RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years
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@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.
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@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
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@duluth said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:
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.
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@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.
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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.
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@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
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Until reading that article I hadn't appreciated that the ABs spent so much of the 2nd half defending in their own half. As I've said before, I wasn't that stressed being at Eden Park but it was probably worse watching on TV.
That was a great 3 weeks at the business end of the tournament as I went the QF, SF and final, as well as the England-France QF.
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@bovidae said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:
Until reading that article I hadn't appreciated that the ABs spent so much of the 2nd half defending in their own half. As I've said before, I wasn't that stressed being at Eden Park but it was probably worse watching on TV.
That was a great 3 weeks at the business end of the tournament as I went the QF, SF and final, as well as the England-France QF.
I don't know where you were sitting mate, but I was totally bricking it! The crowd went so quiet and the cops came out to line the field in the second half, I was so afraid we would lose
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@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:
@bovidae said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:
Until reading that article I hadn't appreciated that the ABs spent so much of the 2nd half defending in their own half. As I've said before, I wasn't that stressed being at Eden Park but it was probably worse watching on TV.
That was a great 3 weeks at the business end of the tournament as I went the QF, SF and final, as well as the England-France QF.
I don't know where you were sitting mate, but I was totally bricking it! The crowd went so quiet and the cops came out to line the field in the second half, I was so afraid we would lose
I was confident we were going to win it too, the crowd didn't go quiet where I was sitting.
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@chris-b said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:
Late second half, we seemed to have been defending 8-7 forever.
I felt a penalty would come for sure and can remember saying, "this is slipping away".
I was in the ASB stand and was behind the frog 10 when he took and missed the go ahead kick
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@bovidae said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:
@canefan I was in the ASB stand too, the lower stand on about the 22 m at the terraces end. It was tense but I don't remember feeling like we'd lose.
We just couldn't extend the lead, all of memories of the French beating us started creeping in, and the weight of 24 years. I remember trying to cheer the boys on as much as possible because the punters around me were quiet, trying to get them going. My mate was so stressed he disappeared up the stairs and watched from the concourse. The feeling at the whistle was unbelievable, I seem to remember the ABs doing a haka right in front of us as the crowd went mental. Still wouldn't trade being there for anything though
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@duluth said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:
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/@Duluth do you have access to the game thread? It was epic.
I was over the moon after the match. Woke my 15 month year old up with a massive woohoo. We stuck it out, we dug in and McCaw was not going to let us lose!! My son who was 8yo, who started watching with me but was in and out of the room during the match came running in after I shouted and just hugged me.
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@canefan said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:
@bovidae said in RWC 2011 - looking back after 10 years:
@canefan I was in the ASB stand too, the lower stand on about the 22 m at the terraces end. It was tense but I don't remember feeling like we'd lose.
We just couldn't extend the lead, all of memories of the French beating us started creeping in, and the weight of 24 years. I remember trying to cheer the boys on as much as possible because the punters around me were quiet, trying to get them going. My mate was so stressed he disappeared up the stairs and watched from the concourse. The feeling at the whistle was unbelievable, I seem to remember the ABs doing a haka right in front of us as the crowd went mental. Still wouldn't trade being there for anything though
Those missed kicks in the first half were a killer - we had pretty much complete control in that first 40 and to be only 5-0 up at the break was ominous
