Rugby World Cup 2015

[jaffka]

I have posted this before but its still my favourite Haka ever.



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[Bruce Rioja]

[jaffka]

The Haka has certainly evolved from that effort in 1973 which was when the Barbarians beat the All Blacks, the game which had that try.



How should a team face the Haka then? The Irish in 1989 gave it a go but lost the match



As did the Welsh in 2008 but came up short in the match as always against southern hemisphere opposition.



Maybe they tried to emulate the French in 2007 who beat them in the world cup quarter final match.



If we do things right, we shouldn't have to worry about any of this until the final. Is that a prediction?

[KeyserSoze]

Not rugby but saw these two hakas recently. I'd always assumed it was for battle, didn't realize it was used elsewhere either

[Bruce Rioja]

I'd always assumed it was for battle

Isn't it actually a 'we come in peace' type of thing?

[thebish]

[Bruce Rioja]

^^ 4uck me. Bod's been in the weights room, hasn't he?!

[jaffka]

One other thing as well, we need to be looking to score at least four tries to get a bonus point.

[TANGODANCER]

Can tell it's band-waggon time. The Sun are all "get behind our boys" and handing out free St George cross pages. They'll be first to crap on the team from a great height should we not win. (That won't happen of course, but just saying)

[thebish]

One other thing as well, we need to be looking to score at least four tries to get a bonus point.

oh - i hadn't looked that closely and didn't realise there were bonus points!!

how do the bonus points work?

[thebish]

[TANGODANCER]

The Fijian war dance? , that we might see tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9UJTgZdKA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[KeyserSoze]

Going to have to stop this boy tonight as well

[jaffka]

One other thing as well, we need to be looking to score at least four tries to get a bonus point.

oh - i hadn't looked that closely and didn't realise there were bonus points!!

how do the bonus points work?

Most people have, including me. It's Clive Woodward who seems to have picked up on it.

1 point for losing less than 7 points.
1 point for 4 or more tries.
2 points for a draw.
4 points for a win.
0 for losing.

[thebish]

cheers!

so - best strategy seems to be...

win games
score lots of tries
don't concede

simple!

[Bruce Rioja]

Matt Dawson somehow manages to make an even bigger irritating, embarrassing c*nt of himself.

[thebish]

elaborate wanky sports-event opening ceremonies? feck off!

if you really HAVE to do summat - then get a posh bird to cut a ribbon and then just get on with it!!!

[Bijou Bob]

I'm bored of this Rugby world cup thingy. When does it finish? ?

[TANGODANCER]

Wow, some spectacle that opening ceremony ay Twickenham! Wasn't expecting that.

[thebish]

opening games can be notoriously tricky, but...

wtf happened to the idea that a hooker actually fecking hooks the ball back to the number 8 - hold it there while you decide what to do rather than just let the scrum meander back and forth and round about a stationary ball!! that's why a hooker is called a fecking hooker!!!