Well, welcome to our readers here in New Zealand, & around the world, I'm Whetu Ngapo & you're tuning in to my KiwiAvenger blog here on blogger (But this is a double post remember! A double post, please acknowledge), but first that it's been a decade since the AB's last won the Rugby World Cup back in 2015 against the Wallabies in the final at Twickenham (Now Allianz Stadium London) in London, England on Halloween where it was the only time that the All Blacks had won rugby's global showpiece event on foreign soil (Our star first five at the time of Dan Carter was our most standout player of the game where he scored an incredible 19 points in one of the greatest Rugby World Cup finals of all time, as well as the best game of DC's international rugby career that he had since the 2nd test of the Lions test series against the British & Irish Lions in Wellington way back in 2005 where he scored 38 points in that unbelievable game according to the Immortals of New Zealand rugby book where I read my favourite parts of the book such as Carter, Richie McCaw & the late Jonah Lomu (Who had to score the winning try against Australia at Stadium Australia in Sydney also way back in 2000 (Same year that Team New Zealand who had our first successful defence of the Auld Mug on home waters (And our first outside of the United States) at the City of Sails in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland, against the Prada Challenge of Italy in which we produced another stunning 5 - 0 clean sweep just like in a repeat of San Diego '95, then Rob Waddell winning our country's only gold medal at the Sydney Olympics (While the bronze medalists went to boih sailors of Barbara Kendall, Ian McIntosh, & Mark Todd in the equestrian), & the Black Caps securing our only white ball cricket tournament victory over India in the Champions Trophy (Back then it was known as the Knockout Trophy) with an impressive century from Chris 'Cairnsy' Cairns (Son of retired cricketer Lance) for his unbeaten 102 which proved to be the winning knock) in a match that I rewatched as a replay in late September this year billed as the greatest rugby test of the century if not one of the most incredible rugby matches of all time (Compared to the Springboks - New Zealand one from 2013 at Ellis Park in Joburg, South Africa in one of the best modern day rugby test matches in history where teams went neck & neck until Beauden Barrett scored the try to get a 4 try bonus point to clinch the Rugby Championship, then Kieran Read crossed over for the try whilst playing with 14 players after Ben Franks was sent to the bin for a swinging arm on a South African player (Despite drama that Keven Mealamu should've been on the team list (Dane Coles played instead of Mealamu as the reserve hooker) until they discovered it was a typo mistake from the AB's manager at the time meaning that the match had carried on that nearly derailed us), & then Beauden's incredible try saving tackle on Springbok Willie le Roux was magical, as the rest was history) where New Zealand had a explosive start when they were 24 - 0 up inside 10 minutes with tries scored by Tana 'T' Umaga, Pita 'Ala' Alatini & Christian 'Cully' Cullen, before the Wallabies came back as they scored 24 unanswered points before halftime, then the intense back-and-forth battle continued throughout the 2nd half. With just minutes left, Wallaby hooker Jeremy Paul scored to give Australia a 35–34 lead, even before the late Lomu (Who would just run 80% of his capacity due to a rare & serious kidney disorder that he picked up throughout his life in which he was never fully 100% fit) crossed over for the decisive try in which the Wallabies faithful were devastated that their team had lost in front of a world record crowd of 109,874 people), my word), & from 1991 until 2007, & since 2019 where it is incredibly difficult to achieve the feat.
