Macsen
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I didn't say SA won it by a landslide. But they were the better team. They dominated the line out stealing English balls and even managed to turn the English scrum, an area where England should have dominated over the SA pack. England had played a simple game since the pool stages but their only hope was that they were two points behind with the end in sight and they didn't have a plan when they went far behind. SA could always play ugly but if they went behind they could let rip with their backs like Habana. If England's try had been awarded I think we'd have seen a South Africa try soon, but as things were they didn't need one and could concentrate on defending. England may have given SA 6 soft points, but they did give them readily. Ireland failed to make it out of the pool stages for giving silly points away to France - England knows it loses you games (especially given their gameplan) and should have kept their discipline. That trip could have sent Moody (I think it was him) to the sin-bin, Vickery got a match ban for one against the USA, so they were lucky there. As for Cueto's 'try', his foot was in touch and that's that. Having told loads of NZ fans to get over the forward pass that kicked them out of the tournament I can't really complain about referee decisions against the home nations.
I wasn't sad to see SA win though -with the new quota system coming into place after this match it may be a while before we see a world beating SA team again. Not to say that the black SA popuation are any less talented then the white players, but as I understand it there's a lack of match experience there.
Anyway now the home nations sides need to use the next four years well to build World Cup winning sides rather than doing bugger all like in the last 4 years. It looks like NZ has the next one in the bag already, playing at home, but then I say the All Blacks has it in the bag every four years.
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Even though you congenitally despise the English
Since when? My mum's from Sheffield.
Hats off the South Africa though, they were the best team in the end.
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The final is tonight at 8pm GMT.
South Africa v England.
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But the point is that every Saturday these guys got together to play something they called "Celtic" football. I asked if they meant rugby and they said no, its even more primitive than rugby.
I wouldn't say Rugby or 'Celtic' football are primitive. They're more physical than football, but more complex. The players also tend to be better educated than in football because there isn't as much money in rugby, and it's still considered a middle to upper class sport. There's a common saying here that "Rugby is a thug's game played by gentlemen and football is a gentlemen's game played by thugs".
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I don't like rugby, it doesn't have enough violence. If the ball was replaced with a human head though...
Now I understand why you're called 'Redface'...
I just paid £80 for a ticket to the Wales v Australia game. Even though we're going to lose horribly.
Oh well I'll be 35 by the time the World Cup gets back to Europe...
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I've heard friends say that rugby is too chaotic, nothing like American football which is more strategic ... and rugby fans saying American football is too slow, waiting for play after play ... just let the guy run.
I think rugby allows the players to be more creative, rather than just following the orders drawn up by the manager. I can appreciate that American Football is more strategic, but I like to see a small moment of genius from a player as he slices open the other team's defence.
Regarding why rugby isn't popular in America and American Football not popular over here... I think it's just all to do with the sport you grew up with. Rugby is bigger even than 'soccer' in Wales, it's the national sport. While soccer will get crowds of 30,000 rugby will draw around 75,000 (it'd draw more but that's the biggest stadium we've got).
I'm a bit critical of the commercial aspects of American Football. The rules seem to be fit around the adverts rather than the other way around. I'm glad 'soccer' or rugby aren't popular in America because no doubt the rules would be changed to include more adverts.
Sparhawk, rugby looks similar to American Football but the rules are quite different. You're not allowed to pass forward so either you have to kick the ball over the defence and try to catch it on the other side or try to find another way through - usually by drawing the opposition player to one side of the pitch and then passing quickly to the other side and finding an overlap. Or just smash through!
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Anyone else here interested in Rugby? The World Cup is on at the moment, and has already produced some classic matches. The developing countries have really punched above their weight, with teams like Canada, Japan and Samoa giving the established top 10 a run for their money.
The tournament is hosted by France this year, but they've already been beaten by Argentina in the opening match.
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I can tell the expansion is made in Australia, because the Welsh all have cockney accents. Whoever made it has obviously never actually been here.
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Not really. A Welshman attacked and took the English throne in 1485, but he didn't force everyone to learn the language. We're not imperialist colonial bastards.
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Bwahahaha!
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Looks great!
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Yes, you need internet connection on that PC to be able to play the game. And doublecheck the minimum specs for the game - your best PC might not be good enough
Um! My PC could run Bioshock with its cables tied behind its back. It's a giant steaming monstrosity of a computer with so many cooling fans I've had to anchor it to the floor lest it take off. There's a whole other PC in there that will activate in the year 2030 when it's finally needed to run the latest games.
Would I need an internet connection every time I loaded it up? Could I just take my PC to where there's a connection, install it, then take it back to my flat?
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I'm thinking of getting this game, but do I need an internet connection to play it? I keep my best PC in a rented flat where I live Mondays to Thursdays, but there's no internet there.
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I like the look of that pirate ship!
Were you the guy in the purple dragon costume?
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I post my phone numbers on the site. As a journalist, I want crazy people to phone me. They have the best stories.
Also I don't think the government could know any more about me than they do since I phone them every day. In fact they probably wish I'd stop bothering them, rather than vice versa.
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Amusing account by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams about secondary security screening selection at airports.
When you're trying to get into America or travelling about the country by air, one of the battery of security measures in force is called "secondary security screening selection", or SSSS. This is usually a random selection, we are told. The legend SSSS is stamped on the tickets of those randomly selected, and the lucky ticket holder gets extra attention.Richard and I are randomly included for this treatment all the time. Before 9/11, we used to get delayed at only one stage on entering America - the holding-room experience outlined above. Since 9/11, it happens everywhere, even on domestic flights. And there is nothing the security people at the airports can do about it, even if they wanted to.
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Well I'd tell you to move to England, but an 11 year old was shot in the face last night, so I can't really recommend it as a place to get away from gunfire...
I'm happy here in Wales at the moment, though I've considered moving to the Rep. of Ireland or New Zealand.
I must admit I'd never consider moving to America. I was in New York city for a few months and a man a few houses down was shot and killed during a barbeque and a house fell down at the other end of the street.
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That box being tugged down by the rope arrow is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a video game. The possibilities are endless...
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And what is the necessary first step in bringing about change?
The first step is to sit down and realise you've got it pretty good and that the changes you'd like would probably make things worse. If after much soul searching you're still confident that you know what is best, join a likeminded protest group, form your own, or become a politician and try to change the system from the inside. Sitting and home grumbling to yourself won't do the trick.
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Yeeees, stop whingeing and take positive action. I see no contradiction there. If the masses spent half the time they use up complaining amongst themselves to campaign for change the world would be a better place (for them at least).
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I love this. You whinge on a message board, then someone responds to your whinge, and then you tell them to stop whingeing on a message board! Irony much?
But now you're whinging about me whinging!
You'd think the reference to Gandhi logging onto the Dark Mod forum should have made it obvious that I was ribbing.
I despair.
Rugby World Cup
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Mike Catt? That's the only one I can think of.
Congrats on the title though.