Hurricanes down amongst the one-eye’d

If you’re a rugby fan you’ll know that the Hur­ricanes are already through to a semi-final to be played at either Christ­ch­urch or Sydney depend­ing upon how the week­end pans out.

A win over the Cru­saders this week­end would have a huge psy­cho­lo­gic­al advant­age at this semi-final

To ensure some bal­ance to the unbiased cheer­ing the Wel­ling­ton­ist has sent one of their loudest report­ers south where he is already secretly camped amongst the ‘one-eyed’. And he’s not alone as reports come back of oth­er Wel­ling­to­ni­ans already arriv­ing in the Garden City ready to cheer the ‘Canes on to a second mem­or­able win.

The latest team news is that both teams are rest­ing key play­ers with Tana not in con­ten­tion and Jerry & Andrew (Hore) start­ing on the bench.

The Cru­saders have Dan “Nice dags” Carter, Mose Tui’ali and Casey Laulala watch­ing from the stands but keep an eye out for “Panadol” McCaw mak­ing a storm­ing run off the bench at some point

Rumours that “Mad” Max­well was to play but his Pro­ba­tion Officer isn’t allowed to accom­pany him onto the field have been found to be untrue.

For those not at the game the Wel­ling­ton­ist would like to point out excel­lent loc­al screens at:

• The Black Harp
• Brew­ery Bar
• Shep­herds Arms
• JJ Murphys (Cuba Mall)
• The Malt­house.

If you know of oth­er fine rugby view­ing ven­ues then don’t hes­it­ate to pass it on

The Lions are com­ing: if you’ve not got your­self a tick­et to the test here in Wel­ling­ton then watch this space for news of an excel­lent event with a truly large screen.