Living with Lions
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Grandmaster Flash
Johnnie Wallace (23)
Think this is a clip from it on YouTube, titled "Waratahs War" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKOCGsSJOLQ
Interesting to see who was playing in the Tahs team then, Waugh, Bowman, McRae (of course) etc...
Would love to see the whole thing as I was only just getting into the game when the tour was on, so only saw the tests and I think a QLD president's XV get thrashed?
Interesting to see who was playing in the Tahs team then, Waugh, Bowman, McRae (of course) etc...
Would love to see the whole thing as I was only just getting into the game when the tour was on, so only saw the tests and I think a QLD president's XV get thrashed?
naza
Alan Cameron (40)
Forever grateful for Graham Henry's incompetence coaching that Lions team.
Victory even sweeter hearing the whinging cry babies throwing their toys from their cot. As precious as New Zealanders. Outstanding biffo by the Tahs considering an unexceptional Tah team at the time under Dwyer and Pinkerton.
Victory even sweeter hearing the whinging cry babies throwing their toys from their cot. As precious as New Zealanders. Outstanding biffo by the Tahs considering an unexceptional Tah team at the time under Dwyer and Pinkerton.
Pfitzy
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Love that clip - he gets Tom Bowman for a supposed deliberate elbow, but completely misses Grewcock's subsequent swing :lmao:
And how skinny is Phil Waugh? :lmao: You never realise until you see the contrast to today side-by-side. I also LOVE to see the footage of MacRae punching shit out of ROG when they completely missed ROG using his elbows on MacRae in the first place :lmao:
And how skinny is Phil Waugh? :lmao: You never realise until you see the contrast to today side-by-side. I also LOVE to see the footage of MacRae punching shit out of ROG when they completely missed ROG using his elbows on MacRae in the first place :lmao:
Scarfman
Knitter of the Scarf
"This is the moment we win the series ... " Hee hee.
Odd that the coaching staff and captain freaked out about injuries in public. I reckon you freak out in private, but in public you show the players total composure.
I'm good at this. Maybe I should get Djuro Sen's old job at the Tahs, and stop Hickey and Wisemantel from saying such stupid things in public.
Odd that the coaching staff and captain freaked out about injuries in public. I reckon you freak out in private, but in public you show the players total composure.
I'm good at this. Maybe I should get Djuro Sen's old job at the Tahs, and stop Hickey and Wisemantel from saying such stupid things in public.
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Red Beard
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naza said:
Yeah outstanding biffo laying into a prone ROG on the ground for so long. Right up there in the Micheal Brial hardman stakes. It was a shame McRae chose Martin Johnson for his next victim in the Premiership a few months later. He didnt fare so well that day.
Pfitzy
Nathan Sharpe (72)
If ROG wanted to lay a cheap shot and then wasn't prepared to accept the consequences RB, then he has to live with them. MacRae wasn't always the sharpest knife in the drawer, and a bit firey with it, but the way he snapped shows how strongly he felt about ROG's actions.
Why no Lions forward was there to sort it out is another mystery...
Why no Lions forward was there to sort it out is another mystery...
Biffo
Ken Catchpole (46)
Red Beard said:
Got your facts a little, make that a lot, wrong there. Johnsons's terribly cowardly kicking of McRae while he was on the ground happened the previous season. :huxley
Your chosen angel Johnson has quite a record of cowardly thuggery. You really must choose your angels better.
Ash
Michael Lynagh (62)
What McRae did was wrong though. Sure, he got him back for some cheap shots, but...ROG's prone, you don't continue to hit him on the field. The guy never had much control though.
RE Johnson vs McRae...Johnson purposely dropped a knee in McRae's ribs a year (?) or so earlier, cracking several. Still think Grewcock was a dirtier player than Johnson though.
RE Johnson vs McRae...Johnson purposely dropped a knee in McRae's ribs a year (?) or so earlier, cracking several. Still think Grewcock was a dirtier player than Johnson though.
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formeropenside
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I'm a believer in get square, myself. If someone is a thug, you wait until they are vulnerable, and then you hurt them so badly they will have to clean up their act. Once you break the rules, you are no longer entitled to their protection.
And the judiciary should stay out of that sort of thing.
And the judiciary should stay out of that sort of thing.
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Red Beard
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Biffo said:
My bad. After reading Johnsons book I thought it happened after. Johnson isnt any angel and neither is McRae. What goes around comes around. Cheap shots happen all the time in rugby I have no problem with that. I just thought McRae repeatedly striking ROG on the ground was pretty gutless. If he knew how to punch he could have hit him once, there was no excuse for that many shots on a prone player.
Pfitzy
Nathan Sharpe (72)
You're right RB - snapping like that instead of just a quick whack across the chops (Barry Hall style) isn't on.
I agree with the last sentence, but personally I'm a great believer of "if someone is a thug, then you give them a perfectly legal smashing to show them how its done". Hit them so hard in the guts next tackle they're still getting up three rucks later and looking for their mouthguard.
I especially like when the opposition tighthead thinks he's a hard man, because I know at the next scrum I get a chance to hang him out to dry in that unique and unalterable way that all front-rowers get. You've just given the bloke the equivalent of drinking his beer while screwing his girlfriend to orgasm, right in front of every forward on the field
Take the weekend - the starting opposition THP lasted one scrum. The guy they replaced him with pulled back on the next engagement while his loosehead stepped left (whip-wheel). I told the ref what was happening and he penalised them at the next scrum. For the rest of the half, their THP had nowhere to go and I belted him silly. At one point he muttered "that's the last time you'll bore in on me!" to which I replied "why, are you getting subbed off?"
formeropenside said:
I agree with the last sentence, but personally I'm a great believer of "if someone is a thug, then you give them a perfectly legal smashing to show them how its done". Hit them so hard in the guts next tackle they're still getting up three rucks later and looking for their mouthguard.
I especially like when the opposition tighthead thinks he's a hard man, because I know at the next scrum I get a chance to hang him out to dry in that unique and unalterable way that all front-rowers get. You've just given the bloke the equivalent of drinking his beer while screwing his girlfriend to orgasm, right in front of every forward on the field
Take the weekend - the starting opposition THP lasted one scrum. The guy they replaced him with pulled back on the next engagement while his loosehead stepped left (whip-wheel). I told the ref what was happening and he penalised them at the next scrum. For the rest of the half, their THP had nowhere to go and I belted him silly. At one point he muttered "that's the last time you'll bore in on me!" to which I replied "why, are you getting subbed off?"
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