Underthinking the Crusaders Rugby boots.

So in the weekend, I went to the Highlanders-Crusaders game, and being a Highlander fan, I can't bring myself to discuss the rugby itself. What did catch my attention however was the Crusaders backlines rugby boots.

Its hard to tell from the above photo, but we have among others, Sonny Bill Williams highlighter green, Israel Dagg banana yellow, Robbie Fruen Red. I am not sure where they brought these boots although I do have my suspicions.

I think Pascall have gotten into making rugby boots.

I guess it helps identify the players, because I don't know about you, but I was forever getting Sonny Bill Williams and Israel Dagg mixed up.

Sonny?

Oh wait that's Sonny, good thing he has that tattoo or I would never know.

 I mean the fact that Sonny Bill could quite literally eat Israel Dagg, or at the very least throw him with a one handed off load, should also be a clue.
But seriously how did the players manage to get these boots through the Crusaders management? One of the most Traditional unions in the country.

How I imagine Crusaders team meetings

 I remember back in my day, if any one wore anything but Black boots (i think white was the only other option), they were deemed to be a show-off, and you needed to make that guys living hell for the rest of the game to remind him of his position in life.

"Why did I wear the white boots for? Why?"

But I guess Sonny Bill is pretty big, so trying to make his life a living hell would be pretty hard. Keeping them clean would be difficult too, now I know what you are saying why keep them clean, they are going to run on a muddy paddock. That's what I used to say too, when the 1st XV players used to make me or one of my other 3rd form chums wash their boots, the night before a big game. I mean on a rainy day, there boots would literally be clean when they put them on, and that would be it.

Seriously 10 seconds of clean, then the rest is this.

But to be fair it did make the players look smart when they first ran out with the matching uniforms, and the clean BLACK boots. I don't imagine players clean their boots much anymore, and you know who I blame.

Latham, pull your socks up you filthy mongrel

I understand that your socks can fall down during a game, its just the nature of the sport, but just like the clean rugby boots, when you first run on the field the socks all pulled up looks quite smart. Chris Latham used to come on the field with his socks around his ankles. It shows a lack of respect, if I was the coach I would have brought his some of those elastic doo-hickeys that hold your socks up, or I would have made him do Calf raises for a month, so that his socks wouldn't be able to slip down past his massive calves.

"My socks will stay up, My socks will stay up, My sock...."

Underthinking Candy Consumption

So today I received a bag of Fruit Bursts with only the Banana's left. The reason for this is last week whilst playing Star wars monopoly I was offered Fruit Bursts, and asked what my favourite flavour was. I told the person offering me the Fruit Burst that I didn't have a favourite and I just took whatever one my hand rested upon.

"You what?"

The offerer of the candy could not believe that I had no preference. Over the course of the evening as everyone scoured the bag for their favourite flavours, and leaving behind the dregs, I was getting more and more Banana flavoured candies. This lead to believe Banana was my favourite flavour, I tried to explain this was due to Banana being others least favourite flavour, and there being more in the bag, but she was not buying.

"...so because less people like Banana, there are more left....."

So I have been labelled a Banana lover, and I don't think I am going to be able to shake the title. But I am no more a Banana lover, than a mint lolly out of the part mix lover, or a white/black jelly bean lover. I just happen to eat all those candies because I don't mind them, and I am not a lollist, I treat them all equally.

The original Klu Klux Klan members just didn't like Black Jellybeans, somewhere along the line the message got distorted.

But this event got me thinking about the other Candy related stories I have been thinking about.

Hard Lollies vs Soft lollies

The other day at a staff morning tea I noticed that they had replaced the standard bowl of soft candies with Hard candies. I wondered if this had something to do with the candy budget getting out of hand.

"How are they spending so much on Candy?"

 You see the problem with soft candies is you can literally just sit there grazing on the candy, the average time for morning tea ~30 minutes, average amount of soft candies I could conceivably eat in that time is about a million.

One candy at a time is for wimps

But since they moved to the hard candies, my and probably the rest of the staffs candy consumption has fallen dramatically. The average time to eat their new hard candies ~ 2 hours.

I am pretty sure the Department consulted with this man to curb my candy consumption.

 I pop the first candy in my mouth when I arrive and then I can do nothing else, the rest of the candies are safe.