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Dear New Zealand,
I want to live in a country that provides world class education & health for all + is safe to walk inner city streets at night.
For all.
Suddenly this makes me a right-wing fascist.
Whereas I thought these were aspirations everyone wanted.
I blame Eddie Jones.
Dear Grant Robertson
Stop telling us all off for not buying enough
@FIFAWWC
tickets.
It’s not our fault the cost of living is so damn high no-one has any spare $$.
It’s your fault for f-ing the economy you twat.
How about free tickets for votes? Bribe us like you bribe the media
This from Marc Ellis.
He’s not wrong.
Not at all.
Which is very sad.
I agree with him.
NZ isn’t the same vibe anymore.
We have a miserableness and vindictiveness about us. We’ve lost any sort of (once beautiful) sense of humour.
Of course I blame all CIS men.
And supply chains.
And welcome to New Zealand people.
Where the main stream media is dominated by people telling stories about eachother’s flatting arguments 20 years later.
Crime, health, poverty, killing a child every week, inflation etc etc ain’t important, it’s this.
#effingpathetic
Unreal.
What a match, what a finish.
The All Blacks have beaten Ireland, incredible.
How ‘bout it people!!!!!!!!! CAAAAARRNNNEEEE YOU ALL BLACKS
#IREvNZL
#rugbyworldcup2023
How utterly pathetic.
It’s true. Tova failed as a breakfast host. I told you Dallas Gurney Nov ‘21 she wasn’t a right fit for that job. It was obvious to all of us who have succeeded at brekkie radio. Own it. She failed & you cost 50 people their jobs.
Dear Eion Musk
Thank you for pointing out and adding the small post script to all the mainstream NZ media organisations (like
@radionz
) who are on the govt payroll.
These people take the $$ to write press releases masquerading as “news” and need to be outed.
Thank you
Golriz blaming MS for her thievery is just the shittest shit in shitville.
What next?
I had measles as a kid therefore I can drive off from the servo w’out paying??
These excuses define pathetic.
You’re a klepto.
That’s what it’s called.
Pay back ALL the shops you stole from sod.
Green MP Golriz Ghahraman stood down amid shoplifting allegations
C’mon mainstream media at least report the facts:
1) she got hit by a motorbike
2) the only People at fault here are CIS white colonial men
Cannot believe the screeching around telling Tova O’Brien & Dallas Gurney they both failed with TodayFM.
She rated 1% after 12mths.
The station folded after a year.
That is called FAILURE in my industry.
Stop sulking about it & just get better at your jobs.
We didn’t play well.
Too many mistakes, admittedly under pressure from them.
You can’t keep trying to win test matches with 14 men + 2 crucial kicks at goal we couldn’t convert.
They won bcos they did the most basic things better than is. Fair play to them.
🇿🇦 🏆
#RugbyWorldCup
Good one
@Hurricanesrugby
women.
So anyone who doesn’t agree with you is now a right wing redneck govt puppet?
Good luck with that marketing strategy.
Let’s see if ratings & attendances will reflect your delightfully inclusive attitudes then.
TheGC .. no ramraids, no hand wringing, no excuse making, no telly-off tut-tut govt blaming the middle class for criminal behaviour.
It feels safe to live here.
Just an impression.
But after being in New York recently & now this part of Ozzie, wake up NZ.
Our country is decaying.
Dear Foz & Sam
@AllBlacks
Head up & chin up today lads.
Me I’m very proud you were our coach & captain. Seeing you both up close last night, seeing how devastated you both looked, I can’t imagine how that must feel. I’m just a silly old fan saying thank you.
#RugbyWorldCup
Dear
@NewshubNZ
Gutted for all the job losses but you’re also your own worst enemies.
Read the AUT media-bias study.
67% of folk don’t trust your MSM news citing biased political reporting.
That’s your audience TELLING you yet still you ignore the obvious.
67% FFS.
Dumbass.
