The harbourrugby.com inbox has been inundated with correspondence in the last two months. Thanks for your support! Send your thoughts to info@harbourrugby.com

A brief selection of the correspondence we have received:

From: <withheld>@ihug.co.nz
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: Hairy Hooker
Date: Sun, October 8, 2006 12:03 am

Here's some more madness...

Our beloved Colt hero...AKA Hairy Hooker AKA Roger Dustow, after heroectly winning us the Shield and actually having the lineout stats in our favour for once, was given the call from the coaches to have a rest for the game against Waikato... (Only they could consider a must win game to avoid Auckland in the semis as a waist of time).... Then they realised that after bringing one up from the reserves they had no hookers for the B's so in their wisdom told him to play for them...(A Rest??? Obviously not).

Then the Poor fella injures himself to put him out for the real "big" games. The coaches have brain explosions as well.

Our thoughts are with you Dustow get well soon and... by the way. since you're not playing, can you at least teach the other hookers to throw?????.

JAY

From: Rob <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: i luvs you all
Date: Sun, October 1, 2006 1:28 pm

I know there are a lot of HARBOURITES who regularly look at this web page devoted to our love of Harbour I reckon you guys should make some t shirts promoting your website with captions like

"The Auckland team are illegitimate
They aint got no Birth Certificates
They've got the clap and cant get rid of it
Cos they are Blue and white scum
Cos they are Blue and white scum
Cos they are Blue and white scum

or

www.harbourrugby.com
More enthralling than a syphillis test !!

www.harbourrugby.com
we hate Auckland more than any other union

www.harbourrugby.com
the pride of the North Island
North Shore City
NEW ZEALAND

www.harbourrugby.com
cos every other union has an unhealthyand unnatural interest in Live stock and Cow's bottoms!!!

www.harbourrugby.com
Otago develop your own players and stop taking ours!!
You filthy pack of unwashed students!!!

we should all get together at games and sing along, dancealong and fuck along or do some along for our love of harbour ,

Also on John Campbell the other night they had a competition to try and find the Ultimate NPC supporter , All Unions were represented (Scum, South Harbour, ,Wellington and the Naki and Our brothers Northland and the BOP and so on), and our representation was a very lovely old couple (god bless them ), they where very lovingly adorned with Harbour Coloured top hats , harbour jersey and scarf, yet there was a sinister side to all of this!! they had a Cow Bell adorned with Harbour colours , this beloved Union of our s that we all love dearly and hold so close to our hearts has never and never will have any affliation with anything to do with farming or any unlawful act carried out on live stock that is the First commandmant of following the great team that is North Harbour is "thou shall live and breath and crap Harbour and ruthessly bag all Farming community that have teams with one liners about shagging sheep and cows and whatover poor defence live stock they have till death do us part!!"

Editor: We are hoping to have t-shirts for sale on the site in time for the 2007 season

From: Rob <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: i K@#$%^ luvs you guys
Date: Fri, September 29, 2006 2:27 pm

You guys are the greatest!!!

To the mighty men of Harbour , I have waited a very long day for this to finally come

It was a coming of age for our beloved team , it was a 21st birthday knowone will ever forget (except for my mate Richie’s, cos he got horribly drunk and spewed in the Downtown Fountain and cut his head open and probably caught some from Syphillitic disease after jumping in that fountain!!!)

I remember the good old days at the "WAH" , slipping on the bank manier times , I remember my first Harbour game in 1989 at the "WAH" the 9 all draw against the Scum!!the game where we spanked Waikato , The 15 man maul , King Buck, Frano Walter ,Scott Pierce ,the Rat (Paul Feeney) , The Pig (Wayne Pivac) and the POD(Richard Turner) Ron Williams Graham Dowd Richard Kapa. oh the memories !!!

As an ardent fan supporter of harbourrugby.com your razor sharp wit and marvelous one liners are a breath of fresh air

The reality finally sunk in when Jon Preston asked Rua Tipoki to "come up and receive the Ranfurly Shield ," and when he lifted it towards the Heavens , I cried like a prize baby and was proud to be North Shore born and bred !!!

Villiame Waqasa - widgie wodda dooda bob " however you say his name is now in the Harbour Legends , that try will be talked about for years to come

I also thought it was very fitting that when Rua had lifted the shield he then passed it to Clive "Spy" Kelly , this man has been there from day one he has been in every Harbour team pic since 1985!!! North Harbour in those early days and even now wouldn’t be able to run without his undying loyal support, I see him always at every Harbour doing his job and always putting the team before himself , HE IS A TRUE LEGEND OF NORTH HARBOUR

May our shield reign be long and marvellous !!

