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[…]
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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[…]
The Swinehound Sports Quiz #8
By The Spotter Welcome to the eighth edition of the ‘Swinehound’ sports quiz. There hasn’t been one for a good while, so there’s an increase from the regular 8 question set to a full XV this time. The joint defenders[…]
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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[…]
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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NZR Badly Wrong and Need a Re-Think
By The Spotter (Wrote this a little while back, but then the cricket got amazing…) I do actually quite like Steve Hansen, but unfortunately he drove off a cliff in his own team bus recently in the[…]
The World Cup Final: An Alternate View
By The Spotter No trans-tasman test match from 1946-1974 The Snedden no-catch The Underarm problem Misled by Matthews Dudded by Greg Dyer Ripped off by Dick French Clobbered by Inzy[…]
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Better If Things Don’t All Get Left To Kane and Able
By The Spotter It’s World Cup Cricket final time this evening and finger nails certainly don’t grow back much over three days, so perhaps use the time to hunt out some aloe vera cream or[…]
Swinehound Quiz #7
By The Spotter The 7th Swinehound via sportsfreak.co.nz is centred on Rugby Union and ‘The Mighty Quinn’; NZ’s commentating royalty, Keith Quinn. It is his lines of commentary that have settled permanently into the[…]
