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A week without a phone line is like a month, no a year, without you-know-what. Perhaps I exaggerate.
Anyway, all I need to complete this orgasmic week is for the Sky technician to visit tomorrow as promised in time to get TV pics for the second Saffer / NZ test that kicks off tomorrow night. Not that I really want to watch, as the cards are lining up for the Kiwis to get a good old-fashioned thrashing. Sometime ago I made the comment that one of the problems (actually the major problem) for the NZ cricket team is the top 6 inches. Once a team estabishes ascendancy over them, they seem powerless to do anything about it - especially away from the comforts of home. So, with 5 days fine weather forecast, a pitch that may misbehave - South Africa at 1.82 is almost worth backing. But I think the really wrong price is the draw - at the moment on Betfair it's 3.75 and it should be closer to 5.0 IMO.
While on the subject of cricket, during Easter I got a copy of SPARC's annual report from last year and I get really p!ssed off seeing cricket continues to be funded for high performance. Why cricket is a "carded" sport in New Zealand defies logic. To quote the NZ Academy of Sport (the high performance arm of SPARC):
The New Zealand Academy of Sport invests in the sports that are most likely to bring international success for New Zealand.
Can someone please tell me, apart from a fluky win in the ICC Champions Trophy in 2000, what "international success" cricket has ever brought to NZ???
Super 14 preview up tomorrow - not that it will be worth much - the only good thing about no phone over the weekend was placing no bets - I would have got most of the games wrong. Although I wouldn't be so stupid as to back the Crusaders at 1.03 - I'm looking forward to seeing the Sunday papers where they have the biggest winners and losers at the TAB; I'm picking someone is still feeling sick at a guaranteed 3% interest at the TAB costing them 50% of their principal instead.
Anyway, all I need to complete this orgasmic week is for the Sky technician to visit tomorrow as promised in time to get TV pics for the second Saffer / NZ test that kicks off tomorrow night. Not that I really want to watch, as the cards are lining up for the Kiwis to get a good old-fashioned thrashing. Sometime ago I made the comment that one of the problems (actually the major problem) for the NZ cricket team is the top 6 inches. Once a team estabishes ascendancy over them, they seem powerless to do anything about it - especially away from the comforts of home. So, with 5 days fine weather forecast, a pitch that may misbehave - South Africa at 1.82 is almost worth backing. But I think the really wrong price is the draw - at the moment on Betfair it's 3.75 and it should be closer to 5.0 IMO.
While on the subject of cricket, during Easter I got a copy of SPARC's annual report from last year and I get really p!ssed off seeing cricket continues to be funded for high performance. Why cricket is a "carded" sport in New Zealand defies logic. To quote the NZ Academy of Sport (the high performance arm of SPARC):
The New Zealand Academy of Sport invests in the sports that are most likely to bring international success for New Zealand.
Can someone please tell me, apart from a fluky win in the ICC Champions Trophy in 2000, what "international success" cricket has ever brought to NZ???
Super 14 preview up tomorrow - not that it will be worth much - the only good thing about no phone over the weekend was placing no bets - I would have got most of the games wrong. Although I wouldn't be so stupid as to back the Crusaders at 1.03 - I'm looking forward to seeing the Sunday papers where they have the biggest winners and losers at the TAB; I'm picking someone is still feeling sick at a guaranteed 3% interest at the TAB costing them 50% of their principal instead.
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