Winners & Losers RWC

[DodgyAgent]

Kiwi errors: 1 Believing their own publicity. 2 Acting as unpaid and unwanted conscience for the whole of rugby. 3 Having not one clue how to close out a game. 4 Foisting the increasingly silly haka on others. 5 Blaming everyone but themselves.

Australian strengths: 1 Realising they were mortal. 2 Blaming nobody bar themselves. 3 Being humble enough to take a lead from European rugby. 4 Taking defeat on the chin, with grace. 5 Having a leader as captain in Stirling Mortlock.

True

Stephen Jones in todays Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle2703090.ece

[Troll]

agree with the haka thing .. should be banned

[wendigo100]

agree with the haka thing .. should be banned

No, it's good theatre.

England should do the Morris Dance.

[snaw]

Hey - the Haka is one of the best things about international rugby.

[wendigo100]

Hey - the Haka is one of the best things about international rugby.

It is hirsute-ist.

[oracleslave]

There is some typical Jones drivel in there as well.

Best referee: Wayne Barnes (England). - John Mcenroe's you can't be serious springs to mind.

Hidden losers: 1 Domestic rugby systems in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 2 The Super 14. - Well the SH has won 5/6 world cups. End of.

Nonperforming players: 1 Brian O’Driscoll (Ireland). 2 Gordon D’Arcy (Ireland). 3 Butch James (South Africa). - Can think of better examples than Buth James who actually had a great tournament.

[DodgyAgent]

There is some typical Jones drivel in there as well.

Best referee: Wayne Barnes (England). - John Mcenroe's you can't be serious springs to mind.

Hidden losers: 1 Domestic rugby systems in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 2 The Super 14. - Well the SH has won 5/6 world cups. End of.

Nonperforming players: 1 Brian O’Driscoll (Ireland). 2 Gordon D’Arcy (Ireland). 3 Butch James (South Africa). - Can think of better examples than Buth James who actually had a great tournament.

I think it is a bit tongue in cheek

[cailin maith]

DA - you really don't like Aussies or Kiwi's do you??

[DodgyAgent]

DA - you really don't like Aussies or Kiwi's do you??

I like them a lot. And it is precisely because I have such good friends who are both that I take the p*** out of them as much as I do. At the moment it is payback time and I am milking it as much as I can, because I just know it will not be long before they get their own back.

[oracleslave]

I I just know it will not be long before they get their own back.

At least you know your place in the long term then.