2008
Feedback from the masses
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Let's support the Harbour B team here One Harbour fan can take no more here Marc's 2008 season review can be viewed here From:
<withheld>@hotmail.com Dear HarbourRugby.com person, Since sundays game i've really been finding it hard to sleep at night, not due to the result of the game but due to the fact that i can still hear James Rodley laughing all the way from Whangarei.Supporting North Harbour at the moment is some what painful and i think i would feel less shafted by paying Brian Tamaki and his Destiny Church 10% of my wage than supporting these guys. As i was walking out of the stadium on sunday afternoon i felt more disgusted at that very point than the time i contracted Aids by walking into R'toto's on a saturday evening. This was a game in front of a home crowd where the boys needed to front up and get a result. Instead the only Harbour boys that did this was Rodley, Veale and Urlich. Even that sick creep Coughlan standing on the sideline in his blazer looked like he was going to hit more rucks than some of our forwards. You've got a better chance of trying to convince me that Shapelle Corby is innocent than you do in telling me Pivac is a half decent coach. Robbie Colhoun has had more STD's than this guy has had wins this season. If the New Zealand Police can find Xin Xin (Too Soon?) then Harbour must be able to find a coach that will use the talent we have got and get the results we should be. At the moment we are at risk of loosing more of our born and breed talented players like NZ Maori Representative James Rodley due to the coach we currently have. Yours Sincerely
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for christ sake can someone have a "whip around " at Harbour HQ and buy Sam Biddles a decent pair of shorts, He makes our beloved team look like they are playing for Collingwood in the Aussie Rules Comp, hey Chris Smith clapped at the Ref 15 times during our woeful game against Northland , We should keep score each game how many times he claps during the game ,Keep it up Chris , Heaven knows you may get a job being in the audience for" New Zealand's got talent", Andy Mulligan could introduce you like this l "Presenting the one trick clapping pony from North Harbour, Chris Smith ," , I must say I really enjoyed watching James Hinchco biffing Marty Veale as well ,I was very critical of our Beloved team"s resident " lager guzzler" last week ,"Hinch" had probably come straight from a hard night at R'Toto's or the Bar at Mustangs , either or harbour born
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<withheld>@ihug.co.nz Dear Harbour Rugby.Com I cant hold on anymore. I am embarrassed to be known as a Harbour supporter. Week-in week-out having my testicles wrenched from between my legs and shoved down my throat as we see the team bent over and Ass raped while we watch on in hope that "this week could be the week for revival"...only to be degraded and left feeling like Michael Jackson's Army of children. We all know what the problem is but no one in a position to be able to fix it gives a damn other than collecting their over inflated paycheques. Nope... we cant blame the players for their lack of skill.. they are only using the "skill" God gave them. (You cant expect a dog to start singing the National Anthem.. it's just not possible)...neither can we expect our team of 'B' grade players to play well in the ANZC. This was again proven against a team that incidentally had more combined Harbour caps than we did. We cant expect to compete when our Props cant scrum, our hooker cant throw, our loosies cant compete at the break down, our goal kicker cant kick and our backline cant tackle. I wrote to the CEO with my concerns at the beginning of last season to voice my concern with the selection policy of the coach (drop our seasoned and proven players who admirably won the shield and made the semi's 2 years in a row and replace them with unproven amateur B grade players that wouldn't make the Ponsonby under 21 side). The response I got was, "We need to support the coaching decision and let the results speak for them selves".. well Hollister/pivac... we haven't seen anything after 2 years... so put your contract where your mouth is and resign!!!! Well now I've had my bitch session which I must say, hasn't eased the pain pf watching Goperth laughing and joking with his counterpart after a thrashing from a future Heartland cup team...(yes I have it recorded for evidence). I have given Harbour every opportunity to prove me wrong over the last couple of seasons but I think it's time to make a stance.... Anyway... I shall get off the couch now and allow others to vent their rage!! John D From:
