Kiah

With the benefit of hindsight, would anyone like to apologise to anyone?

Ooh Opo. Im back and I find you alive and well. Pity................

Do you feel Lou was a one off crooked Kiwi (but born in Aussie) cricketer? Whats with Cairns and McCullum? Do you have faith in NZ Cricket to bother to fix anything? Has anyone forgotten that the NZ cricket coach lied to the public over sacking the last captain? Why has no one bothered to question the shafting of world cricket by the big three powers Aust, Eng and India? How much will NZ cricket have to beg and scrape before being allowed to fight for crumbs with the other big cricket nations? Since when did NZers generally agree with bending over to get sod _ _ _ _ _ _? Why did NZ vote for the Indian crook to head world cricket when he is facing the courts? Has Sneddon thrown away all his hard earned credibility trying to represent cricket internationally? Do you feel that Sneddon is lending his image to prop up international cricket by accepting the board position? Do you feel that cricket is now just corrupt and rotten to the core? Why is anyone supporting this game that goes for five days and often with no result? Is this game a massive waste in NZ resources? How much rates money is poured into maintaining cricket grounds nationally at the expense of every other sport? Why is cricket not a user pays sport? Why do other sports pay similar amounts to councils yet cricketers are the biggest single cost to the councils? Why is cricket even on our TV screens? Why do people allow their kids to play the sport when many of the role models are crooks and unfit (all meanings of the word) people?

Chiefs have most of their backline back this week and should knock Canes out of running. The form team is the Blues who are more than a good chance to hurt the misfiring Crusaders this week. That would result in a Chiefs Blues finale for a place in the finals. If the Reds do us all a favour and beat the Force this weekend - then the Force beat the Brumbies - we could get four NZ teams into the semis. Though all would be playing each other with two getting knocked out the following week.

Ashoka - you cant seriously believe the rubbish you are writing. Seriously - this is shonky! No matter how you try to spin it ...

Go the Lions!!!!! Gotta rate Odriscoll to be unlucky. It was his Welsh mate that let through that try last Sat. OD made his tackle but his mate didnt trust him and left his man. Now with the second Welshman back - Gatland has gone with the Welsh combination. I hope he is right but it certainly looks like he is favouring the Welsh - I dont think he is but the media will play on it. He will be the hero if they win but a loss will see the knives come out

Dom Post have the worst rugby writers of all the major dailies since Jim Kayes left. Idiots have only managed to pick about 30% of all the super results when a blind monkey should select 50% What the chiefs is doing is mostly legal. They are watching and waiting for the ball to pop out. Sometimes they are guessing and time it right other times they get it wrong and back out. Which the ref lets them off with. The cleanouts have been pioneered by the chiefs and copied by others now. Two men are going into the tackle and blowing way over the ball. Its legal. THe Dom writers just havent caught up with the rules. Watch the first half again and count the number of canes offsides every single time the Chiefs had the ball. they must be behind the last foot of the maul/ruck. They arent even close. Their are a couple of NZ born in theLions and for me - the only Maori player in either team is in the Lions. But besides that, they are the biggest tour to beat for the southern hemisphere - and I want that honour to be held by the ABs alone!!!!

1. Forward Passes - Blues robbed when the Stormers get away with forward passes in their game over weekend. The ruling on forward passes in rugby is currently farcical 2. Canes have taken a leaf out of the Aussies manual and are blatantly offside every ruck and every maul. The Chiefs were getting slaughtered by that tactic but they are just superior across the board 3. Aussie front rowers are CRAP and get away with sucking penalties from the refs - they continually try and muddy the waters so that refs are lenient - or at least 50/50 with dishing penalties 4. Go the Lions!!!

In four years time one of the English cricketers will be prosecuted for betting on NZ .... mark my words lol. It is truly the only time NZ cricket wins anything ...

Congrats Opo. You persuaded your "cousins" to write to a few editors. Well done for organising a letter writing campaign. Given the incestuous nature of your dribblings you should all desist from breeding with each other. Your rants get progressively worse. It gets tiresome ...

Too much crap has happened Eljay. I still cringe when I remember my bet Changeover winning when he should have been stuck 3 back on the rails

i settled with my wife many years ago that Sunday is family time. But i like the other things mentioned. Would prefer gourmet food at cost prices as an attraction ...

Great Defence. Was really hard yakka to keep them out. Some lovely breakout stuff too. Hope Ranger takes all chances this week - looking forward to see him do some damage

Yup Cantab Matt. Shouldve gone alright. Rules must be applied. If a horse is going to race dangerously then it shouldnt be racing until its trialled satisfactorily

Every town in NZ buzzed when a touring team came in. They need to do this - say every four years or so. I bet the likes of Llanelli, Munster, Cardiff etc etc. would love the ABs to come calling too ....

I loved watching Andy Irvine but wasnt it odd that his very worst games were all against the ABs??? He had all the skills, speed and flair but against us he really bombed. Missed tackles, dropped catches, dropped bombs he did it all against us - but against everyone else he was the man! These current Lions backs cannot pass a ball as well as the 71, 74 or 77 Lions Mind you the passing standards world wide are much poorer now - everyone is working on speed, bulk and power. They neglect the fundamental skills

Deceitful people like Peter Dunne and John Banks should have resigned from Parliament long ago. Cartoonists take themselves way too seriously and some sections of the media do likewise. Opo you should be a cartoonist. Your miseryguts themes need lampooning. Actually, you should volunteer to run John Mystery Morrisons Wgtn Mayoral campaign. He is another deceitful politico who is a miseryguts like you, but he has been working to undermine the current mayor every step of the way. But at least you will be upfront and honest about what you think should happen .......

The Aussie commentators were commenting on the second string force side that faced the Lions. Then we see a second string Auckland side playing France. I thought it absolutely farcical to give a trophy to the French captain tonight. Utter bull ____!!!! I grew up excited about tours here. Seeing 30 match tours get reduced to 14-16 wasnt great. Then it went down to 8-9. Then no tours. Now this. The public got to know the tourists and every tourist I have ever met loved the experience. Every team had a go at trying to win a touring trophy and it was genuinely exciting around the provinces when the Lions or whoever else it was that came to town. But no matter who was there - the ABs fronted for their provinces. This second team crap is just ripping off the public, cheapens the Blues jersey (and across the ditch the Forces jersey). There is no reason why Braid and Williams werent playing. Ditto the current Blues in the AB squad. With the international calendars its unlikely to have proper tours again. Thats a shame for the game

I have had one in the past. Didnt get one this time

A trotter called Noodlum won by 400m one time when I was a kid. I was there at Alex Park but was playing out the back and didnt see the race live

Do you get the feeling that they are setting you up for another disappointment? ..... enjoy this moment for what it is .... all the best

I really like Ashburton as a fast big track. The beauty about the mile distance is clearly the speed comparisons internationally. Apart from that issue, 1700 at Ashburton has its attractions

You picked the Quaddie at $566 and the last race trifecta

It is clear that the draws dictated a lot of the "luck" being spoken about in this thread. Change the draws around and any one of six horses would now be sitting with Border Controls record. Top horses all of them. Border Control would have won by lengths if Mista mara had taken him to the passing lane. Great drive by Purdon to bulldoze him out of the trail. Great runs in behind him too by a number of runners with bad draws - and in the other races too

Also wind in her hair for a place to start the day off