The All Blacks Stories: Theory Of a Wallaby Roadkill (IXth Weekly Blog Edition)

Last Week, I was here for the weekly visit to Nan & Pops (We did go to Splash Centre for our weekly swim) & for lunch it was antipasto (We did have antipasto for the 2nd straight week) before focusing on working by clearing the leaves out by a garden vaccum cleaner and having afternoon tea then publishing a single blog from last week which is the 8th weekly edition before watching Prime on television and having beef stir-fry schintzel for dinner + last week's pear crumble dessert was an absolutely fabulous moment before my Dad took me home to end last week's episode.

II days later @ the hallowed ground of Eden Park in Auckland, NZ, when the mighty & current champions of the Rugby world (& current holders of the Bledisloe Cup), the All Blacks (IRB Ranking: numero uno) took on the Robbie 'Dingo' Deans coached Wallabies (2nd best team in world rugby + the return of NZ's public enemy no.1, Quade Cooper), well I told Dad that the rugby was on so he did answer my request & therefore accepted....but nek minnit, the national anthems of both countries were played and after the national anthem situation ended, the AB's had the chance to perform the Kapa O Pango haka instead of the traditional Ka Mate haka moments before kick off (+ they had a nek minnit's silence for those who remember our troops losing their lives by getting them roadkilled in action @ their war torn nation of Afghanistan).

The match got underway perfectly well with Carter kicking off but 2 minutes later, Australia was under pressure in the scrum early on but they escape with a penalty awarded against Crockett but both teams were scoreless because the score was nil all (0 - 0) until Dan Carter nailed his 1st penalty goal in just his 3rd attempt (3 - 0) after missing both penalties before Quade Cooper laid out again, this time by Sonny Bill Williams, then the Aussies chiped over the top which does not work out and the AB's are coming back at them and this time New Zealand did award the penalty when Will Genia (Wallaby stand-in captain for the injured Pocock) got sin binned for ball slapping down when on the ground before Carter landed a 2nd penalty goal out of the 4th attempt (6 - 0) so the Wallabies have been reduced to 14 until the end of halftime but 7 minutes later, an Australian player was offside underneath the posts when Welsh referee Nigel Owens gave NZ another penalty & then, Carter gets his third penalty of the night with a simple kick inside the 22 (9 - 0) but uh-oh, wait a minute, Genia is back on for the last play of the half after spending 10 minutes yellow carded (If he commits an foul again (like a high tackle, punishable by a penalty), a red card will be shown to him), but the ref signaled half-time with the All Blacks grabbing an unassailable lead of 9 - 0.

Then the 2nd half had already started with the game nicely poised, and a penalty was taken by New Zealand with Carter nailing his 4th penalty to bring the score up to 12 moments before Israel Dagg (The funny/charismatic but awesome All Black that has the moves like Dagger) got that tremendous try (17 - 0) by finishing off a great period of pressure from the All Blacks as well as Daniel Carter added the conversion (19 - 0), meanwhile, Berrick Barnes may have kicked the ball out on da full (not fool) awarding the All Blacks a scrum on half-way as many Wallaby replacements come on the field (4 of them including Radike Samo (The Fijian born Wallaby), Wallaby danger man Kurtley Beale (Thought that he wasn't going to play but named instead on the bench), James Slipper & Anthony Faingaa's twin brother, Saia) then the AB's put on some fresh legs (Andrew Hore for Keven Mealamu & the 2.04m Brodie Retallick for Luke Romano) just moments before NZ gave away another penalty with the ref warned to the Australian players that somebody will be going to the sin bin if they were offside again as Carter lines up another shot at goal but no problemos for Carter as he extends the AB's lead to 22 points to 0 until the final whistle which justice will prevail for the New Zealand All Blacks beating & roadkilling the Wallabies of Australia (Who had now been having their worst nightmares @ both Eden Park & ANZ Stadium) in their final score of 22 - 0 + they have retained the Bledisloe for another year and for 50 years (Or should I say, 5 decades), Australia have never scored against us when we beat them 3 - 0 in the year 1962 because the 2 consecutive losses against the AB's this year are now in their darkest days in Australian rugby history (The worst revealing secret that Robbie Deans has denied rumours of losing (Or should I say, roadkilling) his job as head coach).

Then, we go to Argentina for the Pumas Vs Springboks clash which ended in a draw with Argentina almost winning because they were 16 - 9 up but the Argentine kick was charged down by a South African, Francois Steyn as he successfully went for the corner by grabbing 5 points before another Springbok, Morne Steyn did manage to score 2 points as both teams are all tied up (They are 16 apiece) before SA award a penalty but Morne Steyn missed the penalty with just 6 minutes to play but the match was drawn at the end after the South African Captain, Jean de Villiers, took the ball up and nearly gets through but loses the ball forward when the Pumas kicked the ball out for full time.

