Good Girl Hunting...

We promised to deliver and we have failed. I can´t remember the defences for vicarious liability but we will claim them. Although the adjacent story leading to our failure is fairly amusing.

We promised that our overseas correspondent The International Man of Mystery would attend the 2nd ever regular season NFL game at Wembly stadium and report back on his intervarsity-esque antics. The Saints beat the Chargers 37 - 32 in a thriller in front of a packed Wemly stadium. 83 226 people attended, Wembly has a capacity of 83 227. Where was he..?

Saints 37 Chargers 32.

Pre-match tailgate parties have followed the NFL across the Atlantic but our Man made up for it and hit a local bar with an extended group, they hit it hard. As warm English ale was disappearing faster than the numbers on the countdown to kick-off clock, our Man found him - this is a direct quote - ¨displaying his John Travolta dance skills¨ with gratuitous disregard.


What can only in his mind be conceived as a flaunting display of male physical prowess seemingly was similarly conceived as such by an unknown Russion natural-gas-and-property-princess-heir. The atmosphere was electric. The eastern bloc multimillionaire was smitten and gave him the lazy eye...

Rush In.

As the boys were leaving the establishment to catch the football, our Man tossed over his ticket stub and waved them off, mouthing, ´sorry boys, I have to go see about a girl...´

Fairytale stuff that not even fantasy football can recreate but not so much for our Man as this week, to organise round 2 with our Russian princess he has to try ´re-work´ her impression that he is a 32 year old equity trader.

We are not going to promise to send him to Hong Kong for Saturdays massive Bledisloe clashes to catch Dan Carter showing that Jean De Villiers´s claim by default of being the best inside centre in the world is no longer...

Changing Gears...

Catch it yourself at 10h30 SA time.

All Blacks: 15 Mils Muliaina, 14 Hosea Gear, 13 Conrad Smith, 12 Dan Carter, 11 Sitiveni Sivivatu, 10 Stephen Donald, 9 Jimmy Cowan, 8 Rodney So'oialo, 7 Richie McCaw (captain), 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Ali Williams, 4 Brad Thorn, 3 Neemia Tialata, 2 Andrew Hore, 1 Tony Woodcock.
Replacements: 16 Keven Mealamu, 17 Greg Somerville, 18 Anthony Boric, 19 Adam Thomson, 20 Piri Weepu, 21 Ma'a Nonu, 22 Isaia Toeava.

Date: Saturday, Novemebr 1
Venue: Hong Kong Stadium