Hansen needs his head read
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England.
France because 3 finals and no cup.
Wales because they’ve been playing well and despite the fact we’ll never hear the last of it.
Ireland.
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@Catogrande said in Hansen needs his head read:
England.
France because 3 finals and no cup.
Wales because they’ve been playing well and despite the fact we’ll never hear the last of it.
Ireland.
No SH big 3, you’ve had it often enough.It’s not a fucking participation award.
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@Catogrande said in Hansen needs his head read:
England.
France because 3 finals and no cup.
Wales because they’ve been playing well and despite the fact we’ll never hear the last of it.
Ireland.
No SH big 3, you’ve had it often enough.Anyone NH but Scotland?!
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@Crucial said in Hansen needs his head read:
@Catogrande said in Hansen needs his head read:
England.
France because 3 finals and no cup.
Wales because they’ve been playing well and despite the fact we’ll never hear the last of it.
Ireland.
No SH big 3, you’ve had it often enough.It’s not a fucking participation award.
May I refer you to a previous post that didn’t want the Boks to win ‘cos they’d be catching NZ up? Stop picking on me.
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@pakman said in Hansen needs his head read:
@Catogrande said in Hansen needs his head read:
England.
France because 3 finals and no cup.
Wales because they’ve been playing well and despite the fact we’ll never hear the last of it.
Ireland.
No SH big 3, you’ve had it often enough.Anyone NH but Scotland?!
Yeah, sort of, which is odd as I usually have a soft spot for Scotland but in recent years I’ve got a bit sick of them talking themselves up without anything to support it. Caveat: “Them” = mainly former players.
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@Catogrande said in Hansen needs his head read:
@pakman said in Hansen needs his head read:
@Catogrande said in Hansen needs his head read:
England.
France because 3 finals and no cup.
Wales because they’ve been playing well and despite the fact we’ll never hear the last of it.
Ireland.
No SH big 3, you’ve had it often enough.Anyone NH but Scotland?!
Yeah, sort of, which is odd as I usually have a soft spot for Scotland but in recent years I’ve got a bit sick of them talking themselves up without anything to support it. Caveat: “Them” = mainly former players.
I don’t begrudge them , look how excited @MN5 gets when they don’t get a wooden spoon in the 6n or finish second to last .
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I've thought long and hard about this, and it's easier to work backwards, and start with the ones that you don't want to win
Aussie: Nope I live here, i would have to put up with dickheads who have been silent for a decade suddenly piling on, and trying bring back the old "AB Choke" memes. And 4 years of shit shouldn't be disguised by 6 weeks of competent rugby.
South Africa: Nope Old enemy, same amount of cups as us, quotas and internal politics. Thugs, cheats, and wannabe tough guys
Ireland: Nope. Floggy fans of the highest order. A sense of entitlement built on fuck all. I could have doid. Boring rugby. Sexton is a diving sook.
France. No Way. That would justify that their current structure can work.
England. Nope. Poncey royals looking dopey in the stands all happy and shit. Eddie's smug little face. The endless braying. Something about it coming home. The fans are bad enough about that 2003 team, give them another set of heroes and it will be never ending.
Argentina and Scotland don't have a hope.
So that leaves Wales. Proper rugby country. Fans have suffered so much. Their mouthy coach is the Chiefs coach now, so infinitely more tolerable. Can actually play some brilliant rugby at times. AWJ lifting the trophy would look pretty good. #1 in the World too.
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@mariner4life said in Hansen needs his head read:
Thugs, cheats, and wannabe tough guys
Isn't that what the Fern's built on?
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@pakman said in Hansen needs his head read:
@mariner4life said in Hansen needs his head read:
Thugs, cheats, and wannabe tough guys
Isn't that what the Fern's built on?
i am not a thug
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@mariner4life The Fern takes all sorts.
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The only team I want to win, after the ABs, is Wales. My logic is this:
- Needs to be a that has a chance, otherwise I would choose Namibia or something
- Not Oz or SA so they don't equal our tally.
- Ditto not England, I have too many Eng friends and family, it was bad enough living there in 03
- Not Ireland because of the way they have moaned so much about tackles and crap, and still moan about BoD, and they've beten us recently
- Wales are not to beat us in their winning run so we can still point that out and say Word Champs but not World's best.
- Not France, cos they're French.
- No one else is in with a realistic chance.
There you go.
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@mariner4life said in Hansen needs his head read:
South Africa: Nope Old enemy, same amount of cups as us, quotas and internal politics. Thugs, cheats, and wannabe tough guys
Reminds me of a saffa golf pro my dad met on the GC years ago. They got to talking about rugby, and I think my uncle made some glib comment about us getting shafted in the 1995 cup. This guy sparks up with "We play hard but we don't cheat!!"
Fast forward to CF Jnr's weekend football in house comp. One team, managed by a saffa dad, fully schooled in the dark arts; shoving off the ball, shirt pulling, the whole bit. And to top it off this Saffa dude turns a blind eye and even worse cheats on throw in calls. It's farken 8 year olds FFS. We don't cheat?
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@jegga said in Hansen needs his head read:
The Gatland factor for me is over ridden by the amount of shit Welsh fans could heap on their neighbours for the next four years.
Oh and they would. Very important that they don't beat us though or they will be heaping the shit on me - which means that we would need to lose a semi final - if we get that far.
Really is just easiest and best all round that we win it. Wales can lose in the final if they want.
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@Snowy said in Hansen needs his head read:
@jegga said in Hansen needs his head read:
The Gatland factor for me is over ridden by the amount of shit Welsh fans could heap on their neighbours for the next four years.
Oh and they would. Very important that they don't beat us though or they will be heaping the shit on me - which means that we would need to lose a semi final - if we get that far.
Really is just easiest and best all round that we win it. Wales can lose in the final if they want.
There’s no scenario in which I’m comfortable with Wales beating us. The thought of them humiliating Krustys team in a final pleases me though .
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@jegga said in Hansen needs his head read:
@Snowy said in Hansen needs his head read:
@jegga said in Hansen needs his head read:
The Gatland factor for me is over ridden by the amount of shit Welsh fans could heap on their neighbours for the next four years.
Oh and they would. Very important that they don't beat us though or they will be heaping the shit on me - which means that we would need to lose a semi final - if we get that far.
Really is just easiest and best all round that we win it. Wales can lose in the final if they want.
There’s no scenario in which I’m comfortable with Wales beating us. The thought of them humiliating Krustys team in a final pleases me though .
France is the only team I want us to lose to in a final. They are the only team that regularly dissolves the aura at RWC time. BTW, that doesn't mean I want us to lose the final!!
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Yeah the more I think about post game interviews and images of Gatland winning makes me want England to win it before Wales.
England are usually my no.2 team when it comes to RWC’s anyway, but they are so temperamental as a side that other than 03 I have never thought they were an actual chance to win.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Hansen needs his head read:
England are usually my no.2 team when it comes to RWC’s anyway, but they are so temperamental as a side that other than 03 I have never thought they were an actual chance to win.
the more I think about it, the harder this RWC looks to win for any team. Looking like three really tough matches for most people, and they will be tight, uncompromising efforts. Whoever falls over the line will have damn well earned it I reckon
