Counties Manukau VS Taranaki

When the Counties Manukau Rugby game appeared on the T.V screen I got really excited and DIDN’T think about leaving the lounge. The Manukau team had a game against the Taranaki rugby team. Counties had an epic win last week against Hawke’s Bay in Napier. I wonder if they can still hold onto the shield.

As Counties kicked off the went running to tackle, Stowers take them over halfway. When Hika Elliot scored the first opening try I was so happy because it was only 4 minutes into the game . Counties scored a lot of tries while Taranaki scored only one. The game was really tough, NAHH just kidding Taranaki got smashed by Manukau. It was full time and the score was 44-7.

At the end of the day Manukau made a great win while Taranaki went home sad.

Springbok Tour

''1 2 3 4 we don't want no racist tour'' we shouted. Marching down the road I could see the stadium which was not that far from where we were. As we arrived at the stadium we ripped down the gates and went running onto the fields so they wouldn't play the game. The crowd threw a lot of rubbish at us but we just marched onto the field loud and proud. The whole crowd were throwing bottles at us filled or not, but that didn’t stop us from marching onwards.

We were protesting against the Springboks South Africa rugby team, the rest of the world were boycotting the Springbok team because they were a racist country . The world was exerting South Africa to make a change, to abolish the apartheid.  Some New Zealanders did not want the All Blacks to play the springbok team, while the rugby fans thought the opposite way.  Sports and politics shouldn't mix.

After all the chanting and fighting a few minutes passed and the crowd were still throwing rubbish at us. Soon the game was canceled and the rugby fans were booing us. We were happy that the game was canceled. The Springbok tour only lasted 56 days.