Field Theory: Great game of netball or greatest game of netball?
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One person miles from where the action is taking place wimpering in the corner isn't going to affect the outcome.
Pfffft. You and your LOGIC and your REASON. I knew! I knew that if I turned the netball on we would lose! So I didn't! And we won!
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I used to have Bernice Mene on my list of "Five Celebrities I'm Allowed to Sleep With if the Opportunity Arises", until she was vetoed under the "Chances of Meeting a Famous New Zealander are Actually Pretty High" Act of 1998.
At the freakin' supermarket round this way, pal.
Also, I'm on nodding terms with Dion Nash, so, nah.
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Also, I'm on nodding terms with Dion Nash, so, nah.
Hey, Megan, d'you wanna tell that story... no, you probably don't, do you?
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Also, I'm on nodding terms with Dion Nash, so, nah.
You didn't consider the possibility that people more famous than you just nod at anyone who stares at them?
Y'know "yeah, I'm Dion Nash, hey howyadoing"?
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You didn't consider the possibility that people more famous than you just nod at anyone who stares at them?
Oddly enough, he's a Hard News fan from way back. He sent me a really nice email when its radio incarnation finished up.
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Oh well in that case... you are just a little bit special.
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On a related note, I once went to the national university Blues dinner at Government House, 1995 I think, and was seated at a table with both Bernice Mene and Lesley Nicole (now Rumball). Bernice is indeed striking. Lesley Rumball is both striking and charming - she wasn't captain then but close to completing her medical degree and obvious a leader.
I've seen the Ferns play several times - including in Australia. They're a fantastic team.
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Also, I'm on nodding terms with Dion Nash, so, nah.
That's how he put his back out so often - too much noddin'.
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It is wrong of me to have found this photograph somewhat, er ... compelling, though?
Why, I have no idea what you mean.
Unless you mean you think she's gorgeous. In which case, yeah that's fine.
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Hey, Megan, d'you wanna tell that story... no, you probably don't, do you?
Oh, I've been dining out on that story for years.
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One other thing.
A few years ago, Norma Plummer criticised NZ netball, asking where were the shooters coming through to relace Irene.
At the time, I remember grudgingly admitting she wasn't wrong.
So it was with quite a lot of relish I watched Maria Tutaia step up and play a simply fantastic, calm, and skilled game. She was brilliant, and while the aussies out-played Irene and took her out of the game, they didn't have much to match Maria.
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I have to say the mens hockey team put me through the ringer a bit earlier in the evening being 3-1 up and ending up going to penalty strokes. The English team looked about as dejected as the aussie netballers did later on. It was a top effort from both Black Sticks teams and as an ex player it's been good to see so much hockey over the last 2 weeks.
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It is wrong of me to have found this photograph somewhat, er ... compelling, though?
Why, I have no idea what you mean.
Unless you mean you think she's gorgeous. In which case, yeah that's fine.
What is it about the New Zealand women's hockey team? Without wanting to sound crass, there have been some stunningly gorgeous women to play for that side (including Dan Carter's fiancee).
The Harrison sisters are stars though, two of the most talented young players we've seen since the days of Mandy Smith. I think this side has got the makings of a strong and quite combative team come the Olympics. They really should have won that final, they had the edge over the Aussies for all of the second half as well as the extra time.
As for that game, why it was something else? I can't remember one as nerve-shreddingly tense, although the 2003 final came damn close. It had everything, pretty much.
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a Hard News fan from way back. He sent me a really nice email when its radio incarnation finished up.
It was through bFM that I first heard Hard News. I worked at National Radio, but always had the b on my car radio. I got to look forward to your weekly stint. Working from home now, I only get to listen to bFM when I'm driving, which is not all that often. I didn't realize that Hard News isn't on there any more. What a loss! (For them and for anyone else wanting their horizons broadened a tad, in what was often very funny but always enlightening listening.)
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Oh, I've possibly wrongfooted myself here. Is what I've done a sort of thread hijack? Sorry.
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I wouldn't worry Jacqui - these things seem to zigzag all over the place
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Well, just lately Sacha, because I have spent a large amount of time* reading (and commenting on) all the blogs, this does seem the case, but then I think, maybe it's my fault?
*Can I say here that being laid up, unable to get out much without assistance, and forbidden to drive is the most boring thing. I wonder how people who are totally and unendingly bedridden or housebound due to irreversible damage or illness don't go completely mad. At least there's an end to my curtailment.
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and zagging...
The extra viewer that caused her to miss. What had I done?
It's a slippery slope Hadyn, superstition has caused me to forgo entire tournaments in recent years. I guess on analysis of the Silver Ferns' performance and your own actions, you'll be able to write a couple of sub clauses granting yourself a little more leeway in the netball anti-jinx stratagem
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What is it about the New Zealand women's hockey team? Without wanting to sound crass, there have been some stunningly gorgeous women to play for that side (including Dan Carter's fiancee).
My youngest daughter who has played for age group Welly teams said she has no chance of making it anymore. She's not a blonde.
But seriously, it heartens me greatly to see a NZ team take on the Aussies at their own game. Coach is Aussie of course so maybe it has finally rubbed off. Their game plan was to hassle the whole 70 minutes and it worked right up to the end. I would love to find out if the penalty stroke scenario had been played out in training. It did seem to lose way at that point.
But yes, two weeks of hockey was great. But the mens final was a screamer. I felt for the Indians, they must have been shell shocked by halftime. Absolutely clinical, foot on the throat - and leave it there - attitude of the Aussie men is unbelieveable. I have rarely seen such clean goals before at thsi level.
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So, with or without my advocacy, Stephen Donald is back in the ABs! We shall see.... Generally, though, not a very exciting selection and rather same-old?
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Yarns from the Shanghai Press Gang...
....a sort of thread hijack?
...wouldn't worry Jacqui
- these things seem to zigzag
all over the placeweave, even...
...like magick...
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and laid down is dial up just
while laid back and laid out
leave one flatout, no doubtwhen you've got a little thread
and yer web bound all abed
two hanks for intertwinement
can get ropey soon enough...Loom Jennies spinning rough
braiding, looping, lacing,
twisting, winding, and
artful dodgering...a cloth run thing - fibre brief
some felt - the Flannel Solution
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...any old tosh really,
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So, with or without my advocacy, Stephen Donald is back in the ABs! We shall see.... Generally, though, not a very exciting selection and rather same-old?
I really hope this is last chance for him in the black jersey.
Domestic form is all well and good, but he has a pretty good track record of that not making it through to the black jersey. That's the last thing we want at the world cup.
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AHHHHHHHHH
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Threadjack with apologies.
I really don't think this can wait until Friday.
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Yarns from the Shanghai Press Gang...
:)) Teehee!
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