I really feel for Avan Lee CEO
@Hurricanesrugby
The Poua players actions are simply disrespectful & very self-entitled.
Their “jobs” are a privilege not a right. Good luck trying to attract investment/sponsors to a group who clearly have no respect for their employers.
How can a govt that constantly tells us how evil colonisation is even consider hosting/celebrating the “Commonwealth Games”?
Is this not utter hypocrisy?
I know I shouldn’t ever bring up politics but this one continues to haunt me and I’m sure every other caring parent on the planet.
WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED ABOJT THE BABY RU MURDER INQUIRY???
Where the hell are you on this
@NewshubNZ
@NewstalkZB
@NZStuff
@Breakfaston1
This just in:
Dear Sam Cane
@AllBlacks
(even tho you are a CIS white male)
Just tell them you got hit by a motorbike that you were in shock and didn’t know what you were doing.
Honestly the dipshit NZ media will believe anything you tell them.
Kind regards,
Marama Davidson
NZ what have you become?
A ghetto-ised country with random street crime now a regular part of life. That’s Auckland, has been for a few years now, and the Police Minister talks about “putting volunteers on the street” as a solution
@LeoMolloyNZ
This is brilliant
@wallabies
departing for the World Cup.
Rocking the Akubra true Ocker style.
Don’t even start
@AllBlacks
We’d never be allowed to do anything as fun as this. Can you imagine? It’d have to have an effing rainbow on it for a start.
The govt spends $1.7billion a year on “consultants”.
For fuck sakes.
C’mon New Zealand.
No matter what your political persuasion you know this is just bludging c^*ts taking the piss.
C’mon.
Great message from a diehard sports mate:
“Not sure the refs cost us the game but they sure ruined the spectacle.
I gave up watching at half time and went to golf. Listened on the radio”.
Good one
@WorldRugby
You’re slowly f^*king your sport.
#dickheads
#RugbyWorldCupFinal
Thk you all so v much 4 the follows already. It’s been a while ..
May I just say, to every kind one of you who has asked over this last year, I am well, continuing 2 get better & better & have been so well looked after. I will do my best 2 try this time round 2 never tweet drunk.
Mightn’t be too popular but I’ll say it again.
Ditch the haka
@AllBlacks
Do it after the game maybe, or even after the game only when playing overseas.
The throat-slitting, the verbals about it demean the whole thing.
It’s now a marketing gimmick and that’s wrong on every level.
Nike women.
This brand set up to promote female excellence in sport, to inspire young girls and women.
The new brand ambassador is a guy who’s now a woman.
Is this really what women want?
And why do so few women speak up or have something to say about this.
How is this right?
Hear that?
That there.
That sound.
Listen closely.
That silence is the sound of all the Fozzie bashers from the last few years preparing their humble pie.
Give the man some credit.
Whatever happens in the final.
He got us there.
#RugbyWorldCup
FFS.
Read this and tell me our world is totally stuffed. Everyone is “traumatised” these. Tell this to the dairy owner who got hammered in her own shop. You didn’t like cross country. Get over yourself.
Reality is Today FM goes down as the biggest radio fuckup the industry here has ever seen.
Most expensive idiotic disaster ever.
And that’s down to the Programme Director and breakfast host.
Paid the most to deliver the most.
If you can’t handle the heat then exit the kitchen.
Hahahahaha
What a joke
@nzherald
“Ranking NZ Rugby’s 30 most influential powerbrokers”.
Ruby Tūī ranked ahead of Scott Robertson, Ardie Savea, Richie McCaw.
Puh-leeze.
Is the writer trying to woo her or something? Bcos that analysis is simply rubbish, esp from a biz perspective
How is it that the Chateau Tongariro will be abandoned & left to grow back into a gorse bush?
Glorious locale, beautiful venue, could/should showcase NZ tourism.
But instead?
Sad loss.
And just epitomises where we’re at as a country right now.
