Rugby fans in Waitaki were unable to watch the All Blacks game on their analogue sets after a transmitter failure.

Rotorua campground owners are upset that Rugby World Cup fans are parking up campervans at the lakefront - and not heading to their businesses.

Fish. You'd think it'd be one of this country's greatest and cheapest commodities.

There is nothing quite like the excitement of Christmas Day when you are a kid. And that's the level of pants-wetting glee TV3 commentator Hamish McKay must have been feeling calling the All Blacks v France match on Saturday.

When he stood up in front of 60,000 worshippers in a commemorative 100th cap and told them he loved playing in the black jersey as much now as he did when he first put it on, you knew Richie McCaw was speaking nothing but the truth.