Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown & Dublin Duel
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OK have politely tweeted @Foxtel and @Foxtel_Help. I feel so millennial ... I even used a hashtag (#NZLvIRE).
I have now made the grand total of 6 tweets ... apparently ...
- three of which were trying to find out if Fox had footy games, which were ignored by Foxtel, or got Fox Sports muddled with Foxtel ...
- three were around the CWC final
(- and err one which doesn't show publicising Mokey's book which I deleted because I got weirdos making inappropriate suggestions as a result ... )
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@pakman said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
Anyone know which hotel ABs are staying in?
99% sure they stayed at the Hyatt Regency in 2014. Was in Chicago for the game in 2014 and saw Richie in close proximity. Lobby full of rugby heads.
Good chance they stay there again I would think.
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The more I read the Irish press, the more I hope tyhe ABs fucking sjellack them good and proper just to shut up the4 fucking know it all paddies. I've never been so glad that I made the right decision to echange my Irish Passport and citizenship for French citizenship when the opportunity arose.
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@Crucial said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@scribe said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@Kruse Chicago game is on BT Sport 2 1945 in UK.
Fuck it. All the other rugby has been on Skysport so that's the one I subscribe to. BT sport is endless Wendyball.
Yeah, its fucking ridiculous, used to be Sky covered everything, now to give the consumer more choice fricking BT has a stack of random stuff, they have the Aussie v SA cricket series too. Its one of the best example of how legislation designed to help consumers has fucked them very hard indeed due to retards drafting it. Can you get one service for just soccer? Nope? Rugby? Nope. Cricket? Nope!
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@SynicBast said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
The more I read the Irish press, the more I hope tyhe ABs fucking sjellack them good and proper just to shut up the4 fucking know it all paddies. I've never been so glad that I made the right decision to echange my Irish Passport and citizenship for French citizenship when the opportunity arose.
Feeling a bit unloved there?
It certainly sounds like you made the right decision....
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@Crucial said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@scribe said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@Kruse Chicago game is on BT Sport 2 1945 in UK.
Fuck it. All the other rugby has been on Skysport so that's the one I subscribe to. BT sport is endless Wendyball.
It's more of the continuing attempts by BT sports to disrupt Sky coverage and dominance in the rugby market. They outbid them for the Aviva Premiership. They split the European Cup coverage which is a real pain in the ass trying to watch it at weekends. EirSport in Ireland bought Setanta (an Irish company) and then bid successfully for the RWC 2019, and the Six Nations. So now coverage is all over the place on different channels.
I've found a pub that says it will show it apparently because there's no bloody soccer on at 8pm on a Saturday worth showing.
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@jegga said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@Billy-Tell said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
Didn't take long. Not even an English newspaper.
Haka: Tradition must be abused, or at least ignored
‘Why should a side coming to Ireland get the first applause by doing a dance’
Next year I'm going to do a NH bingo game with a prize of a couple Denis Lalane books for the first one to get
a haka troll
mention of BOD nearly dying
A manatee thrashwank about the refs favouring the abs
Three mentions of the aura
An accusation of arrogance
Two mentions of poaching
A mention of "south seas islanders" the only time I ever see this term is when a nh writer/troll is making a cock of himself.
A diatribe about a transgression from the abs that went unpunished
A fuckwitted tweet from Brian Moore.There's a couple more spaces to fill if anyone has any ideas?
The IRA threatened the All Blacks in 1973...
Luck of the Irish
Haven't beaten them in 123,657 years
ex-England coach thinks Ireland have a chance
Ireland have never beaten New Zealand
ex-England coach thinks Ireland have to believe
Dump Trump, Ireland urged - unknown Irish politician thinks Ireland shouldn't stay in Trump hotel - it might influence US election
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@Pot-Hale said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@SynicBast said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
The more I read the Irish press, the more I hope tyhe ABs fucking sjellack them good and proper just to shut up the4 fucking know it all paddies. I've never been so glad that I made the right decision to echange my Irish Passport and citizenship for French citizenship when the opportunity arose.
Feeling a bit unloved there?
