RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina
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@Victor-Meldrew I think Christie was selected for how Ireland attack, not just for defence in general. They tradionally like sparking a hell of a lot of their attack off Gibson-Parkes, so much as I a Roigard fan, could see point last week, and can understand if they think Roigard better bet this week.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Machpants said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
I don't get that one, the Cornish were is brain before the French (Norman's) , and Vikings, and in fact the Romans
Kenewek (Cornish) is almost identical to Breton and way closer to other Celtic languages like Welsh. Lots of DNA analysis shows a really high level of DNA similarity. Loads of interesting stuff being discovered as Cornish culture and language revives.
Their metal reserves meant that they traded with Mediterranean countries as far back as first millenium!
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@Victor-Meldrew Barbary pirates?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Machpants said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
I don't get that one, the Cornish were is brain before the French (Norman's) , and Vikings, and in fact the Romans
Kenewek (Cornish) is almost identical to Breton and way closer to other Celtic languages like Welsh. Lots of DNA analysis shows a really high level of DNA similarity. Loads of interesting stuff being discovered as Cornish culture and language revives.
Correct, those were the Cornish/British that fled the Anglo-Saxons to France, not the other way around. That's why it was called Brittany/Breton, they're British
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@pakman said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Machpants said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
I don't get that one, the Cornish were is brain before the French (Norman's) , and Vikings, and in fact the Romans
Kenewek (Cornish) is almost identical to Breton and way closer to other Celtic languages like Welsh. Lots of DNA analysis shows a really high level of DNA similarity. Loads of interesting stuff being discovered as Cornish culture and language revives.
Their metal reserves meant that they traded with Mediterranean countries as far back as first millenium!
Yup you need tin for bronze, so very important in Mediterranean trading for millennia
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@mariner4life said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
Think we'll win
Think it will be close as we'll be flat after today, and we'll labour through it. Argentina will be more energetic
That classic come down. Happened so often to so many teams.
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@stodders said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Victor-Meldrew Barbary pirates?
Yep. Up until the mid-1600's
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@Billy-Tell said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
So I’ve got tickets for this! Taking my 11 year old daughter to her first AB rugby match. And most definitely not showing the wife the credit card bill.
25 upvotea (to date).
Never seen the like.
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@voodoo said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@taniwharugby said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@voodoo no way it should be that wide
Agree!
We should definitely be underdogs again...
I liked it when we were underdogs.
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@Machpants said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Machpants said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
I don't get that one, the Cornish were is brain before the French (Norman's) , and Vikings, and in fact the Romans
Kenewek (Cornish) is almost identical to Breton and way closer to other Celtic languages like Welsh. Lots of DNA analysis shows a really high level of DNA similarity. Loads of interesting stuff being discovered as Cornish culture and language revives.
Correct, those were the Cornish/British that fled the Anglo-Saxons to France, not the other way around. That's why it was called Brittany/Breton, they're British
We are getting way off-topic, but there's been a lot of migration back and forth for centuries - big influx into Cornwall in the 1400-1600 period. Plenty of French influence around Looe/Bodmin if you look - place names, architecture etc. Lots of Bryton's in Cornwall - means Breton.
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@booboo said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Billy-Tell said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
So I’ve got tickets for this! Taking my 11 year old daughter to her first AB rugby match. And most definitely not showing the wife the credit card bill.
25 upvotea (to date).
Never seen the like.
It’s a lot of money to go the game. But my daughter will never forget it. Just like I haven’t ever forgotten my mum taking me out of school in 87 to watch NZ vs Fiji at Lancaster park. The next RWC is in Aussie then USA so I just though I’m not putting on a price on this, we’re going! Especially as I could not get tickets for the Irish game despite spending all week on the stupid RWC ticket site and doing a fire hydrant captcha for the umpteenth time to login.
As an aside we bumped into a kiwi in Paris living in Singapore who was taking his young son to the Irish game. You could see his son was really pumped for it. There are a few kiwis around Paris tbh and I hope we are numerous at stade de France on Friday. I’ll be giving it my all with the vocal support.
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@Machpants said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
We've gotta have something to talk about until Sat
I'll finish off with this. It was thought the Cornish language "died" around 1800 and was "revived" around 1910 (actually it was reconstructed), but there's now some evidence that it continued to be spoken and written within some families as late as the 1940's.
Oh, and Rugby's always been big here - exported to Wales from Cornwall apparently.
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Geoblocked for me, but good to see the old heads stepping up. Is Colesly in the management group?
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It'll be such a funny feeling if we win the World Cup from here... it would be very un New Zealand of us... we always talk about other countries peaking to our level at World Cups, but it appears to be the opposite this time around. Will it change how we reflect on Foster? All things considered, think there are four top teams at this tournament (us included) so to win it will not be flook and will be rightly praised.
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