Well, hi everyone, & welcome back to another blog, I'm Whetu Ngapo & you're tuning in to my KiwiAvenger blog here on blogger, but first that I have made my decision that I've put my future holiday plans to Wellington on hold permanently by cutting it short due to the fact that I seemingly have lost interest of meeting Cathey & Paige again, & Norah for the first time, & the reason why? Is that the 3 of them aren't close together with our whanau according to the comment I heard from Dad on the 2nd of July so that Paige would focus on looking after Norah by asking for respect as well as privacy being requested towards her, due to being happily married with a child with her relationship status being closed simple as that as well as being a full time mother, because she doesn't use social media a lot, but 2016 will be the last time I have ever met with Cathey & Paige so I won't be able to meet or catch up & reconnect both of them ever again in the foreseeable future, especially for the rest of my life (And I'll do my best to leave her alone since I have abandoned my plans of going on a proposed trip to Wellington).
And in the gaming news department such as Hollywood film as well as comedy star & lead singer of the American band Tenacious D of Jack Black who will reprise the role of Officer D (Who appeared in the first 3 THPS games as well as the THPS 1 + 2 remake) in the upcoming Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake (Which will feature 8 new skaters, such as young female Aussie who became the youngest X Games gold medalist at age 13 of Chloe Covell, female Brazilian Olympic star Rayssa Leal, male Japanese Olympic champion Yuto Horigome, Frenchman Aurelien Giraud, female American who was the first skater to be signed by Adidas of Nora Vasconcellos, female Filipina skater Margielyn 'Margie' Didal, male American skater Jamie Foy, & male African American skater of Zion Wright) all according to plan, along with his British counterpart of Constable Richard (The one who talks in a English accent that Black must've prepared for that role), but I recently played that game which was the early access version, & managed to get the 6 skate videos such as Tony Hawk, Tony's son Riley on the first day, then Lizzie Armanto & Leticia Bufoni on the 2nd day, & Andrew Reynolds & Nyjah Huston on the 3rd day which is the day prior to the official release (And when I played the new THPS 3 + 4 game that I did not know that skateboarding is the most popular extreme sport in the United States, but rugby is still our main sport here in New Zealand (Compared to baseball being their national pastime in America) according to the Rugby 25 PS4 game that I still play on the PS5 console (And Dad always plays the Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge 4 game which is way better than Rugby 25, but he prefers Rugby League Live 4 as his main game before the new Rugby League 26 game comes out on July 17th in which the new trailer has been dropped in, according to a phone call from Dad that I made on the 10th of July, a week before its official release in which the new game will feature new try scoring animations, also new acrobatic tries being scored especially in the corner, & there'll be new Aussie Rules style contestable high ball animations).
And onto a motor racing related story that I have revealed that WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, has always been my fave IndyCar Series track (But I like Indianapolis Motor Speedway Oval & Road Course, Mid-Ohio & Road America as well), compared to the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia being my favourite Supercars Championship circuit & the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit at Albert Park in Australia being my fave Formula 1 track (Along with the Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, Circuit de Monaco, Interlagos, Monza, Red Bull Ring, Silverstone, Spa, Suzuka & Yas Marina that I like), & Daytona International Speedway Oval being my favourite NASCAR track (Along with Homestead Miami Speedway, the aforementioned Indianapolis Motor Speedway Oval & Watkins Glen Short Circuit as the others that I also like) according to the 2023 version of Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo 7 & F1 25 (Which had been released to critical acclaim in terms of the rave reviews just like F1: The Movie starring Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt (For most people saying that it's the best sports movie ever (I'm getting it on Blu-ray once it comes out next time when I'm in Palmy of Palmerston North at JB Hi-Fi with either Dad & Raewyn or Pops & Carole (And I have not watched the movie though), & it was way better than the Sly Stallone CART/Champ Car movie came out way back in 2001 of Driven), meaning that it has much improved from last year's F1 24 game where it was a shambles) games that I always play.
