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[Sai]

and you fucking love it \o/

[hitman_hatton1]

:yep :happy :good :yikes :lol: :D :tong :bbb

[ipswich express]

Well done to England. Played exactly how they had to, to get a win. Don't think they'll go close to winning it. And on today's performance we didn't deserve to get rated so well. Wallabies were horse shit.

[TBooze]

Well done to England. Played exactly how they had to, to get a win. Don't think they'll go close to winning it. And on today's performance we didn't deserve to get rated so well. Wallabies were horse shit.

An Aussie with some class:huh

No, you made it hell for us; I felt worse than I did in 2003, and I had to say sober. Now England's fowards with the Aussie's backs might be a team to challenge New Zealand....

For the first time in my life I will be cheering the FRENCH on tonight.:think

[safe_pa]

My sympathies to all Aussies (I'm welsh and mean it from my heart) you lost to the lesser team. At least you still rule rugby league.

[TBooze]

My sympathies to all Aussies (I'm welsh and mean it from my heart) you lost to the lesser team.

You were not watching the game then... The Aussies gave it their all and their backs surpassed our backs, but their fowards just could not support them properly and England did deserve this very unexpected result.

This we hate the English does get a little muich from the Celts sometimes... For some reason it is fair game to hate the English, but if English is replaced with Muslims or Jews all hell would break lose.

England do not play the attractive game I would like to see, but as been shown by the Welsh themselves, you do not want to get too expansive if you cannot do it, or else you lose to Fiji...

[jameswilson]

You were not watching the game then... The Aussies gave it their all and their backs surpassed our backs, but their fowards just could not support them properly and England did deserve this very unexpected result.

This we hate the English does get a little muich from the Celts sometimes... For some reason it is fair game to hate the English, but if English is replaced with Muslims or Jews all hell would break lose.

England do not play the attractive game I would like to see, but as been shown by the Welsh themselves, you do not want to get too expansive if you cannot do it, or else you lose to Fiji...

To be fair your try was a result of us trying to be pretty, by playing rugby in our own 22, then kicking down your wingers throat who set abreak with Mortlock up,from there you set your try up.

At that point I was thinking 'damn we have listenened too much to that twat Campese.'

But luckily we can now give a 2 finger salute to that twat Campese, who in all honesty I can say is the most over-rated greedy twunt in the history of the game. Learn to pass the ball, and understand that its better to win ugly than lose pretty, you mullet headed Aussie prick!!!!

[TBooze]

To be fair your try was a result of us trying to be pretty, !

We did not score a try, the Aussies did;)

[jameswilson]

We did not score a try, the Aussies did;)

Urmmm thats what I meant.

Us (ie England) tried to be pretty in our 22, we (ie England) kicked it right down the Aussie wingers throat, who counter attacked and the culmination of that was the Aussie try.

Clear enough for you?

[teke]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl :rofl:rofl

Laught out fucking loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Bye bye Aussies you fucking overrated cunts :hi:

[jameswilson]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl :rofl:rofl

Laught out fucking loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Bye bye Aussies you fucking overrated cunts :hi:


Looks like its bye bye NZ too you over-rated bunch of cunts!!!!!

[LeonMcS]

Soooo, any of our Kiwi mates wanna talk rugby????

[TBooze]

I think the c word is way over the top.

New Zealand and Australia had bad days at the office at the worst possible time, it is great for us in the Northern Hemisphere, but every Aussie and New Zealander who I know, who know their rugby are frightenly confident about there team, and to a degree arrogant, but I have yet to meet one who is a c***.

[safe_pa]

I'm not a racist, I don't hate all English just the English rugby union side and you can blame Matt "the chimpanze" Dawson for that. I love English rugby league though.

[MSTR]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl :rofl:rofl

Laught out fucking loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Bye bye Aussies you fucking overrated cunts :hi:

:patsch:patsch:patsch

How did the All blacks finish up mate :rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

:tired:tired:tired:tired:tired:tired:tired

Bonjour:good

[LeonMcS]

TBooze wrote
I think the c word is way over the top.

New Zealand and Australia had bad days at the office at the worst possible time, it is great for us in the Northern Hemisphere, but every Aussie and New Zealander who I know, who know their rugby are frightenly confident about there team, and to a degree arrogant, but I have yet to meet one who is a c***.


Your kidding me right? Nearly everyone I know is a complete c***! Me too!

[ozziebattler]

What a turn around from each teams very first pool game..

OZ and NZ flog some cabdrivers

The POMS and French Fries get ko'd by tough opponents.

So who was really better off??

The weak pool draw for the two so called big guns really came back to bite em on the ass..

Didnt get to experience tough (ko stage like) games throughout the pool's like the poms and french..

Ohwell I want the argies to win it as got 2bucks on them(big spender)

BUT be cheering the fijians on as they play exciting rugby YAWNION...

[TBooze]

What a turn around from each teams very first pool game..

OZ and NZ flog some cabdrivers

The POMS and French Fries get ko'd by tough opponents.

So who was really better off??

