Play nzherald.co.nz's rugby Pick the Score competition - go to:
pickthescore.nzherald.co.nz
To enter SuperSport's Warriors jersey competition, click here.
KEY POINTS:
SuperSport finds the best sporting quotes of the week:
"Waikato - it's an O for Awesome place."
David Tua coins a new slogan for Hamilton. Never mind Auckland missing out on the fight, with a slogan like this, the people of Opotiki must be kicking themselves.
* * *
"I have made the decision I will not play in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition this year. My country comes first and there was no way I could give my all for Australia if I used the only two-week break we have to go and play in India."
Ricky Ponting puts baggy Green above bucks. Good on him.
* * *
"It's between [Andrew Flintoff] and his team. It is nothing to do with the ECB as far as we are concerned."
Lalit Modi, commissioner of the Indian Premier League, tells English cricket bosses to sod off and let Freddie earn his dosh. Ricky Ponting is looking a better bloke by the minute.
* * *
"Everyone has said, 'if things don't go well, just take out his knee'."
Australian Brendon Jones, who was paired with Tiger Woods midweek for the latter's comeback from injury.
* * *
"There would appear to be a bit of a bandwagon. We've now got to be whiter than white."
England scrum coach Graham Rowntree reckons there's a conspiracy against his side. They've picked up 11 yellow cards in their last eight matches.
* * *
"I don't think about the defeats to different managers. One defeat in 12 depends on how you look at it. It wasn't as though we lost all 11 games, if it was I'd worry."
Sir Alex Ferguson when asked about the fact that he only had one win against teams managed by Jose Mourinho from 12 starts going into United's midweek visit to Inter. The match ended 0-0.
* * *
"Ferguson controls everything in this country - these are the facts as everyone knows."
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez is getting paranoid. If Ferguson does control everything in England then he should fix the bloody weather.
* * *
"You need to be trustworthy."
Tahli Grobbelaar, daughter of Bruce, on the qualities needed to be a football agent. She's in a BBC TV show in which young knife-thrusters compete to become a "Superagent".
* * *
"Yulia superstitiously distrusts hairdressers in London [so] we agreed that I'll fly over to London when necessary. I've changed his style from glamorous Vidal Sassoon to simple 'streetwise guy' and I had no complaints from him or Yulia."
Andrei Arshavin's hairdresser flies from Moscow to maintain his mullet in a way Yulia likes.