And finally the AB's have named their team to play against France for the 3rd test at FMG Stadium Waikato in Hamilton (Our last meeting between the 2 sides was on July 12th in which in fact we beat the French again by thumping them in an emphatic score line, meaning that the Dave Gallaher trophy returns to New Zealand after 7 years) before they hop on the plane to Argentina (Who have never beaten New Zealand on home soil before because of them beating us 3 times in Sydney 2020, then Christchurch in 2022 & Wellington last year) in the opening rounds of the last ever Rugby Championship, so here is the team naming in its entirety:
STARTING XV (RUN ON)
FORWARD PACK
FRONT ROW
1 (Loose head prop): Ethan de Groot (Highlanders/Southland)
2 (Hooker): Samisoni Taukei'aho (Chiefs/Waikato)
3 (Tight head prop): Tyrel Lomax (Hurricanes/Tasman)
SECOND ROW
4 (No.4 lock): Patrick Tuipulotu (Blues/Auckland)
5 (No.5 lock): Fabian Holland (Highlanders/Otago)
LOOSE FORWARDS
6 (Blind side flanker): Samipeni Finau (Chiefs/Waikato)
7 (Open side flanker): Du'Plessis Kirifi (Hurricanes/Wellington)
8 (Number 8): Ardie Savea (Captain, Moana Pasifika/Wellington)
BACK LINE
HALVES
9 (Half-back): Cortez Ratima (Chiefs/Waikato)
10 (First five-eighth): Damian McKenzie (Chiefs/Waikato)
MIDFIELD
12 (Second five-eighth): Quinn Tupaea (Chiefs/Waikato)
13 (Centre): Anton Lienert-Brown (Chiefs/Waikato)
OUTSIDE BACKS
11 (Left wing): Sevu Reece (Crusaders/Southland)
14 (Right wing): Will Jordan (Crusaders/Tasman)
& 15 (Fullback): Ruben Love (Hurricanes/Wellington)
& REPLACEMENT PLAYERS (IMPACT)
16 (Reserve hooker): Brodie McAlister (Who is in line for his test debut off the pine, replacing his Chiefs teammate Taukei'aho who is elevated to the starting lineup to replace regular first choice hooker Codie Taylor)
17 (Reserve loose head prop): George Bower (Who'll return to the fold to make his first appearance for the AB's since 2022 against England at Twickenham as he takes Ollie Norris's place at reserve loose head prop)
18 (Reserve tight head prop): Fletcher Newell (Who is dropped to the bench as Tyrel Lomax makes a timely return from injury to start a tighthead prop replacing him)
19 (Reserve loose forward): Dalton Papali'i (Who is set to return to the AB's after originally being dropped from the original squad until assuming the call-up for the 3rd test to replace Samipeni Finau who is promoted to the run-on team as the starting blindside flanker position to take place of the concussed Tupou Vaa'i)
20 (Reserve loose forward): Christian Lio-Willie (Who is dropped to the bench with Du'Plessis Kirifi elevated to the starting lineup to replace the unfortunate Luke Jacobson who pulls out through injury minutes before kick-off)
21 (Reserve half-back): Noah Hotham (Who comes back for his first All Black game this year off the bench to replace Cortez Ratima who too earns his promotion to the starting lineup at the starting halfback position, replacing Cam Roigard who is rested for this game)
22 (Reserve back): Timoci Tavatavanawai
& 23 (Reserve midfielder): Jordie Barrett (Who is dropped to the bench at the reserve back position after he originally being planned to be rested for this test, therefore replacing Will Jordan who gets his wish of starting at 14 after also originally named on the pine, replacing Sevu Reece who is moved to the left wing position in the aftermath of Rieko Ioane who had to pull out through injury, just a day before the test).
So that is my 623rd blog of the year 2025 (MMXXV) & my 47th of this year, viva Ukraine & Palestine.
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