RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland

@Chris-B said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

A week of being gracious winners wouldn't have hurt us!

emotional outbursts after big wins are entirely reasonable. Otherwise what is the point of watching.

Shout it at your neighbours.

I'm sticking with Vince when it comes to posting.

mariner4life

@Chris-B said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@Chris-B said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

A week of being gracious winners wouldn't have hurt us!

emotional outbursts after big wins are entirely reasonable. Otherwise what is the point of watching.

Shout it at your neighbours.

I'm sticking with Vince when it comes to posting.

oh, they heard alright

And my post game review was gushing of our vanquished opponents

Chris B.

@mariner4life I don't recall you writing a diatribe on why you hate Jonny.

Don't think those are necessary this week. He's done.

Looked like his kid was tearful and he gave him a wink - that's alright!

mariner4life

@Chris-B i was full bluster and wind-up until Saturday night

Then it was nerves and "holy shit we might do this"

And since then awe in what a game of rugby it was.

This week is going to be such a come down

Chris B.

I was actually quietly confident that Fozzie and Co were the men with a plan...until they named their team.

Then I had 24 hours of thinking they'd fucked it and had no idea - though I only pm-ed my doubts to Steven Harris.

Then I went back to a kind of 40-60 mode, where we can win if we play well, but we probably won't.

After the first 2 minutes I thought we were fucked - but, luckily Porter saved us.

From there I was in awe!

Great game of footy - doubtless played by numerous fuckwits and plenty of good guys!

mariner4life

I said we would win by 2 scores. And i believed we would when we scored the first 13. But they never let us get away.
I did think it was going to take something special, i didn't realise quite how special. Or how many guys were going to have to play out of their skin to make it happen.

Bovidae

I had the ABs by 5 pts. Too optimistic.

Chris B.

@mariner4life Yeah - I was starting to relax slightly at 13-0.

I need to have a slo-mo look at Shannon's obstruction, because it seemed fuck-all - and Wayne ramping up TV ratings.

By halftime I wondered if I should just go for a walk for an hour and come back and check the score.

Or free solo El Capitan , or something less risky than watching footy.

Kept our noses in front.

Barring early red cards we should beat the Argies and meet the Jaaps in the final. With due respect, it's hard to see things unfolding differently - and fuck Chieka!

I need advice on how to manage that stress - set my alarm for 4am and start drinking?

mariner4life

@Chris-B said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

set my alarm for 4am and start drinking?

i probably would have done that this week if i didn't have a skin full on saturday arvo/night and woke up super dusty sunday

MN5

@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@Chris-B said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

set my alarm for 4am and start drinking?

i probably would have done that this week if i didn't have a skin full on saturday arvo/night and woke up super dusty sunday

Doesn’t it get so much tougher at our age ?

I think the bottle of red wine I had after the IPAs wasn’t a wise move but it seemed fitting while watching the election.

Bones

@Rapido said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

If anyone other than Sexton had reacted,

But that's just it, no one other than sexgame reacted, did they? So maybe that's your pointer.

Chris B.

@mariner4life Me too - and it was a bad idea. I was sweating from the get-go.

mariner4life

@MN5 said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@mariner4life said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

@Chris-B said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

set my alarm for 4am and start drinking?

i probably would have done that this week if i didn't have a skin full on saturday arvo/night and woke up super dusty sunday

Doesn’t it get so much tougher at our age ?

I think the bottle of red wine I had after the IPAs wasn’t a wise move but it seemed fitting while watching the election.

my go to combination. smash hazies, switch to red. Great at the time. fucking awful the next day

junior

@ShitMcCaw said in RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland:

Meh. You are better than us but all the bad mouthing of sexton by all blacks fans comes across as weak to me. He pumped you a good few times and that doesn’t sit will with you because he’s not meek and self effacing like you expect us to be. But guess what. Winning is what counts and we’ve gone from never beating you to pumping you five times in ten years. Would be a sad and soppy game if we turned everything into a saddo popularity contest. Maybe have a bit of grace and realise he’s one of the best you’ve come across.

Sorry, mate, but this is one of the worst takes on Sexton I've ever read. He is loathed by every group of rugby fans around the world, not just us AB fans who supposedly expect him to be meek. He's "pumped" plenty of other teams many more times and their fans all agree that he is a fucking cock (still a great rugby player, and probably the second greatest Irish player in m lifetime, to be fair to the man).

sparky

@His-Bobness As we are talking famous Irish writers, I once had a curry and a beer with Seamus Heaney.

The Silver Fern

RWC QF: All Blacks v Ireland