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Battle
of the Bridge
In
recognition of the penis-pulsating build-up to another "Battle
of the Bridge", we review the last 5 wins over the auld enemy.
Sadly we have only ever won five and I have been to all of them.
Spontaneous
rampant masturbation springs to mind.
I include
the 9-9 all draw at Onewa as that was pretty fantastic too. I
have also added how harbourrugby.com has reported on these historic
events since it's conception.
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We say
... Season
Preview 2006
Quite an alternative start to the season this year as the full
effect of professional rugby comes home to roost at the NPC level.
Not satisfied
with the ruination of club rugby, the “money-makers” in Wellington
turn their evil attention on the Air NZ Cup with it’s “new and
improved format”. At a casual glance this promises to be as exciting
as two more Tri-Nation fixtures.
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2006
Readers' Corner Submission 1: Tribute
to the king of North Harbour!
Out
of Rotorua there came a star,
the crowds would come from near and from far,
No other
player could do what he could,
His name was Buck, Buck Shelford!
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We say
... 2005 Season Review
The
season has come to disappointing end and we must now look objectively
at the team's performance.
Props
Woodcock came back and anchored the scrum reasonably well as he
always does. As predicted Coughlan and Noble started most games
with Donald trotting on to keep him interested. Noble got big
raps from the ...
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We say
... North Harbour Fans
North Harbour is constantly derided for its lack of fans. Because
we at harbourrugby.com live on the Shore, we know why this is:
1) Our old
people have spent much of their lives accumulating wealth and
have done it very well. When you have bought a 76-inch flat-screen
telly, a $10,000 lounge suite from ...
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We Say
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We
at harbourrugby.com like to believe that we provide cutting, incisive
wisdom to all eleven of our committed, dedicated Harbour fans
across this fledgling city. So when we get criticism from fellow
Harbourites - even ones who are functionally illiterate - it hurts
our feelings. It ...
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An Ode
to North Harbour: "North
Harbour - 20 Years in the Making"
"Harbour,
you mean a lot to me,
I have followed you from Onewa to the promised land of Albany.
I love your
uniform, your style, your pace,
I have felt your pain during the unfortunate NPC title race. "
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2005
Readers' Corner: Submission 3
"hi,
Just letting
you know that I think your site is great! It's really entertaining
and gives a honest and humourous view on everything.
Now don't
shoot me, but I'm a devoted Northland fan and I agree totally
with everything you say about them on your site, we look absolutely
shocking and ..."
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2005 Readers'
Corner: Submission 2
"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 ..."
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We
love the Harbour 2nd XV
"The
poor cousins of the NPC team, the North Harbour 2nd XV have outperformed
their relatives in the last few seasons.
Brilliantly
coached by Milan Yelavich (a top bloke and firm favourite of the
harbourrugby.com team) and Shane King, this tight unit ... "
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We
say ...
"Initially
I thought it was just another North Harbour RFU public relations
organisational abortion. From the union that brought us gems like
one open gate for every three closed when Jonah and Cully came
to town. (End result: six-mile long queues outside the ground
when the game kicked off.) Or the ban on foghorns, despite ...
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A
Season Lost?
The
media has taken the throw-away line from Pollock this week and
inserted it into every printed publication going.
"A season
is not lost by one result".
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2005
Readers' Corner: Submission 1
"A
Depressing Thought!"
"September 4th 2004, a day etched in my and in
the memory of every other proud North Harbour fan. A day in which
those demi-gods in Maroon reigned supreme in the battle of the
bridge, a day in which the arch nemesis of all things good and
pure ..."
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2005
Preview
With
another season but a few weeks away, harbourrugby.com previews
the players for ...
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2004 Review
Front row: Tony,
Adrian, Joe, Roger, Mike and Tony
Reasonably good front row you would have to say in a general sense.
Donald got dropped
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Readers'
Corner III: "Robbo's Review"
"At the best of
times words never fail me, but in this case they do!!
The 2004 NPC will
go down as a rather extreme for all sorts of reasons.
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Back-stabbed.
Ironic.
I find it funny,
but not overly so, the way ex-North Harbour players have floundered
in their new respective positions within the Auckland scene ...
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Readers'
Corner II: "In the Devil's Lair"
"I start this, many weeks after a great triumph. A triumph
that stands with the greatest in our proud union's history. The
triumph over our nearest neighbor, the triumph over the greatest
of all our rivals, the triumph over the SCUM dictatorship that exists
a ...
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Readers'
Corner I: "I hate the Blues"
"I
say bollocks to the Blues, I am pissed off that the NZRFU didn't
push for Harbour to have its own franchise with Northland. The Blues
is SCUM dictatorship which I could never bring myself to support.
You watch, Xavier Rush and Show Pony Spencer will get the nod ...
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How
not to apply to coach a Premier club team:
This
letter of application was sent to a well known North Harbour rugby
club by someone who wanted to coach that clubs' premier team in
2005. Read more and you'll see why the application was not successful.
"Dear
Sir,
I saw on your very boring website that you wanted applications for
the various coaching/managerial posts for the season 2005.
I'll get straight to the point, I think I am suitable to coach the
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The
Greatest XV
As
we approach the milestone that is 20 years of not winning anything,
I feel it is important to name the Greatest XV North Harbour has
ever produced. Of
course you might not agree but who cares, I certainly don't. This
may change in the build-up to our 20th anniversary ...
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Echoes
of Glory Days Past
It's
difficult to write about the pending season from the sticky climes
of the Orient, where I have watched one game of NZ-related rugby
since last November. So, rather than look into that generally disappointing
place we call the future, I have decided ...
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2004
State of the Union
Usually
at this time of the year there is a fair amount of speculation on
what sort of year the North Harbour team will have. This is almost
always misguided enthusiasm and ultimately leaves
the ...
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2004
Squad Preview
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2003 State of the
Union
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2003 Squad Review
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"Cock.........And
so it came to fruition on the twenty-third day of the month..."
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"What
is it about the New Zealand sporting public and North Harbour fans
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"As
one of Harbourrugby.com's foreign correspondents I have been trying
to follow... "
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"I
have just repaired to the secure confines of my bedroom - a place
in which many..."
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"Club
rugby is dying... Club rugby is dead... We should all pack up
and go home..."
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"All
praise for the end of the Topsport Ford Telecom Adidas Tri-Nations
Super-..."
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"It
is appropriate at this time to review comments made earlier in
the season... "
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"The
IRB are a bunch of old fogeys, with their heads up their arses
and an..."
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"Now
is the Hour … Cometh the Good Coaching Skills … Cometh the Trophies.
In..."
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"At
harbourrugby.com we have maintained concerted disinterest in the
Super 12..."
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"This
season has been largely a disappointing one. The tag of entertainers
and non..."
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"This
issue of 'Super-12-As-New-Rugby-God' bores the shit out of me,
frankly..."
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"As
the 2000 Air New Zealand NPC season looms large before us we
warily cast our..."
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"In
1985 North Shore City, a city floundering in its reluctance to
move out of..."
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