Newsgroups: rec.sport.rugby
Subject: Re: NZ vs SA
From: R.D.Lynn@massey.ac.nz (R.D. Lynn)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 02:34:08 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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In article: <1992Aug17.091928.10124@waikato.ac.nz> (higham@waikato.ac.nz)
> Various stuff deleted
 
>Also I was astounded at the utter lack of perception shown by the TVNZ
>commentators at the game. Macbeth said, "and now we'll have a minutes silence
>for victims of the violence in South Africa and for future peace here", and
>then when the whole thing flopped 5-10 seconds later, away we go into the NZ
>national anthem and not a word from Stu or John, oh no. I suppose they wouldn't
>want to cast a pall upon the greatness of the moment, the history of the time.
>I couldn't help thinking what a load of bullshit it all was. 

and in article: <1992Aug17.090321.3265@otago.ac.nz> (clive@otago.ac.nz) Clive 
Boock writes:

>Various stuff deleted

>   Jon Preston, who came on for half-back Ant Strachan after 20 minutes, had an
>outstanding game and received the most valuable player award from the TV One
>commentary team; not bad for a reserve!!  Talking about commentary teams.
>Those of us who watched the game on TV One and had to endure John MacBeths
>incompetant display with the microphone will now be longing for the day when
>New Zealands number one rugby commentator, Keith Quinn, is brought back from the
>wilderness and can once again gives New Zealanders the commentating skills so
>many of us admire. 
>   Other thoughts about the game: 
>    The camera work by the South Africans was a poor second to the Australians
>who now lead the world in sports coverage
>    The boorish display by some of the crowd who refused to observe the moments
>silence requested by the ANC.

>Clive H. Boock, University of Otago, New Zealand.   

I don't know about you Tom in Hamilton, but Dunedin is a non-Sky area isn't 
it Clive. There fore you could have watched the game live on TV3 (they got 
the Sky coverage). The commentators on Sky (Bill Mclaren, Bill McCarthy and
David Kirk) did an excellent job, especially when compared to the drivel 
that I heard later in the day from the TV1 commentators.

As to other points:
    I too was appalled when I heard a large section of the crowd singing away
during the "minutes silence". Mind you, it must have been of great "comfort"
to those songsters to know that they were beaten by ALL BLACKS.
    South African camera work is hopeless. They show so many replays of a 
try that has just been scored, that they miss the kickoff and the next
couple of rucks or so. At least they don't show endless replays of kicks
like the Argentinians do, though to be fair to the Argentinian cameramen
they do manage to zoom in on some of the better looking members of the 
crowd quite often. 
    Jon Preston did have a good game when he came on, but I thought a 
forward like Michael Jones or Zinzan Brooke was the man of the match.
Will Preston be the Canterbury Halfback on his return home though?
    John Timu again pulled off a couple of bone-crunching, try saving tackles,
both on the centre Pieter Muller, knocking the ball from his grasp on both
occasions when Timu was the last line of defence. Let's hope (non-Aucklanders
that is :-)) that he stays as fullback for Otago for the Ranfurly Shield 
challenge on Saturday.
    Lastly, did anyone see the sign that greeted one of the Wallabies at
the Northern Transvaal game the other day? It read "David Cam-PUSSY". Even
the Aussie commentator said Cam-PUSSY instead of Campese early in the game.

Rob