Farewell to the Iconic Beast
By The Spotter In honour of Warriors legend Manu Vatuvei leaving the club for Salford in England, here is something I wrote about him for an Australian site in 2015 as ‘The Beast’ reached his 200th NRL match.[…]
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Hot and Cold All Blackanaki Share the Spoils
By The Spotter Thank goodness for Jordie and Beauden B. Without their incisive running and ball playing, we in Aotearoa would surely be waking up this morning to the reality of the[…]
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Is the Cult of the Coach Driving Gatty a Wee Bit Batty?
By The Spotter Putting aside the current status of the Hansen-Gatland relationship at love-in, one really peculiar thing about this whole Lions tour is that if a Man or Personality of the[…]
Prolifigate Lions lived… and let Die: NZ: 30 BIL: 15
By The Spotter Playing more Thunderball than Warrenball, the Lions lived the high life for good portions of the Eden Park first test, but ultimately their faltering habits near the[…]
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When a Wellingtonian silenced 45,000 annoyed Cantabrians
By The Spotter Winter 1983. The country was doing it tough in the middle of a wage-price freeze amid cries of ‘Rob Muldoon before he robs you’ and just a year out from the alcohol-soaked announcement[…]
The Maori Mauled and Marginalised
By The Spotter If the Rotorua International Stadium were a giant hangi pit, then the Lions mauled and dug the Maori into its deep depths on Saturday night. Dominant and powerful[…]
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The Coming Star Attraction?
By The Spotter When the Lions dutifully examine their opponents’ bingo card for their match with the Maori tonight, they would be advised to carefully keep an eye on the square containing ‘Legs 11’. For that[…]
Crusaders Quelled and Out-Thought Crusaders 3: Lions 12.
By The Spotter Suffocated; big time. As a spectacle for any new neutral it would have been dire to watch as it all morphed into something across between the Indian sport of Kabaddi with a lot[…]
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The Provincial Barbarians 7: The Lions 13
By The Spotter If that performance against the NZ Provincial Baa-baas last night isn’t going to count as the Lions’ worst tour performance, then surer than yet another moronic tweet from that dunce[…]
There’s Life in the Old Dog Rugby yet; Pride, Great Tries and Lousy Lovers
By The Spotter It was nigh on forty long years ago that I fell in love with Rugby and the All Blacks. It was Saturday, 18 June 1977 to be exact and it[…]
