Italy vs Wallabies, EOYT 2010

[TheTruth]

C'mon people! This is the A-team now. Or pretty close.

I don't like Lee's news about the field at all. I reckon Robbie should play a clip of the cheating Italians diving against Australia in soccer over and over again. But I digress.

This is an excellent team, and we're going to win, and I'm going to get on board the Robbie express. Or more accurately, the Robbie Express has finally arrived at my station where I've been waiting 3 years.

Jeez I hope you are right - Walls by 20

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

Scarfy, it is the team we've been screaming for, so if they can't give a good account of themselves then we pretty much are screwed.

 

[Lee Grant]

We are the Wallabies. They are the Italian Rugby team. Not the Italian soccer team, the rugby team. Should they defeat us tomorrow every member of the Wallabies squad deserves atomic wedgies

If we lose to Italy, I will be at the Airport throwing 15 different types of cheese at the bloody Wallabies when they return!!:angryfire::angryfire:

Were we not making similar noises before the Scotland game last year? And are there other folks who thought we could have lost when watching the 2nd half of the last two games in Itay?

No probs, Deans is going to sweet talk the ref.

So long as Deans is the last one to speak to Berdos this could work. He is prone to take advice from such persons.

A pity that AR Bryce Lawrence didn't tell referee Berdos the right thing at the start of that Lions test when Schalkie did his thing. Had he said "I recommend a red card, instead of 'at least a yellow'," the Lions may have won the series. Berdos would have taken it as an instruction.

If a Frenchmen were to ref the game I would have preferred Romain Poite to Christophe Berdos, warts and all, and he has a few. He has not been particularly kind to the Wallabies but the Italians will play Berdos like a violin as they do already in the Top14. They don't play Poite, a man of few words.

Poite has none of Berdos' introspective questionings nor shades of truth and untruth. He has an aversion to doubt about what he sees and to the finer tints and shades of rugby action. For him things are black or white, whilst Berdos sees the gray in them.

Berdos worries me.

 

[RugbyFuture]

OK, I'll bite - please elaborate!

fathers choir at my old school

 

[Lee Grant]

My mistake; I misread it. I thought you said: "They swing together".

 

[RugbyFuture]

dirty mind lee

 

[Thomond78]

Were we not making similar noises before the Scotland game last year? And are there other folks who thought we could have lost when watching the 2nd half of the last two games in Itay?


So long as Deans is the last one to speak to Berdos this could work. He is prone to take advice from such persons.

A pity that AR Bryce Lawrence didn't tell referee Berdos the right thing at the start of that Lions test when Schalkie did his thing. Had he said "I recommend a red card, instead of 'at least a yellow'," the Lions may have won the series. Berdos would have taken it as an instruction.

If a Frenchmen were to ref the game I would have preferred Romain Poite to Christophe Berdos, warts and all, and he has a few. He has not been particularly kind to the Wallabies but the Italians will play Berdos like a violin as they do already in the Top14. They don't play Poite, a man of few words.

Poite has none of Berdos' introspective questionings nor shades of truth and untruth. He has an aversion to doubt about what he sees and to the finer tints and shades of rugby action. For him things are black or white, whilst Berdos sees the gray in them.

Berdos worries me.

But the problem with Random Putain is, it's what the voices tell Random Putain, not what's actually happening. Sometimes, things are grey. That's why Berdos is a MUCH better referee than either Lawrence or Putain.

Lawrence should never have reffed again after that gutless cop-out.

Best French ref at the moment, I'd reckon, is Garces. A ref who I would rate very highly; refs it as a good ref would ref a club game - and that, btw, is a compliment.

 

[MrMouse]

I re-read this again and had another good laugh. It's funny enough to re-post and say thats again for a great line I'm sure I'll be able use one day

Cheers Bullrush, I live to please

 

[MrMouse]

I would have preferred Romain Poite to Christophe Berdos

Wash your mouth out LG! Sure Berdos might worry you, but if our leadership group steps up and gets in his ear that could work in our favour, and you know he can't handle Rocky's icy glare.

To quote T78 for emphasis

the problem with Random Putain is, it's what the voices tell Random Putain, not what's actually happening

 

[chief]

Evening alll this is going to be a tough game for Australia. I feel Italy will take this one. I genuinely worry for the Wobs scrum, and Berrick Barnes at Inside Centre. I really don't know what Berdos will give us, or give Italy. By a mile Poite is the best French ref, and for that matter one of the best in the world. It's too much of a toss up. Italy by 5.

 

[Groucho]

Just in case anyone (like me) has wasted time researching illegal trout streams, this mama is live on Channel 10.

 

[Gagger]

Poite has none of Berdos' introspective questionings nor shades of truth and untruth. He has an aversion to doubt about what he sees and to the finer tints and shades of rugby action. For him things are black or white, whilst Berdos sees the gray in them.

Scarfy - which chapter from your book on french philosophers will this go into?

 

[Gagger]

This is an excellent team, and we're going to win, and I'm going to get on board the Robbie express. Or more accurately, the Robbie Express has finally arrived at my station where I've been waiting 3 years.

The dropping of Gits was enough to put you on the Robbie express??

Langthorne down, Scarfie down.....

 

[Rothschild]

I think the dropping of gits was enough to get many back onside. Great piece of pr work by the dingo

 

[dobduff11]

If Barnes has a poor game I wonder how many people will say that Gits never should have been dropped and that he was a vital cog in the backline,

If Barnes has a poor game i'm lobbying for JOC (James O'Connor) to 12 against the french not that it will happen.

 

[Scarfman]

You've got to admit Gags, that th side is slowly evolving towards to the G&GR consensus team. All we need is JOC (James O'Connor) to 12, Baxter to 16, and we're there.

Moving Rocky to 8 was another sought after selection. Watch out for that one around June 2011.

 

[JJJ]

Robbie's clearly been holding the "drop gits" card up his sleeve for pr emergencies, like two consecutive losses to England and then a loss to Munster.

 

[dobduff11]

What about David Lyons to 8 he always looked handy for the scarlets, or possibly John Roe he was useful on the rugby games.

 

[ChargerWA]

I hope Quade isn't so stung about the reaction to his defence last week, that he spends all game trying to prove he can tackle and his offensive game goes missing.

 

[Jnor]

Ok so who's up? And are we having a live chat tonight?

Looking forward to the Wobs showing they've got more than we sometimes give them credit for. If they don't I'm gona be seriously pissed off. Let's go here.

Wallabies by 8. Carnnnnn!!!!