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Screaming Tree

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Rugby World Cup 2011

What team's going to win, whos' going to make the semi's. What's everyones view??

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  • Posted 2 years ago (09 September 2011 19:11)
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Being a Wales supporter, I hope they win, but I don't know that they will, at least the semis.

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  • Posted 2 years ago (09 September 2011 21:34)
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Aus beat France in the semis to set up a final with NZ who will have beaten the boks.

And the ABs finally avoid choking to win.

The other possibility is les bleus mashing both those in gold and those in black.

I'm watcing the highlights of the first game and I'm already fed up of refs not penalising crossing, forward passing and feeding in the scrum

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  • Posted 2 years ago (09 September 2011 23:09)
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alteredego said:

I'm watcing the highlights of the first game and I'm already fed up of refs not penalising crossing, forward passing and feeding in the scrum

Carry on feeding and scrums will end up pointless as in League!!!

My money is on the All Blacks.

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  • Posted 2 years ago (10 September 2011 13:38)
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A gang of Jeremys pushing each other from behind - not my cup of tea! I really don't care who wins. now the italian Grand Prix - come on Hamilton!

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  • Posted 2 years ago (11 September 2011 09:35)
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It didn't look like there were many Jeremys on the Welsh team - some of them looked like they'd come straight off the hill farms. I don't mind who wins - I watch it for all those big beefy thighs...

Of course I haven't really got a secret chocolate stash!
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  • Posted 2 years ago (13 September 2011 08:54)
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drg andy said:

A gang of Jeremys pushing each other from behind - not my cup of tea! I really don't care who wins. now the italian Grand Prix - come on Hamilton!


 

I formally invite you to my old club in an ex-mining area to make that suggestion.

And when you've extracted your head from your fundament perhaps you can explain the attraction of considering which millionaire playboy has the best team of engineers.

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  • Posted 2 years ago (13 September 2011 09:10)
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fenty said:

It didn't look like there were many Jeremys on the Welsh team - some of them looked like they'd come straight off the hill farms. I don't mind who wins - I watch it for all those big beefy thighs...

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  • Posted 2 years ago (13 September 2011 09:37)
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fenty said:

It didn't look like there were many Jeremys on the Welsh team - some of them looked like they'd come straight off the hill farms.

 
 

They also look like they're a result of an inter-family relationship.

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  • Posted 2 years ago (13 September 2011 14:49)
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 daft sport...rugby songs..ho-ho-ho..drinking games in the clubhouse then off to work as an accountant on monday...at least football is full of drug taking dogging perverts which spices it up.

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  • Posted 2 years ago (13 September 2011 16:18)
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All Blacks all the way for me and I only really watch it when theres no footy on

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  • Posted 2 years ago (14 September 2011 17:34)
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 daft sport...rugby songs..ho-ho-ho..drinking games in the clubhouse......


 

Add in the fans mixing together - generally with a pint in their hands - and who let in the women and children? Then there's the players accepting the ref's decision.

Soccer fans must be confused by it all.

Diolch
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  • Posted 2 years ago (14 September 2011 18:45)
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I don't think any of the established sides had it all their own way in the first weekend, looking forward to seeing how it all plays out

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  • Posted 2 years ago (15 September 2011 06:22)
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alteredego: I'd love to come but:

1. I got some paint drying and need to keep an eye on it

2. The Tour of Britain is on. Is anyone tougher than a pro cyclist?

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  • Posted 2 years ago (16 September 2011 20:30)
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Jonny Hoogerland: Hardest man in sport? Knocked off by a support vehicle into a barbed wire fence at about 30mph. Back on, rode to the finish (about 50 miles), 33 stitches after finishing.

 

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  • Posted 2 years ago (16 September 2011 20:32)
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And then it rains & they get all wet & slippery... 

Of course I haven't really got a secret chocolate stash!
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  • Posted 2 years ago (18 September 2011 10:00)
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alteredego: I'd love to come but:

1. I got some paint drying and need to keep an eye on it

2. The Tour of Britain is on. Is anyone tougher than a pro cyclist?

Chuck Norris

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  • Posted 2 years ago (18 September 2011 18:10)
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Jonny Hoogerland: Hardest man in sport? Knocked off by a support vehicle into a barbed wire fence at about 30mph. Back on, rode to the finish (about 50 miles), 33 stitches after finishing.

