Daniel Carter

All Black rugby star Daniel Carter is setting up a designer fashion store in Christchurch central city, New Zealand. While Dan may be performing well on the rugby field he is also making strides in business.

Dan Carter is well known for his modelling of Jockey underpants and there have recently been many comments about how the ladies are disappointed that his recent modelling has been only of the Jockey singlet. Well now Dan is progressing along the fashion field by going into partnership with Rhys Brooking, a former team-mate and Mr Brooking's fiancée.

Mr Brooking and his fiancée have been wholesaling the 'Gas' brand for around two and a half years in Australia and New Zealand. They were looking for a retail store. Dan was looking for something in the fashion area. Brooking is stated as saying that they needed a face for the brand, so the match came together. The three of them have been sourcing stock for the new store for eight months taking regular flights to Melbourne. The shop will open in central Christchurch early in December...

Rugby Heaven

The serious rugby enthusiast is sure that the sport played in heaven is rugby! Rugby Union is a game of passion and creates strong emotions that you will see surface among crowds during and after a game. All serious rugby enthusiasts will be up to watch their favourite rugby team play, and make sure the players are performing. And Rugby League supporters are a bit similar. They are also a passionate bunch with strong emotions, a different style of game although similar in lots of ways.

After any rugby game you will find supporters at the local bars dissecting the game and explaining what the players ‘should’ have done. In Rugby Union when you look at it, you have 15 players in each team racing up and down a paddock after an oval piece of leather. The test is to get the ball down the opposite end of the field and over the line. The team who can do it the most wins! Simple? No, not so simple…

This is where the game gets technical. Although I have been attending rugby games since I was first able to walk, I would not dare to talk technically about the game! Most Rugby Union buffs are quite serious about the game. Rugby enthusiasts are among the most passionate, most one-eyed people and when they start talking about Rugby others soon get bored or tired of the subject. The serious Rugby buff will talk for hours and hours about one game. For many of them it becomes their live and things revolve around Rugby. So naturally they take it that Rugby will be played in heaven…