Enjoy Rocky, ‘cos you won’t have him for long

SOMETIMES in this journalistic game you look back upon things you wrote years earlier and wonder how you could possibly have got it so wrong.

(“The All Blacks are certainties to win the 1991/1995/1999/2003 & 2007 World Cups.”) Other times, you write things, where, looking back, you know that you absolutely nailed it.

“In every Test this year Rocky Elsom has played better than the last, and he has never played better than right now. In short, we see the Kiwis their Richie McCaw, and raise them one Rocky Elsom.”