World Cup!

Aurelyn · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:50 am Post subject: World Cup!

The Rugby World Cup starts tonight with France v Argentina. I'm so excited. A month of international rugby! And for once a sport in which Ireland are actually ranked fifth in the world! (coughcoughaheadofenglandcoughcough).

We've got our first match against Namibia on Sunday, which might go badly, cos inexperienced teams (especially if they're all nine foot tall Africans) make for injuries.
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Sal · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:05 am Post subject:

...

rugby?

meh.

the only sport we are ranked top 5 in the world is... um... there gotta be one... ski jumping! that's right, we got the single bestest ski jumper in the world. that's it, our ambitions are so fulfilled.
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Aurelyn · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:

We really are. Hopefully Eddie's got some mad plan to leave all our good players on the bench and send some victims out to scrape the win. We're far too thin on the ground reserve wise...
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Satan Crime Wash · Gender: Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 1980

Dupe the Polish ski jump team into taking the place of your players.
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Aurelyn · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:

Could work - I'm sure we all look the same to them anyway...
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Satan Crime Wash · Gender: Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 1980

If your U-21 football team of workmanlike jobbers could humiliatingly defeat Portugal that'd be nice too. I hate those guys.

I guess not. Oh well. That was a pretty big gulf in quality.
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Aurelyn · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:19 pm Post subject:

It was a long shot... What have you got against Portugal?

In other news, Argentina beating France was a bit of an upset. It was quite amusing to see the two biggest bottlers in international rugby, Contemponi and Michelac, on the same pitch today, fucking up when it counted most...
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Sal · Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 11:48 am Post subject:

speaking of which, we're playing Portugal tonight, senior teams, Euro 2008 qualifier. a surprising Polish win isn't entirely out of the question, but i don't promise anything. especially since they'll be dying to prove that the sensational beating we handed to them last year was purely accidental.

the England-Portugal battles are classic. i always root for you too. last year i was lucky to be in London at that time and watched the match in an actual English pub alongside actual English football fans. but could you please learn to shoot the bloody penalties?

and for the sake of accuracy, we ain't got a team of ski jumpers. at team competitions we always have Finnish, Norwegian and German dicks deep down our throats. we have one superhuman jumper who's individually won more trophies than all other Polish sportsmen past and present combined.
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Sal · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 7:21 am Post subject:

certainly not. not even a superhuman one.

and would you believe we came back from Lisbon with a 2-2 draw? a draw, may i add, we didn't deserve in the slightest, being a weaker team on all fronts, but hey, you don't win points in football for being good but for taking advantage of whatever chances you get. Potruguese wasted 5-6 brilliant goal opportunities, while we grabbed 2 out of 3 we had.
we might actually win this group.
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Aurelyn · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:11 am Post subject:

I was impressed. Good ol' show from England as well. Ireland, however, managed to throw our victory away in the final minutes of the game. Typical.

And we managed to play the worst rugby I've seen in years against Namibia yesterday. At least it was Namibia, and we still won, but there's no chance in hell we're making it out of our group if we continue to play like that.
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Sal · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:10 am Post subject:

yeah, i saw the scores on tv and was like "wtf? Namibia plays rugby?"

and sorry bout the Slovakians, it was a bitch of a last second goal. now you see what happens when you underestimate the Slavs, Portugal got the exact same lesson Very Happy

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Aurelyn · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:21 am Post subject:

He really is - I really think the Boks have a good chance of taking down New Zealand this year. Friday is England v South Africa isn't it?
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Yep. They've got some very strong Forwards, I think they'll make a lot of opportunities for him if we're not careful. Alternatively, Vickery could just kick him.
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Aurelyn · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:01 am Post subject:

It was a magnificent kung-fu trip - luckily for England, Schalk Burger is suspended as well. Looks like a zero-tolerance world cup for shenanigans!
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Aurelyn · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:28 am Post subject:

My god, could England actually have been humiliated any more on the pitch last night. Unbelievable. I'm just glad it wasn't Ireland out there. We probably wouldn't have fared much better.
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It was pathetic, literally the worst performance ever. Two easy tries thrown away, and for the rest, they just capitulated. Only Robinson seemed to give a shit. At least we pwned a credible Russia side in the football.
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Aurelyn · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:37 am Post subject:

Ireland's performance against Georgia wasn't a whole lot better - they were bloody lucky not to lose the match by a couple of tries.
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Robot Chicken Koko · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:28 am Post subject:

I love rugby. GO ALL BLACKS!
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Aurelyn · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject:

I think the All Blacks are my least favourite team in the world - they take the worship of aggression way too far. Tremendously skillful, but also violent thugs. I still haven't forgiven them for that first minute spear tackle on O' Driscoll during the Lions tour that nearly killed him.
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Robot Chicken Koko · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject:

Any of you guys ever played rugby? Maybe since most rugby enthusiasts aren't American (like me), and most of you all are, you must have played. I played my freshman and sophomore year until my knee cartilage deteriorated and I had to get those 5 surgeries. In the short time I got to play rugby, I really got to understand the culture and mystique that surrounds rugby. It's participants are always the most enthusiastic about their sport, and the fans... what can I say, rugby fans are the best!

I was a prop btw.
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Aurelyn · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject:

During my short tenure as a rugby player at school, I played outside centre. I gave it up in favour of hockey when I got sick of getting creased by players much bigger and stronger than I was. It's still my favourite game to watch though. Chess on a pitch!
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