for real
if anyone knows this
mr david "The majority of the New Zealand public know what went wrong and we don't need one of the architects of this totally unacceptable result preaching to us about how we should react. It is healthy to vent our anger, disappointment and frustrations now as we will be able to move on more quickly" moffet
give him and any others you know inflicting simliar pain on themselves, hugs.
Mr Moffet is to angry for hugs.
what really sticks in his craw is that you can access any of his Press Columns readily trumpeting the All Blacks as a shoe in and the Nth Hemisphere teams as rubbish.
and I forget to say he was former head of NZRFU and they not winning the World Cup when he in charge
only 7500 at Lancaster Park for the NPC semi-final on Friday
"Frankly, for every other country in the world, it just doesn't matter as much whether they win or lose a test match. Putting aside the Pacific Island nations, who are in the second tier, there is no other country in the world in which rugby is the national game. None. It would be amazing if we weren't the best team in the world by world rankings.
But we can't win World Cups. The scary possibility is that this is the only time when the trump card New Zealand has, the national game card, is neutralised. Every country wants its team to be world champions. Every player desperately wants to be a world champion. All the top teams in the world play with the same intensity and fear at the World Cup that the All Blacks, driven as they are by the national obsession, do in every test.
It should be humbling for us to contemplate this possibility: the possibility that we are ranked No 1 in the world because we are the only major country in the world that has rugby as its national game and we play with an intensity that reflects the social and cultural imperatives that go with that, but when others can match this they are better. "
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whinging iwiks
whinging iwiks
yeah i thought NZ might have
yeah i thought NZ might have grown up a bit. seems not.
for real if anyone knows
for real
if anyone knows this
mr david "The majority of the New Zealand public know what went wrong and we don't need one of the architects of this totally unacceptable result preaching to us about how we should react. It is healthy to vent our anger, disappointment and frustrations now as we will be able to move on more quickly" moffet
give him and any others you know inflicting simliar pain on themselves, hugs.
http://www.rugbyheaven.co.nz/4236449a22459.html
Mr Moffet is to angry for
Mr Moffet is to angry for hugs.
what really sticks in his craw is that you can access any of his Press Columns readily trumpeting the All Blacks as a shoe in and the Nth Hemisphere teams as rubbish.
England
and I forget to say he was
and I forget to say he was former head of NZRFU and they not winning the World Cup when he in charge
only 7500 at Lancaster Park for the NPC semi-final on Friday
prioritize your fundamental
dude, the crack of
dude, the crack of dawn,
http://stuff.co.nz/4237175a10.html
I read this story. why not
I read this story.
why not put this in the paper the day you could be reporting on how Banks and Parker got in?
quoting david
quoting david kirk:
"Frankly, for every other country in the world, it just doesn't matter as much whether they win or lose a test match. Putting aside the Pacific Island nations, who are in the second tier, there is no other country in the world in which rugby is the national game. None. It would be amazing if we weren't the best team in the world by world rankings.
But we can't win World Cups. The scary possibility is that this is the only time when the trump card New Zealand has, the national game card, is neutralised. Every country wants its team to be world champions. Every player desperately wants to be a world champion. All the top teams in the world play with the same intensity and fear at the World Cup that the All Blacks, driven as they are by the national obsession, do in every test.
It should be humbling for us to contemplate this possibility: the possibility that we are ranked No 1 in the world because we are the only major country in the world that has rugby as its national game and we play with an intensity that reflects the social and cultural imperatives that go with that, but when others can match this they are better. "