Must Keep Changing to Maintain Superiority
AT THE BAR: WHAT ARE THE HOGSHEAD BOYS YARNING ABOUT
And we must keep improving. Because very quickly we now find that the
gap between us and Sth Africa was not a s big as the last game. And it
will continue to close.
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REGULAR: DAVE CROWE
England's entire performance is so substandard an entire overhaul must be
made. In the field they look old and sluggish, and their bowlers seem unable
to maintain any kind of pressure. The captaincy in the hands of the novice
Butcher is uninspired and reached new depths when they went into their
containing mode with Tufnell bowling two feet outside legstump from over the
wicket.
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Clown
THIS WEEK: RUGBY CIRCUS
John Hart gets to wear the red nose for the week for admitting to the
media that Carlos the Hairdo was picked to travel to the High Veldt for
their away match against the Boks for his kicking game. He's not had a
real flash season with the boot; maybe John has picked him for the knee
kicking? Where's the cover for April if he gets carried off. Hopefully
not 'soft in the centre' Carlos.
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REGULAR: TIM BICKERSTAFF
Tim Bickerstaff has left the XTRA Sport commentary team.
To Tim we say cheers, and all the best. To the loyal readership we have
put together a tribute of highlights to his unique style.
Right from his first column on Tim Bickerstaff continued in the
tradition that stood him in such good stead during his talkback days --
be contentious and call it how you see it.
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Sponsorship?
SPORT GUY: TRISTAN TUCKEY
Some notable omissions aside, we have a successful line up of All Black
captains, if not icons. With the big branding finale being Taine
'Captain' Randell. Well excuse me! You could have stuck a political
party logo on the end of it and made it a legit build up to an election
campaign as far as I'm concerned. [Read On]
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Black To The Future
THE NEW ALL BLACK STRIP
See the first pictures of the new All Black strip as worn by Taine
Randell, Anton Oliver and Jeff Wilson in Auckland today.
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