The guy’s a complete plonker.
Either that or a comedian like Rhys Darby who specialises in being funny by not being funny if you get what I mean.
His latest epistle is Ten Things We’ve Learnt From the Autumn Tests.
The funny thing is that he continues to deny that he’s got the game he’s always wanted.
Jones usually [...]
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Yep, Stephen Jones – he of the The Times fame – tries hard.
He’s a real try hard.
Ba da doom.
Anyway, the Welshman who wants to be a Pom we most like to hate is suffering a bad case of amnesia.
Having spent what seems like his whole life sneering at the frothy rugby in the Southern Hemisphere [...]
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The weekend highlighted an issue which has been bubbling along for some time.
On the one hand, we had the All Whites “one shot for glory”.
On the other, a rugby “test”.
Clearly, it’s not comparing apples with other operating systems (;)) – the All Whites game was the culmination of a 4 year cycle and followed a [...]
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I had thought that sheep bleated until I read the reports coming out of Wales.
The Independent put it succinctly:
New Zealand may well have lost their aura of invincibility in other arenas of world rugby, but in Cardiff they still seem invincible as ever. In extending their staggering period of dominance over Wales to 56 years [...]
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The Aussies are officially on the ropes (at least according to the Guardian).
I’m sure it’s coincidental, but has anyone heard from the Robbie Deans fan club recently??
Anyway, but to the Wobblies. And the rope.
Australia were struggling to paper over the cracks after suffering their seventh straight defeat by New Zealand in their Bledisloe Cup test [...]
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So the AB’s coaches are swapping roles and responsibilities.
Chris Rattue for one smells a … err, rat and he’s taking the distinctly un-nationalistic approach of support Wales. And not just the beached ones either.
This particular rugby rivalry, not to mention the pompous All Black coaching panel, needs a giant kick up the behind.
Yep, our boyo [...]
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Fair call ref, I don’t have a great record of being an ardent rugby fan.
Frankly, anyone who uses a word like “ardent” isn’t your average rugby fanatic. Naturally, I prefer league.
Having said all of that, I do make an effort to watch the home tests altho my days of getting up in the middle of [...]
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Funny, I don’t seem to have heard much recently from the one-eyed Cantabs about St Robbie.
Wonder why?
Sure, Teacher Ted needs to put himself on detention and the Hansen was much better when he was in that band.
But as bad as the ABs have been, the Wallabies have been worse and deservedly took the wooden spoon [...]
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There was a lot of focus on the venue leading up to the ABs do or die game at the weekend.
Sadly, as Chris Rattue noted in good old Granny, the ABs reached their nadir in Hamilton instead of nirvana.
Smit will go down as a colossus of world rugby, in the pantheon with the likes of [...]
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As the ads say, this is priceless.
I’ve flogged it in full because:
a. I’m lazier than Rokocoko on cover d
b. It’s funnier than Henry trying to justify the AB’s tactics at the weekend
c. No one reads this site, especially copyright lawyers
d. Dolly did it anyway
The All Blacks’ performance at Durban was so bad it seemed a [...]
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