Hayman seeks farm sweetener
9 Feb 2010
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Hayman seeks farm sweetener
The three parties responsible for Carl Hayman’s impending return to New Zealand will help the tighthead acquire a dairy farm to sweeten the deal.
Taranaki, the Hurricanes and the New Zealand Rugy Union have all been in talks with Hayman, who’s contract with English club Newcastle expires this May. According to reports Down Under, the 30-year-old Hayman will return to play for Taranaki in the 2010 New Zealand Cup.
It’s also been reported that the three parties would facilitate buying a dairy farm in the Taranaki province. Taranaki chairman Peter Crawford, however, claims to have not heard about this part of the deal, and said there would be no deal if the three parties and Hayman couldn’t come to an agreement.
‘If that does come up [the farm issue] we will seriously look at it, but it hasn’t been discussed,’ he told the Taranaki Times. ‘If we can get it to that stage we will be giving everything to get it done.’
Hurricanes chief executive Greg Peters told Fairfax Media it was wrong for anyone to suggest that a farm would be given to Hayman as part of any deal.
‘It is not a payment to Carl Hayman. It’s Taranaki facilitating him getting into a farm. That means pointing him in the right direction and, potentially through other means, to help him on to a farm. It doesn’t mean Taranaki’s buying him a farm. It’s part of the total package.’
Peters added that Hayman’s return would be long-term, in other words, the All Blacks prop is likely to be signed for two years.
‘It’s a statement that he wants to be part of the New Zealand framework. He’s not, as we understand it, going to just waltz back in for the Tri-Nations. He will play the New Zealand Cup and then be available for the end-of-year tour.’
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9 Feb 2010, 17:14 pm
@Rebels_Shark: 200
Glad you an expert at something…..
because you know fkall about rugby.
9 Feb 2010, 17:26 pm
@grant10:
That’s where you are wrong old pal, dig deeper I’ve put it there on a plate.
9 Feb 2010, 17:33 pm
@Rebels_Shark: 202
Well…for one professes to know this game it stikes me that you happier trying to impress with your schoolyard bully attitude and ganging up with the ladies than engaging in decent rugby discussion.
9 Feb 2010, 18:27 pm
@Rebels_Shark:
So clever are you that youre w@nking on about lamb & goat MEAT when the topic YOU raised, and the topic of Hayman here, was ‘dairy farming’, as was my reply.
‘dairy’ is the production primarily of milk, not meat. ‘dairy products’ are milk, cheese and butter, not chops, steaks and sausages.
As for lamb, who gives a sh*t. The best stuff is from NZ, all the Safas I know willingly and happily acknowledge it anyway. As do I with their seafood and game.
@grant10:
He knows more about rugby than he does about dairy farming. Im born and bred on one and I still own one.
Some people are so desperate for a fight that they cant see sanity for the red mist. Aussies….
9 Feb 2010, 21:49 pm
@NZINCHINA: Finest ever Zim/Rhodie prop was Andy McDonald. He also killed a lion which had attacked him by stabbing it with a hunting knife. Won’t get any tougher than that.
9 Feb 2010, 21:52 pm
@rangerman: #57 of course it’s the backline which has been the difference, it’s been packed full of Fijians and Samoans
@justrugby: #54 it was more than one scrum, Franks was giving up pens all over the place and sourpuss Henry subbed him
this thread is polluted with cycloptic kiwis, they spoil threads with their backwater nattering
9 Feb 2010, 21:53 pm
@TheTackler: Mujati pushed over Nigel Owens, tuff as nails
9 Feb 2010, 22:06 pm
@Big Hit: @206
just like Flutey, a Maori, made a difference to Engl & Lions in 2009 and like Catt, a Safa, made the difference in the Semi vs France & when he came on in the RWC Final 2003.
Hows the Morris Haka coming on ?
“this thread is polluted with cycloptic kiwis…..” gee, BH, you almost blend in seemlessly with the Safas, as you have always done. You may have noticed this is a thread about Kiwi rugby, what gives you the right to be here polluting it with your myopic poison ?
Oh, I forget, its a Sth African blog.
9 Feb 2010, 22:19 pm
@Big Hit: Owens was hovering like a senile and confused old bird in a busy parking lot. Mujati did him a favour.
9 Feb 2010, 22:35 pm
@Black Panther: let’s be honest, we haven’t been a team to rely on backs, fair point about it being a NZ related thread.
@katman: lol Owens wasn’t even in his path, Mujati went out of the way to push him
9 Feb 2010, 22:44 pm
Biggie anybody called nigel is fair game on a rugby field ..
especially if he is welsh..
