The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 13

After a couple of weeks off to rest, we're back and ready for the final round of the 2007 Super 14 season...

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The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 12

Sorry - very late this week, to the point of it now being next week already (and not in the Dropkicks time-travelling sense of next week - just late).

So, listen in amazement as we manage to make accurate predictions of the Super 14 round just completed! Wonder at our analysis of the Cricket World Cup! And be astonished at yet more feats of atheltic wonder in our Athletes of the Week!


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The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 11

The usual hits and misses with our Super 14 analysis; some Cricket World Cup action; another why-stuff.co.nz-is-crap section; and perhaps the highest quality field ever for Athlete of the Week (not even featuring Roger Federer)!


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The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 02

Here it is, virtually (and in fact, actually) un-edited due to time constraints on the currently over-worked Dropkicks editor, episode 2 of the 2007 Dropkicks season, featuring the build-up to the first round of the Super 14, Six Nations, Tri-Series Cricket, mountain-biking (Vanessa Quinn), Dicks of the Week (Turkey Shooters), Athlete of the Week (Jacob Oram) and Roger Federer still being awesome.

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Dick of the Week Alert! EMI Records.

Is there anyone left on the planet that the major-label music industry hasn't pissed off yet? Latest victims: sports fans. From ABC Sports...

Giant music publishing company EMI has threatened legal action against Australian sporting fans group The Fanatics.

EMI says The Fanatics' Ashes songbook breached copyright because it included altered lyrics to songs such as Go West by the Village People and Daydream Believer by The Monkees.

I mean, really, can you even apply copyright to 'altered lyrics'? Especially ones as good as these (sing to the tune of Daydream Believer)...

Cheer up Michael Vaughan,
How bad must it be,
To a be a poor pommie whinger,
And you're watching on TV?

Brilliant.

Fanatics founder Warren Livingstone was equally baffled by EMI's actions, and said the group had removed the songs from its website and was considering what to do with 100,000 booklets that have already printed.

We need to work out whether we have to shred these or whether we can in fact hand them out outside the ground. We're giving them out for free so it's a little bit astounding actually. We're just a supporter group, we're just trying to have a little bit of fun and so to have this action from EMI seems pretty heavy-handed.

Too right. What next, suing Liverpool supporters for singing "Ferry Cross the Mersey"? EMI - Dicks of the Week? Stong contenders so far.

UPDATE: EMI are still dicks, but at least they're backing down in this instance. The Fanatics songbook apparently isn't in breach of copyright (as we suspected), and is now available for download from the Fanatics website. Nice one.

"I know that sounds sexist but I am sexist."

Following Luton's 2-3 defeat to QPR in England's Division One League over the weekend, Luton Manager Mike Newell decided the female line assistant was to blame...

She shouldn't be here. I know that sounds sexist but I am sexist. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? We have a problem in this country with political correctness - bringing women into the game is not the way to improve refereeing and officialdom. If you start bringing in women you have big problems. It is tokenism for the politically correct idiots.

Replace 'women' with 'blacks', and 'sexist' with 'racist', to better highlight the sheer idiocy of this statement.

Needless to say, all hell is broken loose in the UK media, Newell has since apologised (or not, depending on how you read it), and it now appears his job may be on the line as a result of his outburst. Idiot.

[Update: one of the better commentary pieces on the affair has been written by Zoe Williams over at Guardian Unlimited.]

Willie Mason - Dick of the Year?

Ah yes, it wouldn't be a sporting week without some new piece of idiocy from everyones favourite kiwi-born Aussie league A.D.D-affected doofus, Willie Mason, this time giving Britain's Stuart Fielden a punch that broke his nose and dropped the unlucky Brit to the ground like a bag of spuds during the Poms 23-12 win over the Aussies at Sydney on the 4th of November at Aussie Stadium in Sydney.

According to Willie Mason (via BBC quotes of the week) this was the provocation that caused the blow...

He said 'Come on you ******* Aussie ****'. I said '**** you, you Pommie ****wit'. He said 'Let's go, let's go, I will belt you, you Aussie T***'.

And, thanks to the magic of YouTube, here's two different television angles of the 'biff' for you...




End result: Mason banned for only one match and fined $5000.