<withheld>@hotmail.com what is Pivac doing?anyone who appoints a Man that coached the scum should be publicly flogged, Since appointing "The Pig" , Harbour have sadly declined Pivac was a mediocre player in His Harbour days , injury prone , He then coached Takapuna and had the privilage of having Glen Osborne ,Eric Rush , Graham Dowd,Gavin Walsh,Kevin Borievich, Blair Larsen, Peter Woods in His ranks, Even a Blind elephant could have coached the "Puna" seniors with such a Line up and He then took Harbour second XV to a championship , He coached the Scum and then He coached Fiji and they released Him from His contract basically He got told to Fuck off Clearly Pivac cannot motivate the current set of players , Our teams mediocre efforts show that , we go form week to week very woefully , Our forwards are not inspring and Our backs lack that flair Harbour is known for, We cant be reliant on our All Blacks to save our collective bacon each week Clearly He is helping the Scum to become stronger by taking on loan players as opposed to promoting our own players from our own club comp ,The Scum would love nothing better than having Harbour go back to Auckland , and having this person coaching us it will be achieved in no time at all Ronnie Barker once said in an episode of Porridge "I am disenheartened with football ,following Leyton Orient can do that to a Man", I am becoming more disenheartened with my beloved Harbour ,The Current coaches and Managers are a joke , I am more inspired going to the Rosedale sewer ponds than watching this pile of crap each week !!!I go to watch good footy ,if I want to watch crap I will go to" Lake Rosedale" and make an afternoon of it I say Bring back Buck, any team that has Buck Shelford involved with it is inspired by the "King of Harbour" I am patiently waiting for the day "King Walter Little" takes over the reigns and returns us to some form of Glory and we bid good riddance to the "Pig" (and Sandy and Tripitarkar and Monkey while we are at it ),for those kids who dont remember they where characters from the 80's kids show "Monkey" Harbour born and bred From:
<withheld>@hotmail.com As a Harbour fan and may I say a disheartend one in that As I am so dissapointed in Chris Smith ,He may look the part with tape around his ears covering up his shocking bald patch But at the end of the day He seems to be a bit of a "one trick pony", I remember watching Him pay for Westlake a few years back against Glenfield College , He is overated spends to much time clapping at the Ref , doesnt make enough tackles or commit at the breakdown I think more of Young William Whetton playing for the "Cote", We knew that his old man was a great player in His days though he did play for the Scum , I hope he has the traits his Dad displayed during he career which included "donking" our beloved Harbour a few times Chris Smith you are a big bag of "Disapointment biscuits", for godsakes what is James Hinchco doing in a Harbour shirt , He seems more at Home propping up the Bar at The Copper Room , I think Hayden Abercrombie looks pretty good as well , I saw Him playing for Shore this year Harbour Born and Bred Rob From:
<withheld>@three.co.uk Respect for report #12 from MacDaddy. battle of the bridge summed up in one. Sadly you've also hit on something very disturbing: the simple fact that there's really only one generation of Harbour fans that remember when we mattered. It makes sense that people raised on so-called Super Rugby won't understand or get into the Auckland rivalry, but I'd never even considered the fact that all our parents are Auckland fans. So in fact the only people who really give a sh!t about Harbour are aged 30-45. Given that most of them are probably working in finance in London it doesn't really inspire confidence in the fan base coming back any time soon. Hope they can find lots of other things to do with the Stadium. Colin From:
Tony@<withheld>.co.nz Hi Good reports on website but why do you guys rate smith? He only looks the part with his grumpy face but he does nothing around the field. Cheers From: <withheld>@rocketmail.com How on earth do you give Chris Smith 1 point for last week, id give him a negative 100 million, he is the most overated player in New Zealand Rugby, apart from catch a ball in a lineout which any tall person can do what did he do last week, he missed 7 consective rucks at one stage, he just hangs off and claps his hands when the play is broken down, how on earth did he make nz u20s let alone capatin, he must please people in the rugby circles by some other means because he dont please me on the rugby field, ryan wilson is a much better player around the field. bring back 7ft ryno, get rid or arrogant big mouth smith John From: <withheld>@ihug.com Dear Hampster. Steady on Pal!!!! I take offence at the straight thinking, sensible comments regarding the possiblity of the 2nd XV playing the ANZC team... why?? coz we might actually find out the short commings and inadequcies of Pivac... There is no way in Hell the union will put the ANZC team in a positon to lose to the B's by 50+ points... There is no way the union will ever give the likes of Dustow (who I note is playing for the B's) the opportunity to score 6 tries against a pathic excuse of a foward pack... If the fact that we have lost 6 straight this