Talk:New Zealand men's national field hockey team

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I believe that Blacksticks was originally used to refer only to the women's team, so if it's going to redirect to either team, it arguably should be the women's rather than the men's. Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding references for this. http://www.canterburyhockey.org.nz/index.php?page=news.php&view_archive=1&selected_item=72 suggests the change may have occured around 12 May 2005, but unfortunately the main article linked to seems to have vanished. Comments? David Underdown 17:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

The Blacksticks use to be referred to only for the New Zealand Womens Hockey team. However, around 2003 Hockey New Zealand ran a competition in which people were asked to think up a name for the New Zealand Mens Hockey team. After the competition ran, Hockey NZ choose not to use any of the suggested names from the competition, electing to name both the mens & womens teams as the 'Black Sticks'. I will try to find some references for this. 123.255.60.145 06:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

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 * I think that the main problem was that this article had been moved from Blacksticks to Blacksticks Men. I have updated the articlename, and also added a rationale for use in Blacksticks Women.  David Underdown 09:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)