The weak pool draw for the two so called big guns really came back to bite em on the ass..

Didnt get to experience tough (ko stage like) games throughout the pool's like the poms and french..

Ohwell I want the argies to win it as got 2bucks on them(big spender)

BUT be cheering the fijians on as they play exciting rugby YAWNION...

There is a big edge to the English and French club rugby as well, sure it is no where near as exciting as super 14, but because of relegation virtually every match means something and the fact there is no big fat contracts for their respective Unions given out to the best players, it gives them a hunger that perhaps paid off today?

[Dekkers]

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl :rofl:rofl

Laught out fucking loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Bye bye Aussies you fucking overrated cunts :hi:

:lol::lol::lol: That's two avatars you owe me Teke :deal, but i'll let one go if you cheer for the Pumas from now on :yep

[Sai]

Hehe I bet we won't be seeing teke for a while

[ozziebattler]

There is a big edge to the English and French club rugby as well, sure it is no where near as exciting as super 14, but because of relegation virtually every match means something and the fact there is no big fat contracts for their respective Unions given out to the best players, it gives them a hunger that perhaps paid off today?

To much glitz not enough guts when it comes to the wallabies and allblacks..

Im a rugby league man myself and to see lote tiqiri(spelling) get 1million bucks a year nearly made me choke on my weetbix..

Awesome player who doesnt hardly see the ball but fuck hes a winger..
1million dollar winger who scored 1try in the worldcup..

I was watching the fiji vs wales game and i seen atleast 2 bloke

Delasi(spelling)
rebenai(spelling)

Who can do everything lote can and some....Thus far in the world cup delasi(*spelling) has been probably one of if not the best outside back in the tourny..

Dont know how i got to talking up fijian flyers but im just pissed that 1guy can be on more $$$$ than a whole team combined though the weaker nation players are doing a better job..

[EelsRule]

I just watched the game thinking get some rugby league players out there. The skill level in rugby is aweful.

[ozziebattler]

I just watched the game thinking get some rugby league players out there. The skill level in rugby is aweful.

I love the forwards in union the most.They struggle to even run 10yards let alone pass a ball.They are a bunch of boneheads.

Im glad to see gregan goneski.They bloke is obsessed with playing to the blindside or short with his forwards.

I would be filthy if i were a outside back with that bloke running the show..

Good bye george.:hi:

[Charles187]

I'm not a racist, I don't hate all English just the English rugby union side and you can blame Matt "the chimpanze" Dawson for that. I love English rugby league though.

What the hell has matt dawson done?? Ive met him a few times over the years and hes a cracking bloke. Great player too!

[pecks]

I love the forwards in union the most.They struggle to even run 10yards let alone pass a ball.They are a bunch of boneheads.

Im glad to see gregan goneski.They bloke is obsessed with playing to the blindside or short with his forwards.

I would be filthy if i were a outside back with that bloke running the show..

Good bye george.:hi:Agreed. The forwards in league shit all over union, and make it a much more enjoyable spectacle.

But, Union is great again.
Why?
because the All Blacks choked again. :happy:happy:happy:happy:happy:happy

4 more years teke. 4 more years. :p

[stiflers mum]

Agreed. The forwards in league shit all over union, and make it a much more enjoyable spectacle.

But, Union is great again.
Why?
because the All Blacks choked again. :happy:happy:happy:happy:happy:happy

4 more years teke. 4 more years. :p
seriously how is yawnion more popular than league????pass,pass kick.penaltys galore,collapsing scrums.4 more years until i watch the shit again.

[pecks]

seriously how is yawnion more popular than league????pass,pass kick.penaltys galore,collapsing scrums.4 more years until i watch the shit again.I know what you mean, but I can see things in Union that make it more of a spectacle to watch. I'd rather league myself, but perhaps If I wasn't so passionate about Souths, who knows.

New Zealand choked though, so Rugby is awesome. :yep

[stiflers mum]

I know what you mean, but I can see things in Union that make it more of a spectacle to watch. I'd rather league myself, but perhaps If I wasn't so passionate about Souths, who knows.

New Zealand choked though, so Rugby is awesome. :yep
1 try with a boring lead up:deadbut yeah kiwis choking again is piss funny.:yep

[ozziebattler]

What about lote tiqiri(spelling)

1try is worth 1million bucks..

WHAT A CONTRACT..

Also how funny is it that the wallabies cream in their pants over Rocky Elsom when he wasnt nothing but a benchy for the bulldogs premierleague team..

Got to love union...

[pecks]

What about lote tiqiri(spelling)

1try is worth 1million bucks..

WHAT A CONTRACT..

Also how funny is it that the wallabies cream in their pants over Rocky Elsom when he wasnt nothing but a benchy for the bulldogs premierleague team..

Got to love union...True.
A rugby forward wouldn't last 20 minutes in league.

Andrew Walker was also nothing special in league. I don't even think he came close to having rep honours, but at union he cemented his spot in the Australian team.

[ipswich express]

A rugby forward wouldn't last 20 minutes in league.

Yeah right, I'm guessing you're basing that on Andy Farrell right? Please...

