Is All Blacks Carter still the man? Thats the discussion going on, right?
Mongolian Highlanders Fan
"Dan Carter may not have performed to his decorated best against Australia on Saturday, but one bad game should not define his otherwise permanent class as the world’s best out-half.
Despite scoring three out of three penalties, his sole misfortunes were two missed conversions and poor kicking from hand.
Carter’s supposed downfall is hyped, and no doubt when the Rugby World Cup rolls into London in September, his experience and skillset will be central to the All Blacks’ ambitions of a third world title."
Just to reinforce the point.
THE BREAKDOWN: The Brilliance of Dan Carter | SKY TV
Your take on it?
All Blacks Carter still the man The Mongolian Highlanders Fans take on it is, you couldn't have asked for a better build up to the Rugby World Cup. This situation is a couch's dream run. The "semis" (Rugby Championship title) last week and now the second leg, the "final", the battle for the Bledisloe Cup.
Is this the time to drop some youngsters into the white hot (no pun intended) environment. What better dress rehersal could you enjender. Yes, the Bledisloe Cup is the ALL BLACKS Cup and they proundly don't want to hand it to the Australians but as we all know, the chips could be down in London come World Cup time and this gift of possible experience could be just what the doctor ordered.
The marauding Mongolian Highlanders Fans reckon All Blacks Carter is still the man but test the future All Blacks, it will put them in good stead.
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Should Sopoaga/Smith lead All Black resolve at Eden Park. Lima Sopoaga triumped at Ellis Park.The Highlander combination has proven form. Go the ALL BLACKS
It’s the most famous line from the 1989 film "Field of Dreams" A film about an unbelievable vision, which, inspite of sceptics, was persued to the end.
The Highlanders Mongolian Fan Club, believers all along, have enjoyed their team's roller coaster ride. So this to post is for the record and visitor info.
Build the Brand
The Insignia
"The Highlanders insignia represents a strong and proud warrior battling on the craggy highlands of Scotland. He stands with his arms raised in defiance, in a rampant stance, proud and strong, ready for any challenge that should come his way. In one hand he brandishes a claymore; in the other hand a shield - attack and defence in perfect balance. Modern-day Highlanders play their rugby the same way - ferocious in attack, tenacious in defence. The colours of the emblem and jersey have direct links to the three provinces that make up the Highlanders franchise: gold for North Otago; blue for Otago; maroon for Southland."
Build the experience
"The Highlanders finished the inaugural season eighth, and the following season finished last after winning only three of eleven matches. However in the 1998, 1999 and 2000 seasons they qualified for semi-finals; hosting the 1999 competition final against fellow South Island team the Crusaders. They lost the match 24–19, and the following year were again knocked out by the Crusaders—this time in their semi-final. In the following fifteen seasons they would only finish in the top four once more, in 2002."
Build a new Home
Their main ground through to the 2011 Super Rugby season was Carisbrook in Dunedin with home games occasionally being played in Invercargill and Queenstown.
Born out of contraversy with naysayers and visionaries battling it out, the "House of Pain" with it's famous scarfees standing embankment and all, where so many memorable games had been won and lost was replaced.
Build a Stadium: Dunedin's Forsyth Stadium
The full time lapse construction video of Dunedin's new Forsyth Barr Stadium up to December 2010.
Farewelling Carisbrook.
Highlanders fan and his popular 1999 video
"When David Fahey took out his camcorder in 1999 and filmed the Highlanders crowd singing, never could he imagine 16 years later it would be an internet hit.
As far as Highlanders fans go they don't come more passionate than Invercargill-based Fahey.
He has supported the team since day one in 1996, and was there in 1999 when they played in their first and only Super Rugby final at a sold-out Carisbrook."
The Highlanders song is belted out at the old Carisbrook ground in 1999.
"When the Highlanders reached the semifinal Fahey decided to dust off the old cassette and send it to the Highlanders team in Sydney to provide some inspiration."
