Gold Coast Comm Games
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@chris-b ordinarily I would expect us to do well but after OZ beat us in the Oceania Cup last year I had this feeling we would crash out in the pool stages being pooled with OZ and being done by another side in an upset.
Awesome result in the end and a most emphatic gold medal performance.
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@act-crusader You'll be even more rapt than me!
I had a sort of hunch that they'd do OK - was pretty pessimistic they'd win that final though. A real statement. They dominated most of it.
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@godder said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@taniwharugby said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Netball have some huge decisions to make, long gone are the days of Netball being the main path of girls aspiring to represent NZ, more so with the success of our womens rugby and also this games, the Hockey, without going into the individual stuff too
And cricket as well with NZ women playing in the Aussie women's T20 league and having another genuine pro sport option.
Soccer too, with plenty of chances for scholarships overseas. Woman's sport has come a long way, young girls have genuine options to persue now which is great to see.
Netball's future in NZ doesn't look that rosy in terms of being a superpower on the world stage. Our tiny population and the rise of other sports is really reducing their share of the market. The amatuer jobs for mates culture etc has to go and pronto or they won't compete.
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@stargazer said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Black Sticks women's captain Stacey Michelsen will be the flagbearer for the closing ceremony.
Up the Taniwha!!!
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Depsite my cynical comments at the start of the games, and ignoring the shortcomings of TVNZ, these games have been lots of fun. Being more in our timezone helps, but I've enjoyed it far more than previous games - long live the CGs
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@no-quarter said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Depsite my cynical comments at the start of the games, and ignoring the shortcomings of TVNZ, these games have been lots of fun. Being more in our timezone helps, but I've enjoyed it far more than previous games - long live the CGs
We've got to join together, let our laughter fill the air. Time for every race and creed to throw away their every care. Let sport unite us all as one in the spirit of the Lord above and let us all remember the games are for the fostering of peace and love.
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I think....
Black and Taylor
Tait
Quarrie and
Alan ?
Raylene BoyleTaylor
Same hurdler - Alan someoneProbably Jipcho in the steeplechase
ParkhouseBrendan foster - marathon silver
Don quarrie
Tony Ebert
Mary Peters
No boxer
Mike Wendon?Bayi, Walker, Jipcho(?), Dixon
Quinn!
Who says no-one remembers!
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@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
I think....
Black and Taylor
Tait
Quarrie and
Alan ?
Raylene BoyleTaylor
Same hurdler - Alan someoneProbably Jipcho in the steeplechase
ParkhouseBrendan foster - marathon silver
Don quarrie
Tony Ebert
Mary Peters
No boxer
Mike Wendon?Bayi, Walker, Jipcho(?), Dixon
Quinn!
Who says no-one remembers!
Who was the wee chick that cried into her teddy bear on the medal dais. Amazing how dusty it gets when that flicks up ...
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David Liti has just won the David Dixon Award!!
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Any thoughts apart from WTF! on the closing ceremony?
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@catogrande Was that the closing ceremony? I thought it was an extended Queensland Tourism ad.
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@catogrande said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Any thoughts apart from WTF! on the closing ceremony?
Not sure - we're just getting past the Birmingham segment - seems to have escaped from Sgt Peppers?
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@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@catogrande said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Any thoughts apart from WTF! on the closing ceremony?
Not sure - we're just getting past the Birmingham segment - seems to have escaped from Sgt Peppers?
It's funny how we watch the same things but seem them differently. I thought I'd stumbled across an old Village People video.
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@stargazer Bloody oath....far too much back-slapping and "Gold Coast we are awesome" for mine, and what the hell (who the hell) was all that singing? I thought they would wheel out Kylie or Midnight Oil at some stage....but....only poor, poor imitations of bygone eras...Xanadu, really?
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@chris-b said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
@catogrande said in Gold Coast Comm Games:
Any thoughts apart from WTF! on the closing ceremony?
Not sure - we're just getting past the Birmingham segment - seems to have escaped from Sgt Peppers?
No-one here could understand the rappers, nor how "Mr Bluesky" fits in with the Birmingham ethos, especially given our shitty weather of late..
David Dixon Award - Wikipedia
