DCC aquatic services manager Steve Prescott has given the Mosgiel Taieri Community Board valuable advice on obtaining an all-year-round facility. Photo by Peter Mcintosh
Otago may be going through what coach Steve Martin terms "a transition phase" but it will still line up 10 players with Super 14 experience against Southland in Invercargill.
New Otago winger Lucky Mulipola has become the second Highlander to be banned from drinking alcohol until the end of the season, and Highlanders management is confident he will follow orders.
Otago will look for mobility in the forthcoming Air New Zealand Cup as it looks to run sides around rather than go through them.
Adam Thomson has re-signed with the New Zealand Rugby Union until the end of 2010 but his future with Otago remains up in the air.
Too big, too strong and too classy.
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New Zealand rugby has always had ideas.
Aaron Bancroft says he is ready and willing to take on added responsibility with the Otago side this season.
As you get older, every year seems to go by faster.
Dunedin duathlete Victoria Beck believes she is in the best condition of her career for an assault on two world championships.
Cowan Finch is still jumping for the ball.
The King Edward VII and Queen Mary School, is a co-educational public school, just outside Blackpool in northern England.
Olympic cyclist Greg Henderson's focus is currently on the track, but come the end of October it will switch to a lady walking up the aisle.
Rugby mascot Shaq the cat has got the Otago season off to a winning start, bagging 2000 free tickets for the Otago rugby public to the first home game of the season.
It was sheepskin rather than the usual pigskin the Otago rugby team was chasing yesterday.
North Otago coach Mike Mullins said his side can hold its head high from yesterday's match, although the speed and skill of the Auckland game was at a different level.
Wellington beat Otago 45-10 in a pre-season match in Wellington yesterday, but losing coach Steve Martin said it was an improvement on last week.
The Highlanders want to keep draft players for two years, and say the present system is not getting the best players on the field.
University A forward Hoani Matenga has been handed the chance to display his wares as Otago continues its hunt to find an openside flanker for the upcoming Air New Zealand Cup.
The quarterfinals for the next World Cup may be held in up to three cities but Dunedin will not be one of them, as its ground, old or new, does not have enough seats.