Build a name: "The Glasshouse"
Build belief in "The Glasshouse"
Build Champions
" The Highlanders continually flew under the radar
and no-one seemed to want to give them any credit or back them to go all the way.
Even in the build up to the final most of the focus was on the Hurricanes, understandable given they qualified top and had home advantage.
What the Highlanders showed is that you don't necessarily have to have a team stacked full of star players to succeed in this competition.
They have the fewest number of All Blacks out of the five New Zealand franchises but they clearly have a great culture in Dunedin and the team play for each other as a result.
They are worthy Super Rugby Champions ..."
Build Joy
Build Reward
New Zealand: Controversial stadium to return profit
29.06.2015 17:15 source: nzherald.co.nz
Instead of technological breakthrough, it brought criticism over construction and maintenance cost. Now Forsyth Barr Stadium is about to start generating profit, although not without a price… The 2015/16 season should bring a profit of $395,000 (US$270,000) to Forsyth Barr Stadium, the world’s first one to have a natural field and fixed roof over it. Read on
Build repect and belonging within the Community
Highlanders have a field day
"If you build it they will come". It’s the most famous line from the 1989 film Field of Dreams and it’s also what inspired a farmer to turn his paddock into a rugby field for the Highlanders.
On 11th February 2016, as part of the Southern Field Days biennial event in Waimumu, the Highlanders will run out against an opposing team onto Farmlands shareholder Fred Booth’s paddock. The preseason match will be another attraction at an event that already draws in around 38,500 people over 3 days.
When the Southern Field Days committee were first approached with the concept of a rugby match, their initial response was that it might be more than they could handle, “but the Southern Field Days can-do attitude kicked in, plans were sorted and a rugby field has now appeared out of Fred’s paddock,” Southern Field Days Chairman Logan Evans says. “We welcome the Highlanders to the Southern Field Days site.” Read on..
TravelersRest
TravelersRest; We Mongolian Highlanders Fans think the Highlanders path epitomises our pholosophy “If you build it, they will come.”
Mongolian wrestlers compete at a traditional wrestling competition.
Will All Blacks Jeome Kaino, Kieran Read and Richie McCaw be in for some traditional forward wrestling at the ANZ stadium?
“The Wallabies will deploy Michael Hooper and David Pocock against the All Blacks on Saturday with both named in a shake up to the starting side…
Coach Michael Cheika has found room for both of his star flankers, with Pocock to play at number eight and Hooper at the openside. Cheika believes was inevitable given their irrepressible form.
"I think they forced my hand, really. The both they both played in game one or game two, either as a starter or off the bench, I think they forced my hand into seeing if this can work. I believe it can. The way we've set up our team accordingly will go to supporting that,"
It is a pairing Wallabies fans have been craving but hasn't been without its flow-on effects, with Cheika tailoring other aspects of the squad to help accommodate the alterations.
Cheika said he had no concerns playing both opensides would leave his side short of size and running options. He backed both Pocock and Hooper to take on the All Blacks line with vigour, while Horwill will be expected to do his share of grunt work as well as take a leading role in the line-out.
So what’s Steve Hansen’s take on it?
For every strength the pairing brings to the Wallabies, the All Blacks will find a weakness. Given the way his side was set upon by the Springboks back row in South Africa, Steve Hansen was hardly surprised with the selection news.
"Whilst that gives [the Wallabies] strength in some areas it probably weakens them in others. So we've just got to make sure we take advantage of those weaknesses and make sure that we don't allow them to have a field day at the breakdown," Hansen said.”
The Highlanders Mongolian Fan Club back Hansen all the way. The All Blacks will certainly have to wrestle with the Wallabies come Saturday but he’ll have the big picture nutted out.