Don’t have an effing clue.
Attention ALL voters.
Demand from your govt that they do everything to guarantee the personal safety of every NZer to walk our streets day/night 24/7.
If you don’t think this is a non-negotiable human right then, not so politely, you don’t deserve to have a vote.
Farewell the doyen Ian Smith from
@skysportnz
Dumbass move Sky.
The guy is sheer class, really popular.
But I’m guessing he doesn’t fit your new diversity ethos?
He’s a man.
He’s over 50yo.
He knows his sport.
No place for him at Sky then.
#morons
#boomer
#clearlyjacindalover
Ok.
I’ll pull back a bit.
Good on you
@NZRugby
Despite all this at least you’ve almost fulfilled your “40% women as board members quota”.
Who needs a winning All Blacks side when you can successfully tick those kpi’s huh?
#priorities
#changingtheworld
Just spoke with
@Hurrisrugby
caneCEO Avan Lee.
He says he is “very disappointed” by this Poua haka, was “blindsided”, knew “nothing about it”.
Repercussions will follow.
Full interview played on
@theplatform_nz
tomorrow morning with
@SeanPlunket
The crowd at Eden Park last night was the loudest, most enthused, exuberant, happy, supportive, intense, joyous & fun I’ve ever experienced at any rugby test.
And then Kingsland afterwards went totally off. That really is as good as sport gets. Fans were amazing.
@BlackFerns
Dear
@JohnJCampbell
You are the best investigative journalist we’ve had in over 2 decades.
Please use your wisdom & abilities & know-how to do a powerful expose on those who murdered Baby Ru & bring these cretins to justice. NZ’s record of violence to our kids is shameful.
Another pile of total BS from you
@NewshubSport
Because you clowns know everything, absolutely everything, about Spanish culture don’t you?
“Mocking” or just having some harmless fun?
More clickbait crap from idiots masquerading as “journalists”
The election was same w’end as AB/Ire 1/4 final.
You lost that night Grant Robertson.
Why then did you bludge of us taxpayers & attend the WC final on our account.
What a largesse bludging wanker of a thing to do.
Instead of chiding the country for a (perceived) lack of ticket sales here for the
@FIFAWWC
Mr Sports Minister, how about congratulating the 300,000+ who in these harsh economic times have forked out their hard-earned $$ to support the event?
You don’t have f-ing clue Grant.
When Dave Rennie says the French ref lacked a “feel” for the game he was exactly right.
The bloke should’ve sent Swain off for that w*^ker of a deliberate attack on Tupaea’s leg.
With ya Davo 💯
#AUSvNZ
Well that was just amazing.
Stunned.
14-0 to them with 15 players I thought we were gone.
Incredible fightback, so much resilience and sheer will to win.
AND we played the better rugby.
Thoroughly deserved, hope the country is super proud.
@BlackFerns
#RWC2021
Stop this BS now.
The pitch invader is the villain here.
He’s committing a crime.
SANZAAR need to investigate themselves for poor security arrangements that enabled so many idiots to get on the pitch.
Rewarding the guy with AB kit?
WTF??
#samcaneisinnocent
Can somebody please explain what an “expert dolphin observer” is?
How do they arrive at a figure of $600 per day + exps?
Who are these people & what exactly are their formal qualifications?
Tried to get answers to these qs today but alas, “not our dept”, “refer to council” etc
Ok
@NZRugby
here’s the plan:
How do we get The Red Roses back here to play
@BlackFerns
next year for a 3-test series?
Surely there’s a window, surely there’s a way to make this happen?
Need to capitalise on last night, momentum created, keep it happening.
Tell us how/when plse!!
One other thing while I’m here.
Why the anti-All Blacks stuff from so many different people?
Can’t we like both teams
@AllBlacks
&
@BlackFerns
?
They’re both our teams, they’re both multiple WC winners.
