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Where's the hype?

Umaga's Witness said:
the only reason you ever beat the Wallabies is because they can't scrum. but what if all of a sudden they could? I think it might be too late to start developing another area of your game.
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Keep telling yourself that, lad. One day you'll truly believe it.
 
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches,
We shall fight on the landing grounds,
We shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
We shall fight in the hills
We shall never surrender.

Of course having a few tens of thousand of those damned, pesky colonial ruffians along for the ride helped enormously didn't it!?

Anyway, the English might have invented the game of rugby, but it took a few colonials to show you how to play the game properly!!!
 
I'm not going to lie... I'm quite nervously excited. You lads remember what it was like as a young boy, finally making it to the promised land, with your first sexual partner/one nighter... I'm on that level.

Then there's the part where we are such a huge rugby nation and this World Cup is televised during times where the regular human-being will be sleeping. If I don't stay up, or wake up, I'm going to hear about it before I can watch the game I've recorded. So, it takes a little hype away for me personally.

The banter on here is pretty amusing. But if I were England, I'd worry about beating Fiji first, before you look to Australia, eh ;).
 
Why should we worry about a team that's never beaten us?
 
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Julle manne kan maar groot praat vir nou en ek sal lees, want kom 31/10 (25/10 vir Nieu Seelanders) weet ek dit is net kak en kerm van julle af vir die res van die jaar wanneer die Bokke huis toe vlieg met die beker.
 
GoTheNaki said:
I'm not going to lie... I'm quite nervously excited. You lads remember what it was like as a young boy, finally making it to the promised land, with your first sexual partner/one nighter... I'm on that level.

Then there's the part where we are such a huge rugby nation and this World Cup is televised during times where the regular human-being will be sleeping. If I don't stay up, or wake up, I'm going to hear about it before I can watch the game I've recorded. So, it takes a little hype away for me personally.

The banter on here is pretty amusing. But if I were England, I'd worry about beating Fiji first, before you look to Australia, eh ;).
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im counting on Fiji to rough them up a bit for us haha

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ncurd said:
Why should we worry about a team that's never beaten us?
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i dont think they will beat you, but it will certainly be tiring lol
 
Apart from my own home and this forum the hype, it seems to me, is sadly lacking! The BBC in particular seem to be pretending the 3rd biggest sporting event on earth is happening on home soil in just over a week. They prefer to talk about an American sport called gridiron' (sounds like a poor man's rugby union to me!) and endless articles about every Rooney goal!

Cracking thread though Olly. Here's my favourite build up moment to a World Cup...

http://youtu.be/o3cnss1UMO8

As Micky Skinner would say... Squeeeek (and then) Booooosh!
 
NZ sports journalist Andrew Saville reporting from London on the evening news tonight said that you wouldn't even know the RWC was on - no billboards at Heathrow or in the city, and the only thing that the English public seem interested in is Queen Elizabeth surpassing Queen Victoria's length of reign, and Wayne Rooney passing Booby Charlton's mark of 49 goals for England.
 
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smartcooky said:
NZ sports journalist Andrew Saville reporting from London on the evening news tonight said that you wouldn't even know the RWC was on - no billboards at Heathrow or in the city, and the only thing that the English public seem interested in is Queen Elizabeth surpassing Queen Victoria's length of reign, and Wayne Rooney passing Booby Charlton's mark of 49 goals for England.
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Maybe this is why all England supporters think that France will win the World Cup.
We have to get to the final ( that is France) as Montpellier play Clermont on the 24th Oct. and Toulouse on te 31st Oct both at home
 
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smartcooky said:
NZ sports journalist Andrew Saville reporting from London on the evening news tonight said that you wouldn't even know the RWC was on - no billboards at Heathrow or in the city, and the only thing that the English public seem interested in is Queen Elizabeth surpassing Queen Victoria's length of reign, and Wayne Rooney passing Booby Charlton's mark of 49 goals for England.
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On a slightly serious tone Rugby has nowhere near the support in terms population % as Football and all the English warm up games have been on Sky Sports. Stories about things actually happening will take precedence.

On the other hand in the office it is mentioned daily...mind you I work with an Irishman and a Welshman who both love rugby as well as bunch on English. Plus we're pretty much in a rugby union part of the country.

Expect the national press to get into the full swing of thing next week.
 
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I do hope so!

I'm sick to the teeth already of the seemingly endless and mindless football copy and discussion that seems to take over in the media.

02 had some corporate do for the England team and even that was taken over by schoolgirls excited to see Take That!
 

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