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Sport Review #274
Richard Loe, Brisbane, 1992
Young.
Ambitious.
Largely immobile.
Beaten on the outside by the flying Wallabies winger Paul Carozza.
I was a lone front rower lost in a sea of outside backs, like a salmon swimming up stream to spawn.
Would I be salmon - or shark?
If you don’t like the circumstances, change the game. Action time.
Granted, the action was an elbow drop on a prone opponent I outweighed by 30 or 40 kilos. That’s sport. And business.
I had momentum.
He had learnings.
Grizz Wylie, rural Canterbury, 2024
google search ‘drench suppliers near me’ fuck Siri what the fuck is this app ?
Dan Carter, Global, 2021
Question to my followers - what’s the connection between these two images?
John Hart, London, 1999
QUICKFIRE NOTEBOOK DUMP TOP TAKEAWAYS FROM FRANCE LOSS
NEVER PLAY A FULLBACK AT CENTRE I’M SURE NO ALL BLACK COACH WILL EVER DO THAT AGAIN
DIDN’T DO ENOUGH WORK ON ALL BLACKS BRAND, WILL CALL KEVIN ROBERTS IN THE MORNING TO RECTIFY
IF YOU ARE UP BY 30 POINTS AT HALF TIME IT TURNS OUT THE GAME IS NOT OVER
I AM RETHINKING MY ‘IGNORE WARNING SIGNS’ STRATEGY
AND ALSO RETHINKING THE BEACH HOLIDAY HALFWAY THROUGH THE TOURNAMENT
QUITE A LOT OF THINGS TO RETHINK IN FAIRNESS
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Sam Cane, Waikato lakes, 2024
Out of office ✅ 🚤 😎
Thanks for reading - Richard
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