[WhataRock]

Rugby forwards have a totally different job to Rugby league forwards.

A Rugby league forward gets the ball and is told to "run that as hard as you can" then he gets to bludge. Then he only has to run up and back for 6 tackles before he gets the bludge again. Then he goes off after 20 mins.

A Rugby forward is constantly running and putting his body on the line. They actually have to push in the scrum, nearly breaking their necks in the process not form up in a giant man orgy to stand there for 3 secs with his head up his mates arse. Rugby forwards have to have cohesion and are always in communication to control mauls, rucks, the scrum and the lineout. A Rugby league forward would almost never have any contact with a fellow forward on his team.
Rugby league forwards are mostly bash and crash thugs meant to intimidate the opposition halves and make ground up the middle, they are only useful for a short amount of time, they are impact players. Of course the hooker is the exception to this and on occasion the lock, plus the odd second rower.

Rugby union forwards rarely get subbed because once they are off thats it, They are skillful and highly fit players who have to constantly work for 80mins

And believe me I am well and truly a Rugby league man but they a two different sports in regards to their forward packs.

[joffo]

wow how incredibly disappointing.

i had a bad feeling aboout this match all yesterday in the lead up.

the english played better defense than i have seen them play for over a year. the speed at which the shut down the aussie backline was truely impressive. most disappointingly of all the game was truely a poor game to watch. england played well in some important aspects of the gmae like the breakdown but quite frankly didnt play well overall.

australia on the other hand were quite pathetic, we gave away a potential 18 points in penalties alone, the backs were passing terribly and not running and threatening angles, the fowards where way to slow to the breakdown, there was no support to the runners and as per usual the pick and drive and mauling skills were totally non existant.

the fact of the matter is our consitency is letting us down badly and if we dont pull our fuckin socks up southern hemisphere rugby is going to lose it's dominance over the rest of the world.

[ozziebattler]

Matt Dunning..Skillful??Fit???

Slob??YES...

But understand that both games forwards have different roles.

Cant agree with you saying league forwards run once and bludge..

The average tackles and hit ups by a forward is 9runs ave 20 tackles ave

No need to mention Ian hindmarsh,sonny bill etc..

[pecks]

Rugby forwards have a totally different job to Rugby league forwards.

A Rugby league forward gets the ball and is told to "run that as hard as you can" then he gets to bludge. Then he only has to run up and back for 6 tackles before he gets the bludge again. Then he goes off after 20 mins.

A Rugby forward is constantly running and putting his body on the line. They actually have to push in the scrum, nearly breaking their necks in the process not form up in a giant man orgy to stand there for 3 secs with his head up his mates arse. Rugby forwards have to have cohesion and are always in communication to control mauls, rucks, the scrum and the lineout. A Rugby league forward would almost never have any contact with a fellow forward on his team.
Rugby league forwards are mostly bash and crash thugs meant to intimidate the opposition halves and make ground up the middle, they are only useful for a short amount of time, they are impact players. Of course the hooker is the exception to this and on occasion the lock, plus the odd second rower.

Rugby union forwards rarely get subbed because once they are off thats it, They are skillful and highly fit players who have to constantly work for 80mins

And believe me I am well and truly a Rugby league man but they a two different sports in regards to their forward packs.I wouldn't say they get to bludge after their attacking set of 6, they are then called upon to do the heavy work in defence too.
Perhaps I was a bit critical of rugby forwards, but having to constantly run back 10 meters ea ch time a tackle is made would take it's toll on the rugby forwards. I disagree however that they are more skillful than league forwards, but it's also hard to measure because like you said, the sports are different, particularly in the forwards.

I still maintain that a rugby forward would find the going really tough in league if he were to change codes. More so than if a leaguie were to go to rugby. the league forward would only really have to learn the technical side of things in union.

[ozziebattler]

I wouldn't say they get to bludge after their attacking set of 6, they are then called upon to do the heavy work in defence too.
Perhaps I was a bit critical of rugby forwards, but having to constantly run back 10 meters ea ch time a tackle is made would take it's toll on the rugby forwards. I disagree however that they are more skillful than league forwards, but it's also hard to measure because like you said, the sports are different, particularly in the forwards.

I still maintain that a rugby forward would find the going really tough in league if he were to change codes. More so than if a leaguie were to go to rugby. the league forward would only really have to learn the technical side of things in union.

Dude in rugby you defend behind your side of the ruck..No more than 5metres from the attacking team.

No ten metres for rugby union..

[jameswilson]

On the subject of Union forwards being shit and League forwards being good its a bit of a unusual discussion if you ask me.

Union forwards vary hugely from 1 to 8. The flankers are the fittest guys on the pitch in Union, every single ruck they have to be there first trying to either win their own ball quickly or slowing the opposition ball down, as well as not getting caught by the ref. The props on the other hand do the driving work, now the Aussie forwards are pretty shite at this part of the game, yesterday Sheridan was shoving Dunning around like he was a little 10yr old school kid. Ill tell you one thing, you'd be hard pressed to find a guy in rugby league who is stronger in terms of their lifts than Andy Sheridan, I think he is recognised as having the biggest bench and squat in World rugby, and on top of that he is 6ft5 and gets about the pitch well, he was one of our top ball carriers yesterday.

