NZ sport out of office replies

Sport Review #311

Scott Robertson

You got Razor. If you can play first five eighth, please fill in this google form. If you are Damien McKenzie, you are my number one first five eighth. If you are on the Board of NZ Rugby, then please change the eligibility rules. Otherwise, I am surfing, yeah cheers.

Stu Wilson

Hey an email! Holy shit. Unfortunately I’m locked out of my iCloud but as soon as I get some more login attempts I’ll come back.

Steve Hansen

Hey - I’m probably two bottles of red deep and not able to work my phone at the moment. But Joe Schmidt eh? Ha! If you are ringing to offer a lucrative Barbarians one-off coaching gig then ring me.

John Bracewell

Hi, you’ve reached JB. If you want Brendon, press 1. If you want Doug, press 2. If you want Melanie, press 3. If you want me, stay on the line. Beyond that, you had better track down a DB Almanac, cheers.

Yellow Fever shared mailbox

Yes we know who is top of the table, thanks.

Andrew Webster

Hey, I’m not answering emails right now, but I have a filter set up with ‘Our’ and ‘Year’ that go straight to trash and Reported just FYI.

Richie Mo'unga

Hi - if you are from New Zealand, please be aware that I am doing my thing over here and am not coming back. Full stop. Razor, you are blocked.

Thanks for reading - Richard

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I was invited back on the radio to chat Super Smash Finals, Auckland FC and Chris Wood and the NBA mega trade [RNZ]

Callum Henderson says bring back the bowl off, and he is right. The greatest thing about watching the famous BLACKCAPS v West Indies BO is how disdainful the Windies keeper is of his bowlers, magical stuff [Spinoff]

Keith Miller reckons the Under 19 women’s world cup deserved better than being played in Borneo during monsoon season - even so, the NZ team unfortunately underperformed when they got to play [Sportsfreak]

Chris Wood gets The Detail treatment, with the GOAT Noel Barkley chipping in to give some perspective and context [RNZ]

Betting plus social media equals a shit-show, and this time it’s tennis. Delete the app [NZ Herald]

Video nasty

Some of these are absolutely astonishing, with bonus heartwarming content - look how pleased they are for each other. The greatest game.

Long read

All about Whats App, the messaging platform everyone uses but you forget is actually made by Meta, whose politics are happy to flex to suit whomever is in power at the time [restofworld]

Recommendation 

When They Died is a great way to waste some time while putting the useless information you’ve somehow retained to good use and even - potentially - learning something.