32 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Thursday <strong>August</strong> <strong>23</strong> <strong>2018</strong> Sport <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Possibilities wide open in NRL play-off run-in WITH TWO rounds of the Telstra Premiership regular season to go, it’s technically possible for either the Warriors or Broncos to finish with the minor premiership or miss the top-eight altogether. <strong>The</strong>re are still plenty of questions to be answered at the end of one of the closest NRL seasons in memory, with eight teams a mathematical chance of finishing the regular season on top. While the finishing order is still to be determined, the make-up of the finals contenders is more certain. <strong>The</strong> top-six now guaranteed to play finals football and the Wests Tigers the only side currently outside the eight that still has a chance of sneaking in. Brisbane did their chances of holding onto a play-off berth a world of good by beating South Sydney tonight, with the Warriors now in the most precarious position of the top half of the table with matches against Penrith and Canberra to come. Both those matches will be played in Auckland but neither will be easy wins – the Panthers are finals-bound and will be desperate to bounce back from a shock loss to Newcastle while the Raiders are fresh from knocking the Sydney Roosters off the top of the table. <strong>The</strong> Warriors’ home record is only the 11th best in the league this season, with five wins and five losses. <strong>The</strong> Broncos have a slight edge over the Warriors on forand-against and will finish their season with a home clash against the struggling Sea Eagles after this week’s blockbuster against the Roosters. Both the Warriors and Broncos can lock up a finals spot by winning either of their remaining games. Even if one of those sides lose both their games, the ninthplaced Tigers will need to beat the Sea Eagles and Rabbitohs and overturn a poor points differential (-44) to grab eighth spot. Meanwhile, at the foot of the ladder, the 15th-placed Eels will visit the 16th-placed Cowboys on Friday night, with a wooden spoon potentially up for grabs in what will be Johnathan Thurston’s final home game for North Queensland. <strong>2018</strong> NRL TIPPING COMPETITION ROUND 24 (<strong>23</strong>rd – 26th <strong>August</strong>) Wests Tigers v Sea Eagles Warriors v Panthers Cowboys v Eels Raiders v Rabbitohs Titans v Storm Roosters v Broncos Sharks v Knights Dragons v Bulldogs OUR EXPERT’S SELECTIONS <strong>The</strong> Big Show of 2019’ Tickets on sale now at the woodford glen Shop, 129 North Avon Rd, Richmond, Ph 385 1515. or buy on line now at www.woodfordglen.co.nz or www.iticket.co.nz engineered timbers of the week $85 sQm Andy Carr Austin Motor Company Ben Rogers <strong>The</strong> Flooring Warehouse Mike Olds Rockcote $119 sQm Dali White Oak Wests Tigers Panthers Cowboys Rabbitohs Storm Roosters Sharks Dragons Currently placed: Successfully selected: 2nd 103/176 Wests Tigers Warriors Cowboys Rabbitohs Storm Roosters Sharks Dragons Currently placed: Successfully selected: 3rd 99/176 Wests Tigers Warriors Cowboys Rabbitohs Storm Roosters Sharks Dragons Currently placed: 1st Successfully selected: 104/176 Sanderson York PLUS MUCH MORE INSTORE 47 Gasson Street Ph 353 8899 Hours: 8.30am-5pm Mon-Fri www.theflooringwarehouse.co.nz Car of THE WEEK! 2004 ford falCon xr8 BoSS 5.4, auto, alloys, ABS, twin airbags, stunning. $14,990 275 Colombo St, Christchurch Cnr Colombo & Milton Sts Ph: 337 9629 Steve Lennon Woodford Glen Speedway Sea Eagles Warriors Cowboys Rabbitohs Storm Broncos Sharks Bulldogs Currently placed: Successfully selected: 4th 98/176 Andrew McCormick Brandts-Giesen McCormick Wests Tigers Warriors Eels Rabbitohs Storm Roosters Sharks Dragons Currently placed: Successfully selected: 6th 92/176 Stephen Moffat Islington Tavern Wests Tigers Warriors Cowboys Rabbitohs Storm Roosters Sharks Dragons Currently placed: Successfully selected: 5th 95/176 THE SWAMP ISLINGTON TAVERN 670 MAIN SOUTH RD, ISLINGTON P. 349 7337 12 cold beers on tap Bar Meals | 18 Pokies Full TAB Facility Garden Bar | Weekend Music BOTTLESTORE BEST DEALS IN TOWN! LET OUR COURTESY VAN COME TO YOU