We judge the ABs so harshly, dunno why folks just can’t enjoy them both.
Looking at attendances live at matches I think it’s time to start acknowledging what the Spark Sport deal has done to NZ Cricket.
1) Paid them handsomely.
2) Quietly killed the sport.
To all the very generous clients, sponsors and listeners of
@theplatform_nz
Thank you so very much for coming together with funding to enable us to head to the
@rugbyworldcup
to follow the ABs.
We promise to provide simply awesome independent coverage for you all
🙏🏻 🙏🏻
C’mon
@stuff
@nzherald
@NewshubSport
@tvOneNews
Can 1 of your many “reporters” do some stories on who might actually win the
@FIFAWWC
??
Enough of these “colour pieces” about “mocking” haka, hair ties & what food they eat/music they like.
Do some actual football sports stories.
Awfully sad news about Willie Los'e passing away. We'll start the show by paying tribute to the big man. Thoughts and prayers with his family and friends❤️
Is that Sam Cane’s “David Beckham” moment?
Poor guy.
I hope he doesn’t wear it but fear the vileness of social media will spew forth and blame him.
We’ve made it so hard on ourselves here.
Too many mistakes & we can’t keep playing with 14 men every test.
#RugbyWorldCup
Phew. Landed.
36 hours after leaving from Paris.
First thing?
A decent coffee.
3 1/2 weeks in France and never really had a good one, not like here.
So pleased to be home.
What a trip 🏉 🏆
@theplatform_nz
My fav quote of the year.
Police Minister Stuart Nash “I am pleaing no requesting gangs pull their heads in”. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Brilliant.
Please stop committing crimes/looting.
You f-ing loser.
Don’t care which party it is but hand the reins to someone who can actually govern.
Sometimes the most simple things are life’s best events.
Just had our eldest over for dinner, 🥩 🥗..
Yarning with me boy, shooting the sh*t, couldn’t be happier
@AndiBeeeee
Jamie Joseph post-match:
“The key for us really is to go to England now and replicate that performance against a better side,” he told media after the test.
“Better side”. Ouch.
@AllBlacks
#NZLvJAP
Sir Steve Hansen now says
@NRL
is a better product to watch than
@SuperRugby
.
So that’s Wayne Smith, Justin Marshall, Hansen + 10s of 1000s of once-were-rugby-fans.
Hear that sound?
That’s
@NZRugby
burying their head further into the sand and pretending they haven’t noticed.
The infrastructure in this country is a shambles. We are 3rd world. One motorway crash in Auck and the whole city shuts down.
But at least we have no plastic bags in the supermarket. The whole world is in awe. Except 🇺🇸 & 🇦🇺 who wheh I visited don’t give a
And that there is why the sport is totally f^*ked.
A try to Italy.
A tackle on the chest slips up.
That’s a combination of physics and the collision of natural body movement.
You are wrecking a sport.
Dickest decision yet.
#rugbyworldcup2023
And to all the trolls and morons who comment about a job they’ve never ever done. Breakfast radio is something I am highly qualified to opinionate about.
The only successful sports breakfast radio host in this country. 9x Broadcaster of the Year Awards. Yes, I’m very qualified.
Dear
@Breakfaston1
@TVNZ
How do I say this nicely?
Every single fuckwit there who has anything to do with rubber stamping F-Boy Island .. resign you morons.
Fucking morons.
@Aussiephil2
Thing is the Plunket thing failed miserably
He’s been reinstated on Twitter.
@SeanPlunket
All the squealers did was give him and
@theplatform_nz
a whole heap of publicity resulting in a massive increase in subscribers and listenership.
So thank you trolls.
You failed.
Again.
And that is why test cricket whacks every other format to the fence.
Extraordinary entertainment.
Look up the definition in the dictionary and it’ll say 2nd test, Basin, Feb 28, 2023
@BLACKCAPS
#NZvENG
Thank you so much to everyone who’s followed and liked this particular person & been an adult providing good thought-provoking conversation & banter while back here on Twatter.
