of course ya do, it's anti-french sarcasm !!
What a come down from last week, two pretty crap games today, Scotland looked decent but everyone else was fairly pants, Wales can at least take some positives and they finally have a result. France might be in line for the spoon!!!!
.......ooooooohhhh caaaaaaaaareful now Canadian boy, there's a limit to even humor about certain things !....AND DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE SERIOUS WITH THAT !!!!!!!!!! :diablo:
Thats what club rugby is for mate! When your internatonal side depresses you you just stick your head n the sand and pretend your club team s the only thing that exists! Then you carefully poke your head above for your net international game....and quickly vanish again if you're still shite
. Thats what got me through Englands dark years - supporting Wasps!
hahaha...well, I'm not sure if I'm a Toulon or Toulouse or Clermont guy right now, but I do have a penchant for Clermont...I see what you mean though.
And thx, again, for trying to cheer me up lol !
But I mean, with England there's just about some consistency. Some years they're very good, you know what to expect, other years they're just not as competitive, again you know what to expect.
But imagine how great it felt to be a French Rugby fan in November (Samoa wasn't AS satisfying, but still, the 4th straight win), knowing what your team can do, and then.......th...this ?
As soon as the idea that Wales was definitively going to win installed in my head, I just felt like...this sort of lightness...like a joke, like I'm having a laugh all of a sudden almost. The loss in Italy was VERY tough to swallow, but this is like..."oh, right, yeh ok wtvr...next we can just lose to Namibia, yeh sure, why not...just don't forget the popcorn !"
Will we ever win a RWC ? Well yeh, sooner or later...but boy in our case, everything will have to be juuuuuuust perfect for it to happen.
As a counter example of that: England was far from excellent around 2007. They were horribly mediocre during the pools, I remember notably that terrible result against SA...but then, they managed a nice narrow victory, no tries, just....Wilko. Then got France, again narrowly but surely...I remember France some silly stupid fkn mistakes as usual...and then, oh, well, what do you know ?! RWC FREAKING FINALS AGAIN.
Of course it's not given to just any side, but I mean surely and steadily, a side that never should have been there (Finals) managed to exploit their resources to the max, play simple rugby, pragmatic, realistic...
e.g.: they were just 9th in total tries scored, but first in Drop Goals with 5 by guess who, and were 4th in penalties).
Us ? We're going to beat the best side of the universe straight out of Jupiter and Saturn in the most unlikely upset in sports history, and then lose badly against a much worse team...it's a rollercoaster emotionally, and so many what-if's because YOU KNOW your team could be doing way, way better....
