Oh and to all the posters I've enjoyed chatting about rugby for the year have a great Xmas and New Year!
Was a very important one. First time I ever saw the Bokke destroyed the All Black scrum with 7 men. He came to your rescue idiot.
"Home of Rugby" ??? I don't get the reference.
Christchurch Press article therefore having a dig at the Auck public's less than Cantab-rabid support of their (not just rugby) teams & notorious fickleness. In Strayan terms it's a bit like how banjolanders reckon NSW don't take Orijun seriously enough.
Can pretty much guarantee the Otago Daily Times would've had something about how Dunners would've put Auckland, Christchurch & Wellington to shame had they been accorded a parade. We're nothing if not parochial us Kiwis.
Be as cynical as you want about the actions of SBW, or the dastardly evil intentions of the kid, who was later found not to have any pointed sticks, bananas or raspberries with which he could attach his targets.
Go to 24-28 seconds in this clip. That is how Security could have dealt with the illegal pitch invader, instead of the Boris Johnson Crash tackle.
The Twickers Security Bloke had plenty of time to decide on an appropriate strategy to deal with the illegal terrorist pitch invader, and even then he goes all Kevin Costner to protect NZL's heavyweight boxing champion from a child.
It is not as if the kid was about to do a Pieter Van Zyl, and even if he was, look at how the professional athletes dealt with that imbecile.
More here: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/12/1028158064422.html
Some secret footage of the RWC15 Security Training has been obtained from an unpaid Intern at World Rugby.
it has turned into a sad world hasn't it,when there must be a barrier between players and their fans?
Actually realistic world. RWC was rated a high risk security threat from ISIS etc given host nations like England, USA, Australia participating. Sorry but people do need to understand that international events like this are high risk target for terrorists and hence security at such events will be a little on edge. Unfortunately very realistic part of the new world we currently live in.
one was the Florence of the South & t'other some dreary village in Lancashire