Best of RWC 1999
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Episodes 8 and 9 up on the front page ...
Best of RWC #8 - 1999 Upsets
This instalment: 1999, Back in Britain (the one all you closet French supporters have been waiting for… or should that now be the first one all you closet French supporters have been waiting for…)
Best of RWC #9 - 1999 Classics
Let’s face it – you had to wade through some dross to get really excited about the footy at RWC IV. The rugby really wasn’t massively spectacular. However, luckily for us, and this series of articles, there were one or two notable exceptions.
Enjoy.
If you can ...
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from memory this is the worst world cup quality-wise but i remember very little except Jonah still being awesome and everyone in Black shitting the bed
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@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
from memory this is the worst world cup quality-wise but i remember very little except Jonah still being awesome and everyone in Black shitting the bed
Was there a world cup in 1999?
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@canefan said in Best of RWC 1999:
@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
from memory this is the worst world cup quality-wise but i remember very little except Jonah still being awesome and everyone in Black shitting the bed
Was there a world cup in 1999?
lol we've got a couple more phantom world cups to get through
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for those with better memories, did we labour through a desperately limited Scotland in our Quarter?
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@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
for those with better memories, did we labour through a desperately limited Scotland in our Quarter?
Yes but Cameron Murray dummied Jonah to score a terrific consolation try. His defence was bloody good too.
I hope he’s never had to buy a beer in Hawick ever again.
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@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
for those with better memories, did we labour through a desperately limited Scotland in our Quarter?
Yep.
The battle of the grey jerseys
Edit: Idiot - that was 2007
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@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
@canefan said in Best of RWC 1999:
@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
from memory this is the worst world cup quality-wise but i remember very little except Jonah still being awesome and everyone in Black shitting the bed
Was there a world cup in 1999?
lol we've got a couple more phantom world cups to get through
It didn't hurt as much as 2007. And we didn't realise how much 1995 hurt until years later when we realised it was harder to win the bugger than we thought
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@canefan 99 hurt most due to being at Twickers that fateful day.
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@taniwharugby said in Best of RWC 1999:
@canefan 99 hurt most due to being at Twickers that fateful day.
Everyone was looking forward to us being in the final. But no one told those jammy French...
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@canefan said in Best of RWC 1999:
Everyone was looking forward to us being in the final
especially the players, except Jonah
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@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
for those with better memories, did we labour through a desperately limited Scotland in our Quarter?
Yes. I remember watching a replay of the game a few years ago (I think it was on the eve of a RWC they were replaying old games). I was shocked at how bad the ABs were. The writing should have been on the wall.
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@taniwharugby said in Best of RWC 1999:
@canefan 99 hurt most due to being at Twickers that fateful day.
Yep. And made worse for me sitting in Springbok fan tour section.
@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
from memory this is the worst world cup quality-wise but i remember very little except Jonah still being awesome and everyone in Black shitting the bed
Aside from the result this a great RWC for me as I went to every game via a bunch of methods (organised tours, driving with mates, getting tickets from a Bok fan after chatting on the train the morning of a game). The experience, bar the semi result was great.
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@KiwiMurph said in Best of RWC 1999:
@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
for those with better memories, did we labour through a desperately limited Scotland in our Quarter?
Yes. I remember watching a replay of the game a few years ago (I think it was on the eve of a RWC they were replaying old games). I was shocked at how bad the ABs were. The writing should have been on the wall.
Wasn't 1998 the year we really sucked? I guess many of the guys who fronted up in London were from that group
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@canefan said in Best of RWC 1999:
@KiwiMurph said in Best of RWC 1999:
@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
for those with better memories, did we labour through a desperately limited Scotland in our Quarter?
Yes. I remember watching a replay of the game a few years ago (I think it was on the eve of a RWC they were replaying old games). I was shocked at how bad the ABs were. The writing should have been on the wall.
Wasn't 1998 the year we really sucked? I guess many of the guys who fronted up in London were from that group
Yep - we had some good performances at home in 1999 but we got absolutely smashed in Sydney Bledisloe so we were still very vulnerable.
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@canefan said in Best of RWC 1999:
@KiwiMurph said in Best of RWC 1999:
@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
for those with better memories, did we labour through a desperately limited Scotland in our Quarter?
Yes. I remember watching a replay of the game a few years ago (I think it was on the eve of a RWC they were replaying old games). I was shocked at how bad the ABs were. The writing should have been on the wall.
Wasn't 1998 the year we really sucked? I guess many of the guys who fronted up in London were from that group
5 losses on the trot
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@booboo said in Best of RWC 1999:
@canefan said in Best of RWC 1999:
@KiwiMurph said in Best of RWC 1999:
@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 1999:
for those with better memories, did we labour through a desperately limited Scotland in our Quarter?
Yes. I remember watching a replay of the game a few years ago (I think it was on the eve of a RWC they were replaying old games). I was shocked at how bad the ABs were. The writing should have been on the wall.
Wasn't 1998 the year we really sucked? I guess many of the guys who fronted up in London were from that group
5 losses on the trot
Those were dark days. I remember John Hart being placed under massive pressure.
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@KiwiMurph said in Best of RWC 1999:
Scotland on their next trip to NZ should dust off the orange jerseys and play the Highlanders (who can dust off their bright green jerseys) and they can contest the Hi Vis Cup
Don’t hold your breath, they haven’t been to NZ since 2000. TWENTY THREE fucken years.
That is seriously disgraceful carry on.
