The Bobby Calf on Speed
By The Spotter Damian McKenzie. The bobby calf on speed. He’s here, there and everywhere. Last year it was Nehe Milner-Skudder, but in 2016 the Chiefs ‘zip-zap’ fullback is the[…]
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A Jurassic Serve from Moore
By The Spotter Raymond Moore, the dinosaur. A quite serendipitous rhyme, but one which aptly sums up the now former director of the Indian Wells, California event- one of the biggest tournaments[…]
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Adieu Martin
By The Spotter A mighty Kauri has fallen. A courageous man and seminal thinker is no more. At the wicket you always looked like you could do anything. A murderous[…]
Breaking the Fixing : Part 2
By The Spotter NZ Warriors General Manager Jim Doyle speaks. This interview took place on Friday, 26 February. It is the follow-up to the original article, which I wrote for[…]
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Rugby Trivia and Quick Teasers
By the Spotter With the whitewash barely off the wicket block and the flannels not yet chucked into the washing machine, the 2016 Rugby Union season is now upon us with the Super ‘gang bang’[…]
The NZ Grand Prix: Bringing back the Glamour
By The Spotter Having a whinge in the media never goes down terribly well in these shaky isles, but in the case of rising motorsport ace Mitch Evans recently doing so in bemoaning[…]
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Breaking the Fixing
By The Spotter Not since the time that it cemented itself into a part of society’s consciousness with the publication of Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes in the mid-nineteenth century has sport ever been more at the mercy of dark forces[…]
Less Softly, Softly Catchee Aussie, Please
By The Spotter A bit more naughty, a little less nice. A bit more Rottweiler, a little less St. Bernard. A bit more John Bracewell, a little less Dougie Bracewell. The Black[…]
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Hail, King Richard
By The Spotter THERE ONCE WAS A 7 NAMED MCCAW; WHO EXCELLED WITH THE BALL ON THE FLOOR; THOUGH DID THEY BLEAT, THEY SAID, “HE’S A CHEAT”; BUT GOD, WHAT A BORE, GO LEARN THE LAW; …AND TAKE A LOOK AT OUR BLIMIN’[…]
The Brilliant Blacks of 2015
By The Spotter This 2015 All Blacks side will go down in lore. Not just for their achievement in securing first-ever back to back Rugby World Cups, but for being damn good[…]
