And who the hell is screwing around with our best of/worst of polls?

35 votes for a squad of 17?

I blame Logan, not only is he the only person in the world who would think its funny, I reckon it could be an attempt to undermine the credibility of the polls thus not making him the umm best of in the shit stakes. And we know he has access to many, many computers!

Poll Results

Yes, its official - by overwhelming margins you all think that it would be most funny if I got Ludlow cursed in the first game of the season, but are pretty sure it is more likely to be Corey.

Corey and I think you are all w**kers.

Photo: 'Please don't Ludlow curse me Number 10, I'm ever so delicate'.

Poll Results #3, New Polls

Polls pretty predictable really - Patrick will clearly be considered the biggest wanker in the Stallions by other teams, closely followed by Joe and Ben H. A nagging stallion, an angry stallion, and a freaky stallion. This is a good poll to win, you should be proud.

The Stallions shared the love when voting on which ex-player should return to the fold. Rauru and Lloyd got the most votes, with Tangi, Rodney and Willy close behind. Dan Hodges's vote coincided with our first visit from Canada - a coincidence?

It was so hard - and I must admit that I voted a couple of times - would love to see just one more Rodney run, always value the Walker brothers, and want to laugh heartily the next time Lachlan breaksdown.

New polls theory - these new polls are going to run throughout the entire season and options will change after each game as more goals are scored/pony moments made. So vote once per poll, but change your vote at many times as you like through the season. Nick G if you ever score a goal this season, don't vote for it 100 times!

Poll Results #2

The most decisive polls ever - it is clear - if the Stallions were wrestlers they would be The Bushwhackers. Actually, their battering ram finishing move is a bit like our long ball. Also appropriate that Ben H was voted by runaway margin the most unwanted to take a penalty (well, in fairness out of the selected list of those who can actually shoot the ball in a straight direction.) A bit unfair - and how on earth did Ponypaddy get away vote free? Okay, the next few polls will have no potential to abuse Ben (any suggestions?).

Talking about Ben he is about to be the first Stallion to receive a player profile. What's a team blog without player profiles? The aim is to post a profile or 2 per week, through the season. Am starting with the most experienced Stallions (not in that way Jules), but in terms of games/seasons played. So Ben and Rauru to start, and we will see where we go from there. Lets see how this goes ...

Poll Results Are In

Contentious Results here:

Firstly a red card to Nick G - who confessed to devising a masterly plan of using a network of home and work computers and reset buttons to ensure that his strike was voted the best goal of 2007!

I have similar questions around the other winner - Joe's last game of the season goal - which seemed to jump whenever Nick gave his own goal another gentle boost. But I know of at least 2 others who did vote for Joe's so that probably makes it the winner (though Jason's shank also received 2). Perhaps we should focus on the best goal of 2008.

As for the other poll - which premiership side are the Stallions most like - well, not much confidence shown here - a range of lower table, often relegation bound teams and others that always fail to deliver on pre-season potential. A team psychologist would have a field day with this - but in the end Portsmouth with the most votes ain't too bad. Best response - Ben H - 'Chelsea - cause both teams are full of tossers'. Nice.

From the suitcase - Blog Week 1

1 week in and the stallions are taking to the blog - a total of 168 hits from 23 unique visitors (some are clearly using home and work computers). A week high 43 hits the day Nick released his tactics shows everyone is fired up for the season.

So people are checking in on an almost daily basis. In order of usage our visitors hail from Wellington, Lower Hutt, Porirua, London, Auckland (Will? Glen?) and Edinburgh (dirty Lachlan - strangely the same day we had this hit, I was nominated in the younger sister poll, talk about a revenge vote!). We need some more international hits - Nick will have to check results while tripping around. Also thanks to the IRD, which gives us the most hits from a single institution.

As for our initial polls there are some clear 'winners'. The Stallions hate old, grumpy Olympic more than any other team, and poor old Jules is clearly the least trustworthy with drunk younger sisters.

I am thinking of changing my vote to Robin though - especially since one Good Laika song is about upstart brats turning into seductive, dirty little whores - there is more to that man than three-quarter pants. But ultimately it is hard to beat Jules. I was thinking of another poll about which stallion would you not trust with your drunk grandma, but Jules would clean up again.

Lets try this best goal of last season poll. There are a few nominations (a couple via email) so lets see - I can't remember many of these, but maybe the rest of you can. Perhaps scoring goals helps the memory ...