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  1. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Killer try, killer field-goal? They're in position.
  2. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    It's all us, but no points.
  3. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    We won't just barge over, will we?
  4. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Some slick passing, we need to try something to get over the line.
  5. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    This bloody Aussie D is pissing me off.
  6. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Sounds like a Warriors game.
  7. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Who scores - and takes an important lead - before halftime?
  8. Blair

    Off Season 2024/25

    'Revelation' is over the top in the context of his career, which was disappointing, yes. But in his first series he was. It was the pace, aggression and attitude. Even Allan Border mentioned it.
  9. Blair

    Off Season 2024/25

    Plus, the whole '92 World Cup squad has a special place in our cricket history.
  10. Blair

    Off Season 2024/25

    Some of you missed it by a few years but Danny was a revelation when he burst onto the test scene during '87/88 tour of Australia. Hadlee wanted a genuine fast-bowling partner for years and there he was; young, nice action, brash like an Aussie, just perfect.
  11. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Also, no Madge factor. His replacement? Hmmmmm.
  12. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Great Britain were in Palmy the year before and I was there. Matthew Ridge was taken from the field after an horrific 'squirrel grip'. He didn't return from memory.
  13. Blair

    Off Season 2024/25

    I've just dug Howarth's book out, as he was the tour's coach. Pringle was a shocker. He was in on the smoking but let the others take the fall. In hindsight, they should've all left it be. Holed up in rural Paarl, no cricket through rain, a Christmas 'costume' party (I can see a 'Rasta' in...
  14. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    I was too late in rescuing it from my parents' place (chucked out only two years ago) but I had a copy (the foldover 'newspaper' version) of RLW from that test match. It had a jubilant Freeman and McCracken on the front cover. The next two were disastrous though. McCracken was sent-off early in...
  15. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    I was 10 during the 'underarm' summer in Aussie. It's a great age to be taking it all in. You never forget it. In '92 our ODI form had been decining for years (about '84/85 our standards slipped markedly from the dizzying days of the early-'80s) and no one gave us a chance in that World Cup. In...
  16. Blair

    Off Season 2024/25

    Mt Smart was rocked and rolled yesterday with the new Auckland FC beating Brisbane in their A-League debut. It'll be interesting to see how this all pans out. Like League I didn't want a second NZ team in the Aussie comp. I didn't think we had the support, numbers, money, player pool, etc, to...
  17. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    That's it, bro. Pure pandemonium and repeated again the following year against England. The NZ administrators were caught out with how big and wild the crowds at Eden Park were. We'll never see it like that again. The banner I mentioned was brought on to the field during the official team...
  18. Blair

    Pacific Cup 2024

    Good guesses, I'll find an image to put you all out of your misery. It wasn't a league test. It was before one of the wildest days in NZ sport...where crowd control was in its infancy. The old Eden Park Terrace was mayhem.
  19. Blair

    Off Season 2024/25

    Weather and Bumrah permitting. I hope we just come out swinging. Conway can finish it early if he goes for it and stays in. I'm scarred by my 1980s team. They'd push and prod (Wright and Edgar, I'm looking at you) and it'd be torture chasing a small total. Hadlee and Cairns were sometimes...
  20. Blair

    Off Season 2024/25

    OK, then not everyone can be Shaun Johnson.

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