Hansen needs his head read
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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
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@nzzp said in Hansen needs his head read:
@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
I agree. Even those that have been ‘favourites’ and gone on to win have done so under tough circumstances.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Hansen needs his head read:
@nzzp said in Hansen needs his head read:
@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
I agree. Even those that have been ‘favourites’ and gone on to win have done so under tough circumstances.
there will be one game where the ultimate cup winner wins by the skin of their teeth, and that game is in doubt all the way.
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@mariner4life so when we scrape past SA in the opening match?
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@taniwharugby said in Hansen needs his head read:
@mariner4life so when we scrape past SA in the opening match?
a pox on you sir
I do hope the Boks and AB's play each other twice this RWC. First game, and last game.
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Anybody but Wales.
Welsh fans are awful people. I probably think that as I see in them, what most people see in NZ fans.
I don't want Boks or Aus as then they would also have 3 cups, and I quite like us being ahead out on our own there. I wouldn't mind England or Ireland.
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@Billy-Webb said in Hansen needs his head read:
@taniwharugby said in Hansen needs his head read:
@mariner4life so when we scrape past SA in the opening match?
a pox on you sir
I do hope the Boks and AB's play each other twice this RWC. First game, and last game.
Anyone got the stats on how many times teams in the same pool have gone on to play each other in the knock out/final. 2011 ABs and France. Any others?
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@ACT-Crusader
England Boks in 2007 -
@ACT-Crusader said in Hansen needs his head read:
@Billy-Webb said in Hansen needs his head read:
@taniwharugby said in Hansen needs his head read:
@mariner4life so when we scrape past SA in the opening match?
a pox on you sir
I do hope the Boks and AB's play each other twice this RWC. First game, and last game.
Anyone got the stats on how many times teams in the same pool have gone on to play each other in the knock out/final. 2011 ABs and France. Any others?
SA v England 2007
Edit: Beaten to the punch.
