YESTERDAY'S All Blacks' loss in the festival tour-ender was a loss we could stomach, but it was the first such defeat in 17 years.
They last lost a non-test match in 1992 at Penrith, to Sydney by 40-17. That was, and still is, a record All Black defeat. They seldom play anything but tests these days and for Richie McCaw, yesterday's was his first non-test.
The game yesterday showed there's a huge chasm between Daniel Carter and the others, that we had a weak B team and made too many mistakes.
The B players had lacked rugby after being tackle bags for the test men for most of the tour.
replica hublot watches* "Hey that was embarrassing," whispered a Taranaki golfer as his team slunk into the Manawatu Golf Club carpark after the interprovincial tournament on Saturday evening.
NZ Golf instructs the teams to lower their flags in descending finishing order and Taranaki, who finished 15th and last, had to step forth and drop their pennant first in front of the big crowd.
The winner, Bay of Plenty, haven't been beaten in the past three years.
Clip on charms* The Phoenix soccer side can set an A-League record at FMG Stadium in Palmerston North next Saturday night if they beat or draw with Sydney FC.
Following their 1-all draw with the Melbourne Victory in Wellington on Friday night, the Phoenix have equalled the record for matches unbeaten at home (14). Ironically, the team they share the record with is Sydney FC.
* Te Kawau lost their most stalwart of stalwarts when former hooker Mark Cooksley died suddenly last week, aged 48.
Very much a local identity, he started in Saturday morning rugby with the Rongotea club and progressed to the seniors in the 1980s. He worked as a sheetmetal fabricator with Steelfort.
He went on to manage the Te Kawau Hankins Shield-winning teams in 1997 and 1999 and wrote Te Kawau articles for the now defunct Manawatu Rugby Weekly.
* When Rugby World Cup boss Martin Snedden phoned about the ticket prices the other day, we tried to get his view on the proposed Air New Zealand Cup cull.
replica breitling watchesBut here's all he said: "There could be a flow-on effect and we are just watching it.
"We can't interfere in the situation and how the NZRU run their business."
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