Even if the date changed (to university orientation), I doubt very much that it would be anywhere near as good. Dunedin would do the drunk well, the dressing up and partying,…

The IRB is reviewing the overall global circuit, but that's different.

Remember no-one ever told Wellingtonians to get dressed up for the event – it's happened naturally over time, instigated by…

nitrous. That's what's in those little grey cylinders, yes?

But Jim Anderton banned that stuff! Surely the respectable estate agents and farmers who form the 7's crowd aren't taking Illegal High Drugs?

The walk from Eden Park to K Rd (35 mins for a fit and sober Google Mapper) is about the same as the 31 minutes from the Cake Tin to Courtenay Place. But as people have pointed out before, there are better pubs en…

The main point for the fans seems to be partying, and does any other city have a sufficiently large party zone within walking distance of their…

Party Zone is Courtenay Pl, it doesn't matter if you're a drunk looking to score or just after a nice martini you go to the same place.

For a "nice martini", can I recommend various far better bars on Cuba St?

For a "drunk looking to score", can I recommend…

(Azrael, named after the angel of death, trivia fans)

And I certainly don't think you were being sensitive – I think you were focusing on the task in hand – playing great music well – and were more than a little pissed-off at being not only interrupted but physically threatened…

(For the record, it was nitrous. That's what's in those little grey cylinders, yes?)

Yup. Though nitrous should be a quick up/quick down hit, rather than something that would really wazzock someone. It's safe to assume that the demon drink is implicated as well.

if some other bugger had been,…

I'm sure if some other bugger had been, er, smurfed and I didn't see it, I wouldn't have any qualms at all. I guess I'm sensitive.

I cannot believe that either Dunedin or Auckland (or anywhere else in the country for that matter) could possibly imagine they could put on a better show than Welli does for the Sevens. No way. Not possible, never in a million years.

I was with Stephen when…

On the one hand, I approve of the chaotic, democratic nature of the thing. Compare with the Cuba St Carnival, a wonderful event, but one where the spectacle is very well organised and the role of the crowd is largely to watch, whereas with the Sevens,…

I wouldn't want to go every year, being the old man that I am, but you've got to go once -…