Kearns whinges again
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<p>would there have been a function after, where they thank the ladies in the kitchen?</p>
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Disappointing lack of acknowledgement from the Hurricanes I agree. Would have liked to see TJP standing over the Lions 9 Faf de Klerk screaming "1 MORE YEAR" at the very least.
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<p>At least guys like <strong>Marto</strong> and Fitzimmons add a little bit of humour</p>
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Kearns learned well from Fitzy that part of the Hooker's dark arts is seeking to wind your opponent up at every conceivable opportunity.<br><br>
Personally, I'd rather be an unpopular winner than a popular loser.</p></blockquote>
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Mmm?<br><br>
And right now he's an unpopular loser -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="booboo" data-cid="603883" data-time="1470601943"><p>Mmm?<br>
And right now he's an unpopular loser</p></blockquote><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="sparky" data-cid="603873" data-time="1470600026"><p>Kearns learned well from Fitzy that part of the Hooker's dark arts is seeking to wind your opponent up at every conceivable opportunity.<br>
Personally, I'd rather be an unpopular winner than a popular loser.</p></blockquote>Gregan was as hated as anyone ("four more years"?) but after his playing days he has become quite a likeable guy. Just because you act like an a-hole on the field doesn't mean you need to act like one off it. Unless of course you are just an a-hole -
<p>stones and glasshouses?</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82915474/rio-olympics-australian-swimmer-mack-horton-admits-drug-cheat-taunt-a-mind-game'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82915474/rio-olympics-australian-swimmer-mack-horton-admits-drug-cheat-taunt-a-mind-game</a></p>
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<p>Australian swimmer Mack Horton, 20, may have emerged onto the world stage by winning gold in the 400m freestyle, but it was his <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82900488/Olympics-2016-Chinese-fury-after-Mack-Horton-defeats-Sun-Yang-for-400m-freestyle-gold'>baiting of Chinese rival Sun Yang in the lead-up to the race</a> – when he accused Sun of being a "drug cheat" – that captured the world's attention and dominated the headlines after day one of the Olympics.</p>
<p>After his win on the opening night, Horton revealed his aggressive appraisal of Sun was a deliberate ploy to get into the head of his main rival, while at the same time defending clean athletes.</p>
<div><img src="http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/d/d/5/y/e/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1dd5zm.png/1470602468986.jpg" title="" alt="1470602468986.jpg"><div><span>DOMINIC EBENBICHLER/ REUTERS</span></div>
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<p>The men's 400m freestyle podium at the Rio Olympics: Gabriele Detti of Italy with bronze, Mack Horton of Australia with gold and Sun Yang of China with silver.</p>
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<p>Earlier, Horton and Sun had an altercation at the training pool. When asked about it, the Australian was unabashed in claiming Sun had tried to splash and taunt him, but that he had "no time or respect for drug cheats".</p>
<p><strong>READ MORE:<br>- <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82900488/Olympics-2016-Chinese-fury-after-Mack-Horton-defeats-Sun-Yang-for-400m-freestyle-gold'>Chinese fury as Aussie swimmer defeats Sun Yang</a><br>
- <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82915012/rio-olympics-2016-second-day-of-rowing-delayed-for-hour-by-winds'>Second day of Olympic rowing postponed</a><br>
- <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82915190/rio-olympics-2016-black-sticks-women-thrash-south-korea-to-open-campaign'>Black Sticks thrash Korea in Olympic pool play</a><br>
- <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/82914903/australian-olympic-rowing-coaches-robbed-at-knifepoint-as-rio-safety-fears-mount'>Rio crime appears to target Olympians, team staff</a></strong></p>
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<p>Sun Yang and Mack Horton shake hands after being presented with their medals for the 400m freestyle.</p>
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<p>Sun served a three-month ban in 2014 in secret after a positive test and many swimmers feel he shouldn't be competing at all, let along defending his gold medals in the 400m and 1500m from the London Olympics.</p>
<p>Footage of a devastated Sun bursting into tears while attempting to give an interview in the media mixed zone immediately after the race went viral on Chinese social media.</p>
<p>The top-trending hashtag "Sun Yang Don't Cry" amassed more than 47 million views on China's Weibo within hours.</p>
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<p>The inappropriately edited Mack Horton Wikipedia page.</p>
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<p>Sports fans haven't been shy in coming after the Australian for his aggressive tactics, the Chinese in particular bombarding Horton's Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts, demanding he apologise to Sun.</p>
<p>The Wikipedia entry for the Australian swimmer was also modified to say that Australian media coverage of his race win "significantly advanced Australian 'fair' – the fair skin of Caucasian Australian [sic]".</p>
<p>"His remarks of Sun is widely believed to be a part of his cultural heritage in that he was practically nursed race prejudice at his mother's breasts [sic]," the page read before it was re-edited.</p>
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<p>Horton's post-race celebratory Instagram photo was also flooded with comments from Chinese fans, with some demanding an apology and calling the Aussie a "snake".</p>
<p>"Although you have to the gold medal, but no matter how much you get the piece because of your character you will always be a loser at least respect you should have! Please apologise to Sun Yang! [sic]," one user wrote.</p>
<p>"Good for you to win the game! But please figure out the truth before you speak bad things about others," another commented.</p>
