Seriously accurate predictions to continue

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015

Last year’s FIFA World Cup coverage proved our credentials in providing serious analysis, accurate predictions and the ability to type a sentence like that with a straight face. Here is an update and preview of some of the sports action that we will be reporting on and ranting about in 2015. Read more...

Critic Sport takes a stroll down memory lane

Posted 11:58pm Sunday 12th October 2014

For this sad occasion, the last issue of Critic for this year, we go the tear-soaked nostalgia desk and revisit some of the most memorable sporting moments of 2014, pointing out when we got things right with our predictions and conveniently not mentioning when we got things wrong. Thanks for reading Read more...

We are the champions, again. *Yawns*

Posted 1:49pm Sunday 5th October 2014

Back to the shiny, black and trophy-laden rugby desk this week where we are wrapping up our code coverage for this year with a little review of the recent Rugby Championship and some very early and unnecessary World Cup hype. As is old news by now, the mighty All Blacks have won yet another Read more...

Aaron Cruden and the irony of alcohol sponsorship of sport

Posted 2:58pm Sunday 28th September 2014

To the rugby desk, where a few weeks ago I touched on the subject of the media’s relation to sport and how it can be used as a positive or negative distraction from real issues. A timely example came immediately following a long and eventful election campaign when it can be difficult to fill a Read more...

Sports stars are literally getting away with murder

Posted 3:00pm Sunday 21st September 2014

This week we are back to normal sports news after last week’s wildly popular election special issue saw the sports desk jump on its high horse and try its hand at some loosely sport-related political commentary. We are not known for our unbiased approach when it comes to sports reporting so I didn’t Read more...

Match fixing condemned in sports but encouraged in politics...

Posted 4:38pm Sunday 14th September 2014

This week as New Zealand gets ready to go to the polls we have a timely report from the sports corruption desk, which brings to light an interesting double standard when it comes to laws allowing for the prosecution of athletes involved in match fixing. This also opened up a discussion about the Read more...

Premier League silly season breaks spending records

Posted 11:52pm Sunday 7th September 2014

To the ridiculously expensive football desk where the transfer window has just closed and the best part of £1 billion has been spent. This obscene amount of money spent in this transfer window highlights just some of the absurdity in English football, with many fans and managers wishing that the Read more...

Another year, another trophy for the All Blacks

Posted 5:55pm Sunday 31st August 2014

To the predictably triumphant rugby desk where the World Champion All Blacks have locked away the Bledisloe Cup for the 12th year in a row with Richie and the boys setting some new records along the way. Their haul of 51 points at Eden Park was a record against the Wallabies, our man Aaron Smith Read more...

A Season of Fire and Ice: The Game of Premier League Thrones

Posted 12:53am Monday 18th August 2014

This week we go to the Weirwood and Valyrian steel football desk where over the past few years our two favourite things to illegally stream online have been HBO’s violent, softcore-pornography drama, Game of Thrones, and the less violent but equally awesome male soap-opera that is the English Read more...

Sarcastically celebrating a super season of super rugby

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014

This week the Super rugby desk signs off for 2014 with a lighthearted look at how our five New Zealand teams fared over the season. We have given them a grade based on the merits of their players and performances. Disclaimer - this article contains a heavy dose of irreverent southern bias while also Read more...