The intrepid reporters at harbourrugby.com pride themselves on bringing the fans - all 7 of them - incisive stories that cut through the official channels of spin and media wankspeak. Into our 7th year now and ever keen to bring up-to-date news on contemporary issues from around the rugby world, we sent out one such of these reporters to investigate just how many insubordinate rugby fans there are out there willing to stand up to the inane boredom of official union websites with their corporately-cosseted, nauseatingly optimistic non-views about the "wider rugby community" and other such crapolla. Armed only with a bottle of whisky and a Sharp PC-CS30H, roving reporter MacDaddy can now reveal the full extent of the epidemic of unofficial New Zealand rugby websites.

There are fuckall unofficial New Zealand rugby websites. I typed in three combinations: [team] unofficial rugby home; [team] unofficial rugby; [team] unofficial rugby website. In addition to harbourrugby.com, there were four other listed NPC (coz dress it up in some flowery dress and give it a haw-haw name and it's still the NPC) teams. I only bothered to comment on teams whose unofficial sites were listed on the first page of a Google search.

B.O.P. (http://www.bopmafia.com):
Looks suspiciously official for an unofficial site but there's a passing mention of Auckland dislike and Mooloo-bagging. The pages are classy-looking; the articles have the distinct whiff of chardonnay-drinking quasi-men who have accumulated total career game-time between them of 25 minutes (local Church 7s tourney) and a subsequent lifetime of talking about it. However, they probably have a 'mate' (that is, a guy they went to school with, never spoke to, but was a friend of a friend) called 'Animal' who played once for the BOP seconds who makes them cool by association. The articles are well written but spunkless.
4/10.

Otago (http://www.otagorugby.com):
For a village filled with students, this is disappointing. Where's the student larrikinism? The spelling's shit and it hasn't been updated since 2004. That's about 136 ex-Harbour players who have not yet graced its pages due to editorial tardiness. To be fair, it looks like one guy was running the shop and as he was probably from Browns Bay, only in Otago to do his dentistry degree, and has therefore probably since returned to the Shore, we'll cut him some slack.
3/10.

Canterbury (http://www.fortunecity.com):
There's a logo and a banner headline, and a contact address (nzrugby@fcmail.com) which probably diverts you to some bestiality website. Some guy called Nick Watson made the site in 1999. He'd have been better off spending his time buying the Warriors. Or masturbating into his ear.
1/10 for intent.

Counties/Manukau (Drunk. Forgot to write down the address.)
Comes up with one of those pages with lots of numbers and words that only make sense to the guys who used to play Dungeons and Dragons in the library at lunchtimes, but who were good for administering kickings to. Someone obviously snapped up the address before the rush but lost interest when he realised there would be no rush coz Counties are shit. I'm not even gonna give him a mark because he's probably some net geek out for a buck at the expense of fans. Hope he dies a slow painful death.
0/10.

No other first division teams came up, although now I think about it, I forgot to look up Hawkes Bay and Manawatu.

Next week:
MacDaddy travels to Devonport to eat fish and chips on the wharf and offers his thoughts on the state of Friday night Shore youth.