 


 

Absolutely no problem with cyclists, I seem to remember making a point about F1, not about cyclists.

I also don't remember this being a discussion about who is hardest.

And any comment you can make about dullness and class can be thrown straight back at F1.

But the class consciousness of this site is fascinating. The two biggest insults appear to be "Jeremy" or "Chav".  Long live the classless society !

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  • Posted 2 years ago (19 September 2011 08:42)
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As it stands, the Irish win has resulted in a Northern Hemisphere/Southern Hemishpere split on the run in to the final.  If England win the rest of their group games they will most likely face France in the QF's, then Wales or Ireland in the Semi's.  So, England winning the WC is not impossible.  If all this does come to pass, we only have to beat renowned World Cup chokers (the All Blacks) in the final

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  • Posted 2 years ago (19 September 2011 16:19)
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drg andy said:

A gang of Jeremys pushing each other from behind - not my cup of tea! I really don't care who wins. now the italian Grand Prix - come on Hamilton!


 

Then don't comment on the thread then.

 

 

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  • Posted 2 years ago (19 September 2011 21:02)
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Hi Arch

Opening post 'What's everyone's view', I've added mine, is that wrong? If so I apologise for thinking it's boring but there you go!

Also the invite (or what ever it might have been) to a rugby club to 'discuss' how boring I find the game insinuated that rugby players are very tough, I offered a different version of tough. And if chuck Norris had a better name then he'd probably win as toughest guy in the world. Ever.

 

 

Apart from Larry Grayson.

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  • Posted 2 years ago (19 September 2011 21:34)
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Screaming Tree said:

What team's going to win, whos' going to make the semi's. What's everyones view??


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On which teams going to win, who's going to make the semi's.

The Rugby World cup.

 

Not the tour of Britian did anyone know it was on push bike race, or whos got the best scar after falling off. Or who drives the fastest car because the driver don't matter because my blown diffuser is bigger than your KERS button.

 

The Rugby World cup.............Get it ??

 

 

PS: Nice play on words in your last post BTW.

 

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  • Posted 2 years ago (19 September 2011 23:01)
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arch says:

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drg andy said:

Hi Arch

Opening post 'What's everyone's view', I've added mine, is that wrong? If so I apologise for thinking it's boring but there you go!

Also the invite (or what ever it might have been) to a rugby club to 'discuss' how boring I find the game insinuated that rugby players are very tough, I offered a different version of tough. And if chuck Norris had a better name then he'd probably win as toughest guy in the world. Ever.

 

 

Apart from Larry Grayson.

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I thought the insinuation was you'd probably get your head shoved up your ar*e TBH.

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  • Posted 2 years ago (19 September 2011 23:05)
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Oh, how mature! I thought Rugby Union was played by gentlemen, that's what others say, mixed fans, beer on the terraces... Then threats of shoving heads up arses, how mature and restrained and hardly the comments of gentlemenly sportsmen.

Last time I went to the Challenge Cup Final the fans were mixed too, F1 fans mix, so do TdeF fans and those at the Olympics; scumbag yob behaviour seems to be isolated in football.

And, just to poke the snake with another stick... 6 and half weeks!!! The whole of the Olympics is done in three! And the ultra-tough cyclists can tour a whole country in three weeks!

This thread ought to now be re-posted in'rants'!!!! Still at least it makes the forum a little more lively, as long as we can remain polite and unthreatening it will be nothing if not entertaining! 

Have a good day!

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  • Posted 2 years ago (20 September 2011 08:30)
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Whoa time out.

In the words of harry enfield's scousers "calm down calm down"

Before this spirals off into one of those vitirol spitting threads, if I could just clarify.

My "invite" was intended to be a light hearted response, not a threat of physical violence. Sincere apologies if it came across wrong.

I was not making a comment about the toughness of rugby players, I was responding to the suggestion that rugby players were a load of "jeremys", which I took to mean posh.  My experience is very very different.

I think cycling is great, both participation and watching. And people overtake.

But I'm afraid F1 really is as dull as dishwater and in its current engineer lead incarnation, struggles in my mind to embody the essence of true sport  

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  • Posted 2 years ago (20 September 2011 08:35)
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Good job the rugby's on, eh?

Of course I haven't really got a secret chocolate stash!
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  • Posted 2 years ago (20 September 2011 09:58)

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