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Catogrande

I've heard quite a lot about the arrogance and hubris of the "Golden Generation" Irish fans but to be honest I've not witnessed it much. For sure they were in general a lot happier about their team and performances but IMO rarely went over the top. Now this may just be because I don't get out much and tend not to visit the more rabid rugby related sites, but I've never had a problem with our friends from over the water.
 
The ones from over the Severn - well that's totally different. :fishing:

Bones

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I've heard quite a lot about the arrogance and hubris of the "Golden Generation" Irish fans but to be honest I've not witnessed it much. For sure they were in general a lot happier about their team and performances but IMO rarely went over the top. Now this may just be because I don't get out much and tend not to visit the more rabid rugby related sites, but I've never had a problem with our friends from over the water.
 
The ones from over the Severn - well that's totally different. :fishing:
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I think for me it's been more the posters encountered here, or Irish fans encountered fleetingly in real life. The ones I know or share time with down the rugby club couldn't be better or more grounded.

jegga

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I've heard quite a lot about the arrogance and hubris of the "Golden Generation" Irish fans but to be honest I've not witnessed it much. For sure they were in general a lot happier about their team and performances but IMO rarely went over the top. Now this may just be because I don't get out much and tend not to visit the more rabid rugby related sites, but I've never had a problem with our friends from over the water.
 
The ones from over the Severn - well that's totally different. :fishing:
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It was on the more rabid sites, though the occasional jackass showed up here. The hubris was something to behold, as was the shrill reaction when the occasional sh troll would say something like "when I see Ireland slam the 6n it makes me wonder just how shit England and France are at the moment". I wonder that too but I wouldn't bother actually posting it just to get a reaction . The irish regulars here are nothing like those clowns though.

MajorRage

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Agree with that , some Irish fans during the " golden generation " years tended to be nauseating mitigated only their teams reamings at the hands of the abs after talking them up relentlessly . Aussie fans were pretty bad in the early 2000s but they were mostly twats who jumped on the bandwagon in 1998 and departed the scene in 2003 or so.
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I agree with this, but I'm the first to admit it's due to my own experiences, which many others won't have experienced. That being an Irish Mafia in HK who were on the whole, a bunch of idiots, and the reaction from many of them after being knocked out in 2007.
 
Just about all Irish I've met since then though, have been bloody lovely. So I've had to rescind that view somewhat. They are still a mafia though.

jegga

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I agree with this, but I'm the first to admit it's due to my own experiences, which many others won't have experienced. That being an Irish Mafia in HK who were on the whole, a bunch of idiots, and the reaction from many of them after being knocked out in 2007.
 
Just about all Irish I've met since then though, have been bloody lovely. So I've had to rescind that view somewhat. They are still a mafia though.
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Someone here had the misfortune to be seated with them at the 2007 q final and they apparently behaved like utter piston wristed gibbons even though the game didn't involve their team. A dribbling arseclown posted here last year and said we deserved it because of what happened to BOD, that was news to me and I guess everyone else here.

Derm McCrum

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I agree with this, but I'm the first to admit it's due to my own experiences, which many others won't have experienced. That being an Irish Mafia in HK who were on the whole, a bunch of idiots, and the reaction from many of them after being knocked out in 2007.
 
Just about all Irish I've met since then though, have been bloody lovely. So I've had to rescind that view somewhat. They are still a mafia though.
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It's called the Murphia not mafia. :)

jegga

Sickening arrogance from Jones 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/78073975/Eddie-Jones-believes-grand-slam-England-on-course-to-beat-All-Blacks'>http://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/78073975/Eddie-Jones-believes-grand-slam-England-on-course-to-beat-All-Blacks</a> 
Good to see him given credit for 2007 there too.

booboo

"Sickening arrogance"? Bit much jeg 
But i tend to think he's setting himself up to fail a bit. 
Lancaster's England beat the All Blacks ...

No Quarter

I found it a bit odd that all of the questions were about the All Blacks when their 3 match tour is against the Wallabies, who knocked England out of the RWC on their way to the final. Beating the Wallabies at home is going to be a fucking huge test for them.

taniwharugby

well the ABs are Everest for England right now, and they aint got enough Sherpas :)

jegga

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"Sickening arrogance"? Bit much jeg 
But i tend to think he's setting himself up to fail a bit. 
Lancaster's England beat the All Blacks ...
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Twas a joke, he said "can we beat the all blacks? We can't now ,but we will". Not often you see a coach that honest, good on him.

booboo

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Twas a joke, he said "can we beat the all blacks? We can't now ,but we will". Not often you see a coach that honest, good on him.</blockquote>
 
Oh ok. Sorry dude. 
Get it now. 
Still think he's setting the bar high ... under promise over deliver and all that (going the other way can set expectation a little high)

Cookie

Hopefully Eddie can get this team to fulfil its potential and England can regain its rightful place in the pantheon of hatiest teams again

Siam

Did you mean to type "retain" Cookie? ;)

Cookie

Hah, I reckon we we lost it after 2003, just not good enough to be hated. By 2005 I think that some countries even started to feel pity... 
Dark, dark days indeed.

Siam

Au Contraire Blackadder, those scars from 03 run deep Singapore and Hong Kong were unpleasant colonial outposts to be in those days
 
Just joshing mate ;)
 
Having a nasty little Aussie coach has provided us with an easy comeback if the days become dark and confused again...

MN5

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well the ABs are Everest for England right now, and they aint got enough Sherpas :)
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Well, that's a step up from the Chiefs and Indians clichÃ© at least.....

Smudge

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I found it a bit odd that all of the questions were about the All Blacks when their 3 match tour is against the Wallabies
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The question was from TV3's Tova O'Brien. It was cringe-fucking-worthy.

Bovidae

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The question was from TV3's Tova O'Brien. It was cringe-fucking-worthy.
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I recognised her voice on the press conference footage. No fucking clue about sport obviously. A more pertinent question would have been to ask Jones how he thinks England will go on their upcoming tour of Aust.

Smudge

I would try and give her an out by pointing out that often TV reporters in one town are sent questions by another reporter at the other end of the country/world to ask on their behalf. But seeing as she presented the whole piece, I'd suggest it was all her own work - perhaps with some editorial guidance from Auckland. Or perhaps not.

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