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Possibly?

That's awkward.  Most mums remember who they gave birth to (or adopted, apart from Madonna and Angelina Jollie).

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Nice one HN. The way it was.
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LG
Legend
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Who owns that? Legend.

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My Wife.......... she is a legend

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nightz wrote:

My Wife.......... she is a legend

 

She'd have to be to put up with you etc etc etc ;)

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Miyazawa appreciation day, Mt Smart,   Hard News getting amongst it. 

Crowd was way bigger than the picture suggests.

.

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nightz wrote:

Miyazawa appreciation day, Mt Smart,   Hard News getting amongst it. 

Crowd was way bigger than the picture suggests.

.

 

Brilliant!

Appiah without the pace
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Those would be banned now.

Appiah without the pace
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I vote for Kava appreciation day.

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nightz wrote:

Miyazawa appreciation day, Mt Smart,   Hard News getting amongst it. 

Crowd was way bigger than the picture suggests.

That's

Russ the Muss, original leader of the Papakura brown shirts, just to the left of the lower flag... and that's Ric Le Roc's wise older brother Mike le Roc in the Kingz scarf to the right. And Ric Le Roc himself in the head band with the top flag's red circle behind him.

Ahhh those back three rows of the bay at Ericcsson. 

Is that half of Stantiall's head to the left? News looking over his shoulder at a clandestine sale of Sitter!? You wouldn'y want to miss it...

One in a million
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I remember that game well. Van Steeden sent off early.

http://plainsrangers.com/kingz2003.html

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You want to seek out Grant Stantiall of Hamilton, a key Kingz fan at the time and author of first season review "Stand Up If You Love the Kingz." He was part of a hard core of fans who drove up from Hamilton for games. Later Grant was the leading force behind the formation of national league franchise Waikato FC and a board member.

Bruce Holloway, then football reporter for the Waikato Times and Kingz follower, a mate of Stantiall, would be a mine of information and opinion too. Bruce was editor of the "Sitter!" fanzine of course, which covered the Kingz and all things NZ football at the time.

Both are not timid in giving their opinions. 

Grant has a lot of football memorabilia and sidelines as a semi-pro photographer (mostly football and rock gigs).

Grant's email: [email protected]

Grant's on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/thekiwicanary

Bruce's email: [email protected]

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I remember that game well. Van Steeden sent off early.

http://plainsrangers.com/kingz2003.html

 

Could be quite a few games to be fair...

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I've been reflecting on this a bit in the past couple of days.

One of the most notable differences for me in the Bloc 5 experience vs. the Yellow Fever experience is that the Yellow Fever face-to-face and online experience is a lot more fragmented. In the Bloc, everyone (well, nearly) knew everyone else. We all knew each other's actual names, and the names we posted on the email - mailing list under. (We didn't have a web site or a forum back in the olden days). When we showed up at the ground, we all said hello. We had conversations at the ground, and then they continued on the mailing list. It was a seamless experience.

I don't usually stand in the middle of the fever zone. I have a group of friends who I stand with some of the time down the front of the fever zone, and the rest of the time I have seats just across the aisle from the zone in the next Aisle, but bordering on the steps between the zone and the next Aisle.

It may be different for others, but I "know" a lot of people on the forums, and I "know" a lot of people from at the Back-bencher, The Pub, Four Kings etc. and at the game... but there is a disconnect between people's online persona or identity and their face-to-face reality. I am sure that there are some people I know by sight, and who I know on the forums, but I don't realise that they are the same person.

I suspect this is the result of three things:

(a) scale - there are more people involved here so it is easier to remain anonymous

(b) the forum gives people who do not locate in the zone a mechanism to participate in the forum culture, but sit elsewhere during the games

(c) the time we live in - we are much more used to / adapted to online life now than we were back in the dark ages of 1999 - 2003. Back then we were all coming from a world where face to face and hand written letters were the way things were done. Sitter! for example was a staple way to digest football news, and it was printed and mailed out still. So being anonymous, and having a division between your online identity and your real world identity was a foreign concept.

I prefer knowing people myself. I prefer being able to join the dots and work out that this face is this online id. So, if you know me online and you know me by sight too, come and introduce yourself so I can connect the dots.

A classic example is Tegal. I have no idea who you are mate...

WeeNix
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For the first home programme, Kingz had one of "The Ingham Twins" on the cover, as we cruelly came to refer to the Rufers that year. (ask yer dad)

Incidentally, if anyone is seeking to buy any old Kingz programmes, I will put a few up on the For Sale page at www.waikatofootballprogrammes.weebly.com website

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bwtcf wrote:

nightz wrote:

Miyazawa appreciation day, Mt Smart,   Hard News getting amongst it. 

Crowd was way bigger than the picture suggests.

That's

Russ the Muss, original leader of the Papakura brown shirts, just to the left of the lower flag... and that's Ric Le Roc's wise older brother Mike le Roc in the Kingz scarf to the right. And Ric Le Roc himself in the head band with the top flag's red circle behind him.

Ahhh those back three rows of the bay at Ericcsson. 

Is that half of Stantiall's head to the left? News looking over his shoulder at a clandestine sale of Sitter!? You wouldn'y want to miss it...