"Go the All Blacks."
ps The wrestling was during the Naadam Festival in Ulan Bator, Mongolia Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Mongolians celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan's march to world conquest on July 11 with the annual sports festival featuring traditional Mongolian events including wrestling, archery, and horse racing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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Reminiscing this video caught my eye. Haven't heard how he's progressing with his rehab. Wishing him well as he sits probably frustratingly on the sideline.
Mongolian Highlanders Fans reckoned Meyer was right on the nose with his thinking and so it's been proved.
Mongolian Highlander Fans will be glued to the set backing a confident creative showing.
The No 10 has been given the nod
He'll be itching to front up against the 'Box and what better place to kick ass than the high veld. Lima Sopoago is a big lad with all the under pressure skills we've seen this past Super Rugby season with the Highlanders.Heyneke Meyer will be scratching his head as to how to contain the big fella who just loves the big time and Saturday at Ellis Park will be big time.
Sopoaga wont have an armchair ride but at least he'll have plenty of support from his other half, Smith and his Wellingto mates. The Springbox are in for a torrid time.
You can't teach attitude. Good employers will tell you that. You can teach a skill. Anybody with a self demanding positive attitude can learn a new skill. Successful employers, businesses, employ attitude first.
Waisake Naholo has heaps of it, demonstrated many a time, thats why he's an All Black. He demonstrated it again on Friday night during his debut match.
Another thing, you saw a few mistakes naturally a few nerves but anybody worth his or her salt welcomes mistakes, failures, that's when you learn of course so long as you've got that magical ingredient, a positive attitude.
First up, not spectacular, hungry for work, given a bit of reign, all in all a good job. Mongolian Highlander Fans were pretty happy.
All Black Waisake Naholo debutante with swift prancing feet, brawn and belief.
WOW!! Mongolian Highlanders Fans can’t wait. Highlander Waisake Naholo made it. The AB débuts tonight.
Of course we knew he would join the All Black ranks. He was a cinch. All season he has epitomized what the Highlanders have been all about, Belief. Belief in individual selves, Belief in their mates, and Belief in their team. And Mongolian Highlanders Fans backed them all the way.
Now the big stage. To see him marauding around the field, slicing through the opposition like a Mongolian warrior of old will be a sight to behold.
Waisake Naholo doesn’t need the bounce of the ball. He has the vision, the speed the will to succeed no matter what the odds that all conquering warriors possess.
Mongolian Highlanders Fans will be watching in admiration when Waisake Naholo, Highlander, All Black, débuts tonight.
Genghis Khan’s Highlander Fans Honor the great achievement
From the wilderness steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan and his warriors swept all before them to conquer the Capital cities of Asia and Europe.
The Chinese built the great wall but even that was to no avail. Likewise, for the valiant Hurricanes, neither the moat, that natural barrier called Cook Strait nor the Cake Tin Fortress were protection from the hordes from the south, the mighty Highlanders.
They, like the battle hardened Mongolian invaders grew in statue during the campaign, saw, came and tonight conquered the worthy Hurricane Capital City dwellers.
The county boys from the south, like Ginghes Khan troupes before them, did what many but the most loyal believers thought was unassailable, became giants in mind and soul, followed their grand, their mighty leader, Nasi Manu and deservedly took the Super Rugby Grand Final spoils.
So what can we say we are lost for words. You were great, you were fantastic, you were all that we believed in.
Our Warmest Congratulations, to the Highlanders the Super Rugby 2015 Champions.
Should Sopoaga/Smith lead All Black resolve at Eden Park. 
"The Highlanders insignia represents a strong and proud warrior battling on the craggy highlands of Scotland. He stands with his arms raised in defiance, in a rampant stance, proud and strong, ready for any challenge that should come his way. In one hand he brandishes a claymore; in the other hand a shield - attack and defence in perfect balance. Modern-day Highlanders play their rugby the same way - ferocious in attack, tenacious in defence. The colours of the emblem and jersey have direct links to the three provinces that make up the Highlanders franchise: gold for North Otago; blue for Otago; maroon for Southland."
