RWC - Triumph or flop?
Sep 25th 2011, 2:22 pm
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Re: RWC - Triumph or flop?
the only away to escape the curse of the rwc is to leave the country and head for somewhere out of radio/tv contact.If one has to stay it's better to accept that resistance is futile and wait for the all clear to sound.
Sep 25th 2011, 2:26 pm
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Re: RWC - Triumph or flop?
I dunno so much. Martin Devlin is a tw@t . An arsy tw@t. I can't stick the one eyed reports either.
To me the people that feel the need to jeer and make loud disparaging remarks about those, or to those from other nations are the ones with the problem as that is clearly not healthy really.
We had this Saturday night from a bloke making assumptions about us based on our accents. Didn't know the bloke from Adam. Instead of celebrating the game and actually properly watching the rugby he chose to come out with intermittent bursts of complete and utter barracking rubbish. We're not even French for goodness sake. In the end I was moved to ask him if he was usually a bit of a tosser or did it come with the jersey he was wearing. Pathetic .
Husband says it reminds him of football fans from back in the 70's
To me the people that feel the need to jeer and make loud disparaging remarks about those, or to those from other nations are the ones with the problem as that is clearly not healthy really.
We had this Saturday night from a bloke making assumptions about us based on our accents. Didn't know the bloke from Adam. Instead of celebrating the game and actually properly watching the rugby he chose to come out with intermittent bursts of complete and utter barracking rubbish. We're not even French for goodness sake. In the end I was moved to ask him if he was usually a bit of a tosser or did it come with the jersey he was wearing. Pathetic .
Husband says it reminds him of football fans from back in the 70's
They just love their sport here and take delight in seeing it played well.
Sep 25th 2011, 4:32 pm
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We iz both from Englandshire which made it all the more bizarre . We think it was the Northern Hemisphere thing . At least, that's our theory.
You were. RWC 2003 . England.
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Sep 25th 2011, 5:23 pm
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Oh yeah ... the Aussies are really sportsmanlike, and the kiwis are just completely up themselves. Lol.
Sep 25th 2011, 5:37 pm
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Re: RWC - Triumph or flop?
You obviously weren't at those cricket tests and one-dayers in Australia in the eighties when the chant was 'Hadlee is a wanker' by a crowd of 40,000, or when he was pelted with cans and bottles while fielding on the boundary ... or at the games in the nineties when the chant was 'John Bracewell is a wanker' ... or when Trevor Chappell bowled underarm to prevent a six being hit ... or when Greg Dyer, I think it was, flicked off the bail with his finger and claimed a stumping ... or the game when the chant was ... oh ... forget it.
Oh yeah ... the Aussies are really sportsmanlike, and the kiwis are just completely up themselves. Lol.
Oh yeah ... the Aussies are really sportsmanlike, and the kiwis are just completely up themselves. Lol.
80s and 90s hey? Australia must've moved on a lot in the last 20 to 30 years.IMO cricket's even more boring than rugby, but other people enjoy it so it's all good
Sep 25th 2011, 5:50 pm
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Barmy Army anyone?
Sep 25th 2011, 6:01 pm
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I actually love the Barmy Army. They add to the atmosphere. It's all good natured fun with them, from what I've witnessed anyway. The aussie chants were quite fun at the end of the day too. It's only when they start throwing things that it goes a bit haywire. 
Perhaps Expat Kiwi would like to look at all these really nice, pleasant Australian fans, who just enjoy sport and clap at all the great play by the opposition, at an Australia-England one-dayer from a few years back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfev0na-gr8
Perhaps Expat Kiwi would like to look at all these really nice, pleasant Australian fans, who just enjoy sport and clap at all the great play by the opposition, at an Australia-England one-dayer from a few years back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfev0na-gr8
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Sep 25th 2011, 6:15 pm
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Shame is that TBH that you've only got into the sport now where there isn't too much comes by in the way of teams . You've missed out on some stonkingly quality 'calibre' stripped out in an assortment of colours .
Sep 25th 2011, 7:48 pm
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Sep 26th 2011, 12:29 am
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Sep 26th 2011, 12:35 am
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Sep 26th 2011, 12:38 am
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I wouldn't say those NZ supporters are drunk at all. It is their way. They think it's OK to be that way. Rude. Disrepsectful and all that. I just don't know how or why it has become acceptable here. So rude of other's national anthems. So rude to other teams on the field. So rude & aggressive - right in your face barracking - to other rugby supporters. It just ain't nice.
As they say at a London Irish match before a goal kick.
"Quiet in the stadium please"
As they say at a London Irish match before a goal kick.
"Quiet in the stadium please"
