GASP! I finally remembered to breathe again...
Grumpy Old Bastard
GASP! I finally remembered to breathe again...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Just faidin away!
One point is enough, how and why doesn't matter a stuff .... well done Ab's (Henry and company too) real rugby "World Champions"!
sdkfz
Some wankers really make me wonder: trolling for cheap giggles or actual serious issues inside your head?Originally Posted by short-circuit
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AB's may not have been best team on the day, but were best team of the tournament (and for most of the preceeding four years or more). That was a real nail biter, but in the end they deserved the win as much as anyone. Phew.
Measure once, cut twice. Practice makes perfect.
Hardcore Biker
Anyone else see the score... 8-7 like 1987... last time AB's won a world cup, against France, at Auckland... think I'm in the twilight zone!
The instructions are simple...
No wonder I couldn't find the game on any of the 'adult' channels...
I'd been told coverage would be not screened on the standard channels because 15 French arseholes being hammered for 80 minutes wasn't suitable on free-to-air. But the hammering didn't happen.
Can anyone confirm the rumour that Piri has been returned to the factory for re-booting?
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
sem fiddy pilot
Wasn't Piri's best performance...
BUT... don't lose sight of his performance getting us to the final!
I'm just writing a formal apology letter to Stephen Donald, as we speak....
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Hardcore Biker
should be called......... THE GREAT RUGBY WORLD CUP SWINDLE.......although i am gratefull the ABs scummied a win coz New Zealand would have imploded with analytical what if and maybes had they lost,the game itself was an utter let down IMHO.
I ran a stopwatch over the game...........the ball was in play for 18 minutes in the first half.........20 minutes the second half...........nothing like an 80 minute epic battle as hype would have us believe..........smoke and mirrors............
***** POLITICIANS *****
People Of Little Integrity Thieving Innocent Citizens Incomes And Need Shooting
*******KASPA*******
Knavery Artificial Spurious Pretentious Arseholes
Watchful Old Bird
Right ....now this distraction over we can get on with important issues like .. rebuilding Christchurch, mopping up oil in Tauranga and just maybe deal with an election and the economy. .... after weeks of post mortem and mutual back slapping of course.
In the riders seat
Could be worse,could of been 4 years of whinging and excuse making if we'd lost.... after weeks of post mortem and mutual back slapping of course.
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
Forum whore
So you don't like injecting overseas money into the economy or the 10's of thousands of tourists taking great impressions of NZ around the world or just the plain sense of fun about the place over the last few weeks? Sad bugger....Right ....now this distraction over we can get on with important issues like .. rebuilding Christchurch, mopping up oil in Tauranga and just maybe deal with an election and the economy. .... after weeks of post mortem and mutual back slapping of course.
Forum whore
What game where you watching. Two teams giving it their all, edge of the seat stuff the whole game. Either team could have won it.
That is what a final should be all about. I am just stoked we came out on the right side of the score sheet.
Awesome final!
one placenta
....too true..an epic test...
Grumpy Old Bastard
I was pretty surprised at the level of support for the whole event that occurred throughout New Zealand. It would have to be the first thing that has had such a unifying effect since god knows when. I even found myself a little swept up in it all.
My main memory of rugby in my own life was of, as a prop, reaching through the scrum to find an opposition team member's ear, and instantly grabbing said ear and screwing the fuck out of it. I'll never forget him screaming "NO SCREWING EARS! NO SCREWING EARS!"
I still giggle about that when the demons get loose...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
Forum whore
What do you consider out of play?
Personally I like the "chess" aspect of rugby. Watching the scrums set and reset is something I enjoy a lot (ex prop). Its all goodand it has to stop occaisionally otherwise no one would last 80 minutes. I don't wanna go the rugby vs league route, but most of the players aren't involved much of the time at all, just running back and forth like a 13 man back line.
I like what Richie said post match. "We didn't play very well, but we played well enough"
Fantastic 6 week break for all of us, back to life now.
I mentioned vegetables once, but I think I got away with it...........
sem fiddy pilot
Me, to Stephen Donald.....
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