Kia ora TXMike I'm enjoying this sports debate. I usually drink water and we have many deep mineral springs in our country (NZ)that give excellent town supplies.A good bottled water to buy here is called 'Pump', it comes from the very picturesque Blue Springs of the Waihou River near the Waikato township of Putaruru.This has been certified as our countries purest water supply having made a 100yr underground filter/flow from its source in the Kaimai Ranges to reappear at the much lower level in the Waihou River.
The reason we self-ref here, and yes I agree it would be somewhat of a culture shock to you, is to assist the flow of the game. We try to assist making the rules work rather than spend our time trying to figure out how best to cheat them or circum-navigate them or having to "buy" officials off or having lawyer assisted dramas behind doors.
We also have rules so that women can play in the games at the same time as the men, and remember this is full-on contact sport.
This unique aspect of the game therefore relies heavily on self-reffing.
Thanks for the enquiry.
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Sat Feb 01, 2003, 03:23pm
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