To all you anonymous freaks keep wanking yourselves hard over🎄
Off to the 🇺🇸 tomorrow, back in ‘23
♥️
“Ex football star”???
Try “DOUBLE MURDERER”.
FFS.
Morons.
Shut yourselves down now.
This is why your news is shit.
Does no-one there have any historical knowledge or a brain
@NewshubSport
600 people at the Caketin watching Wellington lose the Ranfurly Shield.
Good one
@NZRugby
Awesome.
Spent NZ$277m this year.
$140m more than last year.
Just excellent.
Preserving & promoting the game.
❤️you guys.
Wake up folks.
It’s not ALL Fozzie’s fault.
Look at the playing stocks.
We’ve been inconsistent and often average since the drawn 3rd test vs Lions in 2017.
The players need to ALSO be held accountable.
#RugbyWorldCup
Dear slavering politicians,
PM, past-PM & Sports Minister.
Great that you were all in on the
#FootballFerns
dressing room for the photo-op post Norway.
But where were you all last night?
That’s when the team needs you most.
After a defeat.
But alas, typical, nowhere to be seen.
What are you doing
@worldrugbymedia
??
Why the hell would you admit now that the TMO cocked up Aaron Smith’s try in the WCF?
Reopening old wounds, another round of ref-bashing coming ..
Are you guys thick, naieve, wanting trouble or really just don’t have a clue?
#rugbyworldcup
Unwanted records set by
@AllBlacks
last 2 yrs:
1st ever loss WC pool play
Worst ever AB loss (pts conceded) SA
@Twickers
1st ever loss to Argie (in Oz)
1st ever home loss Ireland.
1st ever series loss Ireland.
1st series home loss (Ire) since 86 to Oz.
First ever home loss Argie
George Moala gets 10 weeks for that tip tackle Tonga/Canada and Farrell gets off his no-arms red card??
C’mon
@WorldRugby
The inconsistency is an utter joke.
The implied racism is sinful.
Bcos how else do you explain it?
The England captain walks free the Tongan guy gets 10 wks.
So
@SportNZ
keep telling us all we need to watch women’s sport.
I agree.
So why is the
@WRugbyWorldCup
on pay per view Spark??
This tournie should be live free-to-air.
All of it.
Makes no sense at all.
The key words in this are “pitch invader”.
It’s like”fleeing driver”.
You’re committing an offence. Doing something you know is unlawful trying not to get caught.
And then you get caught.
Good f-ing job.
Just to put a very real and successful perspective on ticket sales here in NZ for the
@FIFAWWC
At 350,000 it’s already way over 100,000 more than the total sold for last year’s Women’s Rugby World Cup.
And that’s our national sport with a team that had a v real chance of winning
C’mon
@AllBlacks
Start a quick campaign:
#BringitBlack
Get all kids to wear something black to school, people to wear something black to work, families, mates, EVERYONE.
Spell out “ABs” with kids on the school field etc etc
What you reckon?
Get the country going!
#RugbyWorldCup
The more it unfolds the more it appears dropping Wagner was entirely personal. That means it came down to Southee/Stead.
Replacing him with Kuggeleijn now seems as idiotic as the Poua haka.
Best home crowds for One New Zealand since 1995 | Warriors
How effing good is this
@NZWarriors
Once again .. salute ALL the fans.
This is exactly what sport is about
@TheWarriorholic
RIP Jason Wynyard 💔
A truly wonderful man.
Both a world champion and world champion person.
Had the privilege of meeting and interviewing him on many occasions.
Love to the family and all his friends x
“Energy” drinks are NOT good for you.
It’s sugar shit.
If you want to rehydrate then drink water.
Heartily sick of seeing big name athletes flogging lolly sugar shit in the pretence it somehow helps you as an athlete.
Load of utter Bollocks.
#pethate