The Official RWC 2011 Thread

Lichtgestalt · Post by **Lichtgestalt** » 17th Oct, '11, 02:56

Fat Bob wrote:Sorry PP (well, Mr PP), only seen this today. O'Malley's in the French Quarter shows sports and serves Guinness. Guinness being a neutral drink!

For a seriously interesting experience you should try and watch it with German commentary

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 17th Oct, '11, 06:13

I had a cute German chick sitting next to me. She didn't seem to know what was going on. You could say that about 15 yellow shirted people on the pitch though!

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 17th Oct, '11, 06:18

Burbage wrote:If Dan Carter had been playing Australia would have lost by 40. Australia were never really in the game at all, which all goes to prove that old maxim, no team beaten by Ireland in a world cup has ever gone on to win it.

Hmmmm....i don't think any team that has lost a match in the group stage has gone on to win it. France may do this year. England had the opportunity in 1991 and 2007, i'm pretty sure all other finalists have been group winners.

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 23rd Oct, '11, 21:34

That was a close one!

Got to hand it to the French, a one point loss not what most would have expected. Applaud their response to the Haka too

Well done to the AB's, NZ will run out of Pinot tonight!

Pinklepurr · Post by **Pinklepurr** » 24th Oct, '11, 08:49

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 24th Oct, '11, 10:58

Close. For I second I thought the Kiwis were trying all they could to lose that match.

Not a great game but I reckon if I was a Kiwi or French I'd have stomach ulcers after watching that.

Congrats Kiwis, you've finally won another one, even if it was by the narrowest margin of all time.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 24th Oct, '11, 18:24

Congrats to the Kiwis, I enjoyed the game, and thought France brought their best game of the tournament to it. Enjoyable all around. Along with the 23 buckets of beer on my bill.

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 24th Oct, '11, 19:12

French captain, Dusautoir, named IRB player of the year - good stuff, was the best player yesterday too.

Needless to say the AB's and coach won their respective categories.

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 24th Oct, '11, 20:22

And Young Player was George Ford from Tigers! Didn't get to watch any of the U21 world cup earlier this year, but sounds like he had a good one.

daffodil · Post by **daffodil** » 25th Oct, '11, 12:05

Read somewhere that the IRB may fine the French for their Haka response - apparently it broke some rule regarding the opposing teams' response.

Seriously? FFS, gotta be some sort of joke, right ?

baloo · Post by **baloo** » 25th Oct, '11, 12:20

Yeah, you are not allowed to walk over the half way line.

Friggin joke if you ask me.

Starting to get quite bored with this whole Haka thing. The minute they decided to change from Ka Mate is the minute the Haka stopped being relevant

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 25th Oct, '11, 13:38

Wonder if a sausage sizzle will be start to help them pay the fine?

Fat Bob · Post by **Fat Bob** » 2nd Nov, '11, 00:41

Sitting here trying to rehydrate after a drubbing in the Vets hockey tournament:

The winners of every RWC since 1999 were knocked out in the preceding RWC at the quarter final stage.

So England, Ireland, South Africa or Argentina to win 2015?

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