Aaron Smith's DNA was also found on the jersey after it was taken into a fitting room by one of the girls from the shop.

I see Matt Todd most mornings on the school run.

Chris Harris gratuitously took the piss out of me for about 90 straight minutes at a poker game once after I went large on the first hand.

Ben Blair scored the chick I took to my 7th form ball (that night), she's now married to another former All Black whose name would dox her and she's a lovely girl and doesn't deserve that.

My brother-in-law was the one who told Mark Hammett to quit soccer and take up rugby in 4th form.

Daryl Gibson was my peer support leader in 3rd form, on peer support day in the first week, him and Andrew Mehrtens took their big bunch of turds down to the river to eat Raro out of our hands and try to scone ducks with acorns. In 7th form, when we did the same, little did I know that a young Dan Carter was in the group, so I'm the direct link there.

I hung out and drove round with Shane Bond for a few days at Queenstown Winter Festival when he was still the fastest bowler in the world with a legal action.

Have dealt with cricket and rugby teams quite a few times working in hotels, there was the time Shoaib Aktar "wasn't right in the head" (- Pakistan team doctor) and used a vivid to sign his name hundreds of times on the wallpaper of his hotel room.

Helped Pedro de la Rosa get a rental car to go to Kaikoura, he wrote that Suzuki Ignis off in the Hundalees.

There'll be more...

You buy a Subaru Leone, and it serves you well for a decade and you put 190k on it, and then you sell it to the guy down the road when the CVs are going to break.

Even if you think hes a douche, you still get a little kick out of seeing it drive around.

Yeah I'm firmly of the opinion that changing our way of life means the terrorists have won, but fuck surely 48 hours of shellshock (for want of a better term) needs to be taken into account, not least for the huge number of people for whom life has literally ground to a halt. There is no-one in this city who doesn't know someone personally devastated by loss.

I was disappointed initially, but on reflection this game was the very next day.

@Bones said in All Blacks v England:

@MajorRage said in All Blacks v England:

Eyes started straight in front.

The suspense is killing me

"...and as the streams met, so did their eyes..."

ALMOST feel sorry for Auckland Rugby supporters right now.

Yeeah obviously we had to wet a little bit of powder at some stage or whatever the analogy, which is a bit of a concern.

Players now "proven at this level":
Mo'unga
Reece
Bridge

And fuckin' go Kieran Read, MOM surely, those eye sockets had a whole new crazy bloody hunger tonight, looked like a leader except for when he didn't do enough to calm down Dane Coles.

Nice to see Beauden getting at least one of the hard kicks
A Smith v TJP about equal still for me
ALB was everywhere but could get more direct
Thoughts and Prayers to Mo'unga

Wallabies obviously shit the bed.

With a bit of luck and a change of coach, this year The Blues could finish as high as 11th.

@Bones said in All Blacks v England:

@MajorRage said in All Blacks v England:

Eyes started straight in front.

The suspense is killing me

"...and as the streams met, so did their eyes..."

@Donsteppa said in WRWC Final - NZ Vs England:

@canefan said in WRWC Final - NZ Vs England:

Someone said before the game that this ref would be bad for us. Huge call

That said, somewhat balanced out by 60 minutes against 14 players...

And she is quite hot.

Time to also single out Perofeta as a big bag of shit.

@No-Quarter they're playing fast, accurate and remind me a lot of the time they beat the Yarps at the world cup.

Just a wee remember everyone, calling him a "ginger" can be construed as racistism.

He's useless because he's an Aucklander.

See: Perofeta.

@JC said in Japan v All Blacks:

@Winger said in Japan v All Blacks:

21 17 to NZ. Should be 17-14 to Japan but for some shit reffing

Or 14-14 if RM’s forward pass had been given in Ennor’s try

It was backward out of the hands, which is in the rules as not a forward pass.

Where I counted at least 2 in the passage leading up to the second Japan try, maybe 3.

Looked like he didn't want to break a hip

@Machpants said in Japan v All Blacks:

Very much a foster game plan so far. No depth, shit short kicks everywhere.

Also no width. Mo'ounga under instructions to kick, secret instructions because the back three are standing around in the middle.

As BBBR gallops in like an elderly giraffe, looked a bit stiff.

Are the Australians whingeing about the ref? Because he's absolutely hammering their shit.

Lomax very lucky that he did a shit job of whatever he was trying to do.