We’re on the verge of our first World Cup triumph since 1987, and it looks as if the only thing standing in our way is a suspect-looking French team. Sure, 1999 and 2007 and all that, but the current lot don’t look to have the firepower to stun us as those two French teams did.…
The All Blacks were this morning crowned world champions, after the French team unexpectedly pulled out of Sunday’s final. New Zealand beat Australia last night in a commanding and dominating performance. French coach Marc Lievremont said his players had watched the game on television and had been awed and frightened by the power and ferocity of…
It is interesting how, when you go and take a look at the homepage of the National Party website, the Rugby World Cup is at a higher position than the party’s policies. But the picture on the site of Key holding the Cup kind of says it all. Winning the Cup is National’s election plan.…
Having watched the All Blacks demolish mighty Japan last night, I am now convinced that we will go all the way and win the 2011 Rugby World Cup. In previous World Cups what has done for us is a chop-and-change selection policy, coupled with injuries to key players. Invariably we have ended up tinkering with…
A report released this morning into the Auckland transport chaos of Friday night has laid the blame on one man. The report was commissioned urgently, in an effort to find out who was responsible for the delays and stoppages that led to more than 2000 people failing to getting to Eden Park on time. The…
When I read Shayne Philpott’s rugby story in the news the other day it brought a lot of things back to me. Things I thought I had put behind me. It also brought back a few tears. Some things are just so painful they never really left you. Philpott was a handy utility back in…
27 April 2010 – Five hundred days from the start of the Rugby World Cup 2011, six New Zealand rugby legends have agreed to help promote the event. The announcement was made at an event at Parliament today hosted by Rugby World Cup Ministers Murray McCully and Gerry Brownlee. The six former All Blacks appointed…
10.22am: John Key meets management of Triangle TV to discuss funding bid for quarterfinals. Coverage to be in Hindi. 11.32am: Pita Sharples and Jonathan Coleman in punch-up on steps of Parliament. Labelled “fight of the century” by promoters, who hope this might at least be a contest. 11.55am: Pita Sharples and Jonathan Coleman seen in…
Imperator Fish 