More relevant dropkicks banter

Che - Do you remember a certain conversation with Dom's bro in Concrete? (This is regarding a concussion that I possibly suffered in a football match about two months ago – My brother plays in the same team and the big mouth had to go and tell everybody)

Hadyn - Ha! That's right. How black is the kettle Mr Pot?

Dom - Yes but I wasn’t going out to run at 120 kg brick walls and have them run at me. Oh and my concussion didn’t come courtesy of me head-butting a Mack truck called Tonie.
And the opposition had no way of knowing I’d been possibly concussed the week before. Unlike the 17 NSW players who had witnessed... as he tackled Blues prop Brent Kite, and was clearly concussed as he was assisted from the field by the Maroons' training staff.
Everyone witnessed it. Including the Queensland medical staff. My "doctor" diagnosed me based entirely on my testimony. I could go describe all the symptoms of a broken leg right now and he'd chuck me in a cast no x-ray needed.

I stand by my disdain of the Qld medical officials and Dallas Johnson. (and now im backed up by 'professionals')

Che - Dude. We saw you after that head-smack. In fact, *days* after that head-smack. And you were clearly concussed. So… your justification for playing soccer with that concussion is that the doctor believed you when you described your obvious discussion. You need to send that law degree back to Sanitarium.

Dom - Oh was I clearly concussed was I?
And how exactly would you know that, Tibby? Was it because I told you? Or were you drawing on a lifetime of patients coming to you and telling you they had a headache and didn’t think they could/should go to work?

Maybe you should watch a bit more ER and less Grey’s Anatomy.

And what’s wrong with Sanitarium University? It has a great alumni programme. And clearly you’ve put your Sanitarium Uni degree in medicine to good use.
:-P

Hadyn - "And how exactly would you know that". How bout the minute long pauses between sentences, the blabbing on nonsensically, the slight drooling, forgetting things you'd just said... actually how did we know?

Dom - I rest my case. No wait... case closed.

Darwin awards nomination

This story comes from last nights dead rubber State of Origin rugby league match played last night. NSW won 18-4.

The Maroons' performance will be remembered as one of their bravest, not least because of the performance of lock Dallas Johnson, who returned to the field after being concussed in the first tackle of the game.

This isnt brave, its bloody stupid. One more heavy knock and he could have died. The meidcal people who let him back out need to be sacked. It was negligent and irresponsible. To put the other players on the field in that position is unfair. Would you want to be the guy who delivered the tackle that killed him?

Johnson's head appeared to hit teammate Tonie Carroll as he tackled Blues prop Brent Kite, and was clearly concussed as he was assisted from the field by the Maroons' training staff.

But he returned early in the second half and tackled heroically. Of Johnson's effort, Meninga said: "It was pretty hard to keep him off the field. As you could see, he wanted to stay on after it happened. They all want to play for the Maroon jersey."

Use a gun. Shoot him in the leg and tell him that either way he might DIE. He's just not asking one of his team mates or opponents to deliver the killer blow.

A response to David Moffett.

The South African Rugby Union (SARU) is "an absolute disgrace" and the Springboks should be kicked out of the Tri-Nations, says David Moffett, one of the chief architects of SANZAR.

[David Moffett] is a loud-mouth who gave us some “absolutely disgraceful” rugby tournaments and should be kicked, says Hadyn Green, one of the chief architects of The Dropkicks.

Moffett, the former head of New Zealand and Wales rugby unions, told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper New Zealand and Australia had to cut South Africa from the next television deal, and instead play more trans-Tasman matches. He claimed that it’s because “the players are just getting killed by all the travel”. But in his column for The Press he reveals his true reason.

“We are led to believe that all three SANZAR countries had agreed to field their strongest teams, and in fact NZ and Australia had sent their best available players to South Africa and filled the stadia and coffers of SARU.

What was the response of our supposed partner? They waited until after the second test and selected a B team.

Selfishness seems to be the order of the day in the professional rugby era and perhaps now is the time for Australia and NZ to play that game."

Wow, so instead of realising that there’s a problem brewing in international test rugby and sitting down with our closest neighbours to discuss what’s to be done, we should instead cut all ties with them. Yeah, let’s get them before they get us!

Instead, and I might just be crazy here, perhaps SANZAR should get together and exert some pressure on the IRB. Let’s see them turn a decent profit without the three southern giants. Moreover we should be embracing Argentina right now. The Argies are #6 at the moment giving us four southern hemisphere teams in the top 6. SAANZAR? SANZAAR? SAAAAR? (if New Zealand becomes Aotearoa)

I mean there is even the possibility that if we don’t throw a tantrum we could figure out a revenue sharing deal within SANZAR.

Finally, Moffett said the Super 14 tournament should be disbanded and replaced by a Super 10 competition with five New Zealand teams and five Australian teams. He told the Morning Herald that when expansion was required, national teams from the Pacific Islands (based in Australia and New Zealand) should be included.

If that doesn’t convince you that Moffett is high I don’t know what will. “When expansion is required”?! Pacific Island teams based in Aussie and New Zealand? The Super 14 needs a whalloping big kick in the bollocks but not like that.

Recent discussions have circulated on a global season. This would, most likely, require the Super 14 to change to being a winter tournament over lapping the Air NZ Cup with the international season being starting in late February.

South Africa has been quite nice to us recently I don’t see kicking them out of SANZAR as being a solution to anything. So please David, you’ve had your chance, now be quiet.

Quote of the Week

...goes to Thames Valley captain Steven Hill, whose team got trounced 69-0 by North Harbour in the first Ranfurly Shield challenge of 2007. The NZ Herald carries his thoughts on the the possible reasons for his team's heavy loss...

The 5.35pm Saturday kick-off, Hill suggested, hadn't really suited his side.

"We're normally pissed by then," he admitted.

The Dropkicks - 2007 - Episode 21

Man, don't you hate it when you post the podcast after the weekend, thereby making your picks look all the more foolish. Yeah, me too.

Anyway, the Dropkicks look back at the South Africa v. All Blacks test match from the weekend before last, look forward to the Australia v. All Blacks game that has just happened (you'll never guess who we picked to win!), the Netball final between the Sting and Force, some player movements (phnarr!), and dick and athletes of the week.

Download Episode 2007/21.