<p>Sun served a three-month ban for testing positive to trimetazidine, a substance normally used to treat angina.</p>
<p>Sun claimed the medication was prescribed for heart palpitations, saying he was unaware it had been placed on the banned list.</p>
<p><strong> - Sydney Morning Herald</strong></p>
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Gregan was as hated as anyone ("four more years"?) but after his playing days he has become quite a likeable guy. Just because you act like an a-hole on the field doesn't mean you need to act like one off it. Unless of course you are just an a-hole</p></blockquote>
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Apart from the four more years jibe directed at Kelleher who is a dickhead IMHO was he an Ahole on the field ? He was a halfback and it's pretty hard to warm to those gobby little shits at the best of times but I disliked him mostly because he was bloody good .<br>
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Apart from the four more years jibe directed at Kelleher who is a dickhead IMHO was he an Ahole on the field ? He was a halfback and it's pretty hard to warm to those gobby little shits at the best of times but I disliked him mostly because he was bloody good .<br>
Kearns has never struck me as anything but a Campeselite and a piss poor driver .</p></blockquote>when they wearing the green and gold they're all a-holes
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<p>yeah I think Gregan just carried himself on the park with that air of arrogance, that 4 more years added to his level of arrogance, but yeah, pretty much disliked him because he was so good and probably epitomized that confident/arrogant swagger that Aussies have when they are up there.</p>
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I think if it came from someone else besides Kearns , you might give the statement more thought,<br><br>but coming from him , its always going to come across as sour grapes given his track record
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<p>Yeah well we got the last laugh , it was eight years . Suck it George.</p>
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<p>17 years and counting since their last RWC. (Almost as long as the 18years since they last took the Bledisloe off us.)<br><br>
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<p>I have always wondered if the four more years thing was directed more at Kelleher than anyone else , </p>
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<p>The two didnt get on , that was obvious to see, they had history of getting under each others skin ,</p>
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<p>and Kelleher was directly in front of him when he said it ,</p>
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<p>with no proof I have often suspected he would not have said it , if his good mate Marshall was still there playing halfback instead of Kelleher </p> -
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<p>It was directed at Kelleher.<br><br>
"Four more years <strong>boy </strong>..." not "boys".<br><br>
Brilliant sledge as it got the lot of us ...</p>
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<p>Indeed. But it's us who are ungracious winners right Phil.</p> -
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Indeed. But it's us who are ungracious winners right Phil.</p></blockquote>
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In other news Tiger Woods says he is disgusted at the owners of Ashley Madison for enabling marital infidelity. -
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.allblacks.com/News/18176/gregan-reflects-on-four-more-years-'>http://www.allblacks.com/News/18176/gregan-reflects-on-four-more-years-</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:2em;font-style:italic;color:rgb(159,159,159);background-color:rgb(51,51,51);">Former Wallabies captain George Gregan has reacted with amusement as he has set the record straight when describing his famous taunt, a byline that became etched in New Zealanders psyche and was ‘thrown back’ at Australia at the recent tournament.</span></p>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;">The All Blacks, en route to a 8-7 win over France in the final, reserved their finest performance for their great trans- Ta$man rivals in the semi-final.<br><br>
Set up courtesy of Ireland’s shock victory over the world’s second best team in the pool stages, the clash between the World Cup favourites and hosts and the Investec Tri Nations champions was in many pundit’s eyes the real decider.<br><br>
Despite many, especially in Australia, believing that the Wallabies would extend their then 2-0 World Cup record over the All Blacks (16-6 in 1991, 22-10 in 2003), Richie McCaw and his troops didn’t give their rivals an inch and taught them a lesson in controlled fury and determination to win 20-6.<br><br>
The Wallabies victory in 2003, which saw them go on to push England hard in the final, ended with Gregan famously saying “four more years†to All Blacks scrumhalf Byron Kelleher at the end of the test.<br><br>
Gregan, who was recently at the Gold Coast Sevens, was asked by the Sydney Morning Herald what happened when he was at Eden Park to watch his old team lose to the World Champions elect.<br><br>
Did he get “four more years†given back to him?<br><br>
“'I got plenty of it,†Gregan said.<br><br>
“I got a song and everything, they spotted me and they were chanting it everywhere.â€<br><br>
He said the comment was only directed at his old sparring partner Kelleher, and didn’t think it would be picked up by millions of kiwis who were watching in despair as the Wallabies sent them out of the tournament eight year’s ago.<br><br>
“'It was a moment where it was myself and (Kelleher) and I was just directing the comment to Byron but the camera gets you in that moment and all of a sudden 4.5 million Kiwis thought it was directed at them,†he said.<br><br>
With the All Blacks now World Champions, Gregan said it was time to let bygones be bygones.<br><br>
“They've hung on to it, though,†he said. <br><br>
“They've got long memories, it's time to move on.'</div>
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<p>The "Four More Years" chant at the 2011 semi final that the whole stadium joined in on, was the most cathartic thing I've ever been a part of. Years of anger, embarrassment, disappointment and hurt rose to the surface as we screamed that at the Aussies.</p>
