Sunday, July 03, 2005
Lions/politics
I believe there are parallels bewteen sport and politics (and life in general I suppose) in how things are dealt with.
With the Lions we have these: Spin over Substance and a Matrix barmy army (what you see is not necessarily what is there).
In Spin over Substance, we had THAT tackle. Then we had Woodward come out last night after the test blaming poor refereeing in two of the AB's tried. It was actually the way he said it:
"If we hadn't had (winger's name goes here) taken out we might not have seen that try, but I don't want to go down that track".
He said the same thing again over another try.
In the Matrix, we have had the flop of the barmy army. There was a story in page A2 of the SST today (can't link it sorry) that said the barmy army doesn't exist and is has been way over publicised. A bar owner on Dunedin ordered $5,000 more beer only to have no-one turn up after the Otago game.
Spin over substance. Matrix barmy army/surplus. Sound familiar?
The creme de la creme will be a Lions whitewash this weekend. Expect another whitewash in a few more weekends time.
With the Lions we have these: Spin over Substance and a Matrix barmy army (what you see is not necessarily what is there).
In Spin over Substance, we had THAT tackle. Then we had Woodward come out last night after the test blaming poor refereeing in two of the AB's tried. It was actually the way he said it:
"If we hadn't had (winger's name goes here) taken out we might not have seen that try, but I don't want to go down that track".
He said the same thing again over another try.
In the Matrix, we have had the flop of the barmy army. There was a story in page A2 of the SST today (can't link it sorry) that said the barmy army doesn't exist and is has been way over publicised. A bar owner on Dunedin ordered $5,000 more beer only to have no-one turn up after the Otago game.
Spin over substance. Matrix barmy army/surplus. Sound familiar?
The creme de la creme will be a Lions whitewash this weekend. Expect another whitewash in a few more weekends time.
