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    Oh boy are the Dutch supporters' bad sports... Made such a racket heading into the stadium before the match...Only to leave all angry and grumpy after...
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    The NZ Dollar is jokingly referred to as the "Pacific Paso"...it's utter crap...all that wealth undone by Jacinda's Junta of neo socialist money printers! At the moment just buying a trolley full of groceries is a luxury...Food prices are horrific, not to mention fuel prices. We genuinely can't afford frivolous spending on sports events when infrastructure is falling apart around us. NZ is about to live through the 1990s long depression again...it sucked back then, and will again.
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    So that's about $2b in our worthless currency tied to $US. The political landscape in NZ is about to swing to the Right so much that it will make your Sunak lead govt look Left. They are not interested in money wasting events. Thanks to neo socialist policies of the last six years...NZ is broke!...and divided. 1990 WAS a long time ago in scale...It was also the last feasible original 9 Core Sports games. Victoria BC's 1994 games were considered at the time too small and KL98 would welcome in the mega games era. Manchester 02 was considered the best games until 2022. Melbourne 06 was stupendously over the top and this set up New Delhi 2010 for an epic fail. Glasgow 14 and Gold Coast 18 tried to show an economical way forward but the cost for any city to host alone proved too great when Durban couldn't get support from the SA government. This will matter for New Zealand...As even in 1990, Auckland had to ask central govt for help and the then Labour govt reluctantly provided enough for the games to get by...hence the ramshackle closing ceremony. My opinion? Walk away now NZ, Victoria Region and Alberta has proved it.
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    I think we are going to see the NZOC either quietly drop the 2034 proposal or propose a much-scaled back Games. The cost is horrific for what is a carnival event. As someone who has lived through the CWGs glory years and it's fall to insignificance...Also watching NZ's last two realistic chances to host (2006 and 2018) fizzle out because of no real plan and objectives. A shame really because 2018 was handed to NZ on a plate...Gold Coast would have withdrawn it's bid. Honestly, I cannot see the CWGs in the nation's event planning up to 2042. Easier for it to host the World Track and Field Championships. There was a proposal to host an APEC regional games many years ago...
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    I only got as far as 1 minute 30...OMG!!! It's over.
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    Alberta has just withdrawn from placing a bid for the 2030 Games... Which means there is no one wanting to host the CWGs this side of 2034. Now what?...London?
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    It was only ever going to be a thing if the Football Ferns did well...Yes there was that sudden unexpected victory over Norway BUT the huge fail was the unexpected defeat to Philippines... The build-up match results to this World Cup by the women's team was atrocious. There was already doubts about the team going beyond the round robins. Hamilton hosted its last match and already the FIFA hoardings are gone. You wouldn't even know the nil all draw with Switzerland that ended NZ's participation ever happened in Dunedin as the stadium is already decked out in Rugby sponsors signage. All Blacks v Wallabies this Saturday... New Zealand has moved on... But go the Matildas!!
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    What a mess... No one could find a host for 2026 until just before last year's Games. A simple answer is keep it simple...Drop all the Team sports until 2030. And if need be, cycling, although that would be a bummer.
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    Corrected...(although I'm naturally loyal to loyalist Northern Ireland) And no, she wasn't offside.
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    A great start by both host Nations. Aus 1 v Ireland 0 NZL 1 v Norway 0 Australia was expected to beat Ireland, but it was tough going. New Zealand was expected to "do well", put up a brave front and try at least for a draw. Norway didn't know what hit them...
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    FIFA dictates what is to be in a ceremony...NZ Football can only submit suggestions.
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    FIFA dictates what is to be in a ceremony...NZ Football can only submit suggestions.
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    Got any room in your suitcase for me? At least wait until October.
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    Yes true!!! It just proves how far NEW ZEALAND has fallen in the last six years of ultra left wokeisim. This is what our justice system has become. Home Detention. This looks like an At Work Shooting incident. The shooter was an employee of this work site allowed out for day work.
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    Just proves how far NEW ZEALAND - because that's the country's name - has fallen to the woke left. A useless police force unable to respond for ten minutes... Did you know there is no central police station in downtown Auckland? In America, the police would have been on top of it within a minute.
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    Most likely Australia...Can't give them away over here. It didn't help the the home team had such terrible build matches only winning one out of its last ten... Still if it's to get young girls inspired to give it a go...then good.
