They are all talk and singing
I don’t think many people in the world rate Chris Rattue of the NZ Herald as a sports writer, but in his summary of the World Cup he was pretty accurate.
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The Mega Wrap Up of the Rugby World Cup
A last look at the World Cup. Superb memories. The Final What a fantastic game. The All Blacks played with flair and imagination. Australia doing their damndest to stay in the game. It will forever be Dan Carter’s final, though. So calm and composed in the Aussie fightback, tackling his way to the top of … Read more
World Champions!!!
This is amazing. SBW gives his medal away to a young boy who’d run on to the field. Watch Messam give his hat away too and Uncle Steve gives him a hug. Brings tears to the eye.
Rugby World Cup Final – New Zealand vs Australia
via GIPHY Six incredible rugby filled weeks have boiled down to this. Seemingly the greatest final there could have been as the two best teams before the tournament began have made it to Twickenham. So who’s going to win? In the spirit of the AB Enquirer, we have to go for The ABs. Australia are … Read more
Battle for Bronze
Just two games to go now. Boo hoo. Third place is on offer tonight as the Saffas take on the Pumas. It’s another clash of styles as we’ll watch the Boks rumble it up and chase du Preez’s box kicks hoping for a penalty they can kick at goal. Same as last week against us … Read more
Semi-final One: The quick, bullet-point guide to beating the boks
STOP Burger Win the breakdown Be first to the ball Don’t drop our passes No scrums Take our catches (looking at you K Read) Get the ball to Mulder Sculley and Julian Put pressure on du Preez so he can’t kick us round the park Ben at the Back catch every ball and join into … Read more
All Blacks perform first ever live vivisection of a Rugby team in front of global audience – 62 -13
What’s red and green and croaks?A frog invited to the quarter final of the RWC. Having chosen to try this game, the ABs turned up and sliced, diced, cut, hacked, smashed, and eviscerated the Frogs in a worldwide first, the live vivisection of a rugby team. Superb stuff and you couldn’t take your eyes off … Read more
Quarter-Finals – Rugby World Cup
The final pool matches were mostly epic as teams threw everything into last ditch qualification and attempts to avoid the big teams in their coming quarter final. Scotland vs Samoa (36-33) will live long in the memory. That first half was mega-frenetic like a multi-ball pinball game. Quite how Scotland got up to win under … Read more
Quarter Final qualification complete – where are we now?
Our final game in Pool C was against Tonga and as follows every game we’ve played so far in this tournament was a very difficult watch. While there’s no doubt that the teams outside the top 10 have improved hugely since the previous word cup, that doesn’t explain the highly elevated amount unforced errors. We … Read more
NZ 42 – Georgia 10 – Catch the bloody ball chaps.
For most of this game it was 22-10. Despite not looking like scoring at all, Georgia hung tough, played hard, tackled their lives out and generally upset our rhythm and balance. 18 handling errors says it all, after we threw hospital pass after hospital pass through the backs and the forwards couldn’t catch a cold. … Read more