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 33 Sport FREE WEEKLY MAGAZINE in stands every Friday SKY HAS completely lost the plot with its recently added eSports pop-up channel. eSports, an abbreviation for electronic sports, is defined as a form of sports where the primary aspects of the sport are facilitated by the competitive playing of video games. If you think this is about to turn into a rant about video games not being a sport you’re wrong, it has a place and a market but it doesn’t belong on Sky and I’ll explain why. Here’s the thing . . . if you like watching other people play or compete against others in video games then you’re highly likely adept with the internet and will happily stream the content you’re after. One-eyed Cantab Gordon Findlater gordon.findlater@starmedia.kiwi eSports doesn’t belong on Sky • By Gordon Findlater PETER FULTON could be a dark horse to succeed Gary Stead as Canterbury Cricket’s head coach. Current assistant Brendon Donkers has been tipped as the front-runner to take the helm for Canterbury this summer. However, Fulton – Canterbury’s all-time leader in matches, runs, catches and matches as captain – has stated he will apply for the position if and when it is advertised. “If it came up I would. I’ve got aspirations to coach at a high level. If it came up and you didn’t apply then it might be quite a while until it came up again,” said Fulton. Since pulling the stumps on his player career at the end of the 2016/2017 summer Fulton has begun a pathway to coaching. Fulton was the batting coach for the New Zealand under-19 team and has been part of the coaching staff with New Zealand Cricket’s winter training squad over the past two years. He is also the coach of Christ’s College’s first XI and has spent four years coaching rugby over the winter with Christchurch Football Club’s premier reserve side. Does market research still exist? <strong>The</strong> place of eSport on Sky reminds me of when Coliseum Sports Media outbid Sky for the rights to the PGA Tour in 2014. This meant golf fans would have to subscribe to an online streaming service. Let’s do some market research. To me your average PGA Tour consumer is a lot of dads I know who get up on Sunday, sit on the couch and enjoy the third round with the simple click of the TV remote likely over a coffee. Let’s face it he was never going to whip out the laptop, login and then hook up the HDMI cable to the flat screen. Yes that’s not the case with everyone but it’s why the concept DARK HORSE: Peter Fulton (right) has stated he is keen to succeed Gary Stead as Canterbury’s head coach. Whether or not Canterbury Cricket think Fulton could be the man for the top job is another question. Current assistant coach Donkers will see moving to the head role as the next logical progression is his coaching career. “If Canterbury Cricket or the Canterbury Cricket board thought I was the best person lead the team forward then it would be a privilege to be the head coach . . . if they don’t think I’m the best person then so be it. It has to be what’s best for the team,” said Donkers. Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi bombed and whoever thought it wasn’t always going to probably shouldn’t be involved in a marketing or television role. It’s also worth noting this was in 2014 – pre the fibre roll out for many. To me Sky’s new GINX Esports channel is a replica of what happened in 2014, just flipped in reverse. It’s place on mainstream TV just means that dad’s pimply-faced teenager is only going to be hogging the remote, denying him of watching Tiger, so they can watch a computer whiz in a simulator drive like Lewis Hamilton. 2010 Mazda 6 GSX Hatch 2.5, auto, 1 owner, only 14,000 kms .......................$25,999 Go back to your computer and stream it – like you always 2009 have Mazda SP25 Hatchand Tiptronic auto, alloys, body kit, NZ New .......................$17,999 probably will continue to do. Fulton says he will put a hand up for head coach role 2008 HSV Clubsport Tiptronic auto, low kms .............$44,999 www.blackwells.co.nz Canterbury Cricket also has current performance squad coach Dion Ebrahim – another highly-touted coach – who could take a step forward with Stead’s departure. But, with a person of Fulton’s pedigree keen to give back to Canterbury Cricket in a coaching capacity it would surely make sense to have him involved somewhere in the equation. Donkers – who is seen by many as the favourite for the head coaching role – has no issue in heaping on Fulton’s credentials. “I’m sure he would make a great coach. Tactically he’s very good and he has a lot of respect from the players,’’ said Donkers. <strong>The</strong> biggest question could be around how Canterbury Cricket structures itself going forward. Stead took on a heavy workload as both director of cricket and head coach. Would it be possible to accommodate positions of prominence for Fulton, Donkers and Ebrahim? “Whether we could work together as a head coach and assistant coach I don’t know. 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