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    Not complaining...Perfect host. Pity HS2 won't be ready in time. No problem going back to my ancestors hometown.
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    Here in NZ all morning in the sports sections of news and talk shows it was shock as well as crazy ideas from the likes of Christchurch. (although the idea of spreading it nationwide would kind of work as everything is there) Already the govt has said no... simply because of the short lead in time. February or March 2026. Te Kaha stadium won't be finished until April 26 and the massive pool and indoor sports centre is struggling to even find someone to finish building it.
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    Yes...New Zealand is in a political, social and financial flux as we wait for a change in Govt. Lesson learned: Socialism Sucks! It will swing to the right with a National/ACT collation. So don't expect anything frivolous for at least six years. National are still interested in the 2034 bid as it has a long lead in time. The 2039 RWC has also been looked at to kick off Bicentennial celebrations for 2040. At best an emergency games would be very basic old style 9 core sports event. No team sports. It looks like Brummm time again...And who could blame the CGF for going back there...The 2022 games were probably the best this century! (but just, Manchester, just).
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    I'm under the impression that Adelaide or Perth could start talking now that the initial shock has passed...and the embarrassing situation of what is one of the wealthiest countries in the world doesn't necessarily have a bottomless pit of money.
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    Oh what a sad day for the Commonwealth Games. I fear this really could be it. Australia has always been a bulwark host simply because no one else wanted them. But the cost to host outweighs the benefits even though Victoria is worth a visit outside of Melbourne. As Rols mentioned, they did have a special place in sports. New Zealand Govt has already announced they simply cannot bid in time for 2026. And this also puts in jepody the study into a 2034 hosting. Not a great day for the Commonwealth.
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    France Rugby League has pulled out of hosting next year's Rugby League World Cup after not really gaining enough sponsorship funding to host the tournament. With France hosting this year's Rugby World cup and full focus on the Paris 2024 Olympics, just not enough money to go around. All this on the back of France taking over from South Africa who were original hosts for the tournament, citing the same financial constraints. Already offers to host the event have come from the Middle East with Qatar and archrivals in everything, United Arab Emirates, raising their hands as potential hosts. A possible and very viable hosting option has come from New Zealand RL but only if Australia Rugby League agrees to joint host - for a later event in 2025. No word from UK Rugby League as to their intentions yet. Rugby League was the professional working-class breakaway version from the then middle/upper class unpaid amateur Union game. League was considered a step up from Union as well monied clubs began to buy up players in the late 1980s through to 1995 when Union became professional. Since then League has slowly fallen into Union's now massive shadow but still has player power with men and women "cross coding" to play in either version. World Rugby League will decide on the next host later this year.
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    Scroll back up to see the athletic tracks. Also Mt Smart (the 1990 main stadium) is still capable of being refitted with it's track...also has its old warm up track that has already been refurbished. Currently NZ has no FINA competition standard swimming venues. It does have FINA standard pools dotted around the country. But will need to refurbish Auckland's aquatic centre to get it up to spec. Christchurch has to build an entirely new facility which they want near the new Te Kaha rugby/football Stadium. Wellington still doesn't know where to put their new pools. Athletics and Swimming are the two major and compulsory marquee events. You could split them up but at the moment Christchurch could take swimming as a facility built from scratch, like the old QEII Park was, is most desirable. It's early days and the NZOC has until the end of the year to tell the Govt how they are going to do it.
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    Wellington's "Skycity" stadium (its current name) never really attracted large cricket crowds...Only for the 2017 CWC. Thank god NZ Cricket decided to keep the Basin Reserve as home base. The nearly let it go! The other problem was the big Rugby matches look like they were "too far away" from the people...and even the players said that. There were and still are plans to have pull in push out stands mounted on large tyred chassis that could be rolled back for cricket BUT the roof would be needed or the current canopies cover over a bit more. Athletics already has three venues to choose from BUT the kicker will be Swimming and Athletics go together, and you want them near each other.
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    I'd rather Auckland Council focus on that crappy Airport, or sell it's share holding to the Govt so they could then help develop Eden Park. Also Wellington's "Cake Tin" is now at the end of it's current iteration and there are talks of reprofiling it's oval shape ground into a rectangle. NZ Cricket have already said they want to develop the Basin Reserve and put lights in there. The Cake Tin was designed to have a roof put on it as well.
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