blogging it real

Mother of the Nation Helen Clark listening to some phat beats in Korea yesterday. You can check the back slapping article which accompanies the photo here (It's all about Koreas cutting edge technology). Quite what the article has to do with Bush is beyond me, but then again Korea loves putting the boot into the fuckwit more than most (which means quite a bloody lot obviously).

Hell, it didn't really occur to me that if Labour hadn't triumphed in the election we would have faced the prospect of Donald "what's our policy for that?" Brash bumbling his way through the NZ bid in Dublin. "The World Cup should go to Japan,... um... New Zealand... well anyway... economy, no Maoris in the team... I... errmmm... thankyou".

And on Australia's new found passion for developing their bank account, whoops, I mean developing the game of Rugby Union...

I've been scrolling back through the years and here's all I can find outside World Cups of Australia playing lower tier rugby nations...

v Spain in Spain in 2001 (92-10)
v Samoa in Australia in 1998 (25-13)
v Tonga in Australia in 1998 (74-0)
v Fiji in Australia in 1998 (66-20)
v Samoa in Australia in 1994 (73-3)
v Canada in Canada in 1993 (43-16)
v Tonga in Australia in 1993 (52-14)
v USA in Australia in 1990 (67-9)
v Korea in Australia in 1987 (65-18)

and I'm stopping there, that's quite far enough. Australia couldn't give stuff about developing the game. We should just tell their Super 14 teams to piss off and we can play our own franchise teams againt each other and include a Pacific Island team or two. Then watch Australian rugby sink back down the hole it came from.

Oh, and Armenia beat Bulgaria 57-17 in the latest hot rugby action from Europe last week.