Mike's not that wise, a Man Utd fan isn't he

Marquee
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Big Pete 65 wrote:

You want to seek out Grant Stantiall of Hamilton, a key Kingz fan at the time and author of first season review "Stand Up If You Love the Kingz." He was part of a hard core of fans who drove up from Hamilton for games. Later Grant was the leading force behind the formation of national league franchise Waikato FC and a board member.

Bruce Holloway, then football reporter for the Waikato Times and Kingz follower, a mate of Stantiall, would be a mine of information and opinion too. Bruce was editor of the "Sitter!" fanzine of course, which covered the Kingz and all things NZ football at the time.

Both are not timid in giving their opinions. 

Grant has a lot of football memorabilia and sidelines as a semi-pro photographer (mostly football and rock gigs).

Grant's email: [email protected]

Grant's on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/thekiwicanary

Bruce's email: [email protected]

I've bought a few things off Grant over the years, notably a white match worn Rufer Kingz away shirt and a match worn Robbie Middleby home shirt from season 1. Had a few e-mail chats with him. Hardcore Norwich City fan.
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I've bought a few things off Grant over the years, <snip> Hardcore Norwich City fan.

Ha! You're not kidding!

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bwtcf wrote:

I've bought a few things off Grant over the years, <snip> Hardcore Norwich City fan.

Ha! You're not kidding!

and always a best mate of Hardnews being that he's an Ipswich fan.

WeeNix
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Cover from Sitter 47, Feb 2001

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Kingz technical session, May 2003

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Oh dear me... was that on the infamous bus trip to Wellington with Earl the C*** as our driver... wouldn't stop in Taihape as requested, he knew a place "just the other side of Taihape" Dart River! _JUST_ The other side of Taihape indeed! I still get angry when I drive past that red jet boat. 

Wouldn't stop for toilet breaks even when peole were howling in distress.

Then he wouldn't drop Hamilton Hammer off on the way back into Hamilton even though we drove right past his front door.

WeeNix
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Legend
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bwtcf wrote:

I prefer knowing people myself. I prefer being able to join the dots and work out that this face is this online id. So, if you know me online and you know me by sight too, come and introduce yourself so I can connect the dots.

A classic example is Tegal. I have no idea who you are mate...

Maybe change your forum name to your real name?

Early retirement
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Mrs News helped/made those headbands.  We made about 100 of them using an inkjet printer an iron and a sewing machine.  I have mine somewhere still that Miyazawa added some Japanese Kanji to but I don't remember what it says.

 

Cover from Sitter 47, Feb 2001

Ah Wazza.  He's just back from a bucket list adventure with the most amazing shots of him diving with Whale Sharks and other creatures in the Galapagos..  The scarf shot is another of the Hamilton crew, big Tony who was head of the Hamilton Mafia before going straight.

 We have Stantiall on the radar to talk to.  The big gap at the moment is the McIlroy's who have always been hard to get hold of.

Stage Punch
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bwtcf wrote:

Oh dear me... was that on the infamous bus trip to Wellington with Earl the C*** as our driver... wouldn't stop in Taihape as requested, he knew a place "just the other side of Taihape" Dart River! _JUST_ The other side of Taihape indeed! I still get angry when I drive past that red jet boat. 

Wouldn't stop for toilet breaks even when peole were howling in distress.

Then he wouldn't drop Hamilton Hammer off on the way back into Hamilton even though we drove right past his front door.

 

Wouldn't happen on a #FeverTua!

Stage Punch
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Feverish wrote:

bwtcf wrote:

I prefer knowing people myself. I prefer being able to join the dots and work out that this face is this online id. So, if you know me online and you know me by sight too, come and introduce yourself so I can connect the dots.

A classic example is Tegal. I have no idea who you are mate...

Maybe change your forum name to your real name?

 

I'm going to get the nerds to add Actual Name to the info under your avatar...people can use it if they want (or take the p1ss of course).

Marquee
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Hard News wrote:

Mrs News helped/made those headbands.  We made about 100 of them using an inkjet printer an iron and a sewing machine.  I have mine somewhere still that Miyazawa added some Japanese Kanji to but I don't remember what it says.

Cover from Sitter 47, Feb 2001

Ah Wazza.  He's just back from a bucket list adventure with the most amazing shots of him diving with Whale Sharks and other creatures in the Galapagos..  The scarf shot is another of the Hamilton crew, big Tony who was head of the Hamilton Mafia before going straight.

 We have Stantiall on the radar to talk to.  The big gap at the moment is the McIlroy's who have always been hard to get hold of.

"I vish to be (left) alone."

Marquee
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bwtcf wrote:

nightz wrote:

Miyazawa appreciation day, Mt Smart,   Hard News getting amongst it. 

Crowd was way bigger than the picture suggests.

That's

Russ the Muss, original leader of the Papakura brown shirts, just to the left of the lower flag... and that's Ric Le Roc's wise older brother Mike le Roc in the Kingz scarf to the right. And Ric Le Roc himself in the head band with the top flag's red circle behind him.

Ahhh those back three rows of the bay at Ericcsson. 

Is that half of Stantiall's head to the left? News looking over his shoulder at a clandestine sale of Sitter!? You wouldn'y want to miss it...

Nola far right. The young German kid beneath M McIlroy?

WeeNix
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Some more pics....

Marquee
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Some more pics....

You really want to inteview this ^ lunatic News?

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Jesus.  I have hair.. and bwtcf wtcf.

Kev there with the white away shirt is a regular at Nix games as well.  Think he's still in a Marlborough resident.

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