I think it varies between Aussie and English this argument. I personally think our Union side would beat our league side however I think it would be the other way around with the Aussies (say if you played one half under Union rules and one half under league rules.) And likewise I think our league forwards are shit, and our Union forwards are quality.


But one things for sure both sets of forwards are good in their own right. George Smith in his prime was freakishly good, unfortunately the Aussies spent all week telling us that Jason Robinson was our only World class back, but didnt seem to look at their own team and appreciate that George Smith is your only World class forward.

[pecks]

Dude in rugby you defend behind your side of the ruck..No more than 5metres from the attacking team.

No ten metres for rugby union..Yes, thats what I'm saying. If a rugby forward converted to league, he'd find the going touch due to constantly running back and forth while defending.

[jameswilson]

Yes, thats what I'm saying. If a rugby forward converted to league, he'd find the going touch due to constantly running back and forth while defending.

Well a flanker in union does that all game anyway.

Running back and forward to ruck and defend the fringes.

[pecks]

Well a flanker in union does that all game anyway.

Running back and forward to ruck and defend the fringes.Your probably right. I'm not that farmiliar with the positions in rugby.
I just look at someone like Matt Dunning and can't help but shake my head. :-(

[stiflers mum]

Your probably right. I'm not that farmiliar with the positions in rugby.
I just look at someone like Matt Dunning and can't help but shake my head. :-(
:lol:he makes widders and riddell look buff.

[WhataRock]

On the subject of Union forwards being shit and League forwards being good its a bit of a unusual discussion if you ask me.

Union forwards vary hugely from 1 to 8. The flankers are the fittest guys on the pitch in Union, every single ruck they have to be there first trying to either win their own ball quickly or slowing the opposition ball down, as well as not getting caught by the ref. The props on the other hand do the driving work, now the Aussie forwards are pretty shite at this part of the game, yesterday Sheridan was shoving Dunning around like he was a little 10yr old school kid. Ill tell you one thing, you'd be hard pressed to find a guy in rugby league who is stronger in terms of their lifts than Andy Sheridan, I think he is recognised as having the biggest bench and squat in World rugby, and on top of that he is 6ft5 and gets about the pitch well, he was one of our top ball carriers yesterday.

I think it varies between Aussie and English this argument. I personally think our Union side would beat our league side however I think it would be the other way around with the Aussies (say if you played one half under Union rules and one half under league rules.) And likewise I think our league forwards are shit, and our Union forwards are quality.


But one things for sure both sets of forwards are good in their own right. George Smith in his prime was freakishly good, unfortunately the Aussies spent all week telling us that Jason Robinson was our only World class back, but didnt seem to look at their own team and appreciate that George Smith is your only World class forward.

Doesnt Sheriden bench like 220Kg? It was in the Sydney paper today.

Thats farken huge, it said that the strongest forward (in terms of how much they can bench) in our pack is dunning who can bench 180kg.
Which is still impressive, but 220 thats crazy strong.

[italian dragon]

and you fucking love it \o/

:-( :-( :| :|

[ozziebattler]

Doesnt Sheriden bench like 220Kg? It was in the Sydney paper today.

Thats farken huge, it said that the strongest forward (in terms of how much they can bench) in our pack is dunning who can bench 180kg.
Which is still impressive, but 220 thats crazy strong.

220 is impressive but many league players have that covered..

Matt orford benches 165kgs.Now thats pound for pound king.

[maco_187]

while i will criticise australia and nz for there losses, i must say the game from fiji against south africa was quality, i love watching fiji play there my second fav team, they throw the ball around cahnce there arm but on sunday night they find the right mix and really played smart football and should have won the game, twice being held or thrown out of touch over the tryline, then offcourse the usual a try by south africa and it broke the camels back so to speak, some union backs in fiji are amazing to me speed, size and plenty of skills can kick and pass, and agreed there is atleast a couple of players in that team at the moment better then tuqiri....
orford lifts 165?? fuk me dead thats massive for his size....

[ozziebattler]

while i will criticise australia and nz for there losses, i must say the game from fiji against south africa was quality, i love watching fiji play there my second fav team, they throw the ball around cahnce there arm but on sunday night they find the right mix and really played smart football and should have won the game, twice being held or thrown out of touch over the tryline, then offcourse the usual a try by south africa and it broke the camels back so to speak, some union backs in fiji are amazing to me speed, size and plenty of skills can kick and pass, and agreed there is atleast a couple of players in that team at the moment better then tuqiri....
orford lifts 165?? fuk me dead thats massive for his size....

Yeah mate thats massive..Orford doesnt have the nickname OX for no reason..

Totally agree with your opinions on fiji..Imagine what some of these SO CALLED lesser nations could achieve with atleast half the budget the big nations have.

Look how well fiji and especially argentina have gone thus far..
Georgia also showed massive potential.

