I'm a Force fan, but glad to see the Reds win. On paper they aren't the strongest side, but the youth in their team payed off and they knocked off just about all the biggest clubs.
The Tri-Nations will be disappointing because SA decided to rest their whole team. But NZ vs AUS will be good in the coming weeks, hopefully not too many injuries.
Also, 2 rugby games come out in about 6 weeks Edited by jack888 on 16-07-2011 16:53
Yea they have a lot of injuries, but i doubt it is exactly 21. They have to call them injured though, because they are obliged to send their strongest team possible to the tri-nation games.
It will be interesting to see how their 2nd XV go. It is more of an in-form 15 XV though, so they might do alright. I can't see them giving the Wallabies much trouble though. The return legs to SA will be much more interesting.
Time for the Worlds.
Starting Friday with New Zealand - Tonga.
A shame that I am no longer in NZ for this event.
Last Worlds I was in French for the group phase and then during the final I arrived in London, when the 45min drive from the airport to the house was without any traffic.
Time to win again All Blacks.
Edited by roturn on 07-09-2011 11:37
Eeehh, no! Its time for the boys in green to win!!!
(Although we might not even make the groupstages like last time. Only this time we will loose to Italy and Australia and only narrowly defeat Russia and the US)
Time for the Worlds.
Starting Friday with New Zealand - Tonga.
A shame that I am no longer in NZ for this event.
Last Worlds I was in French for the group phase and then during the final I arrived in London, when the 45min drive from the airport to the house was without any traffic.
Time to win again All Blacks.
do Germans really care about rugby ? (no offense taken )
Btw, I think it's gonna be Australia-NZ, at least I can't see how it could not happen ...
Edited by Juan on 07-09-2011 12:09
Actually Germans don`t care at all.
(We got football and maybe handball as biggest sport, then with a big gap basketball because of Nowitzky and tennis..., Probably 50 more sports before Rugby comes, what is quite a pity imo)
But I lived in NZ for a while and have relatives there. So I am not like most Germans.
Australia - NZ sounds pretty logical. But I am already afraid that NZ fails so badly as always in the WC. They always win but then in the Worlds they lose.
@ Miggi: Nice joke. Edited by roturn on 07-09-2011 12:17
roturn wrote:
Actually Germans don`t care at all.
(We got football and maybe handball as biggest sport, then with a big gap basketball because of Nowitzky and tennis..., Probably 50 more sports before Rugby comes, what is quite a pity imo)
@ Miggi: Nice joke.
Well if you ngo by spectators, Icehockey is the number 2 sport in germany.
And it wasnt a joke... I was been honest that we wont even make the group stages. That can be based on our latest tests: France won against us, and England slaughtered us like they havent in a long time. Furthermore, in the six Nations we played shit against Italy (who won against France) and deserved to loose and at last we lost to scotland, probably the worst rugby team in the 6nations now.
But BOD (Brian O'Discroll) is my neighbour and he seemed pretty confident (as allt he Leinster Players after winning the Heineken CUP) that we will actually make the KO stages and suprise... At least we are second tier this time. Last time we were third and got Australia and argentinia...
mb: Well, they might have the same average age but, after the england Ireland Match, i'd say that england has better chances to win than south africa. Even if I hope it doesnt happen
I think we have easily the best squad and depth, we've just really inconsistent loose forward line ups which has hurt us at the breakdown where we're usually dominant. Once we get some rhythm and momentum through our pool, we'll be the best team come knockout time
roturn wrote:
Actually Germans don`t care at all.
(We got football and maybe handball as biggest sport, then with a big gap basketball because of Nowitzky and tennis..., Probably 50 more sports before Rugby comes, what is quite a pity imo)
@ Miggi: Nice joke.
Well if you ngo by spectators, Icehockey is the number 2 sport in germany.
And it wasnt a joke... I was been honest that we wont even make the group stages. That can be based on our latest tests: France won against us, and England slaughtered us like they havent in a long time. Furthermore, in the six Nations we played shit against Italy (who won against France) and deserved to loose and at last we lost to scotland, probably the worst rugby team in the 6nations now.
With joke I meant this quote:
Eeehh, no! Its time for the boys in green to win!!!
mb: Well, they might have the same average age but, after the england Ireland Match, i'd say that england has better chances to win than south africa. Even if I hope it doesnt happen
No chance, South Africa crunched England last November and are a much stronger side now. England will be lucky to get to the semi's
[url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182]Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
mb: Well, they might have the same average age but, after the england Ireland Match, i'd say that england has better chances to win than south africa. Even if I hope it doesnt happen
No chance, South Africa crunched England last November and are a much stronger side now. England will be lucky to get to the semi's
Well we won spectacularly against you in the six nations and you crushed us two weeks ago...
mb: Well, they might have the same average age but, after the england Ireland Match, i'd say that england has better chances to win than south africa. Even if I hope it doesnt happen
No chance, South Africa crunched England last November and are a much stronger side now. England will be lucky to get to the semi's
Well we won spectacularly against you in the six nations and you crushed us two weeks ago...
I'm South African . I think Ireland lost two weeks ago because the match wasn't that important to them, whereas England needed to win after an embarrassing showing against Wales
[url=www.pcmdaily.com/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=33182]Team Santander Media Thread[/url]
mb: Well, they might have the same average age but, after the england Ireland Match, i'd say that england has better chances to win than south africa. Even if I hope it doesnt happen
No chance, South Africa crunched England last November and are a much stronger side now. England will be lucky to get to the semi's
Well we won spectacularly against you in the six nations and you crushed us two weeks ago...
I'm South African . I think Ireland lost two weeks ago because the match wasn't that important to them, whereas England needed to win after an embarrassing showing against Wales
Oh ok... Well, we needed that win after yet another embarassing loss against france... Basically we are shit...
roturn wrote:
Actually Germans don`t care at all.
(We got football and maybe handball as biggest sport, then with a big gap basketball because of Nowitzky and tennis..., Probably 50 more sports before Rugby comes, what is quite a pity imo)
But I lived in NZ for a while and have relatives there. So I am not like most Germans.
Australia - NZ sounds pretty logical. But I am already afraid that NZ fails so badly as always in the WC. They always win but then in the Worlds they lose.
@ Miggi: Nice joke.
except France is so bad they won't get their usual victory against NZ
No just kiddin... but not really! AFL for the win!
(no offense taken 
