen ... crickey, one more nail in the coffin of the NPC) dates have all been announced. Unfortunately the only team that matters to me, Hurricanes, don't actually have any home venues listed so I'm a bit lost as to where I'll be on those nights, hee hee.

I've talked about the over abundance of rugby before (somewhere, do a search on the MiramarMike blog) and how it's left me a little jaded. Down here in Christchurch of course it's the centre of the universe and whilst I'm sure it plays a little part in the success of their teams I don't believe it leads to a full lifestyle but hey, that's not for me to commen... oh, it is for me to comment on, it's my blog :-)

Oh, did you see Snatch Our Booty last night? One of the games has a guy (James Gemmell) out on the streets of NZ where he has to perform a task. The teams back in the studio guess how long/how many/what type will be the answer.

Example needed - coming right up sir:
James on street in Hamilton - task was to ask for a hug from guys. Question, how many will it take before he gets a hug.

Last night: Dude in Cashell Street (centre of Christchurch) wearing an Auckland Blues rugby jersey and carrying a flag. Question, how long before he got banter from the locals.
Answer: 22 seconds.

Would this happen as quickly anywhere else?

Comments

Post a Comment

Be kind

Popular articles

Make Your Public Event Calendar Usable To All

Image
If you run a sports club, this post is for you. If you are on a community committee, this post is also for you If you host events, this is for you. If you put on shows, this is for you. In fact, if you do anything that has a date/time component that you'd like to share with people, this is for you . Yep, probably for all of us. Sharing calendars can be both: an effective way of letting everyone know a complete and utter technical pain in the bottomly region If you've posted up an events page onto your website you know how difficult it is to keep up to date, how the readers have to keep coming back to get the latest changes and don't even think about integrating with somebody else's "events page". Ok, so we all know the problem. What's the solution? iCalendar (normally shortened to iCal) ... yep, it's a geek word that you will come to know and love just as much as RSS. In fact, think of it as RSS for calendars. But that's enough geekery, if you want

The Difference Between One Million And One Billion

Image
It's feels like a billion is just a bit bigger than a million. Obviously it's bigger but it fits on the same scale as a million, surely. It doesn't. A billion is so so so much bigger than a million. I've trawled the internet finding graphics and videos that show the VAST difference between one million and one billion. Oh, and just to finish with a different misconception about space starting with the classic opening line from the great Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy : “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

Reflections In Blue

Image
Of course "Reflections In Blue" Is a jazz album. Art Blakey and his Messengers Would love you to hear it. Coooool.

[Updated] Pubs of 2024 Monmouth

Image
"Back in the day", yada yada yada, yes we all know there were more pubs than people, there was a pub every two houses, the largest number of pubs per square mile than anywhere in the known universe, there was a pub named after each and every one of us, and yet, YET we only ever went to same one every time. Monmouth has changed, it now only has 10 pubs.  "Ten! Ten? It used to be ten pubs just in the top of town. There were ten pubs I'd walk past to get to my local." Yes, yes ... times change, we now have 10 pubs in Monmouth . Oh, and the Mayhill but that seems to be more a ghost pub, it can be seen but only in the dark and no-one will believe if you say you went in. Monmouth, a town in Wales (YES, it is in Wales ), a town that has a population of around 10,317 (as at 2021). A town who's 1980's population was, well, I don't know, despite a century of censuses being taken, it's impossible to find (1991: 8,206 | 2001: 8,877 | 2011: 10,508 | 2021: 1

Mates

Image
Mates, I assume, chatting on the Petone foreshore.