Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of
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@victor-meldrew said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
The crowd was great, really passionate and Les Frog supporters were pretty gracious in victory in the pubs afterwards.
Yep. I was grumpy as fuck (Wayne was very lucky) but the Frenchies were great. They felt my pain.
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@victor-meldrew said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@kiwiwomble said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
agreed, did a few trips to cardiff whilst living in london, did cop quite a bit of abuse from the locals "finally got what you deserve!" after the 2007 QF which was a surprise after a few other very enjoyable trips
Never had that in '07, must have been the group I was with. One of my memories of that night was a bloke in an England shirt (football, not Rugby) getting kicked out of a pub for taunting AB supporters.
We went with the beige brigade, the French fans were great but several groups of the welsh got on our back 🤷🏻♂️ Glad to hear it was not common
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Wales v England at Cardiff two years ago in the 6N. A game England probably should have won but the atmosphere in the stadium was a huge thing. Even as an opposition supporter it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Was an interesting couple of hours i Cardiff afterwards too. lots of chanting, many drunken Welsh boys stripped to the waist in the pouring rain, all so very happy. No goading from anyone.
A memorable occasion made even more so on the trip back where my mate got mistaken for Jeremy Clarkson. We explained that he was actually Jezza's brother and that they hated each other and regaled this bunch of young farmers of all the shit Jezza had got up to. We even videoed a message from them telling Jezza he was a fluffybunny, but all they could bring themselves to do was wave and smile.
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@victor-meldrew said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@siam said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@victor-meldrew said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Any AB game at the Millennium Stadium - roof open or not
Ummm....errr.... 2007...ummm😀
The crowd was great, really passionate and Les Frog supporters were pretty gracious in victory in the pubs afterwards.
That was my recollection too👍 heaps of Irish there too!
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1972 Okara Park.
From memory it was quite an adventure to even get into the ground. Walking for miles, being thrown over fences, running across railway tracks, dodging the buses, huge queues. All this to find out it was standing room only on the bank, and therefore, as a 7 year old all you get to see is a sea of legs...
It was still quite an experience. Pity about the result. -
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@nzzp said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@pepe Okara for the 2011 RWC and then the 2017 lions tour was awesome fun. Not nearly as full, but still a great time out
The 3rd game of the last Lions tour was crazy. Great atmosphere. Shame that it was tainted by that French done deal...
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@canefan said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@nzzp said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@pepe Okara for the 2011 RWC and then the 2017 lions tour was awesome fun. Not nearly as full, but still a great time out
The 3rd game of the last Lions tour was crazy. Great atmosphere. Shame that it was tainted by that French done deal...
Say it often enough…
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@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
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Not the best crowd, but also one of the highlights of attendance of a game for me, was when I was alot younger getting to see BoP play an international team .. and also beat them. Anyone curious at how long Nisbo has been on air? I tracked down some highlight video of this game and could not believe he was commentating.
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Bay of Plenty were one of three provinicial sides to beat Australia on their 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣0️⃣ tour of NZ. Played on a sticky Rotorua Stadium, Damon Kaui...
The Australian backline handling that led to the Kaui try is priceless
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@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
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@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
So that was O.K to just ignore the laws and have any sort of "arrangement"? French translation or otherwise?
My French isn't too bad actually. So I know what you are getting at but it wasn't translation that was the problem.
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@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
So that was O.K to just ignore the laws and have any sort of "arrangement"? French translation or otherwise?
My French isn't too bad actually. So I know what you are getting at but it wasn't translation that was the problem.
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@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
So that was O.K to just ignore the laws and have any sort of "arrangement"? French translation or otherwise?
My French isn't too bad actually. So I know what you are getting at but it wasn't translation that was the problem.
I was replying to your comment of it being a French done deal, rather than the decision itself, which I agree was clearly wrong.
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@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
So that was O.K to just ignore the laws and have any sort of "arrangement"? French translation or otherwise?
My French isn't too bad actually. So I know what you are getting at but it wasn't translation that was the problem.
I was replying to your comment of it being a French done deal, rather than the decision itself, which I agree was clearly wrong.
It's the confluence of events that sucks - it's not a conspiracy (that's crazy talk), but he clearly bottled it after awarding the penalty and then reducing it to a scrum.
Then (and this is where I continue to get cross), TJP just flapped his arms and let the Red 9 steal the ball FROM THE BACK OF OUR SCRUM. FFS. Blew our second chance to win that game (third if yo ucould Jules dropping the ball with the line open)
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Yeah, I’d be spewing if it happened the other way. In truth though we are all on the wrong end of crap decisions at some time, what magnifies this one so much is that it was so late in the game. If it was in the first minute, different story.
