Official 2011 Rugby World Cup Thread

boerseun said:
LIMITING THE POWER OF THE WHISTLE

There are no doubt a lot of Australian rugby supporters celebrating our victory over the Springboks yesterday. There are also a number of us that are wondering how on earth we managed to pull it off against a side that dominated possession and territory and lineouts. Now, I don’t want to …take anything away from the Australian victory – our boys did perform superbly but on the day the Springboks were, we have to admit, the better side. The boks, as always were magnanimous in defeat with a somewhat pragmatic approach to the result. I wonder what our boys would have said faced with the same situation of blatant incompetence by Mr Bryce Lawrence. I support Australia and always will but for those of us that believe in fair play this was a hollow victory. This was very much like fighting a worthy opponent with one arm strapped behind his back – it leaves a bad taste. There were rumours about Mr Lawrence’s impartiality before kick-off from a lot of ex pat South Africans now living in Australia but we tend to dismiss these conspiracy theories with a grin. Certainly, Mr Lawrence’s performance on the field did nothing to dispel those theories. His performance was nothing short of abysmal. He did not award the bok try because of a dubious forward pass. I have looked and looked and to me, anyway, it did not look forward. Minutes later when the boks once again breached our defences and were well on the way to scoring another try, he called them back for a forward pass. If the first call was contentious, there certainly was nothing wrong with the second one. Here, I must ask – why not use the “eye in the sky”? An impressive expensive piece of equipment that should be used for such decisions. He failed to penalise Pocock for slowing the ball down. If we had played like that against the All Blacks, they would not have been so quiet about it. – and rightly so. In the dying minutes of the game he was in full view of at least 2 high tackles by our boys that went unpunished. Any of these transgressions, if properly acted on, would have surely given the game to the Boks with their advantage over territory. To rub salt in the South African wounds, he awarded a high tackle to the Wallabies for a chest high tackle. We won, but did we really? Our sport has always been regarded as a “hooligans game played by gentlemen” – If we do not want rugby union to degenerate into a farce that soccer can become we need to make sure that our refs are of suitable calibre. They need to be trustworthy gentlemen. Mr Lawrence, I would advise against any planned holidays to South Africa for a couple of years.

Chris Davis The Australian
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At least the Aussies admit that the ref was a prick. Anyway, Saying that Pocock "slowed the ball down" is like saying a shark that killed a surfer "had a little nibble".
 
I bought an Ipad 2 and Steve jobs dies
Im playing on my Blackberry and messenger dies
Tomorrow i'm looking for Bryce Lawrence's autobiography
 
Ja, all blacks haven't had the best preparation for this semi final but it do or choke time now. I hope they don't crack under the pressure.
 
Devill said:
I can not see aus winning it without a 'bryce' free for all. ABs by 12 I think.
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Ja, going to tough. Richie may be out though. He is in a fight to be fit. Hell man. I don't know yet which way to call it. History favors the ab's at Eden park but not in world cups. Richie dubious, carter out and a wallaby back line yet to fire. Mmmm. Tough one.
 
I'm supporting the ABs for the cup since SA were told to leave by Bryce Lawrence. They are the best rugby playing nation on average, they're playing at home, they could do with some good news and IMO they deserve it. Without Bryce on the pitch for the Aussies I reckon the ABs can put 30 past them...
 
MickeyD said:
I'm also rooting for the AB's.
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Just dont ever say that down there...

I learned very vast working with *nix that the way we pronounce it, is the wrong thing to do.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/root#Noun_2
The Australian/New Zealand sexual senses of root is somewhat milder than **** but still quite coarse, certainly not for polite conversation. The normal usage is to have a root or similar.
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They would pronounce it as "route" like in routing for a team.
 
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MickeyD said:
Hehehehehe... I know. I have family in Oz and plenty of friends in NZ and rip them off with "their" interpretation !
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LOL.... then again I guess ****ing for a team is not all that bad, well that is if you planning to stock future AB's

or you could be doing it to stock our future team to root em up.
 
I just for the Love of me support the AB's, even tho the Aussies won with the ref. I just won't support the AB's and I would like the French to take it all the way.

Going against everyone so far in this thread, but I think the French deserve something after all there effort
 
craigdoepie said:
I just for the Love of me support the AB's, even tho the Aussies won with the ref. I just won't support the AB's and I would like the French to take it all the way.

Going against everyone so far in this thread, but I think the French deserve something after all there effort
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