HUBBERS BLOG

Just watching interview with a guy whose son had tragically died in Afghanistan on BBC News. After the interview they switched back to the main presenter and you could hear the interviewee moving in the background. Shortly after he walked BETWEEN the anchor and the live camera then he seemed to get confused (probably all of the floor staff frantically waving at him) and stood there for a bit on the edge of the shot before changing his mind and walking back across the front of the camera again. Classic.

Funny but not as funny as the time a few weeks back when someone rang one of the news readers while they were live on air and their phone rang in their pocket. Eejoits. Both the male and female presenter were very professional so it took a couple of seconds to see which of them was the guilty looking party. It was the bloke.

In previous years you had to know exactly when the All Black tickets from STIL were going on sale because you would be lucky to get onto the overloaded website and snag a few tickets before they all sold out.

This year however the tickets have been available for several days and only 3 of the available 18 packages have sold out. Possible reasons for this could include:

• Credit crunch
• Availability of tickets from the host nations like Italy and France
• Packaging of tickets into bundles that fans didn’t want e.g. with the Barbarians ticket
• STIL’s habit of whacking 50% onto ticket prices and the complete lack of transparency of where this money goes