Dewald Nel
Cyril Towers (30)
Looking at their football team, they'll probably tell you they care even less about football too.
RWC 2015
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Looking at their football team, they'll probably tell you they care even less about football too.
Dismal Pillock
Michael Lynagh (62)
um guys, I HATE to broach this subject so early on in the piece and I know it is HIGHLY unlikely........ but we may need to start making contingency preliminary funeral arrangements.
For the forum.
For if Australia go out of RWC 2015 in the 1st round.
What will happen to the forum? First, I imagine all the foreigners will be told that they are 100% fluffybunnys. Entirely understandable. Then all attention will turn to post-expulsion match thread grievances, fuckin ref, fuckin scrum, etc etc. The RWC itself will play out like a phantom-limb marionette left to the foreigners to fuck around with, yeah whatever, go for your life, all yours fluffybunny, we'll be in the North Wollongong vs Alice Springs Senior B's NPC match thread fuckyuz we dont need ya
if NZ go out in the quarters I will be handcrafting a life-sized effigy of all of 1991, yes, the entire year, than hanging it from my nutsack until either I am dead or my mum comes home
For the forum.
For if Australia go out of RWC 2015 in the 1st round.
What will happen to the forum? First, I imagine all the foreigners will be told that they are 100% fluffybunnys. Entirely understandable. Then all attention will turn to post-expulsion match thread grievances, fuckin ref, fuckin scrum, etc etc. The RWC itself will play out like a phantom-limb marionette left to the foreigners to fuck around with, yeah whatever, go for your life, all yours fluffybunny, we'll be in the North Wollongong vs Alice Springs Senior B's NPC match thread fuckyuz we dont need ya
if NZ go out in the quarters I will be handcrafting a life-sized effigy of all of 1991, yes, the entire year, than hanging it from my nutsack until either I am dead or my mum comes home
Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
If Bill doesn't come home on QF1 (LHR-SYD) at the end of RWC2015, then the faithful on here will lineup behind their state colours and there could be a meltdown of similar proportions as were seen in the early days of the "Quade Telling It As It Is", and "Kurtley Beale's Guide to Behaviour", " JOC (James O'Connor) Goooone" threads.
We eat our young in Australia.
Byron Kelliher and Gene Gunston will need to ensure that the Pitcairn Island Server Room at Gunston Inc Worldwide HQ have paid their electricity bills to keep the G&GR server traffic going.
This post will be very useful to save posters some time in their parochial venting. Just fill in the blanks.
http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/co...ayers-for-2015-rwc.13663/page-347#post-781902
We eat our young in Australia.
Byron Kelliher and Gene Gunston will need to ensure that the Pitcairn Island Server Room at Gunston Inc Worldwide HQ have paid their electricity bills to keep the G&GR server traffic going.
This post will be very useful to save posters some time in their parochial venting. Just fill in the blanks.
http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/co...ayers-for-2015-rwc.13663/page-347#post-781902
Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
We could even fire up the Schoolboys Forum Thread "Selection politics and bias, Gold Squads unfairness etc."
http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/co...ics-and-bias-gold-squads-unfairness-etc.8261/
That could be cathartic for grieving Wallaby tragics seeking somewhere to "lay the blame".
http://www.greenandgoldrugby.com/co...ics-and-bias-gold-squads-unfairness-etc.8261/
That could be cathartic for grieving Wallaby tragics seeking somewhere to "lay the blame".
Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
Emergency call for Gunston Public Relations to manage impending media crisis in London.
Apparently a minnow with a large ego and huge tickets on itself has been found somewhere out near Heathrow Airport, and the locals don't like it.
Spokesman Gene Gunston said that they would probably need to deploy the GunstonCorp portable emergency crisis server room to handle all the interwebs traffic containing complaints from the locals about the unexpected arrival of the minnow.
Apparently a minnow with a large ego and huge tickets on itself has been found somewhere out near Heathrow Airport, and the locals don't like it.
Spokesman Gene Gunston said that they would probably need to deploy the GunstonCorp portable emergency crisis server room to handle all the interwebs traffic containing complaints from the locals about the unexpected arrival of the minnow.
aeneas
Tom Lawton (22)
So with the pools looking like:
Pool A - 1 Aus 2 Wales
Pool B - 1 Sa 2 Sco / Jap
Pool C - 1 NZ 2 Arg
Pool D - TBD
QF's will be
1 - SA v Wales
2 - NZ v TBD
3 TBD v Arg
4 Aus v Sco / Jap
Semi's
Wales vs NZ
Aus vs TBD
How do you aussie fans feel about France??? Get that 1987 feeling going on?