To think they only have like 3 rugby fields in the whole country.
Crazy..

[TBooze]

Yeah mate thats massive..Orford doesnt have the nickname OX for no reason..

Totally agree with your opinions on fiji..Imagine what some of these SO CALLED lesser nations could achieve with atleast half the budget the big nations have.

Look how well fiji and especially argentina have gone thus far..
Georgia also showed massive potential.

To think they only have like 3 rugby fields in the whole country.
Crazy..

Well if the Ausssies and New Zealanders stopped nicking their players...;)

The truth is they do get big funding now due to playing in The English Premiership, which supports England, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and probably Scotland soon. Argentina is supported big time by the French as well.

If I was an administrator in New Zealand I would be thinking long and hard about weather there really is a need for centrally contracted players...

[jameswilson]

220 is impressive but many league players have that covered..

Matt orford benches 165kgs.Now thats pound for pound king.

Id love to see an International league player bench more than 220 mate.

Iv just finished 4 years at the University of Bath which is where the England rugby team now do their training, Bath and Loughboro are the 2 biggest sport Universities in Britain and Iv never seen anyone top 220kgs. We have one guy in our gym who is Captain of the UK powerlifting team and when he was benching 220kgs with Sheridan he was struggling to get it up twice (Sheri managed one and then couldnt quite get the second out.)

Now bearing in mind that Sheridan is 6ft5 and about 20 stones which I would assume is way bigger than your average rugby league player (Im basing this assumption on the stereotype that Union players are bigger, Iv heard thats a valid observation) Id be absolutely amazed if there are any international forwards out there who can bench more than 220, and I wouldnt believe it until I saw it (which I have in Sheridans case.)

But anyway enough of me getting defensive on that subject I heard a cracking joke the other day which you guys may appreciate.....then again.




'Sales of condoms have plummeted in Australia today when the england rugby team proved that to fuck 15 aussies you only need 1 johnny!'

:yep

[maco_187]

i know jason williams ex cronulla player, canberra player lifted 220kg i think pushed it out to 240 there was another but i can not remember for the life of me who it was....

Sales of condoms have plummeted in Australia today when the england rugby team proved that to fuck 15 aussies you only need 1 johnny!' good call lolololol

[WhataRock]

i know jason williams ex cronulla player, canberra player lifted 220kg i think pushed it out to 240 there was another but i can not remember for the life of me who it was....

Sales of condoms have plummeted in Australia today when the england rugby team proved that to fuck 15 aussies you only need 1 johnny!' good call lolololol

That guy was a fucking beast, I met him in person once.

[IrnBruMan]

Kylie Leuluai benched 220kgs for 3 reps back in 2006:

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"Their numbers are impressive, but they are well short of the mark set last season by former Manly colossus Kylie Leuluai, who benched 220kg - and did three repetitions."

[kel]

Id love to see an International league player bench more than 220 mate.

Iv just finished 4 years at the University of Bath which is where the England rugby team now do their training, Bath and Loughboro are the 2 biggest sport Universities in Britain and Iv never seen anyone top 220kgs. We have one guy in our gym who is Captain of the UK powerlifting team and when he was benching 220kgs with Sheridan he was struggling to get it up twice (Sheri managed one and then couldnt quite get the second out.)

Now bearing in mind that Sheridan is 6ft5 and about 20 stones which I would assume is way bigger than your average rugby league player (Im basing this assumption on the stereotype that Union players are bigger, Iv heard thats a valid observation) Id be absolutely amazed if there are any international forwards out there who can bench more than 220, and I wouldnt believe it until I saw it (which I have in Sheridans case.)

But anyway enough of me getting defensive on that subject I heard a cracking joke the other day which you guys may appreciate.....then again.




'Sales of condoms have plummeted in Australia today when the england rugby team proved that to fuck 15 aussies you only need 1 johnny!'

:yep


4yrs UNI at Bath hey :think = Fuck all knowledge about Rugby league :yep

[kel]

