Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I'd even put on a clean shirt...
Alan apparently has at least one sock, so it's practically a match made in heaven.
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Once again, Editing the Herald is essential to understanding the story.
Heh. What school of journalism is re-writing your old articles from? Bizarre.
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Surely "dirty smelly hippies" are part of diversity, too?
Only if they support people's retirement. We could compost them or something.
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The whole issue would be avoided if the best Air New Zealand Cup teams played in the Super 14. using a draft system would ensure top players could be farmed out to the successful Air NZ Cup teams. Such a policy would have seen Super Rugby in Invercargill, Tauranga and Napier.
I'd be happy with something like that as long as there was something for last years super teams to do in the super season.
Otherwise you'd have provinces work their butts off to build a super structure - marketing, coaches, administration, sponsors - only to lose them next year when they came 6th in the Air NZ cup. That's no way to build a sustainable organisation.
Maybe while the super 14/15 is being played, the five NZ prem teams that didn't make it could play a second tier competition with the new Division One teams (that'd be 11 teams in total), for something like what Hadyn has indicated.
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Oh and the "Top 10" could play during the daytime!
Quit it you with your communist inspired drivel!
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I'll concede there's a fair argument that Highlanders should go if one team needed to go. I don't think the argument is as strong if it's swapsidaisy for a new franchise popping up.
You'd want to take a fairly long term view. For a long time the Chiefs were the eternal bottom of the heap. An argument for them to fold and a third franchise to open up at Nelson Bays (for example) would have made no sense for population or business sense however.
I think there are unanswered questions about what would then happen. Super franchises cover the whole country, Highlanders cover three provinces. Do they all get sucked into the Crusaders?
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New rules to help rape victims:
Rape victims will be given sweeping new protections during trials, with planned rules requiring judges to agree before a complainant's sexual history can be raised in court.
Defendants accused of rape could also face a new test of consent meaning a woman would effectively have to have said 'yes' to sexual activity rather than simply not saying 'no'.
Courts would be required to consider what steps an accused person took to establish consent under rules designed to make rape cases less harrowing for victims.
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Done! Next?
Large parts of Nelson I believe (see, also "dirty smelly hippies").
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But, to mix my martial metaphors for a moment, its a little rich to cry "Tory spin" when Goff handed Key a half-cocked rife and a clear shot at his own foot.
Yeah. Occasionally we used to have leaders of the two big parties who used to make considered, thought out, policy announcements.
Now, not so much.
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Having said that though, I don't support the bid. I think our player resources are stretched as it is and New Zealand cannot support six franchise teams.
Aye. I think any expansion team will struggle to get the level of player needed to be competitive.
And the Highlanders will be screwed if they can't import half the Hawkes Bay Air NZ cup team. Something has to give.