Pool A - 1 Aus 2 Wales
Pool B - 1 Sa 2 Sco / Jap
Pool C - 1 NZ 2 Arg
Pool D - TBD
QF's will be
1 - SA v Wales
2 - NZ v TBD
3 TBD v Arg
4 Aus v Sco / Jap
Semi's
Wales vs NZ
Aus vs TBD
How do you aussie fans feel about France??? Get that 1987 feeling going on?
pjm
Billy Sheehan (19)
As long as they play well I'll be happy, I'm not some pom/saffa/kiwi who has nothing else in their life.
Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
aeneas
Tom Lawton (22)
No one should want to play France in either QF or SF. Remember 2007?
I've tried to blank it from my memory.
Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
Your TBD will be France or Ireland, which means either you guys get them in the quarters or we get them in the semi.
Hugh Jarse
Rocky Elsom (76)
^^ or for the Ghosts of RWC Past to revisit.
Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
Dewald Nel
Cyril Towers (30)
Dewald Nel
Cyril Towers (30)
The improvement in the minnows' performances these last two RWCs has been a joy to watch. So far in RWC2015 we've had Ireland d Canada 50-7, Wales d Uruguay 54-9, New Zealand d Namibia 58-14, Argentina d Georgia 54-9 and Australia record the biggest score and margin so far defeating Uruguay 65-3. No century scores such as Australia's thrashing of Namibia 142-0 in 2003, in fact I don't think there were any century scores at RWC2011 either. edit: just checked there weren't; SAf d Namibia 87-0 was the highest score. And now we have Japan toppling the Boks!
Can only be good for rugby.
Can only be good for rugby.
mxyzptlk
Colin Windon (37)
That's all positive, no doubt. And at this rate, it'll only take three or four more World Cup cycles before some of these minnows start becoming a threat.
World Rugby can do better. If they want rugby to become more of a global game, they'll have to help make the rest of that globe competitive, and they can start by giving minnow nations the same chance at rest and recovery the tier 1 nations get in the tournament. World Rugby has been parachuting professional coaches into minnow nations to help them develop -- do more of that. If there's not going to be straight-out relegation in the Six Nations, at least have the Six Nations wooden spoon play the European Nations winner, so we can see who's really developing and who's regressing. The North American market is largely untapped, underdeveloped and ignored; Waisale Serevi is doing his best to spread the rugby word in the Pacific Northwest, but until there's a clear professional structure and league for players and fans to get behind, that's millions of potential fans and players left behind.
(The Aviva Premiership has looked into developing some kind of North American league. Think that died on the vine. But at some point, I'd rather see a joint USA-Canadian North American side involved in a Super Rugby conference; their development would be better served by Super Rugby's attacking move-into-space approach over the Premiership's always-look-for-contact approach.)
Dewald Nel
Cyril Towers (30)
Tumour forces Italy's Martin Castrogiovanni out of World Cup
http://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/story/_...s-italy-martin-castrogiovanni-rugby-world-cup
What a shame. Luckily won't miss many games, though.
http://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/story/_...s-italy-martin-castrogiovanni-rugby-world-cup
What a shame. Luckily won't miss many games, though.
neilc
Bob Loudon (25)
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World Rugby can do better. If they want rugby to become more of a global game, they'll have to help make the rest of that globe competitive, and they can start by giving minnow nations the same chance at rest and recovery the tier 1 nations get in the tournament. World Rugby has been parachuting professional coaches into minnow nations to help them develop -- do more of that. If there's not going to be straight-out relegation in the Six Nations, at least have the Six Nations wooden spoon play the European Nations winner, so we can see who's really developing and who's regressing. The North American market is largely untapped, underdeveloped and ignored; Waisale Serevi is doing his best to spread the rugby word in the Pacific Northwest, but until there's a clear professional structure and league for players and fans to get behind, that's millions of potential fans and players left behind.