Penalties interrupted by Qantas ads
Rugby is a wank; I didn't shed a tear for the Wallabies Saturday night, in fact I cheered on their demise because hopefully it'll lead to the rest of the country waking up to what a boring, over-complicated joke professional union is - penalties interrupted by Qantas ads.
Call me a hater, but I played union for five years at a private boys high school, I understand the fundamentals of the game (and the type of bloke who supports it) and appreciate the spectacle when it's done in a free-flowing manner - the problem is it seldom reaches that level.
Now, I'm so tired of hearing about the Wallabies, of how much the nation is behind them, how the Rugby World Cup is the third biggest global sporting event after the Olympics and soccer World Cup.
Fact is, rugby is a crap sport and no one in Australia really cares about it (people in NSW and Queensland might be interested, but they don't care - massive difference. As for Victoria, SA, WA and Tassie ... well they are hardly going to lose any sleep). It's an aspirational private schoolboy wankfest.
I've been to sporting events all over the world and nothing is as passionless as a Wallaby Test at Telstra Stadium. I went to a Bledisloe Cup game there and you could hear a pin drop (except for the All Black fans). The much-maligned Swans supporters generate 25 times the noise and atmosphere as Wallaby spectators.
No Wallaby fan goes home to kick the dog after a loss. No mood is altered. No one gets obliterated to drown their sorrows. There are no fights. Everyone drives home safely in their 4WDs and listens to the Best of Burt Bacharach or Norah Jones ...
Part of the reason for the fans' lack of passion is they aren't really sure what happened, and why? If rugby is so good how come they always change the farking rules? If you're looking for a red flag that a game is fatally flawed, note how often its administrators change the fundamental ways the game is played.
I mean really, you've had a century or so to work it out guys, yet every couple of seasons fans and players have to digest a raft of ridiculously technical rules like the new Experimental Law Variations in the Australian Rugby Championship. (Go on, click on that link and take a look - see if you can understand 'em).
I can't tell you how many times I've been in a pub and there's been a penalty in a Super 14 game and you ask a hardcore fan "what was that for?" and they say "not sure".
The problem with the rules is they make it easy for poor teams to spoil a game. A friend of mine who is a professional rugby coach says he's seen it happen too often where the lesser side will
slow a game down with infractions in the scrum, rucks or mauls and the better side will be blown out of the game by the referee.
That doesn't happen in the NRL; nine times out of 10, the better team on the day will win because there's nowhere to hide - unlike rugby where you can sneak around in a fog of horseshit technicalities.
Then there's the bizarre additions to the game like lifting in line-outs. I mean whatever happened to actually jumping? You might as well take a dwarf out there and toss 'em in the air to catch the footy.
Pick any round during the regular season of rugby league or AFL and you'll see three or four games that easily match the skill levels and excitement of those one or two games in an entire Super 14 season that rugby union aficionados rubber stamp 'a classic'.
Your average game of professional rugby union is criminally disjointed by penalties, brainless boots for touch when outside backs are screaming for the ball, with the result determined by kicks for goal; it's forcings back for millionaires.
If a NRL premier league backline put down as much ball as the Wallabies did on Saturday night, there'd be five or six blokes on the blower to Coles looking for gigs shifting cartons of soup to aisle 12, yet you can't shut up union fans crapping on about the "incredible skills" of their game.
Some of the backs who play union are no doubt gifted, but they never see the ball, every promising movement derailed by a pointless "tactical" kick for touch; Lote Tuqiri might as well have set up a card table on the wing and sold shots of Pernod he had so little to do.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I saw some statistics on the weekend that said, on average, the ball is in play less than 40 per cent of the time in rugby union - and Aussies have the gall to criticise American NFL for its stoppages.
Then there's the fitness of the players: If Matt Dunning is what rugby union considers a world-class athlete (compare him to league props like Steve Price, Roy Asotasi, Luke Bailey or Petero Civoniceva), get me a bucket of KFC and slab of VB - I better start training for the 2011 World Cup.
Which brings me to my next point: If rugby is so good, how come they constantly poach league players? The answer is publicity. How else would they get page upon page in The Daily Telegraph if it wasn't for Rogers-Sailor-Tuqiri-Tahu et al. Adam Ashley-Cooper and Stephen Hoiles just don't sell papers.
People talk about the tradition of rugby, but that's crap. Twenty years ago you could fire a gun at rugby Tests in Australia and hit four former Joey's boys on a bucks night.
Rugby also has no statistics. Stats are an indication of level of interest, or analysis in a game. No Wallaby fan would know if George Smith makes two tackles or 22 tackles a match.
It's often quoted that Aussies are passionate about rugby because the '03 World Cup final in Sydney was one of the highest-rating shows in Australian history. But it was about beating the smart-arsed Poms. That it was rugby is irrelevant. Aussies are passionate about the Hillsong Church too, you know. It's like saying horseracing is our No.1 sport because everyone watches the Melbourne Cup each year.
Finally, if rugby is so good, why don't the networks pay a fortune when the media rights become available? They don't, because it's not. Check out a Foxtel ratings guide, and you will find no rugby among its top 10 programs. It's all NRL and AFL games.
Look at the internet. During the footy season the biggest rugby website would be lucky to have one-fifth the audience as the biggest AFL site, or one-third the league audience.
Rugby fans in New Zealand care. In South Africa they care. In Australia, they just don't. Rugby is the fourth banana behind AFL, NRL and soccer/football (whatever you want to call it).
And before you call me un-Australian for slagging the Wallabies, lemme just say it did bother me a little that the English won, so much so I shagged a lovely Pommie gal Saturday night.
As the moment of consummation rolled toward us, I whispered in her rose pink ear - "this is for Gregan".
Thankfully there wasn't a ref around to blow it up.

[pecks]

I bench 55 and I'm 90kgs. :oops:

[WhataRock]

I bench 55 and I'm 90kgs. :oops:

:D

Im the same I dont know how these freaks do it.

Im 85 and can lift 90, and barely. I prefer to drop it back to like 84 so I can do 8 reps comfortably and properly.
But i dont train much and never have, do more pushups cause you can do them anywhere.

