It sounds like it was an amazing netball final at the Commonwealth games today. Unfortunately I missed "the greatest international netball match ever played", as well as the rest of the now-complete Delhi games. At least I get to watch some of the highlights from yesterday's great games moment:

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I would have added this to the end of my general NPC catch-up post, but I felt like it deserved its own post.

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Watching Slade and Sonny Bill running together is ridiculously comical.

I'm very sad I missed seeing (or at least listening to) this game over the weekend! Such is the price of avoiding spoilers.

Yippee ki-ay [NSFW: language]! We got ( Read more... )

After my break from rugby news, it wasn't just the Tri-Nations I had to catch up with. Five weeks of NPC results beckoned!

After watching week seven, I was impressed by how great Southland look at home; It'll take a special effort to lift the shield this year. Waikato look like they're starting to come right, but that final kick by Hawke's Bay to ( Read more... )

Over the past few years, I have watched most New Zealand rugby (Tri-Nations, NPC and Super 14) on Rugbyzone, however, last year they lost the rights to show the NPC and changed their pricing structure which left me unable to watch the last Tri-Nations game (Australia vs New Zealand on 11 September) without spending more money for a single game. I ( Read more... )

I hope the men's team was watching that World Cup final, because that's how you overcome a one-sided reffing performance. It may not have been as entertaining as their previous games, but that was a great Black Ferns performance. [RugbyDump report with extended highlightsIn Tri-Nations news, it's good to see that it's not just the All Blacks that ( Read more... )

The semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup were played yesterday. New Zealand demolished the French and the English beat Australia in a tight defensive struggle; The Black Ferns will face England on Sunday afternoon, live, free and streaming.

Black Ferns? Yes, it's the Women's game, and it's top quality stuff.

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SauceI wish the IRB were showing the ( Read more... )

Well, on Sunday, I caught up with the Tri-Nations matches that I missed while I was in the UK (again spoiler-ed by an eminent Classicist... serves me right for checking Facebook). Not that there was much doubt about the outcome after the first few gamesNow, for the first time in a couple of years, I can't easily (and legally) watch Canterbury in ( Read more... )

Saturday's first Bledisloe test was a funny old game. The feed I watched had the aussie commentary (which was as hilariously casual as ever) and neither I nor they had too many problems with the refereeing. He was consistent, and it was only really the two yellow card recommendations from the touch judge that seemed controversial. Not wrong; just a ( Read more... )

After the Buckets Grand Strat, Lex and I retired to the house of one of Lex's friends to watch the All Blacks turn on a near perfect display against the Springboks, and this Saturday, we repeated the dose at Lex's place before indulging in some card gaming action (Five Crowns and Uno). The less said about the card gaming the better, but the rugby ( Read more... )

I love that the crowd at test matches sings along competently to the Maori verse of the national anthem now. What I don't love is the cheese-y synth backing track. Can we not afford a band ( Read more... )