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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 ...
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 in..."
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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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