Best of RWC 2007
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Absolutely shit house tournament, with the two most boring teams in history in the final. British Isles supporters were at peak chipiness, and the loathing of the ABs was nasty and ubiquitous. Some piece of shit Irish (100% the worst supporters in the world) salesman was in my (London) office and had a go at me about the immoral ABs when he overheard that I was from NZ.
After the QF ended, my brother (foolishly watching the game with his French in-laws in Nice) rang me up crying. My cousin and I watched Red Dawn and Commando, and got very fucking drunk. First thing Monday morning some fat English dickhead in my office, who had never played sports in his life, tried to be a fucking dick about it and was very loudly told to "fuck off and kill himself". What an absolutely shit time, shit tournament, and shit final.
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Indeed: "what tournament?"
I was in South America - only saw a few games here and there.
Didn't watch the QF-that-mustn't-be-named - instead, rocked up to an internet cafe (remember those?) - the day after - in Colombia if I recall correctly... knowing that in those days, you could listen to RadioSport delayed... had just lined it up... but with girlfriend sitting next to me scanning headlines... when she said something like "Well... I guess it's just as well we couldn't find anywhere to watch the game then."
I was fucking furious, but over time - realised it was probably for the best.
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Pretty much my experience too. I had people I hadn't spoken to in 10+ years ringing me up and asking "Did you watch the Rugby....?"
Had similar experiences with Oirish supporters as you did. To balance that, the Welsh supporters were great and genuinely sympathetic after the game and there was a Pom supporter who got decked by a Saffa for goading anyone in a black shirt...
I also remember driving back and stopping for a pee in some B road in Wiltshire at 2am and screaming "FFUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK!" very, very loudly...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Best of RWC 2007:
To balance that, the Welsh supporters were great and genuinely sympathetic after the game and there was a Pom supporter who got decked by a Saffa for goading anyone in a black shirt...
My friends who were at the game said that was the experience they had, except the English fan was dropped by a Welshman.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Best of RWC 2007:
at 2am and screaming "FFUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK!" very, very loudly...
...tagging this for when we get to 2019... and my numb stumbling around Yokohama.
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@Tim said in Best of RWC 2007:
My friends who were at the game said that was the experience they had, except the English fan was dropped by a Welshman.
Key thing is he got decked...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Best of RWC 2007:
@Tim said in Best of RWC 2007:
My friends who were at the game said that was the experience they had, except the English fan was dropped by a Welshman.
Key thing is he got decked...
There's likely more than one dickhead supporter. English or otherwise.
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Oh sure, wasn't having a pop at any genuine supporters - just the fluffybunny one who happened to be English on the night.
As an aside, my last visit to Twickenham was bloody great and well done to the RFU for weeding out the dickheads who frequented the place in the past.
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@Kruse said in Best of RWC 2007:
Indeed: "what tournament?"
I was in South America - only saw a few games here and there.
Didn't watch the QF-that-mustn't-be-named - instead, rocked up to an internet cafe (remember those?) - the day after - in Colombia if I recall correctly... knowing that in those days, you could listen to RadioSport delayed... had just lined it up... but with girlfriend sitting next to me scanning headlines... when she said something like "Well... I guess it's just as well we couldn't find anywhere to watch the game then."
I was fucking furious, but over time - realised it was probably for the best.
Can you imagine sitting in a fucking internet cafe listening to that game?
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I seem to remember the France-Argentina opener being a good game and I was pleased for some of the England players who had been out with injury for long when they beat France to make the final, but besides that this was a bleak tournament. Very little attacking Rugby, lots of kicking the bits out of the ball and some terrible officiating.
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Your QF experience was similar to mine (minus the football), except I watched them in Amsterdam with an Aussie and his wife I had met in the pub.
Ignored the Tournament until I got to Paris for the final week. Tour groups of dejected kiwis everywhere.
Yeah, I felt sorry for all those on the Williment tours walking around in their kit. I ended up in the same pub with a number of them (and Ian Kirkpatrick, who was their tour guide) to watch the NPC final.
Other moments I remember include walking past Steve Tew in Toulouse the morning of the NZ-Romania game as he was stuffing his face with a pastry. We bumped into Richard Loe in Paris too.
As I have mentioned previously, the only consolation was making a good profit on my SF and final tickets.
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Yeah I had a beer with John Mitchell in Montparnasse. Shorter than I thought
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@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 2007:
Yeah I had a beer with John Mitchell in Montparnasse. Shorter than I thought
Montparnasse is over a kilometre long, what did you expect?
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I've likely mentioned this multiple times, after the loss in the early morning the Magpies beat Waikato in the quarter final of the NPC (AirNZ Cup?) which meant I drove from HB to Palmy in a strangely happier mood than I otherwise would have.
The other match I actually remember from this cup is the Portugal one as we watched it in a bach in Waihi.
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@Higgins said in Best of RWC 2007:
@Nepia And all going well they will do so again tonight. Just remember kick off at McLean Park is supposed to be at 1735hrs (NZ Time) tonight so it might be an early knock off time for you!
Luckily I don't work Wednesday so I'll be free to watch from kick off.
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Absoluetly glorious day here in the Bay today with the thermometer out on the back porch (in the shade reading 16.5degrees at the moment and practically no wind, which is surprising as the seas breeze normally has arrived by now. Hopefully it won't get too cold come game time with the expected overnight low of 4 degrees not having any affect given the early kick off time. My estimate is that it should still be about 11 or maybe 12 degrees for the game which is not too bad considering some of the mindnumbingly cold nights we have had recently.
HB 17+ with Brad Weber having a blinder
EDIT The breeze just starting to roll in now. Fingers crossed that it does not swing around and come in off the snow capped Kawekas. -
@Victor-Meldrew said in Best of RWC 2007:
Oh sure, wasn't having a pop at any genuine supporters - just the fluffybunny one who happened to be English on the night.
As an aside, my last visit to Twickenham was bloody great and well done to the RFU for weeding out the dickheads who frequented the place in the past.
Yeah, I guessed that. I was trying to say it might have been two different blokes.
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Not a great one for Wales
Gareth Jenkins fired in the car park
