It has been a pretty successful year in New Zealand sport but people always want more so tvnz.co.nz has looked at what some of NZ's sporting elite might wish for.
All Blacks - The World Cup to be held now.
Tana Umaga - No more questions on the O'Driscoll issue, or whether or not he is retiring.
Dan Carter -Women to stop treating him like a piece of meat, there's a lot more to him than that, women can be so superficial sometimes.
NPC - The newly promoted teams not to get too much of a hiding in the new competition.
NZRU - The World Cup hosting rights for 2011, oh no that wish already came true, probably too much to wish for anything else.
Gordon Tietjiens - To be able to keep some of the talented sevens players he develops.
Black Caps - The opposition's one-day innings' to end before the final 10 overs so the Black Caps' run chases can be reduced by at least 100 runs, or maybe a couple of death bowlers.
All Whites - A game.
Knights - To be as successful as the Kingz were.
Silver Ferns - Australia to lift their game so the Silver Ferns can have at least one close game on the way to winning gold in Melbourne.
Warriors - Their NZ reps to play like they did for the Kiwis.
Kiwis - Stacey Jones to never retire.
Team New Zealand - To scuttle the old boat NZL82 and bring on the new one, maybe scuttle the new Alinghi and Oracle boats too.
Breakers - Their name changed so they don't have to fix it.
Tall Blacks - Some players that actually fit the name.
NZ Badminton - No one, in the team or not, getting their nickname out in public.
New Zealand tennis - Still looking for some Korea, Lebanon, Kuwait, Iran, Philippines, or Kazakhstan interpreters for their Davis Cup team.
Black Sticks - Their own nickname so people don't confuse them with the Black Sticks.
Black Sticks - Their nickname back so people don't confuse them with the Black Sticks.
Michael Campbell - The rest of his career to come even close to this year.
Tony Kemp - A job.
New Zealand rowing - To win their medals in a shorter time, 45 minutes for four gold medals is just not good enough.
New Zealand swimming - The Australian team to have Suzie the South African waitress cater for them at the Commonwealth Games.
Athletics - The All Black wingers for a 4x100m relay team.
The New Zealand Winter Olympics team - People to know they exist.
David Tua - An 'O' for awesome year in the ring.
Black Sox - socks.
To show that Christmas wishes can come true, from last year's list the following had their wishes granted.
The All Blacks found a reliable, injury-free All Black locking partner for Chris Jack, and a hooker that can throw the ball in straight.
The Warriors got a wooden spoon removal unit, by four points.
The New Zealand men's hockey team got Hayden Shaw back.
Michael Campbell got a knife so he could make the cut and he did a bit better than just make the cut.
New Zealand Golf got the next Sir Bob Charles.
New Zealand cycling got Sarah Ulmer to keep
riding.
