PETE’S PUNCHLINE
- Great to see the Hunters being proactive and getting ‘outside’ help to fix some areas of their game. Getting Aidan Toua (rugby union) and Patrick Lloyd (AFL) to hone the side’s kicking is a masterstroke by coach Paul Aiton. If they had this kind of expert help (and attention to detail) last preseason, the Hunters may have just snuck into a finals spot, and Stanley Tepend probably would have kept his job. Oops!
- Scribe has a habit of filing his stories late (try a day-and-half late in the last instance). It almost makes the whole effort pointless, especially when the other team (PC) has their game together and gets to their spots, keeps their assignments and makes their shots. C’mon man, get with the program!
- I don’t mind creativity in sports writing but sometimes it can go completely off the reservation. I got a guy who uses words so out of context that it makes no sense when dropped into a sentence. It’s like I’m reading English one second and then, BOOM, I’m turning my head at an unnatural angle, like an owl, trying to decipher what’s been written.
- Capital Rugby Union are doing the ground work for a better 2024 season. Can’t wait. Great job, guys.
- That caption for a netball picture in Tuesday’s pictorial (Sports Extra, Page 21) that read “Rousing Rhonda” should have read “Rousey Rhonda” instead, for obvious reasons. Is ‘rousey’ even a word?
- A word to the wise. Brutality and aggression is the flavouring, the spice. Fitness, skills, technique, tactics and excecution is your base.
- What makes more sense, a consolation try (the conventional way to describe a scoring play that is too little, too late) or this one from a local game caller recently, a “commiseration” try. Only in PNG, babee!
- All my adult life and I never realised the word “penchant” was actually pronounced ‘po sho’ or something approximating that. I gotta brush up on my French words. Stay tuned, I’ll find some more zangers this month to blow your minds. Word games.
- I have to give it up for PNG Sports Foundation executive director Albert Veratau for his frank admission this week that the non-completion of payments for 2019 Pacific Games medal winners was “embarrassing”. It takes a real leader to admit to something and then pledge to sort it out forthwith. Thank you, sir.
- Colleague said I was a chaep skate for always trying get him to pay for things. I’m guilty as charged, Harris. But in my defence: I may skate cheaply, but I’ve got a heart of gold, an iron constitution, a sliver tongue and brass er… you know what I mean, brother. – PGTP ([email protected])