A massive round trip for the three rugby fans. Wellington to Hamilton, 7 hourish journey each way.
We hit Hamilton a little early to soak up the atmosphere and get our burgers in. Plenty of green shirts on. I got the feeling more were migrants who were reviving their ancestry than travellers. Good support though, and made as much noise as the locals with nine times as many supporters.
A good game, though had my head in hands after 45 seconds. I feared a total thrashing or a reliving of Christchurch 2005.
The Waikato stadium was a good venue, quite small but compact and close to the action. We were behind a goal and close to the pitch and could hear the crunching.
Joe was getting as frustrated as all the other Kiwi fans and moaning about the ref! Mum and dad were loving it. By the way did anyone see me on the telly? I am sure I saw myself when I watched the game on Sunday.
We hung around after the final whistle and the other goings on and watched the players from the bench play around afterwards. The hope of autographs for Joe was forlorn.
A downside? other than the result-the number of totally pissed people in the ground.
We drove out of town back to the motel hoping to watch England play Paraguay. But not on terestrial tv and on Sky Sports 3 and the motel only had Sky Sports 1. In the end no great loss. I saw most tof the ‘lowlights” the following morning when we stopped off in Taupo.
So a good trip and Joe fulfilled his dream of watching a live game of his heroes. Good M&D time for him. I don’t think the other two missed us much either!
dedication is admirable…couldn’t work out who was at home, or was that in case of social services ?? Same thing here, K off to holland, me in charge, so we’re all off to Lords on Saturday……
others skillfully off loaded to others. not bad since it was 32 hours of cover for isaac.
We had fun didn’t we DadCan’t wait for the tri nationsto start Go the All Blacks