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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England lose, un-invent cricket. World Cup thrown into chaos

From Sports Review NZ...

SRNZPA: In a bold move, England un-invented Cricket following their crushing nine wicket defeat at the hands of South Africa.

"I'm absolutely devastated" responded Malcom Speed, unemployed. "One or two results have gone against England, and they've made what must have been an extremely tough decision. We'd bought the finest around to the Carribean for a carnival of Cricket, now we've just got a bunch of guys in tracksuits buying duty free booze. It's a nightmare."

Former Cricketers may not be out of a job if Saatchi & Saatchi Chief Executive Kevin Roberts' planned breakaway sport "Loveball" gets off the ground. "Oh boy, I am super, super stoked! You guys are gonna love it! I haven't been this excited since the Gillette Fusion razor! Woooooooo! Yeah! Woooooooo!" enthused Roberts before spontaneously exploding.

Full post here...

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 10

High quality analysis of last week's Super 14 rugby games, our picks for the coming weekend, some Cricket World cup talk, musings on the NRL Rugby League competition, a quick look at the slowest swimmer at the World Swimming Champs, why Stuff.co.nz is crap, and some other stuff...

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The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 09

Pipping the post just hours before the kick-off of this week's Super 14 matches, the Dropkicks share their thoughtful and insightful analysis on not only the Super 14, but the Six Nations, Formula One, the Cricket World Cup, US College Basketball, and pick their athlete and dick of the week...

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Chappell–Hadlee Trophy 2006–07: Game 3, video highlights

The last five overs of the second-best run-chase in ODI Cricket history, with the Black Caps managing to overhaul Austrlia's mammoth first innings score of 346 with 3 balls and one wicket to spare. Awesome...



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The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 05

Playing a bit of catch-up football this week - finally posting last week's show on the same day this week's show is being edited.

But you've already heard it, haven't you, because you subscribe to the podcast feed? No? Click here for details on how to get the podcast sent to your iTunes, RSS Feeder, or Web Browser automatically, and stop relying on our sporadic blog posting for your latest podcast kicks...

Anyway, Episode 05 features the first Dropkicks competitive eating challenge, Super 14 review and picks, some Nascar, bare-handed vodka-fuelled shark catching, Chappell-Hadlee ODI Cricket series, and lots of tweeting birds...

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The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 04

Back up to speed with the (nearly) full team on board this week, the Dropkicks are getting into stride as the Super 14 season starts to warm up...

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The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 03

Dom flies solo this week. Or does he?

We review our (dreadful) first round picks, make our calls on the second round match-ups, a quick postmortem on the tri-series cricket, and retell one of the best wacky stories you'll ever hear (courtesy of Blind Hamish).

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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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Cricinfo commentary: "It's been distinctly average."

With this particular Dropkick doing most of his cricket watching via the text commentary on Cricinfo, I've always appreciated the small nuggets of humour and personality that come through with the generally rather dry ball-by-ball descriptions. And last night's thumping of the English team by the resurgent Black Caps saw some of the best text commentary I've ever read.

It would seem the comments team on duty was predominantly English, for as the match wore on to its inevitable conclusion, the commentary became more wry, more resigned, and, as a result, a lot funnier. Here's some highlights from the conclusion, but it's worth checking out the commentary in its entirety to unearth even more comedic nuggets of gold for yourself...

41.6 - Patel to Plunkett, no run, defended. Go on son, give it some humpty, I dare you!

43.2 - Vettori to Plunkett, no run, defended down the pitch. "Hit out or get out!" as we used to yell to our Boycottesque opener at school. This is beyond dismal.

46th over...
John, who describes himself as "an Australian fan - writes: "You guys suck - the standard of text commentating has been poor on this site for the past year. Just comment on the shots and what happens on the field. Keep your stupid, unfunny thoughts to yourselves. Thanks, John. So unfunny that he keeps reading it despite being unamused for a year.

47th over...
"Nice chap that John," emails Toby. "Maybe he should keep his stupid unfunny thoughts to himself as well." We would pass your message on but he wasn't man enough to use a real email address ....

48th over...
Apologies for those missing deliveries. Our technical team decided it was too exciting and pulled the plug early. I assure you, you missed nothing.

49.2 - Bond to Nixon, FOUR, width, and carved through the covers! England have saved the bonus-point! Joy, happiness and rapture.

49.6 - Bond to Nixon, 1 wide, bouncer! And it's too short! Another chance to get there. Gosh, the artificial excitement is gripping.

49.6 - Bond to Nixon, OUT, short, swung into the leg-side, Jacob Oram dives forward and clings onto a blinder! And that is a suitably anticlimatic end to another desperate performance.

Congratulations to New Zealand, who have once again shown the sort of prowess in one-day cricket that England so palpably lack. That's it from me, Andrew Miller, and my co-commentators, Jenny Thompson and Martin Williamson. It's been distinctly average.