Bledisloe 1

mariner4life

work. touch. time for a couple of beers. then home to watch. maybe a couple more.

leaves the weekend free for footy finals

how good?

ACT Crusader

@nzzp said in Bledisloe 1:

This Thursday night game feels really weird. Like, I'm at work and not really hyping for it. It's like it's just going to sneak up on me tonight.

I'm at work 20 minutes from the ground and fizzing / counting the clock.

I’m a 5 minute tram ride from the stadium and despite a grey typical Melbourne day, there’s quite a few people out and about. I’ve seen a few people wearing AB and Wallaby jersey’s and scarfs.

Kiwiwomble

@ACT-Crusader i work across the road from the intercontinental where the wallabies must be staying, saw a few of the out and about around the place

Were also and 15mins from the stadium

Kruse

Well... it's all well and good for you folk in the canary-yellow timezone(s).
Here - sitting at work, stalling, trying to figure out how to not be already plastered by a 9:45 kick-off (probably actually 10pm - cause Australia)
And if any fluffybunny suggests "self-control" - well... fuck ya. That's not one of my things.
Drinking is one of my things. And all of my other things are done accompanied by drinking.
Except motorbike riding - but I'm not going for a goddamn motorbike ride on a Wellington September evening.

Fuck it - I'm going to the pub to sit and think about this.

Derpus

Of course the Haka is an advantage. It's a literal war dance. They did that shit before war for a reason.

Deal with it.

Tim

@Derpus you bore every team to death with the 5 minute long welcome to country land acknowledgement stuff.

Your players must be far more used to enduring that stuff than foreign teams. You have your own advantage.

Kruse

@Derpus said in Bledisloe 1:

Of course the Haka is an advantage. It's a literal war dance. They did that shit before war for a reason.

Deal with it.

Amazing. Every single word of what you just said was wrong.

The Docter

Can the real ABs finally show up?

voodoo

Imagine being an international forward and putting your hand up to say " yeah, the opposition dancing and yelling at me before kick-off really psyches me out, I very much wish they would desist".

The backs I can understand

mariner4life

Based on @Duluth 's challenge in the other thread

Tonight is an interesting indication on if the ABs have really learned things in their last 3 games. One one hand did they note what made us good in the two wins? But most importantly, what made us so very ordinary in the loss?

I expect the ABs to win, and win well. But then i feel like i always think that.

But the Wallabies aren't so shit that if we go away from the tough forward stuff, stand fucking shallow, and go side to side, and our attitude isn't there, they can't tip us over.

A solid pragmatic performance will net a double digit win. A good performance will net a 20-pointer

Getting tipped over by this Wallaby team missing that many good players would be the worst result of the comp so far. Yes, even more than that fucking Argentina performance.

chimoaus

Pretty bloody quiet in the thread, any ferners there want to share a picture.

Yeetyaah

Great wee piece there from TJ

nostrildamus

@Kruse said in Bledisloe 1:

And if any fluffybunny suggests "self-control" - well... fuck ya. That's not one of my things.

Quelle surprise!

Kruse

@chimoaus said in Bledisloe 1:

Pretty bloody quiet in the thread, any ferners there want to share a picture.

At pub, drinking. Rugby soon.

MajorRage

For fucks sakes. Fucking Shaun Fucking Maloney.

Fuck that.

nostrildamus

Seems a bit strange to see Hosea back in black but nice to see, will keep an eye on him...

Marvel Stadium .. should have got Nick Fury to do the singing...

Kruse

@Kruse said in Bledisloe 1:

a 9:45 kick-off (probably actually 10pm - cause Australia)

It's looking like I was overly optimistic.

nostrildamus

Oz commentator says Wallaby backrow is huge---are they? Leota is 1.9 108kg...Samu not that big? Valetini is I guess..

nostrildamus

@Kruse said in Bledisloe 1:

@Kruse said in Bledisloe 1:

a 9:45 kick-off (probably actually 10pm - cause Australia)

It's looking like I was overly optimistic.

Well you don't read as pissed so there's that..

pakman

Cue 10 minutes of dignitaries smoking Wallabies gold?

The Silver Fern

Bledisloe 1