Liam Messam - Shafted by Graham Henry

You play one test match as an All Black out of position, and you don't have your best game ever, that's true but it seems incredibly that while some incredibly mediocre All Black talent has been retained for the Tri-Nations Liam Messam has paid the price for not performing too well against the French.

Good job, we're glad he's been dropped.

Good job we say because when we support the best team in the world its not going to be cheering on the All Blacks in another meaningless tri-nations game. Good job because we certainly wont be supporting the All Blacks in a revenue gaining game in Japan which is an opportunity for Steve "Shylock" Tew to line the coffers. We are supporters of rugby - homicidal dedicated supporters of rugby and Waikato Rugby in particular. The supporters of the greatest team in the world, who play the best rugby in the most wonderful stadium. Waikato Uber Alles! But Liam Messam was taken away from us by someone who made the decision to select him. Play him out of position and then dump him for the tri-nations. Supporting Waikato is a wonderful thing, but supporting the All Blacks at times is hard to do. Particuarly now with a test calendar filled with meaningless tests against mediocre opposition, with the domestic game is treated as a joke. Liam Messam would have been missing from our Air New Zealand Cup Games instead warming the bench for mediocre tests in a boring Tri-Nations. He may have even been to Japan to play in a dead rubber test that is simply a money grubbing opportunity for the rugby union.

Thats just shit.

Now thanks to Liam Messam being dropped we have him back. We have him available to play for us again, and we have a chance to cheer him on again. We will be proudly at Waikato Stadium supporting the greatest team in the world for their pre-season game against Taranaki on the 22nd. We wont all be going down to horrible Southland for the first game of the Air New Zealand Cup but we will support OUR team with a fevour.

Liam Messam will be a part of that.

He will be running out for Waikato for a team that inspires us for a team that deserves respect and a team that we are proud of. And while Messam's All Black career is on hold who wants to be part of a team that may well finish the Tri-Nations last this year. While your at it Graham Henry how back also giving us back Steven Donald as well? And thanks for leaving your hands off Sione Lauaki you Mincer!