OT: Congratulations to our Antipodean Members...Well the Australian ones at least.
 

Just had a chance to watch the tape of the Australia vs Wales rugby match (I'm not allowed to watch them live as I've never watched a Welsh game Live when they've won). I enjoyed watching the game and want to offer my congratulations on the Aussie win, there was some fine playing. I wish the Welsh team would realise that they don't have to give everyone a twenty point head start before they decide to play rugby, but the Aussies were definitely the better team.

Well done.

I wasn't going to mention this, but as you've brought the subject of rugby up, I believe a northern hemisphere team did manage to record a win against Australia the other week.

What was the score again lads? Oh yeah, Australia 6, Scotland 9...:D

Congratulations to the Los Angeles Kings on winning the Stanley Cup in hockey.

Booooooooo. Hissssssssssss.. Well it wasn't a Stars year so who cares. :D

Nuff Said

Panther Al, I was born in New Zealand but I'm a naturalised Australian (I hold dual nationality) so you've no idea how conflicted I feel when the Wallabies play the All Blacks.

*laughs*

I can understand fully:

Born in Germany and lived there for 4 years, Lived in 10 different US States, 4 years in New Zealand, France for a year, a year in England, deployments to various high suckage portions of the world...

Yeah. I really don't have a 'home'...


Kinda makes life fun. :)

Yeah, we actually tie him to a chair because if we didn't, he'd be busy running from one side of the field to the other trying to cheer on both teams. We have to do it just so he doesn't hurt himself with all that running about.
Oh, that and the fact that he confuses the teams with all the costume changes when he swaps one rugby jersey for another!
:p
:D

I know how you feel. I attended 13 schools as a kid, including School of the Air (talking to my teacher over two-way radio from the island I was living on off the NW coast of Western Australia, teacher was more than 1000km away in the desert town of Meekatharra).

I enjoy watching rugby, but not enough to pay extra to subscribe to Fox Soccer Plus so that I can watch it here in the States. It was big in Uruguay when I went to high school there - I went to school with the niece of one of the ruggers who had to eat his mates to survive being stranded in the Andes on the way to a tournament. I was too skinny to play.

That could've been a plus... probably too skinny for your team mates to bother eating you, too :D

I'm a Sharks fan, I find it ironic that a former Sharks player committed the major boarding penalty that set up the 3 power play goals for a team built by the former Sharks GM and coached by an ex Sharks coach.

As a former skinny guy, we run faster!