Canes vs Lions
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<p>Just watched the last minutes of the 2000 final. With a better ref the Lions would have had half their team in the bin!</p>
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<p>Not the best of mornings in UH. Still raining here after heaps of rain overnight.</p>
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<p>Have cranked up the fire and will probably have it going most of the day.</p>
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<p>Won't be at game tonight, sitting at home in a warm lounge with a few beers seems like the way to go.</p>
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<p>Go the Hurricanes! Even better with Upper Hutt players on both wings.</p> -
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<p>Just watched the last minutes of the 2000 final. With a better ref the Lions would have had half their team in the bin!</p>
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<p>Nonsense, it was heroic defense :)</p> -
<p>One ominous portent is that - up until last year when the Crusaders didn't make the play-offs - every year of Toddy's lengthy reign, his team was knocked out, playing away from home, by the eventual champions.</p>
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<p>Last year he did his best to keep the record by thumping the Canes but losing to the Landers in the round robin.</p> -
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<p>I hope the Lions slept well after that flurry of calls I made to their rooms at 3pm this morning... ;)</p>
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<p>3pm?</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Chris B." data-cid="603281" data-time="1470436696"><p>
One ominous portent is that - up until last year when the Crusaders didn't make the play-offs - every year of Toddy's lengthy reign, his team was knocked out, playing away from home, by the eventual champions.<br><br>
Last year he did his best to keep the record by thumping the Canes but losing to the Landers in the round robin.</p></blockquote>
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That's delicious stirring -
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<p>One ominous portent is that - up until last year when the Crusaders didn't make the play-offs - every year of Toddy's lengthy reign, his team was knocked out, playing away from home, by the eventual champions.</p>
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<p>Last year he did his best to keep the record by thumping the Canes but losing to the Landers in the round robin.</p>
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<p>GFY.</p> -
<p>On the NSW TAB the Hurricanes are 3:1 on and the Lions 20:1.</p>
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<p>Not as bad as it could be here in Hataitai with the temperature feeling like it must be close to eight or nine degrees and the showers (laced with small doses of hail on occasions) coming and lasting little more than about five minutes before departing and another arriving about ten minutes later. The wind chill factor, however, might prove to be a real challenge with a ambitious sou-easterly doing it's best!</p>
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<p>Not as bad as it could be here in Hataitai with the temperature feeling like it must be close to eight or nine degrees and the showers (laced with small doses of hail on occasions) coming and lasting little more than about five minutes before departing and another arriving about ten minutes later. The wind chill factor, however, might prove to be a real challenge with a ambitious sou-easterly doing it's best!</p>
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<p>I'm sure it is nice and warm in Lovelocks though</p> -
<p>It should be but frankly it is a little on the shite side getting my a into g to get there. I note the air temp at the airport is now 6 degrees - absouletly perferct weather conditions for us!</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=wellington+air+temperature&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=UX-lV5uCK67r8AeUqIzADw'>https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=wellington+air+temperature&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=UX-lV5uCK67r8AeUqIzADw</a></p>
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<p>A more appealing prospect is joining in with the Marist St Pats supporters after their Jubilee Cup Final defeat by Tawa if their clubrooms is open!</p> -
<p>Last test I ever went to at Athletic Park was All Blacks vs Lions in 1993.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/teamsheet.asp?MT_ID=1964'>http://stats.allblacks.com/asp/teamsheet.asp?MT_ID=1964</a></p>
