RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years

[booboo]

@bovidae just listening to SGH on ZB.

Week On Demand

(Saturday after the 12 o'clock news)

"Smashed them 8-7"

[Duluth]

@booboo

Might as well link your best of posts again:

2011 notable matches
https://www.thesilverfern.com/post/353529-best-of-rwc-episode-15/

2011 Final
https://www.thesilverfern.com/post/353529-best-of-rwc-episode-16/

[booboo]

Interesting SGH says he's never watched the game and never will. Just too much pain.

Get that. I watched it years later and still got nervous. Imagine how he felt.

[canefan]

@booboo said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

Interesting SGH says he's never watched the game and never will. Just too much pain.

Get that. I watched it years later and still got nervous. Imagine how he felt.

I was there, but have never watched the game on TV

[canefan]

Get the tissues out for the end 😢

[sparky]

It wasn't a great game, but dear Lord, it was a special result.

[canefan]

@sparky said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

It wasn't a great game, but dear Lord, it was a special result.

Such an emotional roller coaster

[Nepia]

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@booboo said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

Interesting SGH says he's never watched the game and never will. Just too much pain.

Get that. I watched it years later and still got nervous. Imagine how he felt.

I was there, but have never watched the game on TV

I watched it as soon as we got back to where we were staying. Have watched it a couple of times since then.

[canefan]

@nepia said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@booboo said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

Interesting SGH says he's never watched the game and never will. Just too much pain.

Get that. I watched it years later and still got nervous. Imagine how he felt.

I was there, but have never watched the game on TV

I watched it as soon as we got back to where we were staying. Have watched it a couple of times since then.

I never felt I wanted to. It wasn’t a euphoric feeling at the final whistle, it was relief

[Kirwan]

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@nepia said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@booboo said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

Interesting SGH says he's never watched the game and never will. Just too much pain.

Get that. I watched it years later and still got nervous. Imagine how he felt.

I was there, but have never watched the game on TV

I watched it as soon as we got back to where we were staying. Have watched it a couple of times since then.

I never felt I wanted to. It wasn’t a euphoric feeling at the final whistle, it was relief

I had got a massive headache, had a drink and went to bed.

Made me enjoy rugby again after that result.

[nzzp]

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@nepia said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@booboo said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

Interesting SGH says he's never watched the game and never will. Just too much pain.

Get that. I watched it years later and still got nervous. Imagine how he felt.

I was there, but have never watched the game on TV

I watched it as soon as we got back to where we were staying. Have watched it a couple of times since then.

I never felt I wanted to. It wasn’t a euphoric feeling at the final whistle, it was relief

was at the game, and emotionally spent by half time. My younger son was born the Friday ... so winning the RWC was only the second best thing to happen that weekend.

Epic. Such a massive game, and Auckland was just going off afterwarsds. Hundreds of thousands going crazy downtown, it was insane. So memorable.

[canefan]

@kirwan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@nepia said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@booboo said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

Interesting SGH says he's never watched the game and never will. Just too much pain.

Get that. I watched it years later and still got nervous. Imagine how he felt.

I was there, but have never watched the game on TV

I watched it as soon as we got back to where we were staying. Have watched it a couple of times since then.

I never felt I wanted to. It wasn’t a euphoric feeling at the final whistle, it was relief

I had got a massive headache, had a drink and went to bed.

Made me enjoy rugby again after that result.

It certainly made me relax more during test matches for a long time

[Daffy Jaffy]

[booboo]

@duluth said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@booboo

Might as well link your best of posts again:

2011 notable matches
https://www.thesilverfern.com/post/353529-best-of-rwc-episode-15/

2011 Final
https://www.thesilverfern.com/post/353529-best-of-rwc-episode-16/

Thanks @Duluth. Didn't see you had posted it before.

Just went through The Final article and got pissed off with all the typos I missed ...

Edit: thankfully I didn't notice any errant apostrophes.

[Unite]

@canefan

I have lost count of the number of times that I watched that video. Captures the tension and emotion bloody well!

[Victor Meldrew]

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@nepia said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@booboo said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

Interesting SGH says he's never watched the game and never will. Just too much pain.

Get that. I watched it years later and still got nervous. Imagine how he felt.

I was there, but have never watched the game on TV

I watched it as soon as we got back to where we were staying. Have watched it a couple of times since then.

I never felt I wanted to. It wasn’t a euphoric feeling at the final whistle, it was relief

Like me. A great sense of relief and wondering how I was going to get the teeth marks out of the sofa.

My other abiding memory was the look on Beaver's face after the final whistle - just so full of joy. Man, he played the game of his life that night - coolest on the field.

[scribe]

I got tickets in the week leading up to the final , booked a flight and flew back from the UK for the weekend. Best trip ever; well worth it.

Watched it back the next day and was sh*tting myself.

[African Monkey]

@nzzp Haha yeah remember being downtown during and after the game. Never hugged so many random people in my life, with fans from all round the world being there. Great times, bring on the next one haha.

[canefan]

@victor-meldrew said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@nepia said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

@booboo said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:

Interesting SGH says he's never watched the game and never will. Just too much pain.

Get that. I watched it years later and still got nervous. Imagine how he felt.

I was there, but have never watched the game on TV

I watched it as soon as we got back to where we were staying. Have watched it a couple of times since then.

I never felt I wanted to. It wasn’t a euphoric feeling at the final whistle, it was relief

Like me. A great sense of relief and wondering how I was going to get the teeth marks out of the sofa.

My other abiding memory was the look on Beaver's face after the final whistle - just so full of joy. Man, he played the game of his life that night - coolest on the field.

That's what redemption looked like

[mikedogz]