R14 v Brisbane Roar | Sun 4th Jan | 5:00pm | Kids go free

Nobody believes in Free Market Competition. 

As many here said already, it is easier and cheaper to watch A-League elsewhere. However, this is a general symptom of our life in NZ being shackled by a couple of monopolies. It costs twice as much to build a simple home in New Zealand than a high-spec turnkey house in Germany, on today's prices, and with better workmanship in Europe. I am simply pointing out what many migrants know already, that the general public here quietly accepts shoddy quality at inflated prices. This is what creates (legal) parallel importing and makes it affordable. To my mind, accessing HAL streaming via Hola etc is fine provided I paid for it. 

In response to Ryan's comment on this practice being "legal but unethical" I need to point out that my ethical or otherwise behaviour as a consumer needs to be weighed up against the business ethics of the vendor. My parallel importing of a HAL video stream would be best staved off by a better product packaging / pricing by the monopoly that sells me the product at the price they dictate (not an actual "market").

I would not be pushing a small dairy owner to get me a better deal on a bag of oats, unless i am happy with the oats having been through a horse once already. In contrast, a quasi-monopoly of two supermarket chains can afford a discount price on good oats now and then because of many factors, economy of scale being just one of them. I will shop for discounts between two different supermarket chains (at least one of two large supermarket chains offers a discount on my favourite coffee at any time, but never both of them).

Apology for an off topic rant, but this is a three-week break from the competition and I have withdrawal pains.

Chopah, a technical tip: on Yellow Fever you need to press "Enter" on your keyboard after copying and pasting a link  so it becomes live and people can just click on it.

(It's become a live link now that I've quoted it ^ but not in your original post. Saves readers having to copy and paste it)

Thanks for that link - interesting how Netflix are trying to block foreign VPN users. Was bound to happen sooner or later.

I assume that is because of the pressure from giants like Sony, rather than any will to do it on Netflixes part (after all, money is money)

Not even David Seymour?!?

yeah noticed that - but was on my phone and couldn't get it to work.

was flicking between phone and computer today whilst at work!

Lol, Never David Seymour.

His free market is the free movement of capital, without the free movement of labour.

stalker much?

have a read

http://leopoldmethod.com.au/adaptability-the-key-for-wellington-phoenix/

Wellington have played some sumptuous football this season and as they enter the January break they now sit deservedly in second spot

Our football was made for Ned Zelic.

INDIVIDUAL BRILLIANCE

Its a Long Mid Season... Mods Take Control

Ned Zelic reminds me of  Murray Mexted. Murray once commented what a great sight it was to see two Locks going down on a Hooker.

I'm waiting for Ned to come out with something similar.

The guy enjoys the game.

Sue him!

One thing enjoying the game, another sounding like you're on speed.

His tweets during the Glory v Reds game were hilarious!

Are you referring to Zelic or yellowsite?

Seriously: all yellowsite's posts are these one- or two-sentence-fragment gnomic utterances without context, like he thinks this is Twitter.

I think she likes me

Zelic.

He was displaying all the signs of it the other night too when the camera panned to him. Couldn't stand still let alone sit down.

The one about taking ages to get the tim tams from the fridge, because of the heat, was a gem

So I did not mishear it. At first I thought my hearing was playing up at my advanced age. 

Hilarious. We really need more guys like him, not fewer. Makes it real value for money.

I'm ok with commentators being colourful, or being a little bit over the top - BUT

If they are to get away with that they have to know what they are talking about and they have to not get a whole bunch of things wrong.

I can't remember which game it was recently but Dewhurst got the names of Nix players wrong 5 times in a row - ie he said it was Sigmund making a tackle when it was Durante etc etc.

If your making those kind of errors then you can't afford to act up at all!

* Think Jason Costigan from the Warriors coverage (think that was his name)

Ngata called Jamie Young Jamie Scott a few times on Sunday.

In response Jamie Young called his teammates f###ing c###s.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jan/...

We is also in the UK news!  Great match analysis.

Also amusing Guardian match commentary:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2015/jan/...

yeh I'd rather Zelic over Dewhurst any day... Ned may be a bit eccentric, but at least he gives an impression that he knows something about what he's talking about, there's evidence that he actually does some research about the teams he's commentating, and he doesn't seem to make every second comment an in-joke or something he's simply read aloud off the pre-match stats sheet...

From the same source, more proof of Kiwi global dominance.

Some say that it was invented when Michael Laws went on to a marae at Jerusalem and said that anyone who spelled Whanganui with an 'h'  was worse than the king of Tonga.

Tony Gibbs, of Belaroma/Coffee Supreme in Woodward St, Wngtn., mid 80's.

This, Your Honour, has Zelic in the frame for a dak related crime. Rather than the speed based offence that was outlined by Prosecutor Buffon 11.

Dont you mean Thonga?