Dwarf Bastard Convicts are now England's bitches

[Jon_in_london]

Thats right.

We won.

[geni]

Jon we know your pleased but don't you think it would be sweater to wait untill the ozzies hit the board?

[Jocko]

Originally posted by Jon_in_london
Thats right.

We won.

All right, I'll bite. What the hell are you talking about?

Kudos for the single most interesting subject line I've ever seen, BTW.

[Iconoclast]

Originally posted by Jon_in_london
Thats right.

We won.
Are you planning on soiling every forum here with this irrelevency?

Oh, and:

Q: How can you tell when it's summer in England?
A: The rain's a little warmer.

"England's contribution to world cuisine: the Chip" -- Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda

[Iconoclast]

Originally posted by Jocko
All right, I'll bite. What the hell are you talking about?
The little chap's all excited because Brittania finally managed to play in a sports competition and not lose. He's getting all the mileage he can out of this since he knows it'll be a long time before the next drink.

[Jon_in_london]

Originally posted by Iconoclast

Are you planning on soiling every forum here with this irrelevency?


Yes.


Q: How can you tell when it's summer in England?
A: The rain's a little warmer.


Blah blah blah blah........ England's weather is great. I love every raindrop and every photon of sun.



"England's contribution to world cuisine: the Chip" -- Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda


Scrape it off yer shoulder, or is it a piece of dandruff?

[Jon_in_london]

Originally posted by Iconoclast

The little chap's all excited because Brittania finally managed to play in a sports competition and not lose. He's getting all the mileage he can out of this since he knows it'll be a long time before the next drink.

Blow it out yer arse!

Ooops! you already have!

[Iconoclast]

I just checked the news and damn it was a cliffhanger of a game, pity I missed it.

[Jon_in_london]

Originally posted by Iconoclast
I just checked the news and damn it was a cliffhanger of a game, pity I missed it.

I no longer have nails. I ate them all this morning.

Seriously, I am always heartened by the extreme sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct of every rugby player and rugby fan. Everyone who played in this world cup/refreered/Fans/Pubside Supporters* etc etc... All are are wonderfull and unsurpased in your behaviour and conduct.

Except you whinging Aussies, of course!! :D


*except for my mate this afternoon who I had to rescue from about 27 fights in a row, dickhead.

[Iconoclast]

Originally posted by Jon_in_london
Seriously, I am always heartened by the extreme sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct of every rugby player and rugby fan. Everyone who played in this world cup/refreered/Fans/Pubside Supporters* etc etc... All are are wonderfull and unsurpased in your behaviour and conduct.
Yep, there's something about the game of Rugby that seems to bring out the best in everyone.

[Ed]

Ummm, Jon? WTF are you talking about? I thought prisons at first now it's something w/ Oz. What is the deal?

[Jon_in_london]

Originally posted by Ed
Ummm, Jon? WTF are you talking about? I thought prisons at first now it's something w/ Oz. What is the deal?

England kicked Australia's arse in the rugby world cup.

Prison=Australia.

[Jocko]

Originally posted by Jon_in_london


England kicked Australia's arse in the rugby world cup.

Prison=Australia.

Ah. I see. I should've realized when the word "sport" was used that it couldn't be soccer, so I was left hanging. Thanks for the clarification.

[Jon_in_london]

Originally posted by Jocko

I should've realized when the word "sport" was used that it couldn't be soccer, so I was left hanging.

Precisley! :D

[Ed]

Originally posted by Jon_in_london


England kicked Australia's arse in the rugby world cup.

Prison=Australia.

AHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh HA.

Got it.

Scrums and stuff, right? I watched rugby at one time, looked like a legalized brawl. Most entertaining.

I will tell you some time about my Rugby Hooligan buddies. Very odd.

[Mr Manifesto]

Originally posted by Jon_in_london
Thats right.

We won.

After your frankly pathetic efforts in Rugby League and Cricket, we felt we had to throw you a bone or you might start whining and not play with us any more.

BTW- when are you going to send the Ashes to us? You might as well- it's never going to move again after that.

[Jon_in_london]

Originally posted by Mr Manifesto

BTW- when are you going to send the Ashes to us? You might as well- it's never going to move again after that.

Sorry, cant trust you criminals with the Ashes.

Light a cigarette and keep the ash why dontcha?!

PS: You know you love to bend for a Pom!

[Zep]

Of course the Poms won! They brought their atrocious British weather down here precisely so that they could! Talk about stacking the deck! We haven't seen so much water falling out of the sky since Noah went into shipbuilding. It's a wonder the players weren't using flippers and snorkels. Gah! Someone will just HAVE to nobble that Wilkinson chap next time!

PS. It was a GREAT final game, all the same. I was in the Rocks with great crowd of supporters from both sides and we had a blast, despite the weather. Congrats!