You can be suprised though with the right training and mentality you can lift a lot more than you think.

[stiflers mum]

Penalties interrupted by Qantas ads
Rugby is a wank; I didn't shed a tear for the Wallabies Saturday night, in fact I cheered on their demise because hopefully it'll lead to the rest of the country waking up to what a boring, over-complicated joke professional union is - penalties interrupted by Qantas ads.
Call me a hater, but I played union for five years at a private boys high school, I understand the fundamentals of the game (and the type of bloke who supports it) and appreciate the spectacle when it's done in a free-flowing manner - the problem is it seldom reaches that level.
Now, I'm so tired of hearing about the Wallabies, of how much the nation is behind them, how the Rugby World Cup is the third biggest global sporting event after the Olympics and soccer World Cup.
Fact is, rugby is a crap sport and no one in Australia really cares about it (people in NSW and Queensland might be interested, but they don't care - massive difference. As for Victoria, SA, WA and Tassie ... well they are hardly going to lose any sleep). It's an aspirational private schoolboy wankfest.
I've been to sporting events all over the world and nothing is as passionless as a Wallaby Test at Telstra Stadium. I went to a Bledisloe Cup game there and you could hear a pin drop (except for the All Black fans). The much-maligned Swans supporters generate 25 times the noise and atmosphere as Wallaby spectators.
No Wallaby fan goes home to kick the dog after a loss. No mood is altered. No one gets obliterated to drown their sorrows. There are no fights. Everyone drives home safely in their 4WDs and listens to the Best of Burt Bacharach or Norah Jones ...
Part of the reason for the fans' lack of passion is they aren't really sure what happened, and why? If rugby is so good how come they always change the farking rules? If you're looking for a red flag that a game is fatally flawed, note how often its administrators change the fundamental ways the game is played.
I mean really, you've had a century or so to work it out guys, yet every couple of seasons fans and players have to digest a raft of ridiculously technical rules like the new Experimental Law Variations in the Australian Rugby Championship. (Go on, click on that link and take a look - see if you can understand 'em).
I can't tell you how many times I've been in a pub and there's been a penalty in a Super 14 game and you ask a hardcore fan "what was that for?" and they say "not sure".
The problem with the rules is they make it easy for poor teams to spoil a game. A friend of mine who is a professional rugby coach says he's seen it happen too often where the lesser side will
slow a game down with infractions in the scrum, rucks or mauls and the better side will be blown out of the game by the referee.
That doesn't happen in the NRL; nine times out of 10, the better team on the day will win because there's nowhere to hide - unlike rugby where you can sneak around in a fog of horseshit technicalities.
Then there's the bizarre additions to the game like lifting in line-outs. I mean whatever happened to actually jumping? You might as well take a dwarf out there and toss 'em in the air to catch the footy.
Pick any round during the regular season of rugby league or AFL and you'll see three or four games that easily match the skill levels and excitement of those one or two games in an entire Super 14 season that rugby union aficionados rubber stamp 'a classic'.
Your average game of professional rugby union is criminally disjointed by penalties, brainless boots for touch when outside backs are screaming for the ball, with the result determined by kicks for goal; it's forcings back for millionaires.
If a NRL premier league backline put down as much ball as the Wallabies did on Saturday night, there'd be five or six blokes on the blower to Coles looking for gigs shifting cartons of soup to aisle 12, yet you can't shut up union fans crapping on about the "incredible skills" of their game.
Some of the backs who play union are no doubt gifted, but they never see the ball, every promising movement derailed by a pointless "tactical" kick for touch; Lote Tuqiri might as well have set up a card table on the wing and sold shots of Pernod he had so little to do.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I saw some statistics on the weekend that said, on average, the ball is in play less than 40 per cent of the time in rugby union - and Aussies have the gall to criticise American NFL for its stoppages.
Then there's the fitness of the players: If Matt Dunning is what rugby union considers a world-class athlete (compare him to league props like Steve Price, Roy Asotasi, Luke Bailey or Petero Civoniceva), get me a bucket of KFC and slab of VB - I better start training for the 2011 World Cup.
Which brings me to my next point: If rugby is so good, how come they constantly poach league players? The answer is publicity. How else would they get page upon page in The Daily Telegraph if it wasn't for Rogers-Sailor-Tuqiri-Tahu et al. Adam Ashley-Cooper and Stephen Hoiles just don't sell papers.
People talk about the tradition of rugby, but that's crap. Twenty years ago you could fire a gun at rugby Tests in Australia and hit four former Joey's boys on a bucks night.
Rugby also has no statistics. Stats are an indication of level of interest, or analysis in a game. No Wallaby fan would know if George Smith makes two tackles or 22 tackles a match.
It's often quoted that Aussies are passionate about rugby because the '03 World Cup final in Sydney was one of the highest-rating shows in Australian history. But it was about beating the smart-arsed Poms. That it was rugby is irrelevant. Aussies are passionate about the Hillsong Church too, you know. It's like saying horseracing is our No.1 sport because everyone watches the Melbourne Cup each year.
Finally, if rugby is so good, why don't the networks pay a fortune when the media rights become available? They don't, because it's not. Check out a Foxtel ratings guide, and you will find no rugby among its top 10 programs. It's all NRL and AFL games.
Look at the internet. During the footy season the biggest rugby website would be lucky to have one-fifth the audience as the biggest AFL site, or one-third the league audience.
Rugby fans in New Zealand care. In South Africa they care. In Australia, they just don't. Rugby is the fourth banana behind AFL, NRL and soccer/football (whatever you want to call it).
And before you call me un-Australian for slagging the Wallabies, lemme just say it did bother me a little that the English won, so much so I shagged a lovely Pommie gal Saturday night.
As the moment of consummation rolled toward us, I whispered in her rose pink ear - "this is for Gregan".
Thankfully there wasn't a ref around to blow it up.
spot on.:thumbsup

