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Rugby Union World Cup 2011
The world's no.2 ranked country, Australia, just took the Bledisloe cup off the world's no. 1 ranked country, New Zealand, for the first time in 10 years.
The World cup begins in a little over a week, in New Zealand, where sport is king and Rugby is God. Despite usually being favourites, the All Blacks have been notorious chokers and have only won it once, in 1987. Are we interested?
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I'm looking forward to the highlights.
Rugby is best like sushi - bite sized portions.
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08-30-2011, 09:27 PM | #5 |
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Woot! My game.....
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USA did fairly well against Ireland. Even if they lost, they certainly made them pay for every meter gained. It was a hard hitting game, and the USA left a mark. The next two should be a bit easier, even though no one expects them to make it to the final rounds.
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We here in the sunshine state have high hopes for The Reds, ooops, I mean Australia.
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I think the wallabies are looking pretty good so far.
They had a solid 32-6 win over Italy, who are quite respectable. The other major teams didn't do so well first up. England struggled to beat Argentina 13-9. Wilko missed lots of kicks. South Africa (defending champs) just barely edged past wales 17-16. France needed a late surge to beat Japan 47-21. (The Cherry Blossoms, what kind of name is that for a rugby team?) Even the All Blacks only beat Tonga 41-10, when they normally beat them by about 70 points. Early days, and our winger Digby Ioane copped a broken thumb playing Italy. Hey, you Merkins get to play Russia next!
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You know what the NZ basketball team are called?
The Tall Blacks.
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I think the Aussies are going to take this one. Everyone else seems to be struggling.
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I may be biased. Especially as I have a cherry blossom motif on my personalised post-its... (what? they're really useful for sending little messages home to Tiger-mum)
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cherry blossoms isn't really very manly though is it?
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Neither are rugby players...
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