Dunedin Dream
By The Spotter That spellbinding try scored by Rieko Ioane in the 52nd minute of the Dunedin test last night stunned me into realising why Rugby can be so beautiful[…]
Category: Rugby
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Not Nothing, but not All
By Hamish Girvan Amazon’s Prime video productions are starting to branch out with their “All or Nothing – A Season with” fly on the wall sports series. Originally launched with[…]
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Concussion Cop-out
By The Spotter Last night at Forsyth Barr Stadium we saw why Rugby Union can be so good. But it could be even better as a sport if the head[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 1 June
You’ll never walk alone. Unless you’re Loris Karius and you play in a position where every mistake is accentuated. Sport can be really brutal at times. Bad Barnet Bale has[…]
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Schmidt’s Ireland Journey to Australia with Bigger Ambitions
Joe Schmidt caught the Irish rugby media off guard last week. They assumed, incorrectly, that Ireland’s head coach would rest several of his top players for the upcoming Tour of[…]
Don’t Wait for the Council’s Money; Get Door Knocking
By The Spotter I think we’ve been carted around this fantasy before: Auckland and it’s big, beautiful and empty dream of a waterfront stadium. Not that Kev Cowcocky in Dunsandel will probably give a[…]
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Auckland’s Venue Development Strategy
The wheels of modernising and consolidating Auckland’s sporting infrastructure seem to be moving again. Following the myopia leading up to the 2011 Rugby World Cup the various sporting bodies actually[…]
Did you see that?
By The Spotter Every now and again, someone, somewhere in sport will do something just a bit out of the ordinary. Something that us mere mortals reminisce over years or decades later. This is a completely random homage[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 18 May
Now there’s a football training session. From Huaying in China. Malakai Fekitoa has made his way to the French club finals, and pineapples are good for the biceps. Hamburg fans[…]
The Brilliant BeeGee
By The Spotter Infinite full moons ago, there was the well-known Kentucky fried chicken advertisement with the super-sized kids in the back of the car (Unintentionally ironic? Hard to entertain the notion it may have[…]