PPS. I'm surprised you are still in the UK, Jon. It's knee-deep in Pommies here currently - didn't know there was so much fruit to be picked... Just about EVERY Pom in Great Britain with an excuse to do so came to Sydney for the rugby. Voluntarily this time... :)

[geni]

Originally posted by Zep
Of course the Poms won! They brought their atrocious British weather down here precisely so that they could! Talk about stacking the deck! We haven't seen so much water falling out of the sky since Noah went into shipbuilding. It's a wonder the players weren't using flippers and snorkels. !


You have clearly never been to Wales

[Zep]

Originally posted by geni
You have clearly never been to Wales True. I'm told it has been under water longer than Atlantis...

[Zep]

Read all about it! (http://rugbyheaven.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/23/1069027398301.html)

[Tony]

"Dwarf Bastard Convicts" has got to be the best name for a sports team ever!!! ;)

[athon]

It was a superb game, and kudos to the Poms who finally managed to win at a game they created.

It would be the equivalent of America finally winning a game of baseball, or Japan winning a karate tournament. They would also deserve heart-felt congratulations...

Who knows, perhaps The Mighty Poms might be in for a smashing season of cricket....

Sorry, I just can't write this without laughing. (hmm, maybe not wise since I'm soon to become one of them...)

Athon

[Jon_in_london]

Originally posted by athon
Who knows, perhaps The Mighty Poms might be in for a smashing season of cricket....


Oh come now, be reasonable. One miracle at a time.....

[Nikk]

Originally posted by athon
It was a superb game, and kudos to the Poms who finally managed to win at a game they created.

It would be the equivalent of America finally winning a game of baseball, or Japan winning a karate tournament. They would also deserve heart-felt congratulations...

Athon


On the other hand baseball and karate are parochial little sports a bit like gaelic football, pelota and yemeni camel hurling. Naturally the natives are good at them, hardly anyone else takes them seriously.

That's the problem with inventing sports that almost everyone enjoys - you get a lot of competition.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Originally posted by Iconoclast

The little chap's all excited because Brittania finally managed to play in a sports competition and not lose. He's getting all the mileage he can out of this since he knows it'll be a long time before the next drink.

I don't know exactly what you all are talking about, but ir appears that the thread starter is something akin to a Chicago Cubs fan.

Hang in there, buddy! :p

[Skeptic]

Prison=Australia.

I probably posted this before:

Someone I know asked for a visa to Australia. He was asked "Do you have a criminal record?" and replied "I didn't know it was still required".

Got kicked out of the office--or so he says.

[wollery]

My Welsh friends are not happy, they wanted the convicts to win!

Must be a sheep thing. :D

[a_unique_person]

You must be looking forward to the Commonwealth Games then.

[PogoPedant]

It was an impossible game to watch. One one hand, four more years of Aussies would be unbearable, and now maybe, just maybe the English will stop whinging. On hte other hand, England scored maybe two tries in three games. Running rugby is dead, dead, dead.

I was hoping for a New Zealand vs France finale. Guess I lost big time.

Joke heard on television:
A: Knock, knock.
B: Who's there?
A: The tryline.
B: The tryline who?
A: Somebody tell the English!

It's just sad.

[a_unique_person]

Originally posted by PogoPedant
It was an impossible game to watch. One one hand, four more years of Aussies would be unbearable, and now maybe, just maybe the English will stop whinging. On hte other hand, England scored maybe two tries in three games. Running rugby is dead, dead, dead.

I was hoping for a New Zealand vs France finale. Guess I lost big time.

Joke heard on television:
A: Knock, knock.
B: Who's there?
A: The tryline.
B: The tryline who?
A: Somebody tell the English!

It's just sad.

Yes, Rugby is morphing into Aussie Rules.

[Hypocolius]

Originally posted by PogoPedant
Running rugby is dead, dead, dead.



Did you actually watch the game, or are you just regurgitating the drivel that has been seeping out of NZ for the last week? I used to think the Aussies were champion whingers until the kiwis started moaning after they lost to Oz. New Zealand, where the men are men, and the grapes are sour.

[Zep]

And we learned how to whinge from the Poms... Such good teachers too!

:D

[Jon_in_london]

Originally posted by PogoPedant

Joke heard on television:
A: Knock, knock.
B: Who's there?
A: The tryline.
B: The tryline who?
A: Somebody tell the English!

It's just sad.


:rolleyes:

It seems we scored as many tries as Australia in the final.


A: Knock, knock.
B: Who's there?
A: The Worldcup.
B: The Worldcup who?
A: Somebody tell the Kiwis!

[Zep]

That's funny, you know. The Pommy visitors certainly seem well taken by our excellent and world-class beer - they drank enough of it, as though they trying to forget the warm, weak, flat stuff they serve in England... Maybe that's what Jonny's secret was - good Aussie beer for a change! Puts hairs on your chest! Not like that flat warm Pommy stuff - that puts hairs on your intestines...

