Posts by Gareth Ward
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it is in black and white.
Well spank me sideways, that's quite the scoop you have there. All this lamenting is pointless bullshittery then?
The question now is, given that the challenge match is selected by mutual agreement between the two unions, why did nobody at NZRU HQ tell, well, anybody?
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Sure, the defence needs to aim for reasonable doubt. But there's a line where you go from putting up your client's side of the story to actively creating a bullshit fantasy all by yourself - Mr Comesky isn't just bordering on that, he's through Customs and ordering a Mai Tai by the pool
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And thanks for the Junior re U20 explanation - in that case I feel the "Junior" term is poorly applied.
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We were up in Fiji last week where the Pacific Nations Cup was getting underway...
I love the way they are running this tournament. It's how I would run the Tri-nations, all in one country.
Given the smiles on the faces of the IRB folks lounging around the pool, you may be able to convince them. So long as that country remains Fiji.
(Although I'm pretty sure that Tonga and maybe Samoa got a game each in their country as well?)It did seem like a great concept though, locals VERY into it, a bit of a "festival" feeling given it goes over 3 weeks or so, etc etc. Tri-Nations as a tournament sounds good to me, but unfortunately the individual nations wold hate the idea of 3 years between their local hosting.
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Also, interested in your categorisation of Roko's game as a great one? I thought he did rather poorly - handling off (as per but highlighted here) and just not up to the speed test in certain cases. Seeing that funny little French winger outrunning a Fijian had me rather perplexed. He was certainly involved plenty, but not always in a positive way?
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[sad trombone]
Heh.
We were up in Fiji last week where the Pacific Nations Cup was getting underway - was interesting to see the Junior All Blacks (succesfully) in there rather than Maori. What is the difference between the Juniors and the Under-20s?
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According to Labour, this isn't about building a permanent prison out of modular containers - it's about temporary accomodation to house the burgeoning prison population before they get around to building permanent.
THAT I have a problem with.
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Jeez, you go away for 6 days and your city becomes party centrale.
And I'm sorry, but... I like the $14m to do up the sheds. Any building there should evoke it's setting and those basic shed outlines do that. $14m gets you quite a lot of do-up and their placement on the wharf is about right (nice big open space in the NE corner where the views up the harbour will be and clear, defined space from the ferry terminals up to there. although I'd shrink that NW shed a little). I know of a couple of excellent young architects who would make that layout/space pretty dang awesome for that sort of money.
Link the whole thing over to Britomart (both transport and developing "urban centre" with either a bridge or decent crossing system (Joshua will have better views on that I imagine) and it could work.It depends entirely on:
- seeing it as a long-term Auckland asset, not just a RWC thing
- who gets the design contract
- what hand the council Urban Design guys have in it
But I'm tentatively hopeful that we might get a decent space out on our waterfront -
Act may not have a 'mandate' but they are part of the National led gummint.
Indeed. Which means the discussion shouldn't be along the lines of "this man has no mandate", but "why exactly is the crowd WITH the mandate running with this?"
In some ways it suits National to have it painted as a "3% guy pushing through changes". Because that distracts from their signatures on the Cabinet Paper and their votes in the Hansard.
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Good news everyONE...
/ThatGuy