Posted on March 18, 2009 by cheriton
What a weekend of rugby, but started off on the worst foot.
The Cheetahs shouldn’t even be in this competition. Watching them against the Blues was painful and embarrassing. The Blues should hang their heads that they only won by 34 points.
At least the Cheetahs can win at one thing, and that’s taking the mantle off [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2009 by cheriton
Well another weekend I still haven’t seen much ruggers. Only caught the glimpses of the Tah’s match and was pretty pissed by the time I saw the Force match, so cant really add much light on that game. It was all a blur of Cameron Shepherd and Nick “Man-Perm” Cummings.
The weekend started with an upset, [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2009 by cheriton
Well, what can you say other than WOW!
What a start to the season.
Highlanders went crazy against the Brumbies in the first 20 mins leading 19-0 with only 28% territory. Then their only All Black (Cowan) left the field with a sore finger (but mullet still intact) and they were lost in the wilderness for the [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2009 by cheriton
Well I know I can get excited about the game, but thought I would start early with a quick review of week negative 1.
The missus is o/s on secondment in Hong Kong, which means I can dedicate more of my time to the game. You have to feel sorry for our new puppy though, the [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Nick Darcy-Fox
Continuing my theme of looking at Super 14 team wallpapers:
Hurricanes have managed to find themselves stranded in the middle of a vortex. It must be quite difficult conveying ‘a bit windy’ in a photo but they haven’t done too badly. Nice that they’ve not prejudiced and have included EVERY bloke from Wellington in the photo, [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by Nick Darcy-Fox
So I’ve missed the two most interesting matches already. This time zone thing is rubbish. There should be only one.
So the Stormers managed to get a 9 points deficit on the Chiefs at home, which isn’t bad. I would have gone for the Chiefs based on Stormers’ rotation policy. Their playing-well rotation policy, that is. [...]
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Posted on February 29, 2008 by Nick Darcy-Fox
So my picks made public, for what they worth. That said I have kept a tally of other public tips from things like sportingindex, tvnz, sarugby, planertrugby etc and I’m doing better than they are. So there.
First up is the mighty Gauteng Lions v the Wasted Force. The oracle is going for Force as are [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by Nick Darcy-Fox
NZ Herald has carried off some ostentatious onomatopoeia this week with its resounding snub of Saffer rugby which it reckons is being played in an ELV backwater:
“The Lions, Cheetahs and Stormers are at the foot of the points table while the Sharks have scraped a couple of narrow wins without the panache, power, pace and [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by cheriton
So the first week is off with a round of home wins and the usual sloppy start that you would expect.
Catching seemed to be a big issue for a number of teams, and the kicks certainly aren’t what you would expect from players who have had months of prep work since the World Cup.It [...]
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