OT. Americas Cup.

[ozbash]

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

Been reading some reports aboput the celebrations
Reporters trying to get interviews but TNZ members are playing skulling games lol
Now thats a Kiwi victory

 

[Blair]

Been reading some reports aboput the celebrations
Reporters trying to get interviews but TNZ members are playing skulling games lol
Now thats a Kiwi victory

The opposition turned up too, which is good.

 

[shiznit]

Hearing some of the interviews I've gotta say I'm pretty embarrassed by some of Grant Dalton's comments.

taking shots at Spithill and Barker is pretty douchey IMO..

I've actually met Jimmy Spithill and his wife Jen a couple of times and they are absolute quality people.

My old man told me a story about some kids from a small rural school in the far north who had fundraised and organised a trip to Auckland to learn about sailing and it was supposed to culminate with a ride on one the old TNZ monohulls...

Whoever hooked up the TNZ ride mucked up because they pulled out the day before the sail... somehow Spithill heard about it and he took the kids out on one of the early Luna Rosa training boats.

 

[Rich102]

Grant Dalton is yesterdays man.
Sooner he goes the better.

 

[Diesel]

Had to explain to my family, wife and kids who are Australian how important this is. Then I shared this link for shits and giggles

 

[JJ]

I've long since stopped giving a shit about the America's Cup

But not sure what to make of Dalton's petulance - on one hand he should be more gracious and professional, on another he's taken some serious stick from all quarters, so perhaps the one-fingered salute is appropriate

 

[shiznit]

Grant Dalton is yesterdays man.
Sooner he goes the better.

I wouldn't go that far... I think he deserves a lot of credit for the way he kept the team alive and withstood a heap of criticism.

To put it simply... without Dalton there would be no TNZ. They would have folded.

He made some serious decisions around contracts(Going with Burling over Barker being a huge one) which were very unpopular at the time... but it's turned out paying off in spades.

But even then... there's a classy way to handle it... and his behaviour straight after the win probably let himself down.

 

[RHYTHM AND STEALTH]

good on dalton for throwing shade at everyone

hes copped heaps of shit for about 8 years from all quaters. stuff the haters

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Personally the greatest moment in Americas Cup history will always be the night during the 2001 campaign when me and a couple of mates manage to gatecrash a private party at Coast nightclub hosted by the Prada team. We spent all night drinking their booze cracking onto their girls and eating their canapés. My friend got so drunk he accidentally walked into the kitchens instead of the toilets, and pissed in the deep fryer.

 

[TheDMC]

Personally the greatest moment in Americas Cup history will always be the night during the 2001 campaign when me and a couple of mates manage to gatecrash a private party at Coast nightclub hosted by the Prada team. We spent all night drinking their booze cracking onto their girls and eating their canapés. My friend got so drunk he accidentally walked into the kitchens instead of the toilets, and pissed in the deep fryer.

Was the deep fryer on? If so what happened?
If not, wonder how the battered sausages tasted next time they fired it up...

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Was the deep fryer on? If so what happened?
If not, wonder how the battered sausages tasted next time they fired it up...

No the kitchen was closed down for the night and everything was turned off. Gotta say I never ate any of the free nibbles in that place again though, lol

 

[Blair]

Personally the greatest moment in Americas Cup history will always be the night during the 2001 campaign when me and a couple of mates manage to gatecrash a private party at Coast nightclub hosted by the Prada team. We spent all night drinking their booze cracking onto their girls and eating their canapés. My friend got so drunk he accidentally walked into the kitchens instead of the toilets, and pissed in the deep fryer.

Well done (apart from the fryer, I've worked in kitchens), there's nothing better than waltzing into a corporate gig. The best incursions are always unplanned, and which have the most 'excess' - Prada, America's Cup, Viaduct Basin, private party... - that just begs to be gatecrashed, they couldn't possibly spend the night's budget on their own.

I still don't really know what Deusche Bank really is, or how it operates, but that doesn't matter. I unwittingly walked into their Xmas party in central London in '97, and it was there I stayed!

I don't have much more to report on this topic of being somewhere fabulous where you shouldn't be , but as they say, less is more.

Thank you, Deusche Bank.

Has anyone slid past some Warriors bouncers? (Bodene Thompson doesn't count, that'd be too easy).

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Hah it definitely wasn't hard to infiltrate, I think we just slipped across a velvet rope that was cordonong off their section.
Never crashed a Warriors party but have run into a few current or ex-Warriors while out on the sauce. Matthew Ridge, Tyran Smith, Logan Swann, Manu, Brodene and Bully are the ones I recall. Smith was a memorably nice guy.
And I ended up drinking with Dale Husband on night at the Rose in Erskineville, lovely bloke.

 

[TheDMC]

Hah it definitely wasn't hard to infiltrate, I think we just slipped across a velvet rope that was cordonong off their section.
Never crashed a Warriors party but have run into a few current or ex-Warriors while out on the sauce. Matthew Ridge, Tyran Smith, Logan Swann, Manu, Brodene and Bully are the ones I recall. Smith was a memorably nice guy.
And I ended up drinking with Dale Husband on night at the Rose in Erskineville, lovely bloke.

I got on the booze with a bunch of the kiwis after test series win against Great Britain in ChCH mid 90s. That was after I did a half time run on the field (not naked) and rolled my ankle ripped tendon after stepping a few guards (was wearing hiking boots). Limped into town after the game, no hospital, was already boozed, ran into some of the team. They were smashed and all i recall, apart from skulling beers with them, was a certain player asking me to hook him up with some acid.

 

[Blair]

Twenty seven years a Warriors fan and I've actually never spoken to one player, past or present. No particular reason other than I've just never had the opportunity.

That changed last weekend at the Warriors reserves game at Belmore.

I had a brief, post-match exchange with J-Ro, outside the ground! He thanked me for my support, I offered my sympathy for losing three on the trot.

Go J-Ro! Legend.