4 days later after starting to fall asleep on Tuesday night between 9pm, I got up early now because that is the good news before I was having a shower, and getting ready to walk to McDonalds again for breakfast (I have been there before but the breakfast menu is served until 10:30am) but when I was on my way to Macca's, I just saw Nan & Pops as part of a suprise but I told them I was already going and said that I was going to see those guys tomorrow but they had left and after that, finally been going in McDonald's and bought those breakfast hunger buster (The menu consisting of a bacon & egg McMuffin, a massive McMuffin, a Hash brown & a hot chocolate) I had and now left Macca's after my famous so called brekkie and headed back straight home to end this incredible highlight package involving the art of our national sporting treasure, rugby (Bought a creaming soda drink in case I am tired enough).

P.S. (SPOILER ALERT!!!): Pops woke me up this morning before taking a shower & having weet-bix for brekkie before going to splash centre to keep me refreshing and going to countdown for some food stuff, saw Hanne before we went home here & had a fantastic Egyptian omelette with leek (Well, I chopped the leeks), did a huge amount of work + putting water over the vegetable plant and been having afternoon tea here & now (Tonight's dinner is mutton bones with mashed potatoes & swedes featuring peas & silverbeet + for dessert tonight is pear sorbet).

Thy Kingdom Blog: The VIIIth (Rugby Championship All Black Edition)

On Saturday the XVIIIth, There was Rugby on TV (Round 1 of the 1st ever Rugby Championship which saw the Pumas of Argentina join the Comp with 3 Tri-Nations teams, consisting of Australia's Wallabies, the New Zealand All Blacks & South Africa's Springboks) that I can only remember on this blog that I'm doing today when Dad & the boys where off to sleep, the match (Being held at ANZ Stadium, the Summer Olympics 2000 host venue for opening & closing ceremonies, athletics events & of course, the men's under-23 football final event) started already when Berrick Barnes of the Wallabies nailed a penalty goal putting them into the lead 3 - 0 before Dan Carter also nailed another penalty to 3 - 3 as well as Israel Dagg scored the 1st try of the match (Although Dagg managed to get past the Wallabies danger man, Kurtley Beale) in the 12th minute with Carter's conversion proved successful as the AB's now lead at 10 - 3 although Carter landed a 3 pointer, bringing the score to 13 until the returning Cory Jane had scored a try in his 1st game back from injury (+ Beale was the victim of this time, to Jane) then nek minit, Carter missed a conversion with the AB's were trailing by 15 points only for Nathan Sharpe dodged the AB's bullet with a try & a successful conversion from Barnes before halftime with 8 points down (The halftime score was New Zealand leading 18 - 10).

And then, the 2nd half just got underway with Half French-Irish born referee Alain Rolland awarded the penalty to Australia before Barnes scored 3 points but closed the gap to 5 (AB's lead 18 - 13), however, Carter re-opened with an 8 point lead (NZ 21 - 13 Australia) then Barnes did hold his nerve to once again close the gap (21 - 16 to the AB's), although Carter has kept NZ moving with a 24 - 16 lead moments before Barnes got the Aussies within striking distance, hoping for a win (1 try & conversion to spare the game, fair.....and square) but until when the AB's where in possession of the ball, The Wallabies got penalised according to Rolland (The French-Irish ref) allowing Dan Carter to take the 3 pointer.....and he did, bringing our 1st victory of the all new 2012 Rugby Championship season with a score of 27 to 19

P.S. South Africa proved to be too easy by beating newcomers Argentina 27 - 6 + 'the real' Quade Cooper is returning to play for the Wallabies (In order to restore or reignite his demons from last time, although.....they have dropped Beale according to this weekend's starting lineup, being replaced by Adam Ashley-Cooper for good as well as David Pocock (The stand-in IT skipper/captain) is injured by getting smashed in a tackle by Kieran Read during the match (The ref ruled that Read was offside so they gave Australia a penalty), being replaced by a Wallaby newcomer Michael Hooper (With Will Genia expected to captain Australia) and Sekope Kepu, who is also succumbed to an injury) against us in a rematch of the 2011 RWC semi-final at Eden Park (Well, we never lost at Eden Park since the good ol' days of '86 against the Wallabies & '94 was our last loss), so.....let's hope we could win by retaining the Bledisloe because we are the current holders since 2003 (for like, 9 years + Wyatt Crockett already confirmed to start, replacing the injured Tony Woodcock with a rib problem according to the coach, Steve Hansen, who still has his 100% winning record (He's 4 - 0 at the moment) but his perfect record is still in danger/in jeopardy but will his record end with a 4 - 1).

Jansen's Birthday Blog (London 2012 Olympics Report)

Today is Jansen's birthday & I have not been doing a blog ever since Nan & Pops went away to Vanuatu.

