All posts tagged "result"

I’ve written this post straight after the game while the pain is still raw and untempered, and I’m trying to work out if that’s the worst I’ve seen the Wallabies play. I suspect it is. We’ll post a more balanced review later. That we still had a chance to win with the...

All Blacks 19 – Wallabies 14 Someone needs to remind the Wallabies that there are two halves in a match of rugby. Yet again they came out playing the better attacking rugby, scoring two tries to nil in the first 40, to then look and play like walking zombies for the rest...

Princes of darkness 20 – Tahs 12 During the week Mark Hammett commented that, in terms of intensity, this was going to be a test match and he was spot on. These two teams went hammer and tongs, both refusing to be intimidated by what was on the line, and the sense...

Bulls 16 – Waratahs 13 The summary of this game is pretty easy. It pissed down rain, the Waratahs got kicked around the park by the Bulls 10 Hougaard, and on top of that the Tahs lineout went to shit. Not a recipe for an entertaining match, and not a good sign...

France 26 vs Ireland 21This one turned out to be a cracker. Continuing their form from last week, the French back 3 are looking the most dangerous in Europe and perhaps further afield. The whole team is re-discovering that French quality of backs running from deep, creating space when given half a...

Classy Barbars 22World Chump B team 5 So many times an all star Barbarian team has disappointed through poor defence and lateral attack, but not today. Almost to a man the Barbars played their hearts out and showed this Springbok team to be out of ideas. The first half was a cracker,...

Wallabies 10 England 12 As you can imagine, I’m going to sleep on this one before writing...

Fiji 38Wales 34 There’s been a lot of wanging on about this being the best game of the world cup so far. I guess for a sevens style of free-flowing fluctuating game yes. But what this game really nailed once and for all is how naive Wales has become, trying to out-fiji...

Woeful Wallabies 37 Plucky Canucks 6 Here’s the short version; a bunch of Wallabies desperate to score...

England 36Tonga 20 For the first 30 minutes of this test it looked like Tonga’s fairy tale might go all the way, but in the end England just had too much nous. The forwards in white were able to strangle the game when needed forcing the Tongans to make mistakes that Sackey...

SEE TONGA VS ENGLAND SCORE AND REVIEW HERE Islanders do themselves proud Yesterday Tonga and Samoa brought some good old fashioned passion and excitement to the Rugby World Cup, while Argentina continued to justify their new world ranking. Here are the scores and a few thoughts on the games. South Africa 30Tongan...

The end is nigh for IrelandFrance 25Ireland 3 Tonight Ireland’s chances of progressing any further in this Rugby World Cup became very slim indeed. They now need to score four tries against Argentina next week, and make sure that Los Pumas fail to secure a bonus point themselves. On the basis of...

Wales 20 – Australia 32 Today the Wallabies showed far too much class for Wales, but at...

Springboks – 36 Arse-clowns (England) – 0 This was a rugby version of a public butt-rape. Today,...

Wallabies 91Cherryblossoms 3 As the scoreline suggests, this was your classic World Cup mismatch of the type that Campo has been campaigning against of late. That aside, the Wallabies produced a composed performance, for the most part devoid of the ‘rustiness’ excuse that usually dogs them in world cup pool games, and...

FOR 3RD PLACE PAYOFF SEE HERE Les Frogs 12Los Pumas 17 From the opening game this world cup is setting itself up as one you’re not going to forget in a hurry. What an upset. What drama. What a classic. We have all been Frenched – just when we thought they’d pulled...

So here are the tallies of the responses to the question:What beer’s gonna be on ice at your gaff during RWC’07? Fancy foreign piss 44% Tooheys 16% Other 16% Carlton 11% VB 5% Hahn 5% What does this tell us? Probably not a fucken lot except that the Aussie beer manufacturers want...

Wales 27Argentina 20 What started off as a lackluster friendly, turned into a hard fought nailbiter at the Millenium Stadium today. At half time, it looked like Wales were running away with it up 27-10. The visitors seemed to be losing all shape and discipline under pressure, almost like we were back...

Above – big Phil Vickery gets bitch-slapped by Dimitri Szarzewski England 15 – France 21 This was a fascinating clash at Twickenham on Saturday, the key question being whether the English forward centered game plan would be enough to subdue class opposition. The answer, especially pleasing from an Australian viewpoint, is that...

England 62Wales 5 So you turn up to ‘fortress’ Twickenham with a half strength side, but you figure it’s a baking hot day and hey, you’re Wales, you can probably run the ball around a bit to hold up your end. Just how wrong can you get. England today displayed exactly how...