Thread: That time of year again, Bledisloe

Originally Posted by bob10

I have a sense of humour, and can take anything you want to throw my way. I doubt you can . Why do you look for support, with the "fellas"? You should look for support on a firm foundation, not shakey ground. Then again, I suppose, birds of a feather..... Bob

Good, I think we are understanding each other...

Originally Posted by windsock

Bob, I have been around long enough to have seen a few cycles of boom and bust in rugby. Long enough to have seen the great players that were around when I was kid listening to their games on the radio (no tv in those days and when there was the news reels were shipped back to NZ)from their overseas tours start to die of old age. Long enough to know that they are just that, cycles of glory and gloom from one good coach to the next mediocre one, one great number 10 to the next wannabe.


It is just a game I happen to enjoy watching and your significance in that enjoyment is a very minor part Bob, sorry, just saying it how it is. Your desire of being able to back a winning team is truly understandable. You are an Aussie bloke. The psychological clockwork in your head is not too far removed from a kiwi bloke. We hate getting beaten by the other side, just like you guys. When we beat other teams so consistently, we enjoy it, other teams not so much so. When your team can beat our team as consistently, then it'll be time for us to eat crow. Until that time, enjoy your crow and see it for what it is. When you understand that, and really see it for what it is; a game; a cyclical game, it really doesn't matter a damn.


As for your comments about NZ life outside of rugby you put out there. Tomorrow, I will get up and go to work as I normally do. I will drive there and back home in my 1984 110 HCPU and on my way past I will look at the river to see if it is fishable like I normally do. If it is good on the way home, I will go fly fishing, if it is not, I will maybe prepare a few flies in preparation for when it is ready. Maybe I will work well into the evening so I can take a day off to go fishing. Maybe I will look at my maps and think about my next camping/fishing trip. Life goes on quite well here in NZ beyond the computer (when I am not using it for work) and well and truly it goes on very well and very enjoyably beyond the TV and rugby. I would respectively suggest you look out your own window beyond the www news sites and beyond the CTRL+V activity and go get into it... instead of poking away on that keyboard about what you presume to be a paucity of life here in NZ.


Maybe see you next game Bob. Maybe not...

You foolish person. Do you actually think I sit at the computer all day. Obviously you have never heard of lap tops, WIFI , etc. I fish probably more than you, on Moreton, Bribie, 1770, Stanage Bay, Karumba, not to mention Cabbage tree Ck, Pine River, and more. Chasing Taylor, Flathead, whiting , bream, Barramundi, mud crabs, sand crabs, and in the bay in my 4.2 metre sea jay, Mackeral. I drive more kilometres in a year in Qld, than you drive in your life in NZ. I have been all over this country, from west to east , north to south, in my life.[ not driving, most of it, I must admit sailing around all of it] All over the World, actually. I don't really care if I see you at the next game, I only like talking to people who actually know what they are talking about. All the best, Bob

Was it a liquid lunch you had today Bob?

Originally Posted by sheerluck

Was it a liquid lunch you had today Bob?

No, just had a gut full of ignorant people, who have no basis for their attacks. One in particular. Who probably has set my mind against the rest. Not from NZ , I have to say, but , who lives here now. And, I have been around this World , in many places, all around this country, in more places than most. I will not put up with some half smart hero trying to put me down. Simple as that. Bob

Originally Posted by disco man

The mighty All Blacks smashed Australia in all areas of the game tonight.It showed their is still a huge gap between the two sides.Last game in Sydney is the worst i have seen the All Blacks play for a few years.

The Wallabies tonight looked no different than Wallaby teams from the last decade.The ref did a very good job,he made it clear from the start what he wanted.Last week Australia showed some very good signs,but tonight their was no improvement on last week.

To all those people who bag Ritchie,calling him too old or a cheat or whatever,i think tonight he proved he is still the best number 7 in the world.For those that disagree tell me who is a better number 7 in world rugby?

Major improvement is needed by the Wallabies or the Springboks will put 30 points on them as well.

Michel Hooper, just a pity the rest of the team doesn't give him the go forward that the AB's give Cheater McCaw. Hooper is great at the break down without all the offending. The Wallabies were poo last night. They deserved to be flogged.

Cheers,

Dan.

Originally Posted by Alra

Michel Hooper, just a pity the rest of the team doesn't give him the go forward that the AB's give Cheater McCaw. Hooper is great at the break down without all the offending. The Wallabies were poo last night. They deserved to be flogged.

Cheers,

Dan.

Good call he is a gutsy bloke who just kept trying to the very end,lots of heart.As Bob posted not to sure if he is the right man to be captain though when the pressure is on the Wallabies need a calming voice,a bit like Stirling Morrtlock used to provide.

Originally Posted by disco man

Good call he is a gutsy bloke who just kept trying to the very end,lots of heart.As Bob posted not to sure if he is the right man to be captain though when the pressure is on the Wallabies need a calming voice,a bit like Stirling Morrtlock used to provide.

He is young with plenty to learn no doubt. However, he is wise beyond his years I think. The Wallabies rarely need a calming voice. They need to be able to pick when the AB's are having a spurt of intensity and fight it off. Also stop conceding points after just scoring some would be good as well.

Cheers,

Dan.

Originally Posted by disco man

Point taken Bob,but i don't think that i had attacked you on a personal level and if i did it was not intentional.I guess pride clouds judgement sometimes.It might sound strange but i do agree with a lot of what you say in your posts,the Wallabies are building to some big things in the future.

But why did they not build on last week's performance? And the times in the last two games when the All Blacks had players(Ritchie) in the sin-bin why did the Wallabies not make a impact?

I'll give you this. As told to me by my mate, who has played for Qld, & is still involved in social media stuff, he says McKenzie selected a side in the test, to expose players such as Kepu, Palu , Beale, Horne, Ashley cooper. So when he makes changes , that he wants, the NSW push don't have the come back. Don't forget 2015 World cup is the game. Anything in between is practise. Bob