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The NEW Dallas cowboys in stadia screen is 60 meters long…WOW !
Do you think the NZRU might wana play there, hell yeah !
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Source: Sky cuts Mexted ‘for criticising NZRU’
Extract…
Rugby personality Murray Mexted has claimed he was suspended from the Sky commentary team after criticising plans to cull four teams from the Air New Zealand Cup.
Mexted made the revelation while speaking at a breakfast to Wairarapa businesspeople and his comments were picked up by the Wairarapa Times-Age.
The former [...]

Source: League experiment flops for ARU
Ever wonder why Rugby League has been associated with the blue collar of society and rugby an upper class sport. You don’t need to be too bright to understand that after you read this statement from ‘not to smart Rogers’.
It was a bitter Rogers, 33, who decried rugby for being [...]

The IRB (including SANZAR) are conducting a big meeting the Dublin this weekend, the direction of rugby is certain areas will become clear
1) What ELVs are in or out ?
2) SANZAR or SANZAR ?
Its going to be very interesting…What will the ‘old farts’ decide (ak Wil Carling)

      
Sir Keith Park – WW2 flying hero, one of the Kiwis that the poms really like !
Source : Statue of NZ airman set for Trafalgar Square
London authorities have approved the erection of a statue of New Zealand airman Keith Park in Trafalgar Square.
The statue will go on the square’s fourth plinth for six [...]

Source: Fourth Bledisloe Test switched from Denver to Tokyo – John Matheson
The NZRU banked about $NZ4 million ($3 million) from last year’s Bledisloe Cup Test in Hong Kong and can expect to pull in at least $NZ5 million from their Tokyo jaunt.
Four Bledisloe cups games, are they freaken kidding, bumkins at the ARU and NZRU [...]

        Sir Brian Lochore
Source: Political correctness destroying New Zealand, says ex-All Black coach
Rugby legend Sir Brian Lochore says political correctness is destroying New Zealand.
Sir Brian, who coached the All Blacks to their 1987 Rugby World Cup victory, urged fathers to let their children take risks – but to lay down rules and impose “consequences” [...]

Source: Fitzpatrick: Just why I quit New Zealand
All Black icon Sean Fitzpatrick has opened up on his reasons for his family’s shift to the UK, saying he wanted to bring up his two young daughters outside of a “tunnel-visioned” New Zealand society. 
Mate you quit NZ to earn 500,ooo pounds a year, ars*hole, sitting on [...]

           
 Source: If America gets serious about rugby, watch out world - Zolton
Indeed, out of the thousands who aspire to make the NFL each year, only 450 make the cut, and those who do have an average career length of just four years.
All of which suggests that there are a lot of young, naturally gifted athletes [...]

         
Source: Paul Honiss hangs up his boots
In all, Honiss refereed in 211 first class matches, including 49 Super 14 fixtures and 71 Air New Zealand Cup games. He also refereed in three IRB Rugby World Cup tournaments in 1999, 2003 and 2007.
Some real slip ups, (funny how the media drags you down on [...]

     
Maybe a repeat of the ABs vs Ireland game, bad weather in Wellington for the Boks game. Here we go again ! Why cant they play these games at 4 or 5 pm !

 
 David Strettle and ‘Angel’ Lewis.
Source: Alice and the energetic bunny – Rosmary McCleod
“I was dancing and kissing with David when he said, ‘Have you ever stayed at a Hilton before?‘ He had all the lines and all the moves,” the ingenue revealed, without a trace of irony. And she did not spare the details.
“My England [...]

         
Source: There’s more to life than rugby – Lord Winston
“New Zealand is a wonderful country, but it is also a country which I think has some very poor values as well,” Lord Winston said during an appearance on current events show Close Up last night.
“The fact is that you still rate things like the [...]

              
Source:  Sex-case England rugby players free to leave NZ – Jarrod Booker
The Sun said Ms Lewis had told a friend she had sex with one of four England players at the centre of sex-attack allegations under investigation by police.
My Comments: To the player with the itch, here is your next stop MensHealth.co.nz .  You may or [...]

    
Ok, slightly sick sense of humour, but come on what are they doing !!!

    
A funny ha ha !

          
Source: Scrumhalf Gareth Jones dies after injuring neck in club match

A Neath rugby player has died in hospital after suffering an injury to his neck during a match on 20 April.
Scrum-half Gareth Jones, 28, was hurt at a ruck during a Premier Division game against Cardiff in the Arms Park, which Neath lost.
My Comments:  We [...]

 John O’Neill
Source: Numbers game will bar code – Jacquelin Magnay
AUSTRALIAN Rugby Union boss John O’Neill has given a blunt warning that one of the football codes might not survive. He reckons it will come down to the survival of rugby union or rugby league, not both.
O’Neill said yesterday that league and union need to protect [...]

Stephen Jones has been rugby correspondent of The Sunday Times for more than 20 years and is regarded as one of the sport’s most influential commentators.
Source: Stephen Jones debates the biggest issues in rugby union
On Inside Rugby in Australia a few weeks ago, George Smith said half the players like the ELVs and half don’t. [...]

AFL players getting friendly ! This must be illegal.

   
Yeah, Robbie don’t care, he got $AUD in the bank !

         
Source: Not beautiful, but this proved an intense and absorbing game – George Chuter
Not the most beautiful and free-flowing of games, but these big finals rarely are. There’s not much arguing with the excitement it generated, though, another intensely fought contest between two of Europe’s best sides. I fancied Munster beforehand, but by half [...]