Almost 2 weeks ago, the 30th Summer Olympic Games in London, Great Britain already started then a week later, we picked up our 1st gold medal of London 2012 (After already winning Bronze medals) with the rowing double sculls duo of Nathan Cohen & Joseph Sullivan, then a day later, another gold was won by Hamish Bond & Eric Murray in the pairs, then nek minnit, Mahe Drysdale picked up his 1st gold medal ever (And 3rd for New Zealand at the games) in the single sculls 4 years after settling for the bronze medal due to being plagued by a stomach problem which cost him his chance of getting his 1st gold medal in Beijing, China. But after the Beijing nightmare, Drysdale does what he now does best in London.

Then on Saturday after the Kiwis golden hour in London, we cross over to Hamilton (AKA 'the Tron') for the Super Rugby final between the Chiefs (Hosts) & Sharks (Away team), The start of the game did not go well when the Frenchman playing for the Sharks of Frederic Michalak nailed the 1st penalty kick of the final until according to plan when Tim-Nanai Williams (SBW's cousin because they are related) scored the 1st try of the final with Aaron Cruden successfully took the conversion before nailing 2 penalties before halftime when the Chiefs were leading 13 - 3, but in the 2nd half, another Chiefs try was scored by Kane Thompson with the assistance of a TMO (TV Match Offical) then Michalak scored another successful penalty which put the Sharks to 6 despite being down by 13 points & in the 61st minute, Sonny Bill Williams (Who is having his last Super Rugby match here) made a great tackle, allowing the Sharks player to lose the ball before Lelia Masaga picked the ball up & scored the Chiefs their 3rd try of the final, moments before SBW was embraced by his loyal fans after scoring his famous farewell try in the 77th minute but 3 minutes later, the match was over when the Chiefs made history of taking the Super Rugby title honours for the 1st time ever with the final score of 37 - 6 as well as 2 commanders in chief (Co-captains Craig Clarke & Liam Messam), grab their 1st taste by lifting the Super Rugby trophy.

Then now a week later on Friday (Yesterday we did have a birthday dinner for Jansen, as we asian/chinese food for dinner that we got at the chinese takeaway shop in Victoria Avenue & dessert is blue jelly, cream & yoghurt before having Jansen's birthday cake), another gold medal was won by the women's sailing duo of 'Team Jolly' consisting of Jo 'Jox' Aleh & Olivia 'Polly' Powrie (New Zealand's 1st golden girls of London 2012), not only because I watched these ladies win, then next morning, went off to Palmy and rode on a go-kart at the Daytona Indoor Raceway before having Macca's for lunch and went for a swim at the Lido Aquatic Centre moments before we left Palmy hours before tuning in to the Olympics & the women's kayaking final was on as Lisa Carrington competed for the gold medal & she did because it was a success so she was good now that Carrington won (However, she too joined the London 2012 NZ Olympic golden girls ranks as Aleh & Powrie did), bringing the gold medal tally to 5 (Now 6 since Val Adams handed the gold medal when Nadzeya Ostapchuk was stripped of her Olympic women's shot put title crown).

And on Monday, London 2012 Olympics was now officially finished but nek minnit on Tuesday, there was big news about Valerie Adams (Formerly Valerie Vili), in Switzerland after leaving London post Olympics & now disappointed and devastated about losing the Olympic women's shot-put title to Nadezya Ostapchuk by getting a silver medal, Chef de mission Dave Currie made a decision to call Adams and he also had to say: ''Valerie Adams....and I quote, you are now & still, once again, the Olympic women's shot put champion because of your Belrussian rival, Ostapchuk, had been disqualified after failing a drug test so congrats Val, good on ya MATEY!!!'' And this moment was changed when Adams had been awarded the gold when Ostapchuk is stripped of gold medal following her drug testing scandal failure then a day later, the 4 of the 6 gold medalists arrived back home at Auckland International Airport as well as all the 2 Silver medalists (Not Adams since she got the gold from Ostapchuk) including Sarah Walker (BMX) & the men's sailing duo of Pete Burling & Blair Tuke plus the 3 of the 5 bronze medalists came home with Peter Taylor & Storm Uru (Men's lightweight rowing), the ladies rowing pair of Juliette Haigh & Wanganui's own Rebecca Scown who was born in Hawera which is located in the Taranaki (AKA 'the Naki') region (She has a brother named Sam who plays rugby for the Wanganui Heartland Rugby Championship team) & of course, Simon Van Velthoven in the keirin cycling because he was a joint bronze medalist (British cycling great Sir Chris Hoy got the gold medal) & finally last night as of today, I finally went to Vision's for the 1st time ever by having dinner over there plus a free dessert before me & my father went home to wrap up Thursday, the 16th of August 2012 (4 days post Olympics).