Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of
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1972 Okara Park.
From memory it was quite an adventure to even get into the ground. Walking for miles, being thrown over fences, running across railway tracks, dodging the buses, huge queues. All this to find out it was standing room only on the bank, and therefore, as a 7 year old all you get to see is a sea of legs...
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@nzzp said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@pepe Okara for the 2011 RWC and then the 2017 lions tour was awesome fun. Not nearly as full, but still a great time out
The 3rd game of the last Lions tour was crazy. Great atmosphere. Shame that it was tainted by that French done deal...
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@canefan said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@nzzp said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@pepe Okara for the 2011 RWC and then the 2017 lions tour was awesome fun. Not nearly as full, but still a great time out
The 3rd game of the last Lions tour was crazy. Great atmosphere. Shame that it was tainted by that French done deal...
Say it often enough…
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@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
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Not the best crowd, but also one of the highlights of attendance of a game for me, was when I was alot younger getting to see BoP play an international team .. and also beat them. Anyone curious at how long Nisbo has been on air? I tracked down some highlight video of this game and could not believe he was commentating.
121K views · 1K reactions | 1990 - Bay of Plenty vs Australia in...
Bay of Plenty were one of three provinicial sides to beat Australia on their 1️⃣9️⃣9️⃣0️⃣ tour of NZ. Played on a sticky Rotorua Stadium, Damon Kaui...
The Australian backline handling that led to the Kaui try is priceless
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@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
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@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
So that was O.K to just ignore the laws and have any sort of "arrangement"? French translation or otherwise?
My French isn't too bad actually. So I know what you are getting at but it wasn't translation that was the problem.
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@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
So that was O.K to just ignore the laws and have any sort of "arrangement"? French translation or otherwise?
My French isn't too bad actually. So I know what you are getting at but it wasn't translation that was the problem.
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@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
So that was O.K to just ignore the laws and have any sort of "arrangement"? French translation or otherwise?
My French isn't too bad actually. So I know what you are getting at but it wasn't translation that was the problem.
I was replying to your comment of it being a French done deal, rather than the decision itself, which I agree was clearly wrong.
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@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Say it often enough…
Surely you heard it? Or were you not watching?
Yeah I heard it. He is speaking in his second language. One French word for agreement or understanding is accord. That also translates as arrangement. Very easy for him to get the English translations muddled.
So that was O.K to just ignore the laws and have any sort of "arrangement"? French translation or otherwise?
My French isn't too bad actually. So I know what you are getting at but it wasn't translation that was the problem.
I was replying to your comment of it being a French done deal, rather than the decision itself, which I agree was clearly wrong.
It's the confluence of events that sucks - it's not a conspiracy (that's crazy talk), but he clearly bottled it after awarding the penalty and then reducing it to a scrum.
Then (and this is where I continue to get cross), TJP just flapped his arms and let the Red 9 steal the ball FROM THE BACK OF OUR SCRUM. FFS. Blew our second chance to win that game (third if yo ucould Jules dropping the ball with the line open)
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Yeah, I’d be spewing if it happened the other way. In truth though we are all on the wrong end of crap decisions at some time, what magnifies this one so much is that it was so late in the game. If it was in the first minute, different story.
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@catogrande said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
Yeah, I’d be spewing if it happened the other way. In truth though we are all on the wrong end of crap decisions at some time, what magnifies this one so much is that it was so late in the game. If it was in the first minute,
different storyhe doesn't change his decision to not sit with the laws.Yes
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@snowy said in Best Rugby Crowd you've been a part of:
All off the above but the decision was also heavily influenced by an ARSE on the other side of the field. Sorry a bit of a typo, I meant AR.
No. ARSE works ok
