Luigi Peters would be well advised to stick to his knitting which he's pretty good at it even if at times the design looks like a Fair Isle jersey, made famous by David Bain.

Luigi's nothing if not inconsistent. He weaves his way through politics faster than the clack of a knitting needle and frequently drops a stitch here and there but "darn" is one of his favourite swearwords so he can usually end up filling the holes that he frequently creates.

Over the past couple of weeks Luigi's turned his hand to the art of spin doctoring. He was the media manager of our world champion Parliamentary rugby team which is the tournament curtain raiser to the main event, this time of course being held in London.

In his media management role he clearly achieved his objective, because little was heard of the team after it left New Zealand. His rationale was quite straight forward, telling us there was nothing the media could write about because it was all positive, there was nothing negative, so he fathomed the news hounds wouldn't be interested.

So rather than being a spin doctor he was more of a bin doctor because that's where he relegated media interest in the tournament to.

Yeah, but what about the end result? Didn't we lose the trophy, he was asked (which immediately put an end to what he saw as the positive spin). It was a jack-up, he hissed, which he says he'll make sure doesn't happen again.

They changed the rules, without consultation, dividing the teams into two pools with the Australians playing in an inferior one which meant for them it was a walk in the park. Meanwhile our Parliamentary team slugged it out against France, Argentina and Wales, beating them all and only conceding three points, he crowed.

The Kiwis ended up at the head of their pool and the Ockers were in pride of place in theirs. But there was no playoff, the tournament outcome was decided on points and they claimed the trophy from us, even though Peters bragged we would have thrashed all comers.

Now as media manager you'd think that would have been a bit of a yarn. By remaining silent and keeping his team from the media during the tournament he seemed to be defying his own logic when it comes to dealing with us.

The story had all the ingredients that even he acknowledges the media thrives on, it was negative and we were robbed as a result of a jack-up.

It didn't seem there was much positive to the tournament at all, although there was no coverage of the antics off the field, so perhaps his media management wasn't a complete fail.