Supersport's Good Week / Bad Week: Our winners

Good week for...

Our winners

We have found two winners in SuperShorts' Andrew Slack competition for a bucketload of Steinlager loot - congratulations to W. Yen and Rhys Thomas! Courtesy of Steinlager, they'll both be going to the Bledisloe Cup match at Eden Park on July 18. They'll each be taking a friend and a goody bag full of supporters' gear. Enjoy!

Slacky's winner

On the question of favourite Wallaby legends, Andrew Slack says: "Mark Loane would be up there."

More winners

A bloke in Marlborough and someone in Manukau did well on the TAB last week. Their $4 investments rolled over into $102,000 each after correctly picking the 10 results and margins in the Rugby/Rugby League Pools. But don't get your hopes up. Since those two cleaned out the kitty there's a mere $25,000 in the pool this week.

Welcome back

John Daly swings again. Last on this page back in October, when he was arrested outside a Hooters restaurant, the great man has since lost 60lbs (27kg) in three months (surgery and a diet, since you asked) and finished in a tie for second in the Italian Open. Cheers, John!

Toonwatch

We suspect talk of the Toon's redemption might be a tad premature. But you have to doff your cap to Newcastle manager Alan Shearer, who got a winning goal from Obafemi Martins within a minute of putting the lad on the field against Boro. Regardless, with two games to go, Shearer is a sitter for the season's best double entendre: "I have asked for three big games and they have given me one."

Talking balls

Here's Shearer with another double entendre, this time on the injury that saw Martins start on the bench: "He's been feeling his groin for a week now."

Bad week for...

Jumping the Sharks
A season that promised so much for the Ricky Stuart-coached Sharks has hit a new low - bookies have them at $26 to win no more games this year. Couldn't happen to a nicer coach.

Sir Brian's stalker
Clearly our state-owned television broadcaster is paying its hacks too much. TVNZ European correspondent, Mark Crysell stumped up $2,560 at auction for the jersey worn by Brian Lochore as All Black skipper in 1967.

Spurswatch
Compare and contrast: Spurs captain Ledley King gets arrested for alleged assault outside a London nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning. The bouncer he had his aggro with claims King racially harassed him and said to him: "Do you not know who I am? I am a rich guy ... I earn £80,000 [$205,000] a week, you are nothing in your £10-an-hour job. I could make you lose your job." Another Spurs player's behaviour in the wee hours was noteworthy. Wilson Palacios was woken in his hotel room at 1am before a match against Liverpool by a phone call from his family back in Honduras. The news was grim: the body of his abducted brother had been found. Palacios packed his bag and waited all night in the hotel lobby, until he could wake manager Harry Redknapp to ask permission to fly home to be with his family. Sadly, in the modern age, dear old Ledley, sobbing in his jail cell, is thought the better choice to lead a top-flight soccer team.

Refereeing howler
With referees' performances in the spotlight, Phil Horan down in Hastings has had a shocker. The whistler in the women's competition match between Clive and Hastings Rugby and Sports awarded a 35m drop goal to Clive's Te Maari MacGregor. The fullback sheepishly admitted: "Sir, it wasn't a dropped goal. I actually punted the ball." Clive won 37-7.

To Hull and back
Since Phil Brown embarrassed his players with a half-time speech in the middle of the pitch on Christmas Day, Hull have taken seven points from 72.