Mike Rodgers

I’m bang average...Centrist. Dad of two girls. Into Modest Mouse, Interpol, QOTSA & Indie music. Sport, Politics & History junkie. Civil Servant. Ex soldier.

[Mike Rodgers @Mickrodge]

@PouTepou Tony Brown was spot on when he said “SA have the best athletes, NZ have the best rugby players”. We can’t outmuscle the Boks. They look like an advert for “Mr Universe”. Game management & good fortune will see us home. And catching the high ball wouldn’t hurt either 😬

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@Sportsfreakconz Just avoid the tea/coffee making facilities in the hotel at all costs lads. Bottled water only. 🤮

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@greytownbuilder They can all get in the sea as far as I’m concerned. As a veteran I’m sad to see Penk take one for the team. He was a thoroughly decent & competent minister who deserved better.

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@SteveBraunias just watched your @BeersBetween interview (sorry slow to the table on this one). Infectious content…we’ll always be grateful for your contributions. There’s a peerless magnificence to them 😁

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@ricsalizzo There’s a clue there as to why NRL is booming & rugby is stuttering. You need a PhD to referee/watch rugby these days. You need a rum & coke and a packet of winny blues to referee/watch league. And the punters are voting with their feet. 100% we need to adapt to it though.

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@ricsalizzo Ric, if this is a success (i.e makes a shitload of coin) can you see another tour of Britain with a few of the old classic midweek games in Wales/Scotland/Ireland/England? Perhaps a “Good the Bad & the Rugby” redux? 😬

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@ATRightMovies I didn’t blink for the first 20mins. I doubt I took a breath. Cinema at its absolute best.

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@Sportsfreakconz Great capture though. What a “super coach”. Put $5 on them winning the next World Cup.

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@_MaccaNZ Gosh, humans are simple yet complex creatures. This sounds like a massive shock & im sorry you’re having to navigate this crisis. It won’t define you. Treat it as another chapter in your great book of life & know good things will follow bad. It happens you’ll find a way through.

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@ricsalizzo Only some people are upset Ricardo 😉

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@Sportsfreakconz Like the head “mean girl” at an all girls private school. I don’t want to get personal but hells bells…what a piece of work 😳

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@MadMaclegend @Sportsfreakconz I thought the same. Old mate fell over six times & the seventh time he fell on the ball. Not sure that warrants acting like a jackass afterwards.

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@Sportsfreakconz I found it the height of wank when Eden Park declared themselves the “National Stadium” and thought them legislating it into the RMA the most Auckland thing ever. Every aspect of the topic is cringe.

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@ChrisPenknz Congratulations. Great effort & reward for smashing it out the park. 👍🏽

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@ChrisPenknz minister, as a veteran myself, and having walked the Nga Tapuwae trails through Gallipoli & the Western Front many times, it feels a backwards step to be decommissioning this resource. Any chance you can have a quiet word with Minister Goldsmith to walk this back? 👍🏽

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@pineynz I mean, Chief will take the heat but what happened tonight was unacceptable regardless. Dark day for the club…

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@ByPhillipRollo @pineynz So he should. There’s no coming back from that disgrace 🥴

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@fc_auckland Quite simply the darkest day in the history of the club. God awful… pity the fans having to defend that tosh.

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@tauhenare It’s just embarrassing. I mean, take our licks but WTF…that’s just cruelty.

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@WgtnPhoenixFC Seriously…just stop playing. You’ve let yourself down, you’ve let your friends down & you’ve let your family down. Embarrassing…think of another vocation because football is not your thing,