Good move. Great British Weather-induced fixture congestion should ease, but it’ll be a shame to lose those race-against-the-light epics like Federer-Nadal 2008.
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Pictures say only one or two words in this case
I’ve entered two competitions this week. There’s the Guardian’s Gallery ‘Photoshop Juande Ramos’ comp. I’m number 22 on the site – I feel so dirty.
They actually had my ‘effort’ on the site’s front page for a while. Sometimes it pays to stick with the bleeding obvious, team.
And here’s my entry in the Dropkicks’ photography comp:
Olympic drinking game
Here’s my entry in the Dropkicks’ Olympic drinking game contest.
Equipment:
- Piss
- Vessel
- Couch
- TV
- A whole lot of sick days
One consume:
A crazy slo-mo camera angle has you wondering where the camera is
Two consumes:
A crazy slo-mo camera angle makes you suspect LSD flashback
Three consumes:
You have to Wikipedia the rules
Four consumes:
You wind up getting sucked into Wikipedia’s Family Ties, Shoelace Tying and Who Shot First pages and totally miss the race / match
Five consumes:
You retrieve your running shoes from behind the fridge after watching lithe bodies running / cycling / etc and giving your own telly belly a forlorn poke
Six Consumes:
You STILL don’t make it off the couch for the entire two weeks and / or winter
Seven Consumes:
It slowly dawns on you the wall to wall handball / beach volleyball coverage between 8PM and 10PM is about boosting ratings and leveraging gratuitous T ‘n’ A into primetime, not *actual sport*
Eight consumes:
You don’t really care
Twenty four consumes:
Yet another vacuous comment from the TVNZ gang make you absent-mindedly miss Tony Veitch
Photos from the game
Today, I’ll be posting photos on Flickr from Eden park, where England are playing New Zealand.
Watch the action unfold – and pray it doesn’t rain.
Check out the Sportsfreak feed also.
Wayne Barnes’ motor spotted in Auckland
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Blog lite alert
Luckily, I’ll be on a tropical island for the next week (yay!) – you guys will have to make stupid stuff up yourselves for a few days.
Righto
Two from Tom Scott
Yet again, NZ’s best cartoonist nails the mood of the nation simply and elegantly. Twice. Fark he’s good.
It hurts
Thoughts on this evening’s defeat to England:
- Following a Black Caps top order collapse on CricInfo is much less fun than watching on the box (if you find that sort of thing fun, that is)
- Styris got 80 odd in a domestic match today – let’s get him on a plane, quick smart
- What were England DOING when they batted? They dwardled along like 11 Geoff Boycotts, it was more boring than ten man rugby from the 80s. If we’d had a little luck and got Flintoff out any earlier we’d have probably nicked it
- Flintoff is obsessed with punching gloves with his batting partner – one of England’s tailenders wasn’t expecting it when he came to the crease, and just about got a cock-punch
- Without Bond, our go-to tactic is still the slow-medium dobbers – twelve years ago it was Latham and Harris, now it’s Astle and specialist bowler Craig McMillian (who in fairness did a great job tying England down at the death)
- Tony Greig’s shameless cheering for the Poms is beyond a joke – if Sky Digital had an option to mute individual commentators, and have them replaced them with nails scraping a blackboard, I’d cheerfully pay double my subscription (Stu Wilson, you’d be next on my list, Bucko)
- Cricinfo’s headline right now is ‘Flintoff edges England in thriller’ – is that in a kind of Michael Jackson sense of ‘Thriller’?
- Scary thing is, England aren’t all that flash a side, and we stil lost. Did you spot anything to worry the Aussies?
- More depressing than the actual game was tuning into Radio Sport on the way to the video shop post-match, with one caller asking if Shane Bond actually had a migraine (back strain?), or just didn’t feel like playing. The horror…
Flashback – FICA World XI match
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For those despairing of the Black Caps’ woes – here’s a scene from the Tsunami relief matches, when we had firepower like Jeff Wilson in the team, and Flem could set fields like this.
I’d take Greg Sommerville at this stage.
