All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham
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@Rancid-Schnitzel 5th if you count Weepu running about at 10
@taniwharugby said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Rancid-Schnitzel 5th if you count Weepu running about at 10
Oh yeah, and he farked his hamstring warming up for the final. More luck I guess...
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Shit. Maybe we'll get some luck for a change. Manage to beat France after they get a red card for ball grabbing. Then have Scotland in the QF after they upset Ireland or SA. Then Wales in the SF and then the remnants of who's left after the carnage on the other side of the draw in the final. We're surely due a bit of luck in one of these fůcking tournaments.
Used up in 2011. Now in the red again after 2019 opener.
Chin up though, the rugby gods are fickle, and they may be keen to punish your opponents.
@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Used up in 2011. Now in the red again after 2019 opener.
in fairness, the final was tight as a drum, and refereeing could go either way. Some of the rugby world think Joubert swallowed his whistle and that benefitted us.
We left a lot of points out there that day; every RWC has a game like that to win, squeaky bum time with not a lot of points available
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@chimoaus said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
I'm assuming the luck in 2015 was karma for Suzie in 95?
TBH the 2015 run to the Cup was one tournament that really didn't need much luck, they were on a level above the other teams. And it was mental strength and a bunch of GOAT players that got us past the one hard game
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@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Shit. Maybe we'll get some luck for a change. Manage to beat France after they get a red card for ball grabbing. Then have Scotland in the QF after they upset Ireland or SA. Then Wales in the SF and then the remnants of who's left after the carnage on the other side of the draw in the final. We're surely due a bit of luck in one of these fůcking tournaments.
Used up in 2011. Now in the red again after 2019 opener.
Chin up though, the rugby gods are fickle, and they may be keen to punish your opponents.
Yeah sure. McCaw playing with a broken foot and getting down to 4th choice 10 was luck.
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Shit. Maybe we'll get some luck for a change. Manage to beat France after they get a red card for ball grabbing. Then have Scotland in the QF after they upset Ireland or SA. Then Wales in the SF and then the remnants of who's left after the carnage on the other side of the draw in the final. We're surely due a bit of luck in one of these fůcking tournaments.
Used up in 2011. Now in the red again after 2019 opener.
Chin up though, the rugby gods are fickle, and they may be keen to punish your opponents.
Yeah sure. McCaw playing with a broken foot and getting down to 4th choice 10 was luck.
God bless the Beaver. One of my favourite ever ABs of recent times. He should be yours too.
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@chimoaus said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
I'm assuming the luck in 2015 was karma for Suzie in 95?
TBH the 2015 run to the Cup was one tournament that really didn't need much luck, they were on a level above the other teams. And it was mental strength and a bunch of GOAT players that got us past the one hard game
@Machpants said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@chimoaus said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
I'm assuming the luck in 2015 was karma for Suzie in 95?
TBH the 2015 run to the Cup was one tournament that really didn't need much like, they were on a level above the other teams. And it was mental strength and a bunch of GOAT players that got us past the one hard game
Yep. France, SA and Aus wasn't exactly an easy run. Unlike Fiji, Argentina and England....
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@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Used up in 2011. Now in the red again after 2019 opener.
in fairness, the final was tight as a drum, and refereeing could go either way. Some of the rugby world think Joubert swallowed his whistle and that benefitted us.
We left a lot of points out there that day; every RWC has a game like that to win, squeaky bum time with not a lot of points available
@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Some of the rugby world think Joubert swallowed his whistle and that benefitted us.
More objective people know he favoured France heavily and we won despite the one sided officiating ... don't get me started ... I don't have videos with circles and arrows but I do have a listing of sus decisions I can repost (analysis after so many peeps said Joubert favoured us) and they favoured France massively.
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@Billy-Tell Yes thank fark we've got all the tears, tantrums and throwing toys out of the way already. Now we can just go and stand in the corner and sulk.
