Tag: rugby world cup

March 16, 2010

The rugby sculpture

A pro­pos­al was unveiled yes­ter­day for a Weta Work­shop-designed rug­by-themed sculp­ture to grace the city, some­where, In Time For The Rug­by World Cup.

The sculp­ture is high­ly sym­bol­ic, with the Dom­Post pro­vid­ing a list of all the sym­bol­ism, but what does the sculp­ture most resem­ble?

Robyn
Art / Sport
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October 9, 2007

For Sale — One Ticker Tape Parade, Unused

You could be here

Includes:

25 ship­ping con­tain­ers mul­ti­coloured shred­ded paper,
Day’s hire of nov­el­ty vehi­cles & floats,
2000 dancers & street per­form­ers,
50,000 black flags.
Speech from the Prime Min­is­ter*

Pop­u­la­tion of one small city look­ing for some­thing to cel­e­brate.

Make a loved one’s birth­day cel­e­bra­tion, or anniver­sary, unfor­get­table.

Ready to go for Octo­ber 26.

*Late change, Peter Dunne Subbed for the PM.

llew
Sport
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September 8, 2007

Where to watch the Rugby World Cup — Wellington

Well, in response to Mike’s ques­tion, the only place open at 6.30am this morn­ing was J.J. Mur­phy’s.

And a top bunch of peo­ple they are too. The beer was flow­ing for those still out since the night before (includ­ing a gag­gle of French guys. Bad luck there Blues).

Even bet­ter! They did a hun­gry man a $5 break­fast. Scram­bled eggs, sausages, hash browns, toma­toes, toast.

So, to repeat that. No Occi­den­tal, no Bris­tol.

Get your­self down to Mur­phy’s next Sat­ur­day to watch Eng­land v. South Africa (and France v. Ire­land the week after).

Che Tibby
Events / Sport
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May 11, 2007

No advertising? No way.

Hadyn orig­i­nal­ly post­ed this over at The Drop­kicks, but since we used Welling­ton as the exam­ple (and the map looks so nice), it seemed appro­pri­ate to cross post it over here…

The gist of the sto­ry is that the Inter­na­tion­al Rug­by Board, in a bid to halt ‘ambush mar­ket­ing’ around the venues for the 2011 Rug­by World Cup (being held in NZ, did­n’t you know?), is request­ing a 5km adver­tis­ing ban around venues where games are being played. To quote Hadyn…

Now with­out any bias, that is down­right in-frickin-sane!

…which is entire­ly right. Take a look at what a 5km non-adver­tis­ing zone around the Sta­di­um would actu­al­ly catch…

5km zone around the Caketin

…yep — pret­ty much the entire cen­tral city and inly­ing sub­urbs. Are all those dairies going to have to take down the hoard­ings of non-autho­rised soft-drink man­u­fac­tur­ers? Will the bus­es have all their adver­tis­ing removed for inner-city ser­vices? Oggi’s gonna take down all their bill­boards? Methinks: No. Way.

noizyboy
Sport
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