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				<title>The ghost of G Woodhouse</title>
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						Can anyone tell me is Fran Tarkenton is playing in the world cup?  I understand that he has a deadly flipper.....
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				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:27:52 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>The ghost of G Woodhouse</title>
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						This is probably the only journalistic endeavour that uses the vagaries of Kings No 2 to introduce a weighty sporting event like the world cup....but then again any small victory that a South Dunedin boy might win over someone like Bilcliff from Otago Boys High (on the hill) was always…
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				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:05:00 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>reece palmer</title>
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						Sweet 12 teams should be good, still room for more if anyone is keen. For those of us (myself included) that only have peasantvision (no sky) you can watch a free live webcast of every world cup game <a href="http://indianmovies.tamilar.org/cricket-world-cup-2007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>  or <a href="http://www.sopcast.com/player/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>  enjoy.
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				<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:48:29 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>reece palmer</title>
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						Now <em>that</em> would have been all class, cheers leggy now how about all you other armchair coaches?
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				<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:52:07 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>LegBreak</title>
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						<p>Reece; I've joined you fantasy league as ... Leg Break.</p><p>Was very tempted to pick the roly-poly from Bermuda but just couldn't do it..</p>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:32:13 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Peter Darlington</title>
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						<blockquote><p>Dusty</p></blockquote><p>Mmmmm, dusty...</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:16:41 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Emma Hart</title>
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						<blockquote><p>I still have a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Chris Cairns under my bed.</p><p>How does he smell?</p></blockquote><p>Dusty.</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:58:08 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Peter Darlington</title>
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						<blockquote><p>I still have a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Chris Cairns under my bed.</p></blockquote><p>How does he smell?</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:18:35 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>reece palmer</title>
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						CD, hmm close the other day, but our captain did a job in both innings, jones was very clinical
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:30:26 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Sarah Wedde</title>
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						<p>Well sure, cold wind, Carisbrook, not great. But I was in <em>Palmerston North</em>.</p><p>I do have to say though, if there is one thing solo cricket watching has going for it, it's that it's a brilliant way to meet old men.</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:39:51 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>reece palmer</title>
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						<p>If anyone is keen There's a virtual world cup comp available <a href="http://cricketdreamteam.sportal.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></p><p>the public league I've entered has a reference number 336630<br />so feel free to sign up for the PA cup with a prize of whatever the losers feel like giving the winner.</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:53:23 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>jon_knox</title>
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						Perhaps after the "best party" thread we could have one about best obsessive-compulsive disorder?...perhaps putting this sort of stuff behind a paywall might avoid frightening newbies away ;o)
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:20:04 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>LegBreak</title>
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						Great stuff; looking forward to it.  I remember Bilcliff starting first class cricket aged 18 for Otago in the early 90s.  Ken Rutherford, Otago captain at the time, said he was a test player of the future, which was the kiss of death.  You’d think Ruds, of all people, should’ve…
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:50:02 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Emma Hart</title>
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						<blockquote><p>And I'm a girl. Do you know how many times I had to put up with drunken morons asking me, "So which one have you got your eye on?".</p></blockquote><p>This never happened to me. Though I was backing Canterbury in the nineties, so the question may have been moot. I…</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:49:48 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Grant Robertson</title>
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						trust me Sarah they were lonely hours.  there was nothing like sitting in a howling southerly in the Rose Stand at Carisbrook, alternating between doing my science homework and watching Kevin Burns eek out a couple of singles an over.   There were no drunken morons there- it was just me…
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:40:36 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Sarah Wedde</title>
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						<blockquote><p>who's cricket passion was shaped by long, lonely hours watching Otago Shell Trophy games through the 1980s</p></blockquote><p>Oh whatever! I followed CD. And I'm a girl. Do you know how many times I had to put up with drunken morons asking me, "So which one have you got your eye…</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:01:16 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p>Did you catch the Macca's Meals blog/column linked to in that post?</p><p><a href="http://blacksnacks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://blacksnacks.blogspot.com/</a></p><p>Very tasty.</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:52:53 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Kyle Matthews</title>
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						There could not, I am sure, be three people less qualified to comment on the cricket than these three fine gentlemen. As long as the making up extends to some fine Gilks cartoons of Fleming smashing a double century on the way to a NZ World Cup victory, we thoroughly…
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:20:08 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>dc_red</title>
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						<p>Cheers guys, I have adopted Canada as my minow, and will loudly cheer them on against Kenya and England. Sure, they won't make the round of 8, but I would put money on them giving at least one of the baracudas in their pool a run for their money. </p><p>If…</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:14:18 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Public Address</title>
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:14:18 +1300</pubDate>
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