KIWIPIE

Profile: A favourite of HoriBOP (due to having the word Pie in his name), KiwiPie is an outsider brought in to look after Tauranga as so many of the Mafia have left over the years. Has BabyPie in tow, groomed to take over in future years...

3rd BoP Mafia Awards - Results
3rd November 2005. More

Chiefs Squad Ins and Outs
28th October 2005. More

SenioGate
29th September 2005.
Here’s the story so far .... More

A weekend in Christchurch
25th August 2005.
Another trip to Christchurch, twice as many chartered planes and another heavy defeat for the mighty Steamers. More

The Lions week
14th June 2005.
I was going to write a match report on the Lions game – but you all saw it and if you watched it on TV you saw far more of it than I did on the embankment. More

Chiefs Round-Up
16th May 2005.

Round-up of the Bay players that is! More

Baywatch
During the probably disastrous Chiefs season, this table will let you know which Bay players played, when they went off, when they came on etc etc. More

Assorted Mafia Information
11th February 2005.

This is just a mish-mash of stuff lurking in my head and a good chance to start updating the site in preparation for 2005. More

Mafia Awards 2004
26th November 2004.
Last Saturday the BOP Mafia announced their annual awards at a very informal gathering of Mafia types at Fahys Motor Inn. More

Voting Breakdown 2004
26th November 2004.
This was the voting breakdown for the Mafia Awards 2004. More

And the dream lives on …
15th October 2004.

Another game, another heart-stopping victory, 5 wins in a row and now a trip to Christchurch for an NPC semi-final. There were many Bay fans up at North Harbour... more

Stag Hunting – about as successful as Taniwha Taming
4th October 2004.

Never mind the quality, look at the points table. 10 points from Northland and Southland and all we have to do is beat Harbour to make the semis. We were hopeful 4 weeks ago that 6 wins would be enough for a semis spot, but the dramatic decline of Otago and Auckland has meant the other teams kept winning as well. More

Taming the Taniwha
1st October 2004.

Well taming is maybe too strong a word, we kept the Taniwha in its place. Just about! They day started way too early with me and the 2 Mini-Mafia on the road by 8 with a long drive up north. After meeting up with fellow Mafia at the fine establishment of Wendy’s on Auckland’s North Shore, it was just a 2 hour dash to the terraces of Okara Park where we were joined by HoriBOP, just in time as usual. More

Hori BOP – Your Worst NightMayor
10th September 2004.

As you may know, the Godfather of the BoP Mafia, the esteemed Hori BOP, is standing for mayor in Tauranga. When he is elected, he will replace the council with the BoP Mafia so we are very very keen for him to win. More

Reflections on the attack on Mooloo
27th August 2004.

The BOP Mafia wishes to make it clear that they in no way condone the unprovoked assault on “Mooloo”, (formerly a half man, half cow mythical creature, now revealed as merely of human flesh), that took place at Blue Chip Stadium on Sunday August 22. While we were observed to chuckle just a little, or some might say more than a little... more

Foster's Flops Xcept 4 4
8th June 2004
This was the banner hastily produced by Hori BOP and myself when the BoP Times called on us for a photo session to illustrate the anger felt amongst Steamers fans when the Chiefs squad was announced. Being the media sluts we are... more

BayWatch - After Super 12 Round 5
26th March 2004
4 matches into the Chiefs Super 12 campaign and they have one more win than I would have expected, given their fixture list. Unfortunately they don't have a single bonus point... more

Steamers cruelly denied spot in the semis
14th October 2004
So close and yet so far, we finished 5th in the NPC table ahead of Southland due to an extra bonus point and behind Auckland as they had amassed 3 more than us. Auckland can thank that ridiculous... more

BoP crush Waikato in Hamilton
14th October 2004
What can I say about the Mafia day out in Hamilton? From the moment we arrived in the ground, we were treated to a feast of Bay rugby, forwards driving hard, sweeping back line moves and a Waikato side bewildered and ultimately defeated heavily. Oh how we shouted our approval and made such cutting and disparaging remarks to the Waikato fans. Unfortunately the development game ended... more

Torture by Text Message
10th October 2004
We have all had times when we can’t watch a game live and have to rely on other ways of finding out the score. I was given permission from the BOP Mafia to miss the Auckland game to attend a cricket coaching course and I am very grateful to the Mafia for allowing me to attend (and I am sure my kneecaps will recover over time). more

Welcome to the Family
11th September 2003
It was time to introduce a member of my family into THE FAMILY. Young BabyPie had reached an age where she needed to know real FAMILY values so I took her to the magnificent WBF Stadium (otherwise known as Luigi’s) to meet the Don and his henchmen (and women). After an obscure initiation ceremony which included some mumbled words from the Don (something about birthright and 1976) she was given the formal attire of the FAMILY and accepted by the group. Bizarrely for a supposedly secret society, her photo was then taken for a newspaper... more