November 24, 2009 by Stephanie
A couple of days after Southland won the Ranfurly Shield, I applied for the fanlisting for them at The Fanlistings Network. It took me that long to resist!
Anyway, yesterday, I got the approval email in my inbox and got a very basic “coming soon” graphic up – you can view what will be the fanlisting for the Stags here.
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November 13, 2009 by Stephanie
A couple of videos of the Stags’ Ranfurly Shield win.
This one was the live edition of Close Up the night after. They’re outside the Speight’s Ale House.
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October 28, 2009 by Stephanie
A little play on words there but in my part of New Zealand, we’ve been partying since around 9.10pm on the 22nd. The last time the Southland rugby team held the Ranfurly Shield was in 1959 and at that time on the 22nd, we won it. Obviously, it’s the first time in my lifetime that the Stags have held the famous Log o’ Wood (as it’s affectionately known as).
The last few minutes of the game were extremely nerve-wracking and I’m surprised that I still had fingernails left, as I was seriously tempted to start biting them! Both my mother and I were screaming “Get it! Kick it out!” so many times in the last minute that we lost count. But when the final hooter went, and the referee blew his whistle, we went berserk!
Yesterday was the ticker tape parade. I had decided to wait outside the Civic Theatre where they were having speeches and stuff. I did get very close to the Ranfurly Shield – didn’t touch it though. I ended up touching the Southland rugby captain instead!
I spent at least two hours trying to upload the pictures to my Facebook account last night but Facebook was playing up and would only let me upload one picture at a time – and we have broadband at home! Now, I can’t log into Facebook because they are apparently doing site maintenance. Obviously, I’m not meant to upload the pictures and video from the parade!
Dammit.
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June 16, 2009 by Stephanie
I’ve finally uploaded three pictures that I took at the All Blacks v France test match in Dunedin on Saturday night. I took a lot of pictures and got some video as well but I won’t be uploading the video any time soon because they’re huge size wise and they’ll take forever and a day to upload on our sucky dial-up connection.
The first one was taken just before kick-off, the second one is of the Selwyn Ballet (a Dunedin tradition) and the third one is of the French team warning up before the game. It was a nice night – not at all cold like the last time I was at Carisbrook for a game. That time, it was 2°C at kick-off and it got down to -5°C during the game. At least, the beer was cold!
The All Blacks lost but I’m putting that down to wearing my All Blacks shirt at the game. The last time I saw the All Blacks play France in 2003, I wore my French shirt and the All Blacks won. Maybe that’s telling me something…
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