By Stephen Gallagher Last night, I sat at The Log Cabin, in Penrith – on the Nepean River surrounded by hundreds of fans decked out in green and gold, cheering[…]
Tagged: administration
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Those FIFA World Cup Tickets
It’s only the biggest women’s sporting event in the world but, strangely punters in Aotearoa seem to be really tardy in signing up for the Big Show. The Blame Game[…]
Entain’s Takeover of the TAB: Winners & Losers
By Richard Gordon The TAB was today given the green light by the Minister for Racing, Kieran McAnulty, to outsource its operations to Entain, one of the world’s largest gambling[…]
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The David White Era
On taking office in 1975 Robert Muldoon stated his objective was to leave New Zealand no worse than he found it. While that quote aged badly it’s a pretty good[…]
The ANZAC Day Exploitation
How to commemorate ANZAC day has always been a bit problematic. It turns out a law was passed as early as 1916 in New Zealand to start thinking about it;[…]
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Cricket in the biggest city in Aotearoa
Just look at that. A picture from earlier this week that tells a lot more than 1,000 words. To be fair, Tamaki-Makaurau has been hammered over the last week and[…]
Mohammad Khan contract terminated
By Andrew Dunford Wellington, 4 December 2035 The Tamil Nadu New Zealand BLACKCAPS (TNNZ) Test cricket team suffered another blow on Friday with the loss of veteran fast bowler Mohammad[…]
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Advice for FIIFA
The current proposed format for the men’s FIFA World Cup in 2026 has 48 teams, 16 pools of 3 with 2 from each group going to a final knockout stage[…]
