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Post by jgtheone on Mar 29, 2021 3:38:29 GMT -5
What the hell happened to Italy there? Lol
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Post by Strewthless on Mar 29, 2021 9:48:13 GMT -5
What the hell happened to Italy there? Lol It's the same for them every year, there's no point in them being involved. |
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Post by rozenn on Mar 29, 2021 18:08:07 GMT -5
They'd probably thrash any other European team than these 5, though of course that's not saying much!
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Post by Strewthless on Mar 29, 2021 18:55:13 GMT -5
They'd probably thrash any other European team than these 5, though of course that's not saying much! Georgia are ranked higher, and feel that they deserve the chance. Rugby is their most popular sport. Nowadays Italy are barely any better than Romania, or even Spain. Perhaps there should be a little qualification tournament for that 6th spot. |
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Post by rozenn on May 2, 2021 9:10:33 GMT -5
5 fouls in 5 minutes of play. Seems like La Rochelle wants to break some record.
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Post by Strewthless on Jul 13, 2021 15:37:55 GMT -5
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Post by Strewthless on Mar 19, 2022 16:18:05 GMT -5
What the hell happened to Italy there? Lol It's the same for them every year, there's no point in them being involved. Well, those words came back to haunt me. |
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Post by greysrigging on Jan 29, 2023 5:30:09 GMT -5
Subject: Bledisloe Cup schedule 2029
The schedule has been released for next year’s Bledisloe Cup
At 6pm players will enter the field and line up either side of halfway. There will be a Welcome to Country and then they will take a knee for 1 minute.
A “smoking ceremony” will then take place. All past and present elders will be honoured.
After that there will be a minute’s silence for everybody who has died.
Indigenous people will then be recognised as the traditional owners of this country. White people will be acknowledged as invading colonialists.
A formal apology on behalf of all heterosexual white males will be made by Kevin Rudd to all females in history who have been harassed or not being given equal pay.
Both teams will then sing the National Anthems in Maori, Aboriginal and English. Only the “white players” are expected to sing the anthems in English (for the Wallabies that will only be about 2 or 3).
They will then go to the middle of the ground where the All Blacks will perform the haka. After that players will go into their religious groups to sing and pay homage to their friends in the sky.
Atheists will go into their own group to talk about what they have done to combat climate change.
Both teams will then come together in the middle of the field and hold hands while putting rainbow tape on each other’s arms.
The Wallabies will be wearing their new strip designed by Lisa Wilkinson. It will have aboriginal artwork along with black , blue , white , red , pink and brown ribbons printed on the front of the jumper. The jumper will have a large Z on the front for the team’s new sponsor, clean energy billionaire Zali Steggall.
The Wallabies will be captained by Bill Smith as Joe Bloggs is still serving a 10 game suspension after it was discovered his great uncle made a feminist remark to a barmaid in 1965.
The game will also have 2 minute time-outs after a try is scored so mental coaches can enter the field and talk to the players who have just been scored against, to discuss their emotions.
Purple cards will also be used in the match for players to be sent from the field for 15 minutes if they say anything mean. The game should finish around 2am the next day.
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Post by Ariete on Jan 29, 2023 17:49:59 GMT -5
Fark:
Biggest defeat
Denmark 100 – 0 Finland
(1987-10-10)
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Post by greysrigging on Mar 11, 2023 1:23:18 GMT -5
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Post by rozenn on Mar 11, 2023 13:47:50 GMT -5
Now that was a nice match.  |
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Post by Strewthless on Sept 24, 2023 16:04:31 GMT -5
Didn't see that coming 👀  |
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Post by Strewthless on Nov 21, 2024 8:48:13 GMT -5
Went to watch the rugby vs Australia on the weekend.  Heavy loss for Wales, but not unexpected, we're currently on our longest ever losing streak. Welsh rugby is looking in crisis, but the silver lining is that this is a young team, so would be expected to improve in the coming years |
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Post by jgtheone on Nov 22, 2024 3:45:30 GMT -5
Don't watch or care for rugby but it's interesting the difference a year makes in sport, just from your last two posts.
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Post by Strewthless on Nov 22, 2024 6:23:53 GMT -5
Don't watch or care for rugby but it's interesting the difference a year makes in sport, just from your last two posts. It's been coming for a while. We had a decent international team which for years was drawing attention from serious issues at the lower levels. But that team was pretty old, with about half of them in their mid-30's. It was becoming clear that new players weren't coming through to take their place. Now all of a sudden we have a team of unexperienced kids and people are now asking what the hell's been going on with the WRU and grassroots rugby. |
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