Heads Roll at Westpac Stadium for Music Mishap
Westpac Stadium has today confirmed that it’s Head of Crowd Engagement and resident DJ has been fired. CEO Harmon McShane told a Sportsfreak roving reporter that Westpac Stadium’s now ex[…]
Tagged: rugby union
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Ian Bruce Deans (1960-2019); A Canterbury and Ranfurly Shield Great
By The Spotter Bruce ‘Diesel’ Deans was the halfback for one of the great All Black teams- the 1988 model. A team which in three tests, the first against Wales and the first and[…]
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Waltzing the All Blacks
By The Spotter It’s now official. We got done over like a dog’s dinner in Perth and the selectors have gotten the heebeegeebees and pressed the nuclear button. Don’t swallow[…]
Leave the backline alone
By The Spotter In the wake of last Saturday night in Perth there has been some (almost surprisingly) controlled gnashing of teeth from talkback callers. Have the ghosts of centre position experiments past with[…]
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A Moment in Time
By Scott MacLean A shade after 10.30pm our time on Saturday night, what was already shaping as a difficult outing for the All Blacks got a whole lot worse. Under[…]
Bledisloe Cup Under-Rated XV
By The Spotter Here is a first XV of under-rated players from Bledisloe Cup matches from the past forty years or so. The team is top-heavy with Wallabies- logically so[…]
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Strength Through Adversity
By Aiden McLaughlin Mitre 10 Cup time has arrived and with it comes exposure to some of the brightest young talents in New Zealand. Some are fresh out of 1st XV[…]
Lochore; a True Rugby Great
By The Spotter Sir Brian Lochore was revered and loved by the NZ rugby public. Undoubtedly a major reason for this was his enduring humility, even though he had a pile of[…]
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Waikato coach eyes higher performances in 2019
By Michael Pulman New Waikato coach Andrew Strawbridge is aiming for a higher performance that goes well beyond results in order to lift Waikato toward the pointy end of Mitre[…]
Mixed Emotions
By Aiden McLaughlin ‘You guys that know me know that I’ll tell you all the time that worry is a wasted emotion. It’s a wasted emotion because if the thing[…]
