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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/517147/former-all-black-sid-going-dies-at-age-80
I remember that Far North town shut down for half a day so all could get to watch this or other Going brothers in action. We had flexibility and self-control in those days. And it didn’t cost the earth and we could all get transport with somebody. Great days. Great footballer – rugby was king then. Hadn’t discovered soccer then but have widened our scope in some ways, narrowed it in others. Better before today’s extreme.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/super-sid-going-was-a-nickname-that-fairly-defined-the-man-phil-gifford/2GZJ3NYR3BEX3DURDOEVHJHXTQ/
By Phil Gifford 18 May, 2024 11:30 AM
,,,,Many of us lucky enough to see Sid and his brothers, Ken and Brian, play together for Northland and the New Zealand Māori side will always believe a game-changing chance was missed by the All Black selectors of the early 1970s. The Goings’ Northland coach, Ted Griffin, swore that together behind an All Black pack they would have torn the world’s best teams apart.
There’s never been a magic act quite like the one the trio used to put on, with just a footy ball for a prop. “Going, Going, Going, Gone” was the headline after one dazzling triple-scissors try for Northland…
They all had speed, skills and strength. But together they had something even more potent, a list of 30 or more carefully planned, well rehearsed moves, with every single one named.
(Halfback Sid Going hoofs the ball during the New Zealand vs Southern Universities match during the All Blacks tour of South Africa in 1970. Photo / NZ Herald Archive)
The best, they called “The Special”.
This is an outline of how it worked. Sid passes wide to Brian. Ken works a scissors pass with Brian. Meanwhile Sid is tracking Ken, who would work another scissors with him. Now Sid has the ball from the final scissors pass, and scores the try. Occasionally one last defender, by luck or good management, was still in the way, so one more pass, or a step, was needed.
More honoured mention:
The exploits of Going brothers on display – NZ Herald
NZ Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz › Northern Advocate › Sport
The Going brothers are part of Northland sports mythology for their Ranfurly Shield-winning feats for the provincial rugby team in the 1970s. Their star power was evident in June 2008 when 250 tickets to the Ken Going Tribute Luncheon sold out, even though the event was not advertised.13 Nov 2011
Sid Going death: ‘Super Sid’ was a nickname that fairly …
NZ Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz › Sport › Rugby › All Blacks
4 hours ago — We’d hit each other really hard”. As well as rugby and family, the other great love of his life was the Mormon church. The Church of Jesus …
(Note: Decades ago when I was supporting a Labour stall at the market, a man refused the leaflet I offered, and I said something about it doing good like religion. His reply was on the line of – religion was only for poor losers who had to pray for things, others got to and did things for themselves. Sid did both! I would say his style is what we need in NZ/AO not the self-centred sneering greedy wealth accretor, multi-house landlord, competitive-business-wrecker.)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517158/hundreds-protest-outside-controversial-conference-in-wellington
These people protesting about something should be honoured. It is a healthy sign for people to get out in the open air and get together about something they feel individually. Now they have practised the art of thinking, and shaking themselves free of top-down smothering of thought, they can move on as thinking individuals to acting on behalf of humanity and the defence of past freedoms and advantages for society as a whole.
Wear green hair, paint your body, but think about the hundreds who are suffering worse than yourself, in your own country. Big task, and also think of Julian Assange as the USA carries out a modern attack on good principles and fairness and concern about each other. It’s very much like Ancient times when the New Testament was being forged in blood. Lots to think about. Is Julian being presented to us as the reluctant new Jesus? Watch this and every other thinking space.
‘Austerity’ by Yanis Varoufakis – Excerpt from review. …Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for austerity, as well as his own battles with a bureaucracy bent on ignoring the human cost of its every action.
Is that about us or isn’t it! Yanis (we’re on first name terms now he is my current favourite thought-full) – makes a change from our usual, an exotic touch to our elegy, with bouzouki.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/books/teaching-resources-education/humanities-social-science/listing/4715404463
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‘Techno-Feudalism’ is another great read. In fact pretty much everything he’s done
Thanks OwT. This seems to go to what would be the heart of everything we face.
In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world’s feudal overlords –
replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrites the rules of global power …
Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis – Penguin Books New …
Penguin Books New Zealand
https://www.penguin.co.nz › books › technofeudalism-…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afl9WFGJE0M
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