:D

[Drooper]

Originally posted by Mr Manifesto


After your frankly pathetic efforts in Rugby League and Cricket, we felt we had to throw you a bone or you might start whining and not play with us any more.

BTW- when are you going to send the Ashes to us? You might as well- it's never going to move again after that.


What they'll never recover from is that thrashing Mrs Posh Spice and Co. received at the hands of us convicts.

I suppose it just goes to show that crime does pay, in the global sporting field I suppose.

[PogoPedant]

Originally posted by Hypocolius


Did you actually watch the game, or are you just regurgitating the drivel that has been seeping out of NZ for the last week? I used to think the Aussies were champion whingers until the kiwis started moaning after they lost to Oz. New Zealand, where the men are men, and the grapes are sour.
I watched the game, and in all fairness, I though the final was a very good game. Far better than I feared. That being said, the british have played a less than interesting rugby this world-cup. If Australia had sacrificed a player to take out Wilkinson (sp?)... Well, that wouldn't have been very sportsmanslike.

Anyhow, the kiwis have entered into a bit of a national depression right now. I walked by a pub the morning after that fatefull semi. It had a blackboard by the side of the door where they usually advertise this and hint. That morning it simply said f%*k. Their spelling.

Another joke from the same show:
Q: How do you recork a bottle of champagne?
A: Ask a kiwi.

[Jon_in_london]

Originally posted by PogoPedant

I watched the game, and in all fairness, I though the final was a very good game. Far better than I feared. That being said, the british have played a less than interesting rugby this world-cup. If Australia had sacrificed a player to take out Wilkinson (sp?)... Well, that wouldn't have been very sportsmanslike.


First of all, thats English, not British.

Second, you can stuff your "less than interesting rugby" up your bum.

Thirdly, theres a lot more to a rugby team than a fly-half, no matter how good he is.

[wollery]

Originally posted by Jon_in_LondonThirdly, theres a lot more to a rugby team than a fly-half, no matter how good he is.
Exactly, in order to win a game by your fly half kicking more points than the opposition score you need to get the ball into range for him to kick and also limit their scoring, not easy against sides like South Africa and Australia.

And while we're at it did we score a try? Yes.

Did Ben Kay drop a pass that would have let him score a try? Yes.

How many tries did Oz score? One.

And was that from running rugby? No, it was a well placed kick to the goal line!

And how many penalty kick attempts did the Aussie fly half take? More than Jonny I think you'll find.

Just 'cause your fly half can't kick as well as ours......

Oh yeah and if you look at the stats for possession and territory you'll see that we had most of the possession but the game was played more in our half. All of which suggests that the English were running with the ball and the Aussies were kicking it!
What actually happened of course was a damned good game of rugby between two very good and fairly evenly matched sides.

Originally posted by Zep
That's funny, you know. The Pommy visitors certainly seem well taken by our excellent and world-class beer - they drank enough of it, as though they trying to forget the warm, weak, flat stuff they serve in England... Maybe that's what Jonny's secret was - good Aussie beer for a change! Puts hairs on your chest! Not like that flat warm Pommy stuff - that puts hairs on your intestines...

:D
Oh, you mean the Aussie stuff - fizzy, flavourless, alcohol-free soda pop? Give me the flat warm stuff that gets you drunk any day!:D

[PogoPedant]

Originally posted by Jon_in_london


First of all, thats English, not British.


I apologize. There are certain things I never get right, no matter how much I try...



Second, you can stuff your "less than interesting rugby" up your bum.


I like my bum without quotes up it, thank you very much. What constitutes good rugby is very much a subjective thing, I guess...



Thirdly, theres a lot more to a rugby team than a fly-half, no matter how good he is.
Yes, it is. Please tell the Roses. ;)

[Hypocolius]

Originally posted by PogoPedant
es, it is. Please tell the Roses. ;)

I think they already know. All the top teams rely heavily on their No.10, whether as a tactician, kicker or all round good egg. Australia has Larkham, NZ has Spencer, SA has Houghaard etc. If you look at the great teams of the past, you can't achieve greatness without an absolutely outstanding Fly Half, fact of life. Where Wilkinson is (IMO) head and shoulders above the rest is the fact that he isn't just a kicker. Aside from his field goals and place kicks, his defence is superb, he has great hands and his tactical kicking is top-drawer. The point is, however, it doesn't matter how good your kicker is, if the scrum is wobbly, then the No.10 will always be under pressure. Wilkinson looks so good, because his scrum gives him the time to get things perfect, and another nice thing about him is that he would be the first to admit to that.

Put it like this, if Wilkinson was an Aussie, he would have lost on Saturday. The Oz scrum was continuously under pressure, and the subsequent possession they acheived was never fast enough to allow Larkham time to do anything different.

Wilkinson is a great player, but so is Vickery, Thompson, Woodman and Johnson, not to mention Dallaglio, Back and Kay.