@Jailbreak7 said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Billy-Tell Yes thank fark we've got all the tears, tantrums and throwing toys out of the way already. Now we can just go and stand in the corner and sulk.
But there are 4 corners! What do we do?!!
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What I can't fathom is what kind of thinking scheduled this match at that time against the most physical opponent we could have and a likely quarter final opponent at that. Plain stupid in my view.
So I take the result with a grain of salt. And I wonder if a lot of the commentary around the match is warped by a sense of loyalty to whomever made such a bad decision.
And I also wonder if there was a prompt on the officials to be far more strict in some areas.
So little changes for our prospects in my view except that maybe we now view Ireland as our more preferred QF opponent and let France deal to South Africa.@ARHS said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
.. let France deal to South Africa.
That game could be the toughest and most attritional game at the RWC, and for both sides.
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@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Shit. Maybe we'll get some luck for a change. Manage to beat France after they get a red card for ball grabbing. Then have Scotland in the QF after they upset Ireland or SA. Then Wales in the SF and then the remnants of who's left after the carnage on the other side of the draw in the final. We're surely due a bit of luck in one of these fůcking tournaments.
Used up in 2011. Now in the red again after 2019 opener.
Chin up though, the rugby gods are fickle, and they may be keen to punish your opponents.
Jeez, remind me again where we got lucky in 2011? Was it when Carter went down? Or when Cruden went down? My memory fails me!
Shit, we have so much luck karma coming back to us this year we probably won’t concede a try all tournament on our march to victory…
@voodoo said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Shit. Maybe we'll get some luck for a change. Manage to beat France after they get a red card for ball grabbing. Then have Scotland in the QF after they upset Ireland or SA. Then Wales in the SF and then the remnants of who's left after the carnage on the other side of the draw in the final. We're surely due a bit of luck in one of these fůcking tournaments.
Used up in 2011. Now in the red again after 2019 opener.
Chin up though, the rugby gods are fickle, and they may be keen to punish your opponents.
Jeez, remind me again where we got lucky in 2011? Was it when Carter went down? Or when Cruden went down? My memory fails me!
Shit, we have so much luck karma coming back to us this year we probably won’t concede a try all tournament on our march to victory…
Only luck saved you from having Slade at FH in the 2011 final
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Does make me wonder what we all did for Woodward & Co to win in ‘03.
That seems to awful to be anything other than a collective punishment.
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Exactly!
What monstrous offence did we commit to allow that smug fluffybunny the satisfaction?
@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Exactly!
What monstrous offence did we commit to allow that smug fluffybunny the satisfaction?
I met Woodward a few years ago at a work event, a work dinner then in a Corporate box.
He was a complete dick each time. Everybody else who met him, agreed.
It was very satisfying.
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Day of the 07 final we’re smashing overpriced Kronenberg’s on the Champs Elise when a London double decker rolls up filled with the worst of middle england and Sir Bloody Clive on a microphone on the top deck.
My little boet runs out and calls out in his best Etonian: Sir Clive, Sir Clive?!
Cliveward leans out to have a chat with his adoring public and the little legend lands the unanswerable: Go fuck yourself.
Amongst the roaring laughter, the sad twat’s (probably piss weak) reply was lost.
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Day of the 07 final we’re smashing overpriced Kronenberg’s on the Champs Elise when a London double decker rolls up filled with the worst of middle england and Sir Bloody Clive on a microphone on the top deck.
My little boet runs out and calls out in his best Etonian: Sir Clive, Sir Clive?!
Cliveward leans out to have a chat with his adoring public and the little legend lands the unanswerable: Go fuck yourself.
Amongst the roaring laughter, the sad twat’s (probably piss weak) reply was lost.
@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Day of the 07 final we’re smashing overpriced Kronenberg’s on the Champs Elise when a London double decker rolls up filled with the worst of middle england and Sir Bloody Clive on a microphone on the top deck.