(The Aviva Premiership has looked into developing some kind of North American league. Think that died on the vine. But at some point, I'd rather see a joint USA-Canadian North American side involved in a Super Rugby conference; their development would be better served by Super Rugby's attacking move-into-space approach over the Premiership's always-look-for-contact approach.)[/quote]
I think World Rugby have been doing a good job with the international coaches - look at Milton Haig being loaned form the NZRU to Georgia, and I have read comments from a few minnow coaches who have said that WR (World Rugby) have done a lot of good things for them. I agree that what these minnows now need is regular higher level competition - the difficulty of course is the schedules of the teams and giving them some down time. Perhaps the Super Rugby sides could organise tours that are used by them as team preparation, and give the minnows more competition and exposure to different playing styles. I know that the Waratahs toured Argentina a few years back and the Auckland Blues in the past went to France preseason - NZ Maori/Maori AB team have been touring USA and Canada in recent years - I think that these have just been organised between the teams themselves, but more of this sort of thing, perhaps organised at the national level. would benefit the developing countries as well as give our players more exposure.
Imagine if say the Waratahs did a European tour - Russia, Georgia, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Italy - great tour, and exposure to playing in different conditions etc.
Brumbies, with their focus on developing links to the USA could do an Americas tour - Canada, USA, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina - make the Argie bit against club/provincial sides, and the others national or provincial teams.
Rebels have have had Japanese players so they could tour Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Malaysia.
The Force, being linked to Africa could go to Namibia, Kenya, Madagascar, Ivory Coast (who I recall were in the WC some years back). Of course the cost would be the major issue, but the idea is there, just needs the ARU and the Super Rugby sides to have the desire and then talk to the parties concerned in those countries to see how costs can be worked out then look for funding from WR (World Rugby) maybe as part of their international improvement. If you had the NZ and SA Super Rugby sides doing a similar thing then these minnows would be getting a lot of high level rugby exposure.
World Rugby can do better. If they want rugby to become more of a global game, they'll have to help make the rest of that globe competitive, and they can start by giving minnow nations the same chance at rest and recovery the tier 1 nations get in the tournament. World Rugby has been parachuting professional coaches into minnow nations to help them develop -- do more of that. If there's not going to be straight-out relegation in the Six Nations, at least have the Six Nations wooden spoon play the European Nations winner, so we can see who's really developing and who's regressing. The North American market is largely untapped, underdeveloped and ignored; Waisale Serevi is doing his best to spread the rugby word in the Pacific Northwest, but until there's a clear professional structure and league for players and fans to get behind, that's millions of potential fans and players left behind.
(The Aviva Premiership has looked into developing some kind of North American league. Think that died on the vine. But at some point, I'd rather see a joint USA-Canadian North American side involved in a Super Rugby conference; their development would be better served by Super Rugby's attacking move-into-space approach over the Premiership's always-look-for-contact approach.)[/quote]
I think World Rugby have been doing a good job with the international coaches - look at Milton Haig being loaned form the NZRU to Georgia, and I have read comments from a few minnow coaches who have said that WR (World Rugby) have done a lot of good things for them. I agree that what these minnows now need is regular higher level competition - the difficulty of course is the schedules of the teams and giving them some down time. Perhaps the Super Rugby sides could organise tours that are used by them as team preparation, and give the minnows more competition and exposure to different playing styles. I know that the Waratahs toured Argentina a few years back and the Auckland Blues in the past went to France preseason - NZ Maori/Maori AB team have been touring USA and Canada in recent years - I think that these have just been organised between the teams themselves, but more of this sort of thing, perhaps organised at the national level. would benefit the developing countries as well as give our players more exposure.
Imagine if say the Waratahs did a European tour - Russia, Georgia, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Italy - great tour, and exposure to playing in different conditions etc.
Brumbies, with their focus on developing links to the USA could do an Americas tour - Canada, USA, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina - make the Argie bit against club/provincial sides, and the others national or provincial teams.
Rebels have have had Japanese players so they could tour Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Malaysia.
The Force, being linked to Africa could go to Namibia, Kenya, Madagascar, Ivory Coast (who I recall were in the WC some years back). Of course the cost would be the major issue, but the idea is there, just needs the ARU and the Super Rugby sides to have the desire and then talk to the parties concerned in those countries to see how costs can be worked out then look for funding from WR (World Rugby) maybe as part of their international improvement. If you had the NZ and SA Super Rugby sides doing a similar thing then these minnows would be getting a lot of high level rugby exposure.
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