And secondly in the gaming department that engaging a police shootout in the Grand Theft Auto IV game, reminds me of a little of that dreadful invasion since 2022, & there used to be a war in Gaza because of the GTA IV protagonist Niko Bellic being from Serbia that he is in fact from Eastern Europe who fought in the Yugoslav wars during the 90s, as well as the protagonist of the Ballad of Gay Tony (Arguably the best expansion pack of all time, in GTA history for which the story is about the security manager of 'Gay' Tony Prince of Dominican American Luis Lopez as he fights his way to rescue Tony's empire from the brink of collapse, & to stamp his own mark in a world defined by decadence and excess when he helps his boss of the nightclub owner as he attempts his efforts of surviving drug abuse, mounting debt, wars with Mafia families, and repeated assassination attempts) of Luis whose ethnicity is Hispanic who exactly looks like a Arab or I should say, a Middle Eastern person, in which I always engage in a shootout against both police first until I reach the maximum amount of six stars, then steal a police car once I kill all cops before back up arrives, & engage in a gang activity which is a drug deal by searching on the police computer where I engage in a shooting with those criminals as well as cops, until the last criminal is killed by either Niko with a semi-automatic high powered rifle, a combat sniper, or a grenade, or the police when the crime scene is cleaned up (And I also engage in criminal on foot which is a criminal fleeing a crime scene or criminal/suspect resisting arrest I should say at 3 stars after I murder a cop by shooting him dead, where I engage in a shooting on cops as well as the criminal until the suspect is dead for which is the 2nd option, while the 3rd option would be engaging in a police shooting at the Grotti dealership for that is the best ideal place to engage in a shootout on cops where the likelihood of trimming the wanted level stars from the maximum 6, to 3 if Niko or Luis steals one Grotti Turismo car, for which is the only option for Luis Lopez in the Ballad of Gay Tony expansion pack if not doing the drug wars mission), but I used to do gang wars in TBOGT, where I also engage in a shootout with gangsters who were always drug dealers, in either the stash or the stick-up (But I don't do both convoy & hijack), then pick up the stash as I also engage in a shootout on the cops until I drive away before reinforcements arrive & take it all the way to the drop off point to end the gang wars mission.
And thirdly onto the music stuff such as the U2 album Achtung Baby, is the last music album for where I've purchased (Now that There is Nothing Left to Lose by the Foo Fighters that has taken over from them) where I got it from the Vinyl Room record store (Where I go every Saturday along with the market, EB Games, & Cash Converters, but it's my first U2 album that I own), but I love 4 songs from that album such as my fave of 'One', then 'The Fly', as well as 'Mysterious Ways' & 'Even Better Than the Real Thing', to go with that Nickelback album which is the Best of Nickelback Volume 1, then both Linkin Park albums (Hybrid Theory 20th anniversary & Meteora 20), as well as 4 Red Hot Chili Peppers albums (Californication, By the Way, Stadium Arcadium & the Getaway), & the 7 Foo Fighters albums that I own (Such as the Colour & the Shape, There is Nothing Left to Lose, In Your Honor, Greatest Hits, Wasting Light, Medicine & Midnight, & But Here We Are).
And finally that the AB's have pulled off something special with a win against Ireland in Chicago in the United States as we erased the painful memories that we experienced from 2016 being laid to rest, but the first half was a bit scrappy as we trailed by 3 points at halftime (Tadhg Furlong (Once the best tighthead prop in the world (It's Tyrel Lomax now but he's currently injured at the moment) was the try scorer, then Ardie Savea responded with a beauty or a peach, a pearler of a try), meanwhile we dominated the 2nd half through tries from Tamaiti Williams, Wallace Sititi & Cam Roigard that put us through beyond doubt that we punished the Irish like that, but the most standout player of the game honours went to Dutch born All Black lock Fabian Holland (The one who loved rugby while being in the Netherlands before coming here to New Zealand as part of his ambitions of becoming a rugby player) who had a cracker of a match in one of his best games in the black jersey (Compared to Quinn Tupaea where he had a blinder against the Wallabies at Perth Stadium in Perth), in which the match was dogged by a red card by lock Tadhg Beirne who tackled Beauden Barrett high when the ref & the TMO saw it that the recommendation was a yellow card, then on report following a lengthy discussion, before changing it to red because there was a high degree of force without mitigation in that the first half lasted 52 minutes on that occasion, & we have lost injuries early in the game such as All Blacks captain Scott Barrett, & his brother Jordie (Well, that could be long term) with both of them likely to be ruled out of the next test against Scotland (Well, bring on the Scots anyway) at Murrayfield in Edinburgh for which is happening on the 9th of November (8th in the UK).
So that is my 634th blog of the year 2025 (MMXXV) & my 58th of this year, viva Ukraine.
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