Now it is time the Asswipes in Wellington at NZRFU HQ give us and our Northland Brothers a Super 14 team, us and the Bay are the most succesful non sup 14 teams , To Hampster, McDaddy and your fine team of Internationally respected Journalists who work 24/7 to make it happen at northharbourrugby.com HQ I say "Rock on and I $%^&* loves you guys !!!" and one day I will be there when you receive awards at The Qantas Media Awards for " "Services to the promotion of the hatred of Auckland (Scum) Rugby" and ‘Services to Lavatory Humour", as well as putting my beloved city in light never seen before

keep up the good work!!!and Dorkland are Gay HARBOUR

ROBBO

Sing top the tune of Que Sara sara

When I was young , I asked my mother what would I be
Would I be Otago or would I be scum
And this it was she said " Wash your mouth out Son, and fetch your father’s gun
and shoot the Auckland Scum"
Que Sara Sara

HAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRBBBBBOOOOUUUURRRRR!!!

From: Colin <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: Auckland's contribution to the celebrations.
Date: Fri, September 29, 2006 4:51 am

Spotted on the Herald website. A fan holds a cardboard cut-out of the Ranfurly Shield.

To my knowledge, Panasonic's never been a sponsor of Harbour, but did sponsor Auckland during one of their Shield reigns. you've got to wonder how long this guy kept the poster in anticipation of that one moment. and he's wearing a 1996 Harbour jersey which he no doubt wore to the 3 failed challenges that year...

Legend.

hi MacDaddy,

i just read your match report of the ranfurly shield win. i must say i like your style very much. i like your black sense of humour, alway tongu-in-cheek. thats great! yes, i will read all your other stories.

i am from bavaria / germany and as you know we don't have a popular rugby culture. but i am an adopted kiwi and so i am a great fan of nz rugby. i am supporter of canterbury & the crusaders but i'm not unhappy because of your win last weekend. i think its alway good when an outsider team get away with the win. its good for any sports.

btw i've met the all blacks twice (adidas headquarter germany & onewa domain nov. 2001). if you want visit my website www.tanahaka.de there is a rugby section with pics of the meetings with the blacks.

all the best

hans <surname withheld>
www.tanahaka.de

From: Charles <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: Harbour Hamster
Date: Wed, September 27, 2006 9:00 am

Dear Sir

Unlike the Hamster, who was passed out in his bed when certain comments were made on Radio Sport's Sporting Breakfast, I heard them, and they were fucking funny. A gentleman by the name of Goran (someone who has personality that Veitch can only dream of) made various comments that were so obviously not true that only a total muppet would think they were. Sadly, Radio Sport tends to have a demographic of folk who believe that irony is a close cousin of steely and bronzey. The notion of Rua Tipoki hijacking a golf cart and driving it down the motorway, as suggested by Goran, was quite excellent. Wish I'd done it myself. I suspect that the Hamster is grumpy about a comment Goran made about a Harbour player getting into a fight with the titular 'Pat' of Pat's Garage. This was perhaps ill-advised because such a Pat does actually exist; however, taken in the context of the other references that were made over the course of the morning, it became obvious that he was taking the piss.

Perhaps if the Hamster hadn't been coma-ed, he'd have understood this.

From: jamie <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: You fucking legends...
Date: Mon, September 25, 2006 9:07 am

It's all yours. Magnificent stuff. Rua reigns supreme

From: BoP Mafia
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: Congratulations
Date: Mon, September 25, 2006 1:18 am

As the previous "non-Super franchise, player-poaching" province to hold the Shield, we in the BoP Mafia offer our hearty congratulations to North Harbour.

KP for the BoP Mafia

From: Lloyd <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: alcohol fueled fan
Date: Sat, September 23, 2006 12:49 am

Hi there folks

I'm a rather passionate fan who has been disillusioned (is that a word) by the support of as always below par fans. Many a road trip have I completed with mixed results including time in local cells due too excessive commitment to the region of my choice. Mainly time in Waikato. God I hate cow bells. Cause they rape cows doesn't mean we have to hear about it. Anyway reading your website is a refreshing effervescent flow of enthusiasm (spelling is probably wrong) to us severe fans who sit there, moaning at all the non drunk two kids and an uncle fans that don't make enough noise. The next time you hear "needle dick" that will be me and or us. Continue the personal sacrifice that is supporting Harbour, it will repay itself one day. One more thing Tuitavake should be an All Black.