9 Feb 2010, 22:53 pm
@Big Hit: Seriously, Owens was in the wrong place. He often is. In this incident he wasn’t only in Mujati’s way to get to the ruck, he was also pretty much standing at first receiver. So when I say Mujati was doing him a favour, I mean that ball could have been instinctively passed inside to where the scrummie was expecting a fckoff big old lock to run onto it and crash it up into a wall of loosehead props and nasty flanks. And instead he passes it to Nigel, who quietly shts himself before it hits him and ends up coughing up bits of spleen and liver for a couple of years. Trust me, this ended well for Nigel.
Besides, Mujati is huge. Pretty much everything in a 45 degree wedge in front of him is “in his path”.
9 Feb 2010, 23:27 pm
@Big Hit:
I read a report in the Times that Stephen Jones is fully suportive of England poaching more 2nd rate Kiwi’s for the England team, can you confirm this please?
9 Feb 2010, 23:42 pm
@NZINCHINA: @213
that would hardly be the first time he has illustrated double standards.
My favourite 1 was just prior to the RWC’99 and the ABs were the first to have these new adidas strips made out of clingy hi-tech fibres. SJ took the piss and made some analogy to these ‘shirts you wouldnt be seen dead in in a nightclub’ with the “arrogance of the modern AB” and that Meads would never have worn one (30yrs previously….).
Fast fwd only 3 years and Engl produce a similar new snazzy strip with clingy hi-tech fibres. SJ said it was “an example of Woodwards unbelievable attention to detail and striving for innovation and perfection” and raved like a lunatic
Seriously, you couldnt make it up.
We all know the Poms are the masters of hypocricy, always have been.
10 Feb 2010, 00:01 am
@Black Panther:
He certainly writes what they want to read, I look forward to Big tits reply, key words Samoa, wait for the AI’s, injuries, Cipriati ( spelling) is twice the player Carter was at his age, we should have won and 03′ wasn’t that long ago.
10 Feb 2010, 00:20 am
@NZINCHINA:
Dont hold your breath, BHs tactic when he is wrong or been shown up is to stop blogging. He prefers it that way to acknowledging the opposition. Similarly you’ll note that S.Jones usually writes some negative AB piece leading up to an Engl vs ABs Test but wont write up the match report himself when the ABs win, leaving that task up to a fellow Times contributor. Actually, Nov’09 was an exception and for the first time since ’03 he did the match report himself, he must have been sensing an upset. Despite going out of his way to damn the triumphant ABs with faint praise – he called them “full of journeymen” – he completely disappeared the following week as the ABs put in that sensational performance in Marseille and ended the year as no1.
Anyway, Im entirely unconvinced BH is in fact a Pom but rather a Safa who has lived here for years (like myself) but with English-rugby knowledge. If youd seen his contributions after the 2nd Lions Test and all the furore over Burger and Bakkies, it was sickeningly pro-Boks, the 1 opportunity he would ever have plainly had to come out swinging in behind ‘his’ Lions team. And the obvious ante-AB gig is a giveaway, Ive yet to meet a Pom here like that and only Boks can hate us with such passion.
10 Feb 2010, 01:35 am
@NZINCHINA: Jones is Welsh, his views are of no relevance yet in chokerland they hang on his every word. Weirdos!
10 Feb 2010, 01:39 am
@Black Panther: I’ve never been to SA in my life BP and I wasn’t pro-Boks during the Lions tour, i just wasn’t an anti-Bok nutter like you!
It’s time you stopped reading Jonesy’s prose it can’t be good for your heart old boy.
10 Feb 2010, 02:09 am
Typical Southland man will only come back he gets a farm classic
:). we really do need him though.
10 Feb 2010, 10:48 am
@Big Hit:
thats B-S.Hit, BH. You go out of your way to brown nose your way to pro-SA and anti-NZ (and, therefore, pro-SA) at any given opportunity. You also have a strangely in-depth knowledge of local SA players that get no media coverage here in UK whatsoever. You are definitely not all you make yourself out to be.
besides, I wasnt ‘anti-Bok’ during the Lions series. My stance re Bakkies was anti-hypocricy, which has never and will never change. Im happy for others to criticise my teams/country just as long as they apply the same to theirs.
10 Feb 2010, 10:50 am
@Black Panther: Dude, you should head over to the “Ex-AB sorry for teen assault” thread. Come on now, there we can realy take cheap shots at you guys, even throw in the odd sheep joke or 5…LOL
10 Feb 2010, 12:37 pm
@FireStraeuli:
Actually, I never thought you smart enough to have anything but cheap shots or cliches in your armoury. And I think you’ll find my contribution on the Brooke thread hardly reeks of hypocricy either.
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