The Silver Fern

@victor-meldrew said in Springboks v England - Test #2:

You have to seriously feel for the decent Pom rugby supporter

Yep - I know the guy, and I do feel sorry for him.

@KiwiMurph said in Sunwolves v Blues:

@rotated I don't think there's anything sinister at all. He was sick last week (which if you look at his rugby and travel schedule the past two months it's not hard to see why).

I don't see any benefit at all in flying him to Japan this week. Just let him R&R. Player welfare of your young stars is important.

You don't see anything sinister in a Lions fan being in his kitchen, and then shortly after - a mysterious illness?

@mackerzzzz said in Rugby Commentators:

I'll tell you a real good way of fixing nz commentators. Sack every one we have at the moment and bring in acc and leigh hart

Fuck. Off.
Ever tried running backwards through a field of dicks?
Or chowing down on a bowl of cold flaccid dicks?
Fuck.
Leigh Hart couldn't commentate an order at the pub. Christ, he can hardly speak.
And the ACC - are typically of mild amusement for approximately 5 minutes. After that... well, it's just the first 5 minutes on a repeat loop anyway, with rapidly diminishing returns with each re-hashed lame joke.
Fuck. Leigh Hart and the ACC. Off.

Papalii a better winger than Bridge.

Sorry to break this to all you guys, but it doesn't matter anyway, nobody's interested in the World Cup. It's just a money-spinner with fake enthusiasm pushed by the broadcasters, newspapers, and merchandising salesmen.

@Dan54 said in All Blacks vs England I:

@Winger Has any team ever been scared of a jersey??

Every NZer, terrified about a return of a grey alternative jersey.

I was so simple in my wanting cathartic release.
I walked home from the stadium through deserted dodgy areas, no mugging.
I went to a standing bar, got thoroughly re-drunk, yelling “fuck” at the ceiling once in a while. Much to the amusement of locals.
Then I went down to the riverside with a couple of drinks and cigarettes, found a gang of teenagers hanging out causing trouble. Sat down close to them, and when I got eye contact... gestured to the litter-mess they'd caused. They cleaned their shit up, and left.
What do I need to do to get beaten up in this country? I just want my body to feel like my mind does.

Fuck.
Just... fuck.
10 minutes of "we're going to blow them off the park", 92% possession, then... shit.
Then - 13-31 - I've got a massively pissed up "I'm Richie Mounga's cousin" next to me, apparently with $400 on the game vs his mates, staggering/falling all over me yelling "we've won, give me the money Uce" to his mates,

• French ref - so many times obviously changing his mind in the middle of a decision... just - fucked up

Then... fuck... just fuck...
Yeah - that final couple of minutes...

• I feel sorry for the Wallabies fans, and the team (other than Foley and Swain) - they could have, should have, did, deserve that win - but fucked up by 2 moments
• Of course - a game is just a whole set of "moments" - so the last becomes the most defining - and Foley... fucked up - miscalculated the determinedness of French referee-ing
• As somebody else put it - "welcome to French refs, mon ami"
• Correct call, and should be made more often, but... I can understand the fury of losing due to it
  -- Hopefully it's made more often in the future... and while controversial, it becomes the standard-by-precedent

Oh, tit-watch: zero. But the barmaid from neighbouring bar insisted on giving me a hug on the way out, so... future tit-watch: ?

We were promised shiny new things!!
Fuck this shit.
I'm off to the pub to see if I can start a riot.

Seattle Times: "Weird Australian gets kicked out of 12 breweries in one night, for sobbing and banging his fist on the bar"

Was based in London for this WC... but decided I'd hop across to France to watch the Final. Caught the train over to... can't remember - not Paris, a relatively small town... but with a train station for the Eurostar?
Went over, started to panic when I thought I might not find a place open early in the morning to watch it... but found a likely venue.
Turned up early in the morning at this bar, they had a free breakfast spread on, welcomed me in.
We all watched it together - me getting really rather drunk sitting at the bar nervously chopping beer after beer. The locals started enjoying just watching my reaction more than the game I think... and at full-time - they all congratulated me, plenty of hands shaken and pats on the back.
I wandered off in a daze, plenty of locals seeing my All Blacks jersey and congraatulating me... had some lunch, fucked up the timing for my return train - running drunkenly through an international train station - the local gendarme/border-control saw the jersey, congratulated me, asked me which train I was on - the one leaving in about 5 minutes - and ran me through the staff corridors, completely bypassing customs/border-control/etc - to get me onto the train with about 30 seconds to spare.
Pure class - on their part, if not mine.

Sitting in Osaka watching those magnificent bastards.

Sake was had.

Fuck I love watching that.
There's so much to enjoy... the rugby itself; then the TMO taking an age - with the crowd going absolutely feral in panic; and then the missed kick, followed by the 2nd chance to really REALLY rub their own salty tears into the wound.
Perfection.

@Nepia said in All Blacks v Ireland - 2nd Test:

Maybe I'm just mature enough to handle losses (nope that didn't sound right even as I typed it).

I know what you mean. From the other side.
I keep thinking that I should be mature enough to take losses like this (watching on TV), and 2019 SF (at the stadium). But I'm not. I fucking hate it. I'm an immature little shit who can't handle the All Blacks losing.
Fuck the world.

@sparky said in Foster:

once in a generation coaching talent

LOL. FFS, take the mans balls out of your mouth for a moment, take a sip of water, and THEN type out your cheerleading.

@Mauss Maybe the Fern isn't for you? We're more about "Player-X is shit!" "No he's not, Player-Y from your region is shit!" "You're both stupid, Player-Z is the shizzle-for-rizzle, and will be an AB GOAT!"
Sharpen up mate. Less analysis, more kneejerk reactions.

Wait - wasn't one of the more common criticisms of Foster that he was overly loyal to existing players?
But now also - a penchant for picking swags of new players all at once?
He was truly a troublesome little (or not-so-little, compulsory fat-joke, guffaw) devil, wasn't he?

Says a lot... several other threads for players retiring... where we've been complaining about them recently in match-threads and selections and what-not, but make sure it's all respectful "thanks for the memories" in the "send-off" threads.
Not this fluffy-bunny.
By the sounds of it, his book is just a final injection of his typical bullshit which doesn't belong in rugby, out into the public.
A final unwanted jizz of fuckery.
Fuck off, rugby-cancer. And I genuinely hope that once Irish Rugby start to forget about you, it will get healthier. I wouldn't mind (as much) an Irish rugby team at #1 in world rankings, if it wasn't tainted with that SexPest attitude.

Edit (apologies to those early 'upvoters' who might not agree with this part) - forgot to mention: Blight on the fucking game. Fuck off, and good riddance.

@Pot-Hale said in All Blacks vs Boks:

@Stargazer said in All Blacks vs Boks:

@Pot-Hale Freedom Cup. Only played for between NZ and SA.

Ah ok. They'll have to wait until next week then. 😏

We try to plan it so there's a different cup to drink from each week.
(Sorry - that game has truly upped my Arrogance, Hubris, and Condescension attributes)

@duluth said in Can we replace Super Rugby?:

Just looking at those numbers, it seems like a good idea to level the field would be to merge Taranaki, Manawatu, Hawkes Bay - into some sort of "Central" team.

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.