January 15 2007
Mailbag: A Cricket Fan Writes…
posted by Ana Samways at 7:00 am
“I am presuming you know who Sonny Shaw is?” writes a cricket fan.
“He’s that nincompoop who stands behind the bowler or the batsman at every NZ cricket game waving the NZ flag with an assortment of soft toys attached to his person (majorly pissing off SKY, who told their cameras to steer clear of him).
He was also thumped by Jerry Collins one night on the razz in Wellington. Most people tolerate him, realising that he must be a little delusional.”
“I was at the recent twenty/twenty match at Eden Park when I noticed that attached to his flag was advertising for his website.
When we got home we jumped on knowing that we would be in for a good laugh… While it is close to the weirdest most self aggrandising website I had been to, nothing prepared me for the section titled ‘Girls’, in particular the slideshow called “My Favourite Girls” (NSFW)
“Along with pictures of portly old guy Sonny Shaw nuzzling young girls with his nasty moustache is some amateur porno shots. No warnings, no R18 tags or anything. While the content does not bother me too much, the fact that he was advertising his website and any young kid could stumble across it just doesn’t seem right to me.”
“While he is clearly an embarrassment to Kiwis by virtue of his shameless self promotion his judgment in this instance is clearly lacking. He is certainly entitled to have a website to advertise his property developing “skills”, his playing “skills” and his Speedo wearing “skills”, however, the pictures of ‘his girls’ have to go.”
January 15th, 2007 at 7:51 am
That second ‘girl’ bears a startling resemblance to Divine Brown.
January 15th, 2007 at 8:34 am
I wonder how all those Kiwi girls who innocently stood beside old Sonny-boy for pub photos would feel about being on the website if they knew they’d been posted alongside his “favourite girls”?
January 15th, 2007 at 8:41 am
Not related to Steven then? Says he’s a journalist too.
January 15th, 2007 at 9:33 am
What a hero. piles of pictures of drunken young women posing with him. Him posting those naked pictures AND thinking its OK is unbelievable. The guy needs therapy
January 15th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Is he the same guy that filmed Tana drunk? And wasn’t that guy once charged with sexual assult or something similar some years ago?
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Good on ya! I recently took a sign to the game in Hamilton that said KEEP FLAG GUY OFF TV, and stood behind him for half the game. It got so much support from everyone in the crowd, I was pleasantly surprised. DOWN WITH FLAG GUY!!!
March 13th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
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March 15th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Big ups to the guy with the KEEP FLAG GUY OFF TV. That banner pretty much sums up the majority of NZ’s attitude to Sonny Spoon. And as for that website, what the hell?!DOWN WITH FLAG GUY!
March 19th, 2007 at 9:34 am
This guy is my hero. I aspire to one day have Sonny’s “pulling” power – so one day I will too lose my nubian wings.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Yeah this guy needs help! I played a game of over 35’s Rugby a couple of years ago and he was in the oppostion team, he seemed abit odd at the time, but having recently checked out his website he is a total fruit loop!
April 4th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Sonny’s an interesting one and I hope I can provide more detail…
yep, he got belted by Jerry Collins then the NZRFU and the media found out he had been convicted of statutory rape in his late teens/early 20’s. Pretty poor ethical behaviour but it took the heat off the whole Jerry belting people incident. So Sonny’s officially a “rapist.”
Thru a mate I used to have a chat to Sonny at Warrior’s home games. Seemed nice enough at first but after a spell it became apparent his whole life was sport, beer, chasing young woman…not a bad day out…but not a whole life! His communication skills were banal and immature, not exactly an interesting bloke…one sports tour seemed much like the next.
I’m guessing he’s an emotionally stunted number cruncher that’s found a niche in life and’s happy that on whatever level he’s on he’s out there and interacting
He’s just a bit sad…his attitude towards the ladies, his rape convicion, his lack of interpersonal skills, his inability to have anything else vaguely interesting about his life other than sport…just a bit seedy, sad, and pathetic.
April 4th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Yeah Jason that was an awesome sign you had at hamilton we were all behind you,, I thought he was a bit crazy but then i went to his website looked at his photos and was speechless!
DOWN WITH FLAG GUY!!!