Help the Kiwis celebrate their World Cup win… finally
If you’re a league fan and wanna relive last year’s Kiwi World Cup glory then head down to the Viaduct tomorrow at 12 noon. The world champs and their world champion female counterparts, the Kiwi Ferns, will be the guests of honour at a public reception at the Louis Vuitton race village. I’m finna head down if I can weasle my way outta work early.
Oh, and one more thing – fuck the NZRL (New Zealand Rugby League if you didn’t know). Those useless assholes have been so slack in their response to their flagship team, the Kiwis, winning the World Cup. Can you imagine if the All Blacks won the last World Cup? There’d probably be a public holiday declared and at the very least a fucken ticker tape parade down Queen St – and not 2 months later. I can’t help but feel the NZRL (primarily) has let a lot of fans down, and the game of rugby league, through their failure first of all to celebrate and commemorate the win in an appropriate way, and their incompetence at capitalising financially from the win. And aside from those immediate spin-offs, they’ve missed the boat on raising the profile and standing of league in this country long-term. Considering how huge the Kiwis’ win over Aussie was, the response from the NZRL has been uuuuseless. Fuck the administration though, if you’re free tomorrow, get down to the Viaduct and support the team.
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
brooooo! that IS useless – poor Kiwi’s
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I shoulda added that having the public reception at 12 noon on a work day, that is also the day most kids go back to school & the day of the Super Bowl, at a location far from the “working class” areas synonymous with league in Auckland (Te Atatu, Otahuhu, Otara, Northcote etc) is also dumb. “Tell ‘em why you mad son!”
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
man those are all good points i had never though of. FTW.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Yeah the NZRL is a shambolic organisation… That dude Sel Pearson who was chairman for ages just made me cringe every time I heard trying to weasel out of the latest disaster him & his board had presided over. This might be the biggest thing to ever happen to New Zealand league and it gets no press, no follow-through. It’s like you dreamed it. And so true about the viaduct, wtf are they doing down there, that hideous scene is about yachting, and rugby at a pinch. It’ll just be embarrassing, heaps of press watching those guys awkwardly stand around while all their fans are working, probably not even aware that it’s happening.