The Stephen Jones show don't stop
"And above all, there is New Zealand's motivation. It is more than sporting, way more. It's not so much Ireland that bugs them, even though the Irish crushed them in Chicago. It's the old country, you see — Britain and especially England. It's their problem, their dark secret. They hate the idea of the mother country ever getting one over on them on the field, the rugby field, that is. They are mediocre at most other major sports.
The mother country has rarely offered much contest. There was 2003 when we had the worst AB coach in living memory. Now the home nations have Kiwi coaches they are more efficient and effective as opponents, England have an Aussie who is canny and he is gearing Englands vast resources and coalescing them into a better outcome but the harsh truth is this...
Young NZ fans tend to see Aussie as the main enemy, I'm not sure why, for me and my age range Aussie are 'Johnny Come Lately' and outside of the Eales period they are easy beats, just ask Scotland.
In my age group the 'auld enemy' is, and will always be, the Japies.
There is no team I would rather see beaten by the AB's than South Africa.
There is no victory that gives me greater pleasure than the Bokke getting it in the neck, from the AB's, particularly on their own soil.
However beating them anywhere is a special occasion.
Look at 2015, the RWC. We mowed down every team we faced but if you look at the semi-final, the Bokke gave us the hardest game of the tournament. It was close.
There was fierce pride at stake, it's always about more than a Cup or a shield when we play the Japies, it's pride, it's honour and it's history.
South Africa is a truly great rugby nation and they will come back from the hole they have been in, and when they do they will be the most fierce competition to the AB's once again.
And yet, is there something more going on? Is it all a veil to hide an abiding love? The Kiwis are madder on the royal family than the maddest royalist at home. They are obsessed with England, the English, and what appears in London papers. They recently voted to retain the Union flag on their own flag, bless them. They will be voting to bring the empire back next."
I'm glad, as most Kiwis are, that we kept the flag the same. Nothing to do with loving Britain though, sorry mate.
It was essentially a hate contest that developed between Kiwi's and the idiot former prime minister Jerk key who was not interested in anything other than being the man who changed the flag.
He was voted down by Kiwi's who just want a simple black flag with a silver fern on it.
Not some fluoro multi coloured garbage that would make us look like a banana republic.
Nice try at razzing us, I see you got Cooky a good one.
Thanks for the tongue in cheek humour...
Now...
You get on with the bigoted anti-immigrant brexit that is ruining the pound and ruining your trade for years to come as the evil Aussie convict ruins your rugby team.
Do yourself a favour and get on board with commonwealth trade relations that chumps like Lord Vesty dropped in the mid 1970's when he hung us out to dry so he could rush to his euro economic version of Lady Chatterley... , you're gonna need them when the Euro union aristocracy smashes you in the wallet because you're leader is an idiot, jawing up a hard brexit and then getting smashed in the polls by a mainstream media demonised older Chardonnay socialist chap that is now a star among the youth and worshipped at Glastonbury. Go figure.
Your economy is dying, your growth is the slowest now in the G7, your public services are dying due to 6 long years of cuts, massive cuts from the chancellor George Osborne that were designed to eradicate the nations deficit... and left it significantly larger than when the cuts started, it's now at £1.7 trillion, ouch... I guess you could trade your way out of that deep hole but... Brexit has already started and there is no negotiator in place... you have no negotiators in place for the hundreds of global trade contracts you will need to replace the teat of Europe.
It's a mess being run by a conservative minority who don't know how to cut a deal, they only know how to cut services to the middle class and lower.
Wages are at the lowest level of growth since Napoleon threatened the nation of shop keepers, 200+ years ago
Your military has dwindled to the lowest levels in a thousand years and has been sidelined as a whipped cur that meekly follows the instructions of it's American overlord regardless of the consequences, like homeless veterans in your streets and terrorism in your cities.
You will soon have two (ridiculously expensive) three quarter sized air craft carriers with no planes on them because... oh thats right... they're not in the budget... and the carriers are for... posturing purposes? So you can make more 'impact' as Americas military poodle.
You're sailing hero, Sir Ben Ainslie has been tipped out of the oldest sporting contest in the world, the America's Cup, by a tiny south Pacific nation...
It's small wonder your tv fodder is largely comprised of families looking to get away from little Britain to a south pacific paradise, just as it has been the undying dream of English folk for years... to aspire to a dream home... where?
Come on down, you'll be welcome, we'll even teach you bounders how to play a bit of rugger, eh wot?
Touche' ;-)