My little boet runs out and calls out in his best Etonian: Sir Clive, Sir Clive?!
Cliveward leans out to have a chat with his adoring public and the little legend lands the unanswerable: Go fuck yourself.
Amongst the roaring laughter, the sad twat’s (probably piss weak) reply was lost.
Brilliant
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@voodoo said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Shit. Maybe we'll get some luck for a change. Manage to beat France after they get a red card for ball grabbing. Then have Scotland in the QF after they upset Ireland or SA. Then Wales in the SF and then the remnants of who's left after the carnage on the other side of the draw in the final. We're surely due a bit of luck in one of these fůcking tournaments.
Used up in 2011. Now in the red again after 2019 opener.
Chin up though, the rugby gods are fickle, and they may be keen to punish your opponents.
Jeez, remind me again where we got lucky in 2011? Was it when Carter went down? Or when Cruden went down? My memory fails me!
Shit, we have so much luck karma coming back to us this year we probably won’t concede a try all tournament on our march to victory…
Only luck saved you from having Slade at FH in the 2011 final
@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@voodoo said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Shit. Maybe we'll get some luck for a change. Manage to beat France after they get a red card for ball grabbing. Then have Scotland in the QF after they upset Ireland or SA. Then Wales in the SF and then the remnants of who's left after the carnage on the other side of the draw in the final. We're surely due a bit of luck in one of these fůcking tournaments.
Used up in 2011. Now in the red again after 2019 opener.
Chin up though, the rugby gods are fickle, and they may be keen to punish your opponents.
Jeez, remind me again where we got lucky in 2011? Was it when Carter went down? Or when Cruden went down? My memory fails me!
Shit, we have so much luck karma coming back to us this year we probably won’t concede a try all tournament on our march to victory…
Only luck saved you from having Slade at FH in the 2011 final
Fair, I now understand you
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Day of the 07 final we’re smashing overpriced Kronenberg’s on the Champs Elise when a London double decker rolls up filled with the worst of middle england and Sir Bloody Clive on a microphone on the top deck.
My little boet runs out and calls out in his best Etonian: Sir Clive, Sir Clive?!
Cliveward leans out to have a chat with his adoring public and the little legend lands the unanswerable: Go fuck yourself.
Amongst the roaring laughter, the sad twat’s (probably piss weak) reply was lost.
@Smuts I saw that bus!!!!
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@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Day of the 07 final we’re smashing overpriced Kronenberg’s on the Champs Elise when a London double decker rolls up filled with the worst of middle england and Sir Bloody Clive on a microphone on the top deck.
My little boet runs out and calls out in his best Etonian: Sir Clive, Sir Clive?!
Cliveward leans out to have a chat with his adoring public and the little legend lands the unanswerable: Go fuck yourself.
Amongst the roaring laughter, the sad twat’s (probably piss weak) reply was lost.
Brilliant
@scribe said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
@Smuts said in All Blacks vs Springboks - Twickenham:
Day of the 07 final we’re smashing overpriced Kronenberg’s on the Champs Elise when a London double decker rolls up filled with the worst of middle england and Sir Bloody Clive on a microphone on the top deck.
My little boet runs out and calls out in his best Etonian: Sir Clive, Sir Clive?!
Cliveward leans out to have a chat with his adoring public and the little legend lands the unanswerable: Go fuck yourself.
Amongst the roaring laughter, the sad twat’s (probably piss weak) reply was lost.
Brilliant
Somehow it wasn’t even the best chirp of the day.
Caught
NoddyTimothy Horan carrying his missus’ shopping on St Germain. He was pretty sheepish but a good sport after we told him we were in the stands when his knee exploded and we’re pretty impressed he came back to rip us apart in 1999.As he’s grinning into my camera between my two starstruck mates, my half-cut old man stumbles by looking seriously unimpressed muttering:
“Hmmph Timmy Horan. Master of the Marginally Forward Pass.”
