Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Russell Brown,
the dreadful picture quality
No HD or even digital receiver here, and Maori TV's picture was actually better than the other free-to-air channels. More recent analogue transmission gear perhaps?
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Russell Brown,
we might do to rugby what we did to kiwifruit, by exporting the expertise?
The desire to retain earned value in the NZRU (via brand revenue) rather than handing it over to the IRB is part of that manoevring we saw recently about the revenue model for the next tournament.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to JacksonP,
Probably doesn't contribute much to the impression many people have of the game
I would have been happy to see Loe cop a life ban for persistent thuggery.
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Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to George Darroch,
I refuse to accept that
You could be a National cabinet minister with that line :)
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Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to George Darroch,
That Labour's policy is vulnerable to attack reflects the absolute weakness of policy debate in NZ. Once again, I blame the media.
The debate is weak, sure. However, the media did not force Labour to frame the communication of their policy in a way that makes it easy for Farrar to impose his ideological dislike of collective funding. That was entirely predictable from him and other righties, and pre-emption is basic politics 101.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Leopold,
To these ears, both TVNZ and TV3's commentary teams sound like commercial radio bellowers. Maori TV doesn't and though they're all knowledgeable that tips the balance for me.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Emma Hart,
I motorboated both my Best Friends during the All Blacks Japan game.
niche fiction in the offing..
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Sacha,
However we seem more happy to tolerate this sort of thing.
The Government has slashed the number of food grants to needy families by 20 per cent, driving record numbers to seek food parcels from charities instead.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Bart Janssen,
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Tom Beard,
but in Wellington would just be the traditional way to say hello
Have to stay warm somehow, right?