Well, the All Whites & Kiwis rugby league team are in sporting crisis (So too are the US men's soccer team who lost to Trinidad & Tobago during the FIFA World Cup qualifiers (1986 was the last time that the USA has failed to qualify) as well as Italy who went down to Sweden in the UEFA qualification playoff (And 1958 was the last time Italy failed to qualify) followed by The Netherlands & Chile) as the All Whites fail to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, losing to Peru (Who had to score both goals to book their golden ticket) in Lima then the Kiwis rugby league team went down to Fiji by 2 points in the Rugby League World Cup quarterfinals in Wellington (After surprisingly losing to Tonga in the final pool game over in Hamilton, producing the biggest upset in international rugby league history), producing our worst result in the history of the Rugby League World Cup (And it is one of our darkest days in New Zealand rugby league although Pops isn't a rugby league fan at all).
And 2017 wasn't our year for All Blacks standards because they missed out on winning the Lions series as well as both defeats against both the British & Irish Lions in the 2nd test of the Lions series in Wellington (Including Sonny Bill Williams moment of madness when he was the 1st All Black to be sent off in a test match since Colin Meads in 1967 against Scotland for a reckless boot to a Scottish player which proved to be the game changer/turning point that cost the AB's a chance of clinching the test series (And the reason why the referee sent Williams off? Is because Williams's shoulder made contact to the head of Lions player Anthony Watson with the French referee had no choice but to give SBW the red card) & the Wallabies in the 3rd & final Bledisloe Cup test in Brisbane (Including Ofa Tu'ungafasi's massive hit on Wallaby Bernard Foley has best been remembered) but let's hope that the Warren Gatland coached Wales doesn't become the 3rd team to down the All Blacks.
So that is my 166th blog of the year 2017 (MMXVII) & my 86th this year (Only 34 blogs remaining until I reach 200 blogs).
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