$30,000 bar tab

[Swoop]

Not quite Swoop, they are basically trying to say that spending 10,000 pounds sterling in a bar in London (yes, it was a bar in London, not France) will buy you about the same amount of booze as NZ$10,000 would buy you here in NZ.
For example, at a downtown bar here a bottle of Heineken will cost about NZ$6. I remember paying 5 pounds for the same in Docklands.
Of course there are always other places you CAN drink with different pricing (Str1.60 pints of beer at the Walkabout in Covent Garden!), but they DIDN'T.

I agree. The cost of booze is immaterial. "Someone", however, is trying to downplay the amount spent though. 10K sterling is slightly different to 10k NZ Rouble.

[Finn]

I wonder if people would be bitching so much if they had won.

[Swoop]

Don't hold your breath waiting to find out...

[boomer]

Let them have their fun, they've earned it.

they earned what exactly..?? fook all for second never mind last....!!

[oldrider]

I wonder if people would be bitching so much if they had won.

Well, I for one, would not be bitching, I admire "winners"!

I was in Christchurch, had they been winners I would have gone to the "welcome home".

Triers are like blowflies on the window, trying to get out, they just get tired and die there.

Winners change the plan, fly away and succeed they don't just keep trying the same damn thing, over and over.

AB's narrowly won the first half, lost the second, the game, the cup and established themselves at 8th equal in the world.

Four years and $50 million down the toilet in 40 mins of rugby and Henry still can't see where he went wrong! Hello!

He gambled and lost everything in that fatal forty minutes, apart from that his players were on track to be world champions.

They gave their all and simply ran out of puff.

As a consequence they were unable to finish their game plans and set pieces and convert their obvious superiority into points on the board.

Then, like the fly, they just kept on "trying" and "trying" and finally "dying."

Reconditioned my arse, too many injured players backing up injured players and none of them battle hardened and adequately prepared for the rigours of WCR competition.

It was Henry's plan, so Henry must accept the consequences and unfortunately the whole squad (and the country) have to share that with him too.

King Henry, my plan, my book,(It should be titled) "Four years, $50MNZ, fucked in forty minutes!"

He still doesn't know what went wrong! Yeah right! WCR's greatest "losers".

four more years? You be the judge! John.

[scumdog]

Mehh, ya ain't see my Riviera of the South Plod-shop bar tab...