All Blacks

The All Blacks opened their international season with twin wins over France in Dunedin and Wellington in the first two weekends of July. Some facts and figures from both games follow below by statistician Peter Marriott (second test first): New Zealand v France in Wellington: Won 43-17 This was the All Blacks 50th

By Kevin McCarthy The hot take cycle these days is pretty fast. Not  surprising really in the click economy where sober assessment is like being the designated driver when everyone else is on a bender. So, the first assessment of the narrow escape for the All Blacks was that they’d had another

By Kevin McCarthy The French are coming – but they’re sending the Marie-Louises. The young, callow conscripts that Napoleon had to call up in 1813 and 1814 to defend France – because, basically, he’d killed, maimed or frozen to death most of his old timers. The European monarchies found this terribly

At the Ken Gray induction into the Porirua Hall of Fame. Joy Gray. Keryn Martin, Anita Baker (Mayor of Porirua), Lauren Grant (Granddaughter of Oliver Grant) and Cragie Smith (PPRFC Chair).  By Adam Julian The mystery began in 2019. Keryn Martin and Logan Ainsworth were preparing the walls of the Paremata-Plimmerton