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"Thank the God Lord Almighty for harbourrugby.com I would like to begin this piece by saying an extremely large thank you to all of the team at harbourrugby.com, their ability to spot talent (or lack of it) and to accurately report on the state of North Harbour Rugby as we know it is truly priceless. On the other-hand we have the official site for the North Harbour rugby union, I dear not utter its name after being quite embarrassingly tempted into typing that ludicrous web address following Saturday’s game. What met me was something of such hilarity that I can only begin to describe it. The headline read "Natural Talent Evident as Pisi family “Take Over” Harbour". Now I am not doubting the talents of young George (who had a cracker on Saturday), and having never witnessed the youngest Pisi in action I cannot comment on his abilities. However for any right minded New Zealand male who has a faint idea in regards to our beautiful game to direct such high praise with no evident sarcastic undertones in the direction of our superstar Tusi is basically retarded. Considering the guy’s highpoint of the season will be lasting 8 minutes before cocking up against Canterbury, Tusi is a guy who in my opinion should be nowhere near making even the starting line-up as a Water boy (Jonah your doing a great job big guy). With the memories of the great Frano Botica still in my mind to read such an article regarding someone widely considered by any informed rugby mind to be a relatively talentless young bodge, pretty much summed up the opposition to the greatness of harbourrugby. Keep it up guys your efforts (and honesty) go far from unnoticed in this quarter. Don’t ask me how, but I somehow managed to organise a ride on the long trip to Albany last Sunday, from my far away homeland. The view got better and better the closer we got, and as the average house price soared my heart went with it. Arriving at the ground I made the startling discovery that they had only opened one stand, I’m going to give the rugby union the benefit of the doubt in this case as I’m assuming such a move was designed to keep our friends at Sky relatively happy. This discovery was however far outstripped by the next, when I realised a few hundred young kids had been given blow up sticks and let loose in a reasonably packed stand, this quite idiotic move resulted in me missing most of the first quarter as some young Asian child who has probably never picked up a rugby ball in his life and judging by his appearance never really left his house continually pelted the poor young Indian male sitting next to him in the back of the head. This action only ceased when the angry Northland redneck two rows back told him to get f**ked and he sulked off probably to the nearest pick up ping-pong game a few kilometres away. My next discovery was only slightly less gut wrenching, long have I been sick of the HARBOOOOOUR chant. However ten young female voices chanting, "Turn on the radio what do you hear, Harbour Harbour give them a cheer", had me in a nearly suicidal condition. The game did little to help this feeling as North Harbour proceeded to play like a horde of ponies just released from the petting zoo. Northland deserved to have 90 points put past them on Sunday and 57 really did little justice to how pathetically awful they were. There is hope however as the majestic Luke McAlister and our exceptionally talented prop Tony Woodcock return, my only hope for the rest of the season is that with Luke back Tusi gets to see the rough end of a wooden bench for a long time to come. We’ve got good old Otago next week, a province thick with the poachers blood as there home-grown player base consists of drunken students brain-washed into staying beyond their University years. I have never
really rated Pollock as a coach. In my opinion any guy that lets
Tusi Pisi anywhere near a professional football team has some screw
loose somewhere upstairs. This weekend he has a chance to prove
himself, one last chance in my eyes to prove that he deserves to
be at the helm of the greatest football team, the team from North
of the Bridge. He has three options: Basically we desperately need a victory against those inbreed c**k lovers from down South, and if we get it a top 4 finish is firmly within our grasp. Chris (scud)" |
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