Paradise Arsed
By The Spotter What you are about to read is an empathetic tip of the hat to all those who, at some stage in their lives, have experienced obsession via an unhealthy following[…]
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Harbour on Heat
By The Spotter *Prior warning: The following may contain an element of bias- I’m North Shore born and bred. But give some latitude- it’s been a pretty long time between drinks[…]
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Flying Ferns make it a Fabulous Fifth
By The Spotter Glory…and redemption. When our brilliant Black Ferns won that thrilling Women’s Rugby World Cup Final (the best-ever Women’s Final, surely), they in turn exorcised the ghost of a comprehensive defeat by[…]
The Biggest Clowns in Town
By The Spotter The biggest clowns of all in this part of the world are you, The NZ Herald, for speculating (and whether it were tongue-in cheek or not you still chose[…]
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Mrs Pinetree, the Media, and the Legacy
By The Spotter There was plenty of excellent coverage from the media in the wake of the tragic passing (surely no exaggeration in that) of Sir Colin Meads. The balance was almost[…]
What chance Wallabies?
By The Spotter With the unwelcome re-emergence of the Smith sex-capades and following as it does closely on the heels of their recent failure to deal to the B & I Lions, the AIG-moneyed[…]
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SANZAAR Selection Shocker
By The Spotter Regarding that ‘Team of the Year’, the outcome reads like another one of those decisions from SANZAAR that seems like a bad practical joke; the only problem being that it’s unfortunately and most definitely not. Yes, you[…]
Sir John was one of the Best
By The Spotter Someone whose opinion he must have respected told D.J. Graham around the mid-1960s, “Graham, you should give it away- you’re looking too old and slow”. Upon hearing that damning[…]
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Genial Coaches and Does Razor Have the Right Stuff?
By The Spotter ‘There is so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes’. So said once the great football coach and people polariser extraordinaire,[…]
Old Salts and Shitty Night Fare
By The Spotter I’ve been writing on sportsfreak fairly regularly for around three years as ‘the Spotter’ and the thing that still pisses me off the most is our continued subjection to[…]
