Risk assessment for your idiotic Valentine's Day ideas
Sport Review #97
It’s Valentine’s day, and you’re going to have a nightmare. Leaving aside the fact the whole idea is rubbish and if you were any kind of partner, you’d express your feelings of loyalty and loveeveryday, not just when the gift card companies dictate, the whole thing is laden with bad, bad cliches.
To help newsletter readers, I’ve ranked all your stupid ideas so you can get ahead of the game, and enjoy a fulfilling, mutually beneficial day.
Bad ideas
Tell your partner how much you love them but end up talking about your feelings for Christian Cullen - understandable, but bad.
Send an Uber Eats with chocolates and flowers home while you’re at Eden Park - come on mate, nothing kills romance like The Blues.
Park by the ocean to take in the view while listening to Radio Sport - you’re better than this.
Risky
Prove your loyalty by showing you’ve unfollowed all the WAGS on Instagram - extremely thin ice.
Surprise your partner with an intimate candlelight experience, roleplaying as her favourite Barrett brother - extreme judgement call.
Treat her with a replay of the 2013 Super Rugby final instead of Blues v Crusaders tonight - huge risk / reward here.
Best idea
Book a sabbatical to Japan or France.
Thanks for reading - Richard
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Jamie Wall goes to see the Breakers in one of the most eventful seasons of any NZ team, to find they’re just as popular as ever [Metro]
If players and coaches fall off your radar then they naff off to Japan, you might be surprised to read about the sheer number of NZers in the game there [Guardian]
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Video nasty
Backyard mountain bike trails is a massive YouTube rabbit hole. Here’s a taste:
Long read
“I could only shake my head. It was so cool. It was like seeing his video game in real life.” Tour pros on what it’s like to play with Tiger Woods for the first time [pgatour.com]
Selected weekend fixtures
Eden Park is the place to be - it’s Blues v Crusaders tonight at 7.05pm, then the Phoenix v Melbourne City at the same time on Saturday night, they’re both on SKY
The Breakers play South Melbourne Phoenix 7.30pm tonight at Spark Arena
The Aces and Volts play the Ford Trophy Final at Eden Park once again on Sunday at 11am, it’s on SKY
Bring back the gif
When you spend 45 seconds tapping your card on a ‘no paywave’
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