That is true and you make a very fair point, but part of the reason Kiwis don’t get behind the warriors and go for the Storm are because the Warriors are shit and the Storm great and well it’s been the inverse in Union
Actually another mate who was an avid AB supporter always supported Reds, and it helped he had son in academy a few years back.
I have mates who are kiwis and their kids support the Rebels and ABs despite being Australian. While the old man sill goes for his NZ side. On a side note there is nothing I hate more than kids of Kiwis who say they are AB fans and then support Aus in cricketCouple of my mates from Brisbane who's sons were born in Aus had no problems with kids supporting Reds and bought them jerseys etc, and they were most oneeyed kiwi supporters you coud get, just let the kids support who they wanted. Not sure if they ever let them support Wallabies though
I when I was in Brisbane up to last year always supported Reds against anyone but Kiwi teams, and went to almost every Reds game over last few years, funnily enough I usually just wear a light AB jacket whenever I go to rugby, and boy did I cop some crap, even to the point of being asked by a few what I thought I was doing at Reds/Tahs match, and copped it at Brumbies game too. Not a problem or anything it was only a few, and nowhere near the majority or anything.
Well, that won't be happening much anymore since they are better than us in both (for fuck sake).
Did you forget the series last year? The Aussie won a Bledisloe more recently than they beat us in a test series
Err kiwis are currently number one ranked test side so test cricket not a good analogy at this point
So what? It was 89/90 the last time they beat us in a test series and couldn’t even take one test to the final day last year and make it a contest. Yeah they beat up on the West Indies and a weak Pakistan who was missing Babar Azam at home but don’t let that fool you
) and was just coming in here to note that too. Shows how bloody much I know, I thought for sure with the couple of little outbreaks it would be at least end of year. I am now getting quite hopeful so will give a little yehaa.
NZ getting to no.1 in cricket is the equivalent of when Ireland reached no.1 in rugby. Decent team but won nothing and played hardly anyone with an extremely favorable fixture list over the years to reach there.I'm enjoying these elaborate mental gymnastics of trying to reationalise 'Straya as still having a better test cricket team, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It'll be something to deeply ponder as we smeckledorf India in the test final at Lords.
. Cricket Australia know they have a bloody good team (and groundsmen) that plays superbly on it's own pitches, so play a hell of a lot at home where they win everything , well except for India. Seems they beat everyone at gabba, just as Paine in the middle of a test match what they do to teams next time there. They have got it worked out well, and good on them. Not sure that Ausralia has a great record away from home lately, but don't really follow it real hard enough to say.
