RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina
-
@mariner4life said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
Hugely respect Courtney Lawes
I'm beginning to like Maro Itoje too since he stopped behaving like a rodeo cowboy shouting Yeehaah! all the bloody time.
-
@Machpants said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
My wife is one, so hard not to! Tho she calls herself Cornish and British not English - she hates the idea 'English' (with it's white supremacist skin head implications) and supports Wales more haha
You do realise she's technically more French than British....
-
@Nepia said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
The Cornish are very proud of being Cornish, I have a half Cornish friend, she's still happy to say she's English though but will say Cornish-English.
They are quiet about it though and as I've found after living here for 7 years, seem to regard anyone who actually lives in Cornwall full-time as Cornish. Probably more rugby mad than the Welsh just a bit more quiet
Her family are a lot darker than the usual English look
Funnily enough, the most Cornish people I know (from Alternun going back centuries) are as blonde as blonde can be.
-
Danny Care is an absolute top bloke - up there with Fitzy in the down-to-earth, chat to anyone stakes.
Worked in the same team with Dallaglio for 2-3 weeks. Complex bloke. Very, very professional and good to work with, but hard to have a chat to and always felt he was struggling with something.
, -
@Victor-Meldrew Charlie?
-
@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Machpants said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
My wife is one, so hard not to! Tho she calls herself Cornish and British not English - she hates the idea 'English' (with it's white supremacist skin head implications) and supports Wales more haha
You do realise she's technically more French than British....
I don't get that one, the Cornish were in Britain before the French (Norman's) , and Vikings, and in fact the Romans
-
-
@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.
-
@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.
-
@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!
-
@Victor-Meldrew Barbary pirates?
-
@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
-
@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
-
@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.
-
@stodders said in RWC SF: All Blacks v Argentina:
@Victor-Meldrew Barbary pirates?
Yep. Up until the mid-1600's
-
@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.
-
@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.
