What makes Eden Park so special?
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@sparky said in What makes Eden Park so special?:
My theory is that All Blacks get a great week of undisturbed training before they play in Auckland, whereas elsewhere they end up doing more civic and community stuff in the build-up.
interesting idea, hadnt thought of that but might be a contributor
another thing being the NH teams tend to have a national stadium, "all" their games there both easy and hard, we've had home losses at other grounds that cant purely be down to the ground, there might be some luck of the draw
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@Machpants said in What makes Eden Park so special?:
It most certainly isn't the beer
Steinlager
Mmm, Steinlager.
Joe Wood says you're wrong
https://toastmag.co.nz/beer/brewer-q-joe-and-christina-wood/ -
@sparky said in What makes Eden Park so special?:
My theory is that All Blacks get a great week of undisturbed training before they play in Auckland, whereas elsewhere they end up doing more civic and community stuff in the build-up.
You don't think they do that stuff in Auckland? They seem just as busy as at any other location
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@mariner4life said in What makes Eden Park so special?:
It's the most kiwi stadium ever. It looks like a DIY project of mismatched stuff in a weird shape.
This and it used to be even worse! And even now, in about 80% of the "covered seats", you aren't actually guaranteed of keeping dry if it rains.
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@nzzp TBF he was asked what he would skull immediately after mowing the lawns on a blisteringly hot summers day.
Unlikely to nominate a DIPA.
Drink and food options at EP have improved enormously since I started going. Irvines pie and whatever you could smuggle in.
'What's that you've got in your bag son?"
"Nothing"....
clink - clink
I reckon the reason my old man started taking me to games is coz they never searched the ten-year-old. Gave me my first introduction to whisky
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@dogmeat said in What makes Eden Park so special?:
@nzzp TBF he was asked what he would skull immediately after mowing the lawns on a blisteringly hot summers day.
Yep.
He rates it though. Apparently often used to serve it to people withouth them knowing - and then telling them after they compliemnted the craft pilsner
It's a very good beer I reckon. Fresh. And not in a shitty plastic bottle for $$$.
