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1972 Okara Park.
From memory it was quite an adventure to even get into the ground. Walking for miles, being thrown over fences, running across railway tracks, dodging the buses, huge queues. All this to find out it was standing room only on the bank, and therefore, as a 7 year old all you get to see is a sea of legs...
It was still quite an experience. Pity about the result.
@Victor-Meldrew said in Sports Memes:
In my experience, most Forwards actually looked like that before they started playing the game...
@taniwharugby
David's father was a tall and a very handy lock/loose forward for Hora Hora and Mid Northern. Perhaps the height genes have skipped a generation?
@MN5 said in Springboks v Wales (Twickenam):
@MiketheSnow said in Springboks v Wales (Twickenam):
@Kiwiwomble said in Springboks v Wales (Twickenam):
Why is the game at Twickenham? (will also google)
edit:...google seem to suggest it was purely commercial which is disappointing
Taylor Swift
Played the stadium last night
Word is she brought around £10 million to the local economy for the one gig
I guess people had to get sick of Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey eventually
It's not unusual...
For a few seasons (early/mid 1980s up until that merger) I played in what was a combined Northern Wairoa and Rodney club competition. It was a great competition with most clubs being of a similar strength and background.
Omaha and Warkworth were both hard work.
Why bother with extra time at all? A draw was as a fair reflection of the game at fulltime as it was after extra.
@booboo said in Sports Memes:
@pepe said in Sports Memes:
@bones said in Sports Memes:
So true, so many times...
What backs thinking they have an overlap?
Well, they are the team members that actually can count...
@booboo said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@booboo said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@booboo said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@MiketheSnow said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
@ACT-Crusader said in All Blacks v Pumas 1:
Well done Argies.
ABs very poor.
Most random reffing performance I have seen for some time, well since that Wales v Boks test.
He's simply not up to standard but he wasn't the reason you lost.
Was a factor.
Take him out and we win.
Not convinced
Ref wasn't committing the penalties and throwing the ball in shit
Ref invented penalties, for one side and ignored the other side.
It created the scoreboard pressure. And subsequent panic.
Sure we did stupid shit too.
But change that factor and put a proper ref in charge and that result changes.
That's down to the captain, players and coaches not adapting to the ref
Everyone knew he's useless before kick off
NZ did not play the ref, Argentina did
End of
So you're saying the referee's inadequacies affected the result?
I agree entirely
The team's inadequacies affected the result much more
@Duluth said in QF - Canterbury vs Northland:
Northland v Canterbury NPC results
The last Northland win was back in 1999. Final score was 27-20
I remember two things about this game. The Northland pack put on a great performance particularly in the mauls. Glenn Taylor dominated Blackadder
Managed to find the try scorers and the team lists (missing one Cantab reserve)
Hayden Taylor, Mark Subritzky, Norm Berryman, Robbie Johnson, Dan Parkinson, Jared Going, Joggie Viljoen, Matthew Webber, Alan Tubbs, Vula Maimuri, Glenn Taylor, Geoff Crawford, Tim Knight, Jason Hammond , Nick White
Reserves: Joe Ross, Mike Storey, Murray Dyer, Tim Henwood, Tim Kareko, Tony Monaghan, Jason HitaBen Blair, Daryl Lilley, Mark Robinson, Mark Mayerhofler, James Kerr, Leon Macdonald, Ben Hurst, Steve Surridge, Angus Gardiner, Clark McLeod, Todd Blackadder, Steven Lancaster, Dave Hewett, Matt Sexton, Con Barrell
Reserves: Sean Cuttance, Greg Somerville , Chris Jack, Johnny Leo'o, Aaron Flynn, Aaron Mauger, AN Other27-20
Northland Tries: Berryman, Parkinson, Taylor, White
Cantab Tries: Kerr, Hurst, McLeod
I bet Con Barrell copped a bit of verbal at the end...
