Saturday, April 24, 2004
Photos of Death and the Kiwis v Kangaroos
So it's ok for CBS to broadcast pictures of Princess Diana lying on a road dying.
But it's really not ok for a woman to take a photograph of some of the coffins containing dead American soldiers bodies in Iraq (which later appears in The Seattle Times).
Not much to say about the league test across the Tasman. I didn't see the game and will have to wait until it becomes available on the NRL website but it seems as they they did well under the circumstances. There does seem to be a consistent theme going though. That's the 13th consecutive loss in Australia spanning 13 years with most of them being not all that close. A six point loss in "99", an eight point loss in "93" and a ten point loss in "95" are about as good as it's got.
We've only hit 20 points on two occasions since 1990 in tests played in Australia. We scored 24 points in that famous victory in 1991. Remember that this 24-6 victory came against an awful old age Aussie team who were all promptly dropped and the new team beat us 44-0 and 40-12 in the next two tests (and the Lonergan was also invented I might add). The other occasion where we broke 20 points away from home was in the 22-34 loss in 1997 against a weakened Super League team.
In order (our away scores): 24-0-12-8-4-8-10-10-22-12-14-0-12(neutral venue)-6-10. They look like the opening scores for somebody batting at the opposite end to Mark Richardson.
Those sorts of tallies are never going to beat the Kangaroos away from home as we've only ever kept them at 20 or less points on nine occasions in the last 24 tests.
We have to face facts of course, that Australia is better at league than we are and probably always will be aside from the odd triumph when we catch them napping for whatever reason.
At home our record is pretty good actually since 1990 and if there had been as many tests in New Zealand since 1990 as there had been in Australia our record might look a bit better.
At home we have: played nine, for four wins, four losses and a draw. Certainly pretty impressive. While away it's: played 14, for one win and 13 losses. Plus we also lost at the neutral venue of Old Trafford in the WC Final in 2000 to the tune of 12-40.
For a combined: Played 24, won five, lost 17, and one draw.
I'm not sure why we have to play so many in Australia. The corwds aren't really any bigger and with international sport it should be split 50/50. Now maybe if we could get five straight games played at North Harbour Stadium to even the ledger we could grab ourselves a couple more wins.
But it's really not ok for a woman to take a photograph of some of the coffins containing dead American soldiers bodies in Iraq (which later appears in The Seattle Times).
Not much to say about the league test across the Tasman. I didn't see the game and will have to wait until it becomes available on the NRL website but it seems as they they did well under the circumstances. There does seem to be a consistent theme going though. That's the 13th consecutive loss in Australia spanning 13 years with most of them being not all that close. A six point loss in "99", an eight point loss in "93" and a ten point loss in "95" are about as good as it's got.
We've only hit 20 points on two occasions since 1990 in tests played in Australia. We scored 24 points in that famous victory in 1991. Remember that this 24-6 victory came against an awful old age Aussie team who were all promptly dropped and the new team beat us 44-0 and 40-12 in the next two tests (and the Lonergan was also invented I might add). The other occasion where we broke 20 points away from home was in the 22-34 loss in 1997 against a weakened Super League team.
In order (our away scores): 24-0-12-8-4-8-10-10-22-12-14-0-12(neutral venue)-6-10. They look like the opening scores for somebody batting at the opposite end to Mark Richardson.
Those sorts of tallies are never going to beat the Kangaroos away from home as we've only ever kept them at 20 or less points on nine occasions in the last 24 tests.
We have to face facts of course, that Australia is better at league than we are and probably always will be aside from the odd triumph when we catch them napping for whatever reason.
At home our record is pretty good actually since 1990 and if there had been as many tests in New Zealand since 1990 as there had been in Australia our record might look a bit better.
At home we have: played nine, for four wins, four losses and a draw. Certainly pretty impressive. While away it's: played 14, for one win and 13 losses. Plus we also lost at the neutral venue of Old Trafford in the WC Final in 2000 to the tune of 12-40.
For a combined: Played 24, won five, lost 17, and one draw.
I'm not sure why we have to play so many in Australia. The corwds aren't really any bigger and with international sport it should be split 50/50. Now maybe if we could get five straight games played at North Harbour Stadium to even the ledger we could grab ourselves a couple more wins.
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