Terrifying NZ sport halloween costumes
Sport Review #175
Not for you Auckland or Waikato - but everywhere else, if you want to join the scary candy fun, here’s some options with some sporting flavour.
‘Social’ sport guy - everything’s cool and ‘I’m just here ‘cos I love indoor netball’, but as soon as the whistle goes it’s elbows, sneaky nut punches and surrounding the ref. Horrible stuff
Training paddock Dan Carter - re-live the shocking moment future pharmacy retail spruiking royalty limped out of the 2011 World Cup, sending the nation into wild flailing panic by simply lying around on the ground
Pitch invader - Great Piet van Zyl / Lisa Lewis couples option
Sexy Wayne Barnes - Oh la la! Get your loudest whistle and shortest shorts and get out there upholding the law and shattering dreams
Dave Currie haka guy - Watch people scatter
Former Player Analyst - Wear a blazer with a patch on the lapel, grab a bald wig and tell everyone where they’re going wrong
Your Sporting Dreams - Dig out the football, netball or cricket uniform you wore at 14, squeeze in and slowly wander the neighbourhood thinking of what might have been
Underarm Chappells - Grab your best canary yellow, a wig and hold a whispered pitch end conference
Colin Hawke - only in Dunedin though
Mooloo bell - Everyone’s terrified of these
Thanks for reading - Richard
This week's best NZ sport content
There are no winners in a 100 point All Black outing - generally we ignore the game itself (with notable exceptions), opting for discussion about What It All Means, including Jamie Wall [RNZ]
With the nickname Flatline, Mitchell Santner has one of the most impenetrable game faces going - Dylan Cleaver speaks with him about the plan for the World T20, the IPL experience and cleaning everyone up at golf [The Bounce]
Adam Julian’s odyssey to track down every Black Fern in every corner of the globe is a tale of determination that uncovered some fantastic stories [Locker Room]
Euan McCabe on The Hobart Win - I remember refusing to do work in the Telecom office that day, great times [Sportsfreak]
Video nasty
Spooky stuff here.
Long read
How long can we play? From the pros to weekend battlers, the aches and pains catch up with everyone eventually - this is all about what playing means, what’s possible and the people working to help us keep going [Sports Illustrated]
Recommendation
Succession heads can prolong the pleasure with Chris n Andy’s recaps on The Watch podcast, and the official podcast with Kara Swisher [The Ringer, HBO]
Bring back the gif
When someone suggests breakfast for dinner.
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