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« Reply #75 on: February 19, 2013, 10:41:47 am »


Well behaved crowd praised

By KATHRYN KING - Manawatu Standard | 12:00 NOON - Monday, 18 February 2013

FLYING THE FLAG: Seven-year-old twins Ethan and Kieran Trask show their support for the Hurricanes. — WARWICK SMITH/ Fairfax NZ.
FLYING THE FLAG: Seven-year-old twins Ethan and
Kieran Trask show their support for the Hurricanes.
 — WARWICK SMITH/ Fairfax NZ.


PAHIATUA POLICE are praising the crowd at the annual Mangatainoka Super Rugby pre-season game after only one arrest was made at the match.

Fans came from far and wide to see the Hurricanes take on Super Rugby champions the Chiefs in Saturday's sellout game.

The Chiefs dominated the first half, but the Hurricanes came back strongly in the second, managing to almost — but not quite — take the lead, with the Chiefs winning 25-21.

With the police booze bus out both before and after the match, Pahiatua Sergeant Jymahl Glassey said the 8000-strong crowd was fairly well behaved.

Last year there were no arrests, and this year there was one.

In that instance, a man was told to leave early in the game because of his behaviour, and he did so, but later returned to the field and continued to cause problems.

And the lack of arrests didn't mean there weren't a few scuffles.

After the game, a group of about 10 to 15 people became involved in a mass fight, requiring half a dozen officers to haul the group of young men off each other. No-one was seriously injured, but one man was seen to have blood pouring from his nose after a blow to the face.

The event was generally well run and coping with 8000 people was manageable, he said.

About 25 officers worked at the game, and that filtered down to about six during the course of the night, plus additional staff working in the alcohol traffic units, he said.

Mr Glassey said the Pahiatua township was quieter after the game this year than it had been other years, but unlike previous years, they had teamed up with local publicans to stop people imbibing quite so much.

The pubs closed earlier than they needed to, about 1am.

"People had too much alcohol on board, they [publicans] sensed, along with us, that people had consumed enough and didn't need to stay open to 3am," he said.

Three drink-drivers were caught by his team, but no-one else was arrested in town that night.

He was unsure how many the alcohol traffic group caught, but believed there may have been a couple more drink-drivers caught outside of Dannevirke.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/8317720/Well-behaved-crowd-praised



Fans feel buzz at Mangatainoka

By KATHRYN KING - Wairarapa News | 12:15PM - Monday, 18 February 2013

DRESSED UP: Some Angry Birds turned up at the game. — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.
DRESSED UP: Some Angry Birds turned up at the game. — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.

THEY CAME as bumble bees, sumo wrestlers and angry birds, but Hurricanes supporters left disappointed when the home team favourites failed to beat the Chiefs.

The 8000 strong crowd at yesterday's Hurricanes vs Chiefs game in Mangatainoka saw Hurricanes fans come to life when, after a dismal start, their team rallied in the second half.

But even with the thunderous cheers of the crowd, it wasn't enough. With a final score of 25-21, the Chiefs, Super Rugby's champions of last year, held their ground.

Before the Hurricanes could even get on the field, 5-year-old Hilton McCullough, from Lower Hutt, had already stolen the hearts of the crowd.

Suffering from leukaemia, the Child Cancer ambassador draped in multiple strands of a treatment-bead-necklace helped to open the game with Sir Colin Meads.

As the little boy with a charming smile walked back from a turn about the field with two Tui girls at half time, his mother, Rebecca McEwen, said it was a near thing he even made the game, having spent the night before in hospital.

"He's not 100 per cent, today, but he's OK, he's excited but it's quite overwhelming for someone his age," she said.

While Hilton will savour his helicopter ride as the thrill of the day, for Masterton Hurricanes supporter Sarah Wing, it's the moment the Hurricanes kicked a conversion that sailed over top of a stock truck and hit a passing Chiefs supporter on the back.


GAME ON: There was some rugby too. Hurricanes' Beauden Barrett with ball. — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.
GAME ON: There was some rugby too. Hurricanes' Beauden Barrett with ball.
 — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.


AWAY FROM HOME: A chiefs supporter. — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.
AWAY FROM HOME: A chiefs supporter. — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.

SPECIAL GUEST: Child cancer ambassador, Hilton McCullough, at half-time with Tui Girls, Tamara Novak (left) and Charlotte Wainwright . — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.
SPECIAL GUEST: Child cancer ambassador, Hilton McCullough, at half-time with Tui Girls,
Tamara Novak (left) and Charlotte Wainwright . — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.


READ BUZZ: There were a few bumble bees buzzing round the crowds. — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.
READ BUZZ: There were a few bumble bees buzzing round the crowds.
 — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.


GREAT DAY: The crowd was having a great day at the game. — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.
GREAT DAY: The crowd was having a great day at the game. — WARWICK SMITH/Fairfax NZ.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/wairarapa-news/8318435/Fans-feel-buzz-at-Mangatainoka
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