It certainly sounds like you made the right decision....A culmination of many things - I left Ireland at the age of 12, never to return apart from necessity and work
. My Mum left it in 1939 and couldn't return for over 30 years because she, staunch RC from Waterford had the temerity to marry an Anglican. So yeah I am pretty predisposed to count Ireland as a regressive environment.
Christ yes...I got very tired of having to run to school between barricades in 72-75 (Belfast). I also got really tired of the intransigence of the DaÃl in recognising the many thousands of Irish volunteers who served in the UK armed forces during ww2. And don't get me started on de Valera and his vomitus condolences to Dönitz on the death of AH. I could say even more about the abrogation of duty of Irish peacekeepers on UN duty over the years having seen the results at first hand. -
@Bones - where I'm from, we switch allegiances to whoever's winning anyway. If the Highlanders had managed to put together a winning streak, you'd have seen the next generation of Barretts playing for them in a few years, as Taranaki somehow justified being in their catchment area.
Anyway - I've managed to find an easily swayed paddy bar manager - promising to play the game at the Heron in Paddington, if I wear an Ireland shirt.
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@Pot-Hale said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@jegga said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@Billy-Tell said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
Didn't take long. Not even an English newspaper.
‘Why should a side coming to Ireland get the first applause by doing a dance’
Next year I'm going to do a NH bingo game with a prize of a couple Denis Lalane books for the first one to get
a haka troll
mention of BOD nearly dying
A manatee thrashwank about the refs favouring the abs
Three mentions of the aura
An accusation of arrogance
Two mentions of poaching
A mention of "south seas islanders" the only time I ever see this term is when a nh writer/troll is making a cock of himself.
A diatribe about a transgression from the abs that went unpunished
A fuckwitted tweet from Brian Moore.There's a couple more spaces to fill if anyone has any ideas?
The IRA threatened the All Blacks in 1973...
Luck of the Irish
Haven't beaten them in 123,657 years
ex-England coach thinks Ireland have a chance
Ireland have never beaten New Zealand
ex-England coach thinks Ireland have to believe
Dump Trump, Ireland urged - unknown Irish politician thinks Ireland shouldn't stay in Trump hotel - it might influence US election
Etc, etcI hope Trump isn't in the headlines next year ,but really they need to be the repetitive trolls we see year after year. 2, 3, and 5 would do. You'd need to add in a mention of Munster to round that out though.
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@SynicBast said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@Pot-Hale said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@SynicBast said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
The more I read the Irish press, the more I hope tyhe ABs fucking sjellack them good and proper just to shut up the4 fucking know it all paddies. I've never been so glad that I made the right decision to echange my Irish Passport and citizenship for French citizenship when the opportunity arose.
Feeling a bit unloved there?
It certainly sounds like you made the right decision....A culmination of many things - I left Ireland at the age of 12, never to return apart from necessity and work
. My Mum left it in 1939 and couldn't return for over 30 years because she, staunch RC from Waterford had the temerity to marry an Anglican. So yeah I am pretty predisposed to count Ireland as a regressive environment.
Christ yes...I got very tired of having to run to school between barricades in 72-75 (Belfast). I also got really tired of the intransigence of the DaÃl in recognising the many thousands of Irish volunteers who served in the UK armed forces during ww2. And don't get me started on de Valera and his vomitus condolences to Dönitz on the death of AH. I could say even more about the abrogation of duty of Irish peacekeepers on UN duty over the years having seen the results at first hand.You sound like an SJW.
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@SynicBast said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
The more I read the Irish press, the more I hope tyhe ABs fucking sjellack them good and proper just to shut up the4 fucking know it all paddies. I've never been so glad that I made the right decision to echange my Irish Passport and citizenship for French citizenship when the opportunity arose.
Ah I have some good Irish mates, and they can be great craic.
However, the Irish specialise in chip on the shoulder, bitter and twisted, and I think most Kiwis remember Irish fans in 2007.
If we must lose this season, France please.
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@mariner4life said in Ireland v NZ - Chicago Showdown:
@NTA fuck. Now that's poor. And a first?
Believe so. We've always had the Wallaby games for EOYT but apparently this time the rights were sold and Channel Ten weren't going to fork out.