From: Colin <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: this is the greatest website of all time.
Date: Tue, September 19, 2006 2:49 am

i have just been introduced to this website, and am disappointed not to have seen it before. it's great to see someone saying what we're all thinking. Chris Rattue for the Herald does what he can, but his general affection for Auckland makes his comments ultimately unacceptable.

i wish to take issue with only a couple of things -

1. you need to have more segments dedicated to past glories and statistical detail like profiles including games played for Harbour of all past players, which players have played for the ABs, Samoa etc, and a complete history of Harbour results and tryscorers. let's face it, the way rugby is going the past is our most likely avenue for satisfaction, back in the days when "we don't want your IPC" meant something. in particular, on a day when i have a little more time (not to mention access to my VHS copy of the match, and a VCR), i would be happy to write a match report of the original Harbour Day result, when we beat Auckland for the first time. i just hope that it's not too many seasons before we once again play a game on September 4, so we can relive the glory again.
2. your match report of the 10 year Harbour Day anniversary match from 04 incorrectly stated that Rico Gear's match winner was the greatest try of all time. having not seen the try in question (i was in Argentina at the time, where the NPC doesn't feature in the TV listings), my credentials to judge that particular try or its importance in the result may not initially seem too sh!t hot, but quite simply God's try in the original Harbour Day game is the greatest point-scoring action ever achieved in sport. that passage of play 2 minutes from time - "Slade throws quickly, Weedon taps to Strachan, huge pass to Bunce on the bounce, who hits the line and feeds inside to Barry, a half break then outside to Walter who's through the gap but Eroni Clarke's chasing and Sotutu's in front of him, then the seas part as Walter throws the world's greatest dummy to no-one, beating both Clarke and Waisucky in one step" - turned yet another "almost" perfomance against Auckland into the day we'd waited for since the union's birth.

it's also the third best sporting moment in history, the top 2 being the 30 seconds following said try (important in equal parts for the unbelievable joy felt in the terraces and Walter's grin as he turned round to go back to half way), and Walter's press conference following the game - "and thanks Auckland for the game".

and did i note Walter's touch creating miracles in the present day? How else could Glenfield make the final this year?

Colin <surname withheld>
With any luck, future London correspondent for harbourrugby.com

From: Brian <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: Beating Auckland
Date: Thu, September 14, 2006 12:16 pm

Dear Sir

This email is very different.

I start with this sentence in an effort to grab your attention although this is probably not necessary as I am sure that you are very intelligent.

1. I live in Leigh (E. of Warkworth)
2. I saw the non-event against Auckland
3. I am a scientist by trade...
4. My forte is human nutrition, lifestyle and high performance preparation.
5. I have developed a system that prepares athletes to perform (that is beat Auckland every time).
6. This system is based on research that is well ahead of the pack.
7. I write to coaches (including Harbour Rugby) offering my services but they ignore me.

Your advice please on how to get N. Harbour to take notice (and prepare themselves to thrash Auckland and win the NPC)

Regards
Brian <surname withheld>

From: Rob <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: Things I hate about AUCKLAND
Date: Sat, September 2, 2006 2:11 pm

1. They have their sexual priorites wrong, Mayor Dick Hubbard tried to ban the boobs on bike but gave money to the Hero Parade instead
2. There Boys Schools that are full of kids on dodgy Scholorships
3. That sad bastard ground announcer at Friday's Battle if the Bridge asked some young lad if he would ever live on the North Shore .Well I have sad news for that Lad, His Mummy and Daddy probably arent Rich or Classy enough to come to the Good Side of the Bridge and neither is the Ground Announcer for that fact.
4. High Crime Rate. The Auckland City region has the largest number in NZ of Crime with Crime ridden suburbs
5. Leaky Homes
6. Every other Province hates them, including the Sheep Fiddlers (Canterbury) The Cow Fiddlers (Waikato and the Naki) and the Office Workers (Wellington) and South Harbour (Otago)
7. A Stadium that had more Harbour supporters in it than Scum Supporters.
8. 14 Year old cheerleaders who should really be at home on a cold night!!!

So all in all The North Shore City is the greatest place to be !!!

I f@#$%^&*& lovs you all

From: jamie <surname withheld>
To: info@harbourrugby.com
Subject: Harbour Rugby dot com
Date: Fri, August 11, 2006 9:37 am

Your website is a disgracefully irreverent piss-take of our national game. It expouses thinly-veiled bigotry and horrible half-truths, full of misguided intolerance.

The writing is crass and the opinions are harsh and unfair. Your summation of the BOP Mafia website bordered on the inebriated, and the obligatory horse's head will most certainly be forthcoming.

In summation, your site is unscrupled, slanderous and completely unacceptable.

Unfortunately it's also magnificent.

Please keep it up.

Jamie <surname withheld>