Te Jonno

But back to the orsum unit we know as the #Blaze - what a brilliant 55 from 41 by Burns and an excellent run-a-ball 28 from Plimmer who set the scene for Jess to take us to yet another title. Ka mau te wehi!

But how good were the Hearts in the final stages of the competition? Massive kudos to Halliday and Green as top run scorers, bodes well for the White Ferns

Jess Kerr, what an absolute legend!!! Where did that come from, 46 off 26 for her today - we needed 16 off that last over and 99 times out of 100 the bowling side will win, but not today! Kudos to McFadyen for sacrificing herself to keep Kerr J on strike

Also can we take a moment to appreciate just how much of a weapon Plimmer is out in the deep

Just watching on replay now and the youngsters coming thru are very promising indeed!

Poor Otago, I thought they played really well this year. Maybe NZR should have a one-off promotion/relegation game between the Volcanix and the Spirit for that 6th Premiership spot (assuming the Tui automatically drop down)

Kia kaha ngā Mamaku karawhiua!

Go the Black Ferns, I know you'll do us proud

Anei ōku hēneti e rua: "... e ō rātou rāwekeweke"

because the causer in this sentence is the actions done by whoever rātou refers to

Omg Alice this is tino pai, loving the spreadsheet nerdiness! I'm really looking forward to following your reckons through this World Cup, keep up ngā mahi rawe!

Wow that's cool, kei runga noa atu koutou!

Canes on fire tonight!

Yee fucken haa, ka rawe our wonderful Black Ferns with their win today to wrestle back the Pac4 trophy from worthy opponents Canada. And how good was Portia Woodman-Wickliffe with 6, yes, 6 tries (equal with Marc fucking Ellis of all people) for the most tries in a game. Tino pai rawa atu!!!

Lydia - Fur Patrol
Glorafilia - Zed
Sophie - Goodshirt
Sway - Bic Runga
Every Morning - Sugar Ray
Home Again - Shihad

And the international faves
Hit Me Baby One More Time
Sandstorm
Wherever you will go
Everlong
Teenage Dirtbag if you're brave

Hell yes, Seymour is useless

Ka rawe e hoa! When learning my kupu I found a good flashcard app called Anki ankiweb.net that lets you enter your own words as you learn them and then tests you in ever-increasing daily increments

Ok so watching today's HBJ and despite the amazing effort of Green to get 126, PInglis somehow made 86 ( what a star!) , but ultimately my favourite Eden Carson made 59 to take the HBJ shield. Kia kaha Ōtakou!

Ok no, I'm gonna come out and say it even as a Blaze supporter: Otago were robbed in that Super Smash final. It has bothered me ever since that day at the Basin: how fair is it that the Blaze got to call in 2 Aussies, given they had Codyre and Wakelin and Williams and Bryant

Fucken A well done the Sparks winning the HBJ, Eden Carson what a legend

Ok full credit to the brilliant Blues, completely outplayed us and if I had to guess, will be a Blues-Matatū final this year

Ok #SuperRugbyAupiki, you need to only employ male commentators if they're able to be enthusiastic about both teams otherwise I'm muting the commentary which really sux for the always fantastic, enthusiastic, and generally unbiased females

Kristina Sue is the name of the good commentator, sorry fam I should have paid more attention

Muted the commentary in the end, the guy is the Dorkland version of Justin fuckin Marshall. His female co-commentator was really good but sadly my blood pressure was getting too high

Ken laban is dire to listen to, so one-eyed, nothing good to say about the opposition. Very jarring to hear after the excellent all-female commentary in the manawa-matatū game

About to settle in to the Blues (please get a Māori name) v my beloved Poua, come on down! #SuperRugbyAupiki

Been out in the garden this arvo so just catching up on the Super Rugby Aupiki... that Manawa - Matatū game was brilliant, well done Hannah King and Amy Du Plessis!

Hope it all turns out better than you fear

If you're on an older version of Windows, go to language settings and install the Māori language pack, then set it as the keyboard language. Again, typing a tilde ~ before the vowel will cause the macron to appear

www.waikato.ac.nz/students/ere...

If you're on Windows 11, go to language settings and select English NZ (you may need to install it from that screen), then type a tilde ~ just before your vowel and the macron will appear.

news.microsoft.com/en-nz/2021/1...

Yeehaa! Bloody brilliant, what a game! Came down to the last ball of the match, defending an unlikely total of 103, what a team, what a game, come on down!!!

Go the Blaze!