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The Sol Bar: New Zealand Cricket Randomness
- Thread starter HeathDavisSpeed
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BeeGee
International Captain
All NZ fans who lived through that decade bare those scares.
Just as you're sitting back in your comfy chair with a glass of cognac and fine cigar, all ready to reflect on the glory of the eighties, along comes the nineties to really harsh your mellow.
Very high carb content at Lincoln. Lads on 14-day stints managing about one bowel movement a week.
We'll find out the winner in 10 years time, at this rate. By which point the #6 will have redeemed himself to such an extent that he has his own religion.
HeathDavisSpeed
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
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KiWiNiNjA
International Coach
You have no sol!
HeathDavisSpeed
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's an allegory, my dear Athlai. The Sol does not represent the beer Sol itself. It represents that higher level of spiritual enlightenment that certain people can reach after consumption of an appropriate level of beer - especially after having to make do with Tui for 3 days and then being offered something even slightly different.
I fear you would not know this feeling given your behaviour in this thread.
HeathDavisSpeed
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Oh deary me no.
HeathDavisSpeed
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Only one set of votes thus far. A disappointing return.
HeathDavisSpeed
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Happy random thoughts today after a thrilling series victory by the marginally (but noticeable margin, of course) better team.
straw man
Hall of Fame Member
Would you say a head and shoulders margin? Or maybe just a head? A nose, if the other team was wearing heels that day and hadn't knocked their knee while getting out of bed that morning?
Anyway it's essential that we determine exactly how much of a margin it was and prosecute the debate at length until all two hundred people here are of a single mind and agree that the margin was a full head plus the part of the neck down to the lower of a beard or the middle of the collar, if the one team was wearing a collar that day and not a v-neck jumper because oh boy, that would have completely changed the complexion of the comparison.
Once everyone agrees absolutely and for all eternity on the exact nature of the above, then we will all look around blankly at each other until someone ventures to suggest that the relative merit of some other thing is, all things being equal, where equal is a concept exclusively defined in the recesses of their own mind though it's completely objective of course, better than some other thing, and then we can all be relieved because it will all start again.
Anyway it's essential that we determine exactly how much of a margin it was and prosecute the debate at length until all two hundred people here are of a single mind and agree that the margin was a full head plus the part of the neck down to the lower of a beard or the middle of the collar, if the one team was wearing a collar that day and not a v-neck jumper because oh boy, that would have completely changed the complexion of the comparison.
Once everyone agrees absolutely and for all eternity on the exact nature of the above, then we will all look around blankly at each other until someone ventures to suggest that the relative merit of some other thing is, all things being equal, where equal is a concept exclusively defined in the recesses of their own mind though it's completely objective of course, better than some other thing, and then we can all be relieved because it will all start again.
Presuming you mean Tui on the last part, totally agree. Drinkable, especially on a hot day at the cricket. Apparently they're opening a new plant at the Mount, so they must be doing okay.
Have to say, from afar the whole promotion over summer got old on me really quickly. Dunno if it was a different dynamic at the ground but it got a bit sickening after a while.
Hurricane
Hall of Fame Member
I didn't have an orange shirt on and I got told i had to sit two seats away from my friends so that they "had room to dive":- so yeah it got a bit OTT
Hurricane
Hall of Fame Member
I have come around now to the idea of T20 replacing ODIs. I finally think I have had my fill of 50 over cricket. Somewhere in the middle of watching Ross Taylor score a ton in an ODI at the cake tin it just started to feel all a bit routine and that I was watching someone do his job rather than play for the love of the game.
I don't have a hate on for the middle overs in fact I quite like them, I just think that the players have mastered ODIs now, while we haven't seen the full potential of T20s yet.
I hope that we shrink back the amount of List A stuff our provinces play and play more 4 day cricket instead.
I don't have a hate on for the middle overs in fact I quite like them, I just think that the players have mastered ODIs now, while we haven't seen the full potential of T20s yet.
I hope that we shrink back the amount of List A stuff our provinces play and play more 4 day cricket instead.