All Blacks vs. Lions

[Monkeh]

Anybody here looking forward to the Lions tour of New Zealand. I can't wait to see them play. I think they will have some close games(Even though the Lions had that abismal warm up ;)).

In fact. Any of you UKer's part of the Barmy Army?

[waterhogboy]

I thought Barmy Army was cricket??? Isnt the Lions our rugby team??? Anyway - they had a practice mathch v Argentina and they were rubbish so youve got nowt to be worried about!

[Monkeh]

The Barmy Army is the gruop of Hardcore fans that travel wherever your teams are playing. No matter what the sport.

[rosymole]

I am a massive rugger fan and have been since..ooh about 12 yrs ago..yes the warm up was a bit rubbish, but with Wilko back on from I think there may be an upping in the quality of match!
I sooo wish i could follow my wonderful ,tiny, boring country's teams around the world, but sadly I'm not a city banker with company linked sponsorship and pots of cash!
Lions still rule tho!

[waterhogboy]

COME ON!!! 5 1 to lions. Sorry Monkeh - looks like your beaten!!!

[rosymole]

So I guess we may not be hearing from Monkeh much in this thread..! Jealousy is a terrible thing!

[waterhogboy]

LOL!!! Awwwwww.... wed better not taunt him - hell be ashamed enuff as it is!

[rosymole]

It had to happen once I suppose, we have been beaten- but I'm not really surprised- if there were 15 enormous Maori's running towards me, well truthfully I'd just get trampled into the dirt, there would be no fight in me at all, more smeered all over the pitch.

[waterhogboy]

Yeh, but there apparently not as good as the All Blacks, so it doesnt really bode well!!! Wed be doing fine if it werent for all the Scots Irish and Welsh on the team!!!

[rosymole]

ha ha, or maybe our fellow countrymen would say the same about the English?! I have a funny feeling that we're gonna get hammered by the All Blacks, hammered into the ground..!

[waterhogboy]

Aye! I think ye may be rite - if we do, we'll just have to hide from Monkeh!

[Fool of a Took]

Us Kiwis are guardedly optimistic - we really should win. That was probably the strongest Maori team ever put out on a paddock but even so it wasn't a real blow out. Public expectation here is huge for the AB's, just like it is every four years at the world cup - you'd think we'd learn by now!

All Blacks to win the series 2-1.

[Monkeh]

The Game I'm looking forward to the most is the Lions vs. Lions game tomorrow. Should be interesting.

Hopefully the Lions will give us a bit of a challenge. Fiji was very dissapointing. (esp. for my g/f since she was going for them lol)

[waterhogboy]

You neednt worry bout that - we'll be fighting to the last man!!!

[Monkeh]

and you did lol. Wellington lost. :(

Oh well. You guys did better than I thought you would.

[waterhogboy]

COME ON BRITAIN!!!!

And comisorations Monkeh and Fool of a Took. Better luck next time chaps.

[Monkeh]

Well its not really anything for us to worry about. Your playing our NPC teams without thier All Black/Star players and not doing as well as you should be doing. Next weekend is going to be when we find out how good the Lions really are.

Edit: And your currently being beaten by Otago 16-13 :p

[Monkeh]

Spoke to soon :(

Ryan Jones just scored for the Lions LOL. Figures that that would happen :p

[Monkeh]

Well. Second game is being played tonight at the Cake Tin(The Stadium) in town. They Closed Courtney Place(The place with all the bars and things) to traffic last night at 7pm, It opens again tomorrow morning at 8am. Its gonna be a massive party tonight. Me and some friends are going in to show our support for our boys in Black. Time to watch the Lions get Beaten again :p

[rosymole]

It's so typical, it's my last saturday of working ever tomorrow, but can i watch or even listen to the game?! No. boo and more boo rubbish. Hopefully i can re-appear here in about 12hrs time celebrating a win tho...fat chance after the last time tho...!

[waterhogboy]

Hey Monkeh - what do you think of the O'Driscoll player who supposedly disrespected the Haka. If he did, I think he was stupid for doing it cos its rude and unfair. However, the fact the All Black player gave him a really bad injury was also uncalled for...

[Monkeh]

Which one is O'Driscoll. I recognise the name. How was he injured?

Daniel Carter played an amazing game last night. 33 points. The street was packed when we watched the game. Nobody has given an actual count yet, but most radio stations are just saying there were 10's of Thousands there. It was amazing. The Atmosphere was awesome. We hung around for a while after the game. It was pumping. The lines for the Bars were huge. I took my Digital Video Camera with me, haven't check the pics or the footage I got yet though. I'll check it all out in the morning. I tried getting shots of the crowd and footage of the crowd cheering at the end of the game. If it all worked out, I'll put it online tomorrow.

[waterhogboy]

He's Irish. He was the captain of the Lions for that game...

[rosymole]

He got tackled really badly and ended up with a dislocated shoulder, ouch!

[Monkeh]

Ahhh. Thats right. Spear Tackled by Umanga and another player. Not to good.

[Narborg]

Haha, you guys were all wrong, but that was ages ago.