Best of RWC 2007
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I remember this WC for three reasons:
- I've never seen a more loaded squad. That AB squad was phenomenal.
- Wayne Barnes and the dopey fluffybunny who gave him the game.
- I didn't watch a single solitary game after that quarter final.
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@Tim said in Best of RWC 2007:
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.
Very similar experience!
I had to head back to HK the next day back to work to my office full of an Irish mafia who were, to a man, complete fluffybunnies about the whole thing.
Worst WC for me, but like Antipodean, didn't watch anything after that QF, so not really in a position to comment ...
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Surely you just told the Oirish fluffybunnies to get to fuck seeing as they didn’t even make it into the QFs?
I’m loving this thread as much as I hated the 2003 one. Spunked a heap of coin on a new TV for the quarters and immediately wished I hadn’t after you lot and the Aussies crashed out. had to go without a hotel in Paris two weeks later. Good thing too as we wouldn’t have used it. Got in to CDG Saturday morning with just enough time to tell Sir Clive to fuck off, remind 1999 Player of the Tourney he was master of the marginally forward pass, and drink about a million beers. And watch a few fellas I’d played against win a World Cup.
Third best RWC.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Best of RWC 2007:
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 had a similar experience in 1999 with English and Aussie fans being the worst culprits, while the French were gents.
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@Smuts said in Best of RWC 2007:
Surely you just told the Oirish fluffybunnies to get to fuck seeing as they didn’t even make it into the QFs?
I’m loving this thread as much as I hated the 2003 one. Spunked a heap of coin on a new TV for the quarters and immediately wished I hadn’t after you lot and the Aussies crashed out. had to go without a hotel in Paris two weeks later. Good thing too as we wouldn’t have used it. Got in to CDG Saturday morning with just enough time to tell Sir Clive to fuck off, remind 1999 Player of the Tourney he was master of the marginally forward pass, and drink about a million beers. And watch a few fellas I’d played against win a World Cup.
Third best RWC.
great post to show that for every loser (us) there is a winner (these fuckers)
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@antipodean said in Best of RWC 2007:
I've never seen a more loaded squad. That AB squad was phenomenal.
absolutely ridiculous squad. we may have had better teams, but that squad will be tough to top. Two genuine test level options in every position.
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@Nepia said in Best of RWC 2007:
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.
Nothing strange about that, it's impossible to contain one's excitement upon departing HB for to Palmy
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@mariner4life the ABs played some of the best rugby ever in the first half of that QF. You should all go watch it again.
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@Smuts said in Best of RWC 2007:
@mariner4life the ABs played some of the best rugby ever in the first half of that QF. You should all go watch it again.
i don't watch games we win a 2nd time, let alone a heartbreaker like that
was chatting about this world cup with the wife last night and she was like "fuck you were a miserable bastard to be on holiday with for a couple of days after that, i had to tell you to snap out of it"
It's lucky Poland has great beer.
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@voodoo said in Best of RWC 2007:
@Nepia said in Best of RWC 2007:
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.
Nothing strange about that, it's impossible to contain one's excitement upon departing HB for to Palmy
Upvote despite the absolute bullshit nature of this post
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@mariner4life you must be a saint. Or Polish beer must be fucking good. Snap out of it? 16 years later, having profited from your pain, not my team, not my wife but the cold indifference to another soul’s heartbreak still stings.
Come to think of it, this explains a lot about kiwis.
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@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 2007:
"fuck you were a miserable bastard to be on holiday with for a couple of days after that, i had to tell you to snap out of it"
Only a couple of days? Can't have hurt that much then.
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@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 2007:
@antipodean said in Best of RWC 2007:
I've never seen a more loaded squad. That AB squad was phenomenal.
absolutely ridiculous squad. we may have had better teams, but that squad will be tough to top. Two genuine test level options in every position.
For some reason I recall you referring to 2015 as a "cheat code". Mind you that may have just been the XXIII
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@booboo said in Best of RWC 2007:
@mariner4life said in Best of RWC 2007:
@antipodean said in Best of RWC 2007:
I've never seen a more loaded squad. That AB squad was phenomenal.
absolutely ridiculous squad. we may have had better teams, but that squad will be tough to top. Two genuine test level options in every position.
For some reason I recall you referring to 2015 as a "cheat code". Mind you that may have just been the XXIII
The 2015 test side was a cheat code. But the 2007 squad was better
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The only highlights from this tournament happened off the field for me.
I remember driving back in a dazed mix of bewilderment and anger from a mates place and saw some guy get pulled over by a cop for speeding so I guess it goes to show - there's always someone worse off than you.
Anyway my sister called form the UK to see how I was after the game, she hardly ever calls, we're not particularly close in terms of keeping in touch a lot I guess it's a more quality over quantity type of relationship. But at the time I was going through a messy divorce and she knew that the AB's loosing would have hurt so she just called out of the blue to make sure her little brother was ok.
And I guess that call was a bringing down to earth for all the things that matter in life, family, friends and the people that care are so much more important than what any game of rugby is.
I've forgotten close to every other phone call in my life but I've never forgotten that one.
I felt immeasurably better after talking to her.
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