CWC Final - Black Caps v England
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@Donsteppa it's going to hurt indefinitely I'm afraid. The only salve will be a win at a future WC.
But what are the chances that there is a similar situation when they tour here!! wonder if the TAB will offer that option... hmmm maybe not. I'm sure they don't want their offices burnt down!
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@Donsteppa said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
A run, a run! My kingdom for one run!!
The five stages of loss are progressing glacially...
I'm at peace with the game being a tie and that's how it should/will be remembered, not the rule created by an ex-billionaire now spending life in prison for corruption and fraud.
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@Paekakboyz said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Donsteppa it's going to hurt indefinitely I'm afraid. The only salve will be a win at a future WC.
But what are the chances that there is a similar situation when they tour here!! wonder if the TAB will offer that option... hmmm maybe not. I'm sure they don't want their offices burnt down!
There's been a lot of good comparisons to All Black RWC losses, but in some ways it reminds me of the feeling when Crowe was out for 299. That sense of how hard it was to get so close, and just how long it might be until the next chance.
I'd knight Sir BMac for finally giving closure to that 299 itch...
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@Donsteppa said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Paekakboyz said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Donsteppa it's going to hurt indefinitely I'm afraid. The only salve will be a win at a future WC.
But what are the chances that there is a similar situation when they tour here!! wonder if the TAB will offer that option... hmmm maybe not. I'm sure they don't want their offices burnt down!
There's been a lot of good comparisons to All Black RWC losses, but in some ways it reminds me of the feeling when Crowe was out for 299. That sense of how hard it was to get so close, and just how long it might be until the next chance.
I'd knight Sir BMac for finally giving closure to that 299 itch...
God, what a moment that was (Baz's ton).
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@Cyclops @Donsteppa an emotional cricketing moment. When you think about Crowe and all he did and to not have that fortune of getting the triple and then a proud guy like Baz doing it, makes it one of the great NZ moments.
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@Donsteppa said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
There's been a lot of good comparisons to All Black RWC losses, but in some ways it reminds me of the feeling when Crowe was out for 299. That sense of how hard it was to get so close, and just how long it might be until the next chance.
2013 America's Cup also felt had a similar feeling of technical BS after the match winning race was flagged down with Barker in the lead and that there wouldn't be another campaign from a strictly financial sense.
But then at least Oracle won one more race over the tie, and technical BS is essentially the name of the game in yachting.
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JFC, we have some fucked up people in this country.
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@Mokey said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
JFC, we have some fucked up people in this country.
Comes across a bit desperate, imo.
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@Mokey a quick google (again didn't even read the links) suggests that his wife has contracted cancer and he quit his job to be her caregiver.
Now while this is laudable and the situation must be tragic for those directly concerned, I don't think it is NZer of the year worthy any more than a nifty paso doble is.
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@dogmeat Abdul Aziz will win NZer of the Year. Throwing an eftpos machine at a terrorist is far more impressive than deflecting a ball with your cricket bat. Actually throwing an eftpos machine at anything is more impressive full stop.
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@dogmeat said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Mokey a quick google (again didn't even read the links) suggests that his wife has contracted cancer and he quit his job to be her caregiver.
Now while this is laudable and the situation must be tragic for those directly concerned, I don't think it is NZer of the year worthy any more than a nifty paso doble is.
Yeah I'm sure there could well be hundreds of people in NZ doing the same as Barnett, just not broadcasting it to the country.
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@Sneakdefreak said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@dogmeat Abdul Aziz will win NZer of the Year. Throwing an eftpos machine at a terrorist is far more impressive than deflecting a ball with your cricket bat. Actually throwing an eftpos machine at anything is more impressive full stop.
Heard a great suggestion recently.
If the “crusaders” name is too offensive, let’s rename the team the “Canterbury eftpos machine hurlers”
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@Bones said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@dogmeat said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Mokey a quick google (again didn't even read the links) suggests that his wife has contracted cancer and he quit his job to be her caregiver.
Now while this is laudable and the situation must be tragic for those directly concerned, I don't think it is NZer of the year worthy any more than a nifty paso doble is.
Yeah I'm sure there could well be hundreds of people in NZ doing the same as Barnett, just not broadcasting it to the country.
Him and Phil Gifford are actually good value on Newstalk ZB on long car rides I have to say. The latter is amazingly good if you disassociate him from the bloke who writes all that Crusader wank.
But no, Simon Barnett doesn’t deserve to be NZer of the year.
Give it to KW. The rest are joke nominations compared to him.
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When the captain of the winning side doesn't feel good about how the game was decided then I think that's a pretty clear indication that the ICC fucked up badly.
Surely the most obvious solution is to keep playing super overs until a winner is found. At least that way the game is decided by the players in the moment rather than some arbitrary calculation.
If TV stations don't want billions of people around the world staying tuned in for an extra 10 or 20 minutes then they've got rocks in their head.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12251249
