And yes, if you go to the web site there's photos of the event.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4616550a1823.html
A festival atmosphere descended on Dunedin on Saturday with a unique
highlight being an annual touch rugby game being played at nearby St
Kilda beach. The only catch - the players were ****.
With body paint distingui****ng each side from the other, one the All
Blacks and the other South Africa, the young men of Dunedin performed
a haka, enacted closely-knit lineouts and weren't afraid to pile into
a tackle or two.
Luckily for the competitors the weather was rather balmy for the
Southern centre - 15 degrees and sunny.
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See Also from the South African Perspective.
http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/s****tshorts/2008/07/09/****-rugby-in-dunedin/
**** rugby in Dunedin?
SIMNIKIWE XABANISA
=46rom New Zealand
WHEN I first landed at the Dunedin air****t three years ago, I was
accosted by the unlikely sight of cattle grazing by the runway.
Believe it or not, it wasn=92t the first time I=92d seen that before.
It=92=
s
just that the last time I saw it was at dictator Lennox Sebe=92s private
Bulembu Air****t in the old Ciskei.
So much for New Zealand being first world, then.
And it didn=92t get better once I got off the plane. The air****t, a tiny
space, reeked of cow dung.
The way into town was lush and barren, with nothing but cattle and
sheep to see for the half an hour or so.
It goes without saying that there isn=92t much to do in Dunedin, which
explains why the main means of having fun is by getting hammered (All
Black halfback Jimmy Cowan=92s exploits come to mind).
Other things that are said to happen in Dunedin (I must admit, I=92ve
never witnessed them myself) are the couch burning by the students and
the **** rugby on Test match days.
The students bring the couches out to the game, and apparently they go
for a trifecta to see if they can get the police, the fire brigade and
the ambulance services to come out.
The **** rugby I have to see in this weather, but I worry that it=92s
only guys that play it. Either way, they all don=92t seem to have a
life, do they?
With this in mind, the Springboks have elected to stay in Wellington
until Thursday, giving themselves just three days in Dunedin.
Dunedin also happens to be incredibly cold, which can=92t be good news
for the Boks. With New Zealand currently in one of their coldest
winters ever, Dunedin has been snowing with maximum temperatures of
six degrees celsius.
By the time the Test is on the mercury should have dropped
significantly, taking the temperature to perhaps even lower than the
minus one degree celsius in which they played the All Blacks in
Christchurch four years ago.
The mind-numbing boredom and cold weather go a long way towards
explaining why the Boks have never won in Dunedin in over 100 years of
Test rugby.
Watching their training session in =93warmer=94 Wellington on Tuesday, I
couldn=92t even finish the hour and a half it took them to go through
their paces.
It=92s the kind of cold that goes straight for the bone, and it=92s always
eating away at the back of your mind.
How much more when you have to perform at the peak of your physical
abilities?
The only reason the locals can do it is because they train in that
weather, a bit like the Sharks have become accustomed to performing in
the stifling heat and humidity of Durban.
Now the Boks have to go and try to reverse last weekend=92s result in
those conditions. If they do, it=92ll be a modern day rugby miracle.
Comments so far:
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****ky on July 10th, 2008
Dunedin has some way to go in the **** rugby stakes. Palmerston Rugby
club in Darwin at the top end of Australia have played **** rugby for
many years. Usually a single game played at the end fo a hard season.
The rugby season used to be played in the tropical summer so it was
not as difficult for players as Dunedin. A male only endevour but
great fun.
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