year (including preseason) and the posibilty of being demoted this year (once Northland appeal the NZRFU's decision and win) then there is no way they will take the hint of a 50 point drubbing at the hands of the B's So Hampster next time you decide to come up with a brillient, sinsible idea that would show just how useless our ANZC team are... bear in mind that the Union will not tollerate brillient ideas that would undermine them and prove once in for all that yes... THEY GOT IT WRONG in hiring the king of Muppets they call Pivac who of course coursed the demise of Fiji.... (People!!!! there are normally good reasons why coaches get released (sacked) from their rolls!!!!!) On a side note, I may have uncovered who or what pivac may be..... A spy for the Auckland rugby union in an attempt to sabotage the Harbour team to limit the number of Harbour player in the Blues squad... it makes sence...when we were winning, there was always a bitch fight at the lack of harbour players in the blues squad.. now we would be lucky to have 4 (our AB's)... And I think you wouldn't get much argument from any of the supporters at the state of the current team... Pivac you have been found out Pal!!! Jay From: <withheld>@hotmail.com Another season and another 2 loses in a row. Doesn't surprise me with that dickhead Hitler Pivac still at the helm. I would like to know what the feed back was from the players last year about him. I wonder whether that was NOT taken into account when reappointing him. What I heard..the majority didnt want him!! Good to see harbour.com hero Roger Dustow playing for the Bs. The number three hooker is apparently one of the Mayhew boys who has never played there before!! That is the kind of logic we have from our coach. The Harbour B team wanted to have a game against the As but it was turned down. I wonder why!!!! Dustow has been man of the match in almost every club game he has played this year and I have heard from reliable sources high up in the union that they , except Pivac want him back. Our esteemed CEO had said on his appointment that he would NEVER get any imported players into the union while he was there...It reminds me of the Tui ad..."yeah right". Another example of the way this union is going. I was told that Chris Symlie was offered so much to return that he couldnt refuse the offer. No wonder we are losing when we have players being recruited "for the money" and go from here to there like a Tom Cat on K road. They dont care aboutr winning because the money is in the bank . Here is a huge tip I have heard a whisper about. I would almost put my house on it that when forwards coach Milan's contract finishes at the end of the year that he is given the boot like everyone else has and Craig Dowd becomes forward coach.I really hope that Hitler Pivac is following right behind!! Regards From: <withheld>@ihug.co.nz G'Day Harbour Rugby!!! Well as a new season dawns on us we must surly be in a position to learn from our mistakes from last year, rectify some grave errors of judgment and press forward looking forward to a hopefully successful season.......... OR NOT!!! I see nothing was learnt from last years diasterous season by sacking our seasoned players and bringing in imports!!! I see Our beloved Dustow was not offered a contract this year and has now looked at a caerea change. As I understand it although he has offially hung up his boots for the year.. he has advised NHRFU that he is willing to step up if the phonecall came... never-the-less we all know thats not comming... I note 2 very embarasing losses in our preseason games... in most cases we would sit back say "these mean nothing as the coaches give new players a go".... well I note that is not the case and that by all accounts the players in these games will be our players for the season...(combined caps of...6.8) It's a sad day for a loyal Harbour Supporter like my self to say, I am looking forward to getting our arses kicked this year in every game so the union sacks the "Muppet" they call coach... and hires someone that values the union, players and it's suporter's and finally enjoy winning rugby. JAY From: <withheld>@three.co.uk
Using history as a guide, this bodes well for Harbour - in 2006 the Glenfield rugby team beat the odds to make the final of the club competition, which flowed through into our first successful Shield challenge that year. '06 started much the same as this year in terms of Harbour - a new, young squad and very little expectation of success. And look how that went (bar the last two games which i still think must have been mis-reported). Granted, we have had the same scenario at the start of every season since 1996 - but in all of those years bar 2 Glenfield's sole glory has been limited to the knowledge that Walter used to play there, and strange pride in Frano Botica's jersey hanging in the clubrooms (reason still unknown). As the old adage goes, "when Glenfield [football] is strong, Harbour rugby is strong". Colin
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