The first real contest of the tournament was a real eye opener. A game for the purists perhaps, but the game effectively underlined the weaknesses of both sides. Starting with England, the seemingly invulnerable championship favourites were exposed for the first time in over a year. And suprisingly, it was up front that they struggled against an 'in yer face' Springbok pack. With the Boks competing and disrupting England possession, they were able to slow the delivery to Wilkinson ...
Dear all, A mate of mine rang me up a few weeks ago and said, hey Welshy! I've got two tickets for one of the semis in Sydney - fancy going? So obviously I left my wife and kids, told my boss that he looked exactly like a pustular boil I once found under my left testicle and that he needed lancing. I took this first flight out I could to Orstralia, forgot to get off the plane at Sydney and found myself in Tasmania. Oh well, there's plenty of time to get back to Sydney for the semis.
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From Gwlad Rugby: Kiri te Kanawa, Philip Schofield, Russell Crowe, Edmund Hillary, Shane Howarth ("Are you sure about this one?" - Ed) - your boys took one hell of a beating! Steve Hansen - an apology Since he took over from Graham Henry in February 2002, Gwlad, along with many of our colleagues in the media, may have given the impression that we thought Steve Hansen was the worst rugby coach ever to don a tracksuit. Headlines such as "Shove your pods up your arse", and "F@ck off ba...
From Zin Zan Brooke after France thumped Scotland by fifty points: 'The Frenchmen looked up the Scots kilts and found that they had no balls!' From the Sunday Age. The reverend Sion Gough Hughes, minister at the Welsh church in Melbourne, said, 'To some people it is more than momentary relief from day-to-day life; it's almost like a second family. And there's nothing worse than losing to England. As a nation we're not anti-English, but we are anti-English rugby Phil Bennet, no ...