Posts by stephen clover
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They have an all-in-one card now? That must be so convenient. I was using the Suica card but that wasn't good for everything. I miss the train.
Kowhai, you must have scared the crap out of them, being a tall female gaijin. ;-)
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Hmmmmmmm it would appear that the jury is still out:
Lessons of the Western Front
HANK SCHOUTEN - The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 3 October 2007"There's something about the New Zealand psyche that we tend to celebrate heroic failures rather than victories or disasters."
... except when the ABs lose.
Perhaps they're not heroic enough?
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That's possibly the best double-inside-outside swerve I have ever seen, he owns Habana's jersey, and that's the way it should be.
I wonder if a young Lomu would've caught him.
I quite liked the face-plant *cough* fend on the SA first-five as well.
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Fucking hell, thats a scorcher.
possibly the finest on-field moment of the RWC so far?
Followed by possibly the finest off-field moment, when Ngwenya and Habana traded shirts.
Booo, Adidas/NZRFU/ABs.
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... and while I may appear to be using the 'royal we', I'm including myself in this criticism because in the past I have been known to bitch and moan and jump up and down, usually about Justin Marshall's slow wobbly passing :D
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I think the reason why we get more of the
"The All Blacks sucked! F'ing XXX and stupid YYY can't pass/throw/kick/tackle"
style of commentary is perhaps because ::cough:: we are so good.
I don't want this to be true, because that would make us collectively some of the worst losers in sport. Is it not possible to lose gracefully and calmly? Can we really excuse this petulant tastelessness, this lack of basic manners and class?
I'm half-expecting someone to jump in with that thing about domestic violence rising sharply when the ABs lose. Which if it's true, is also shit.
I'm also starting to form a conspiracy theory. If a losing ABs team is worth less as a brand, isnt in the best interests of the owners of the brand to place pressure "by proxy" (i.e. the public, whipped up by the MSM) on the team to always win?
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I've heard plenty of far more knowledgeable people than I (e.g. ex-players) say that the fact that the NZ fan base are (generalisation) such bad losers is one of the major reasons why our national team is so good.
Can hardly believe that -- would be much more likely to give me a nervous twitch, a paranoid disposition, and a sense of impending doom.
Like some of the South American soccer nations where the goalie who lets in a losing goal risks a bullet after the game?
Yeah, cool, let's hope that we never go that far. I have heard of players being abused in public for dropping THAT pass, or missing THAT penalty or whatever.
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Oh, while fans wait for the album to drop, here's a list of live versions of nearly all the album tracks available
Hmmm.. listening now, and not too wowed. Might flag that LP/CD box order I was planning for this afternoon.
Much more fun is this, especially for folk -- of whom I understand there were plenty -- who didn't much like the recent Dylan concerts in NZ.
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I'm not so sure about that. We're very good about supporting them when they win. We're not so good about it when we lose. You don't often hear, after All Blacks losing, "the better team won, and that's OK". The best you might hear is "the better team won, there's going to have to be heads rolling". Most likely you'll hear "The All Black sucked! F'ing XXX and stupid YYY can't pass/throw/kick/tackle" etc etc.
I KNOW and this bugs the hell out of me. We owe it to ourselves to try harder to be good fans and supporters; surely it should be like a two-way street, a relationship... but in reality, we do all the taking, and the players and coaches and so on do all the giving.
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Once upon a time, the tour promoted the album which paid the cheque that built the house the rock star lived in. In the download age, its become the other way round.
That happened a long time before downloads. As long ago as the 80s and 90s bands would find themselves so far in debt due to insanely expensive recording sessions and video shoots that they would find themselves compelled to tour for 2 years in order to sell enough tshirts to try to pay back the record company; who meanwhile is making all the money from the album sales that the touring and promotion is generating.