[IrnBruMan]

kel's post was excellent, I agree 100%

[pecks]

Hmm. Rugby has actually grown on me during this World Cup.

I tend to enjoy seeing the kicking battles now, and see it for the technical game it is.

I do agree though that all the stoppages make it less a spectacle and that all the penalty kicks at goal is a blight on the game. This isn't a sour grapes thing too, I'd be saying the same thing if we had El Masri in our side potting them over from anywhere on the field.

One thing I've noticed is that we are not the only country that doesn't know many of the rules to the game. It's the same in England, and France, and probably many other countries too. It also makes it hard when different referee's have different interpretations of the rules.

I still think theres more skill on display in league, well more pleasing to the eye skill at least (backline running, etc). This is probably due to the fact that the backs in league see the ball way more than they do in union, that and the fact that theres more gaps because theres only 13 players on each team as opposed to 15 in union.

One thing I will disagree with kel about is that noone listens to norah Jones mate. Noone.:yep

[IrnBruMan]

Rugby is better to play than to watch

League is just as good to play as it is to watch

IYKWIM

[pecks]

IYKWIMY

[The Jackal]

Penalties interrupted by Qantas ads
Rugby is a wank; I didn't shed a tear for the Wallabies Saturday night, in fact I cheered on their demise because hopefully it'll lead to the rest of the country waking up to what a boring, over-complicated joke professional union is - penalties interrupted by Qantas ads.
Call me a hater, but I played union for five years at a private boys high school, I understand the fundamentals of the game (and the type of bloke who supports it) and appreciate the spectacle when it's done in a free-flowing manner - the problem is it seldom reaches that level.
Now, I'm so tired of hearing about the Wallabies, of how much the nation is behind them, how the Rugby World Cup is the third biggest global sporting event after the Olympics and soccer World Cup.
Fact is, rugby is a crap sport and no one in Australia really cares about it (people in NSW and Queensland might be interested, but they don't care - massive difference. As for Victoria, SA, WA and Tassie ... well they are hardly going to lose any sleep). It's an aspirational private schoolboy wankfest.
I've been to sporting events all over the world and nothing is as passionless as a Wallaby Test at Telstra Stadium. I went to a Bledisloe Cup game there and you could hear a pin drop (except for the All Black fans). The much-maligned Swans supporters generate 25 times the noise and atmosphere as Wallaby spectators.
No Wallaby fan goes home to kick the dog after a loss. No mood is altered. No one gets obliterated to drown their sorrows. There are no fights. Everyone drives home safely in their 4WDs and listens to the Best of Burt Bacharach or Norah Jones ...
Part of the reason for the fans' lack of passion is they aren't really sure what happened, and why? If rugby is so good how come they always change the farking rules? If you're looking for a red flag that a game is fatally flawed, note how often its administrators change the fundamental ways the game is played.
I mean really, you've had a century or so to work it out guys, yet every couple of seasons fans and players have to digest a raft of ridiculously technical rules like the new Experimental Law Variations in the Australian Rugby Championship. (Go on, click on that link and take a look - see if you can understand 'em).
I can't tell you how many times I've been in a pub and there's been a penalty in a Super 14 game and you ask a hardcore fan "what was that for?" and they say "not sure".
The problem with the rules is they make it easy for poor teams to spoil a game. A friend of mine who is a professional rugby coach says he's seen it happen too often where the lesser side will
slow a game down with infractions in the scrum, rucks or mauls and the better side will be blown out of the game by the referee.
That doesn't happen in the NRL; nine times out of 10, the better team on the day will win because there's nowhere to hide - unlike rugby where you can sneak around in a fog of horseshit technicalities.
Then there's the bizarre additions to the game like lifting in line-outs. I mean whatever happened to actually jumping? You might as well take a dwarf out there and toss 'em in the air to catch the footy.
Pick any round during the regular season of rugby league or AFL and you'll see three or four games that easily match the skill levels and excitement of those one or two games in an entire Super 14 season that rugby union aficionados rubber stamp 'a classic'.
Your average game of professional rugby union is criminally disjointed by penalties, brainless boots for touch when outside backs are screaming for the ball, with the result determined by kicks for goal; it's forcings back for millionaires.
If a NRL premier league backline put down as much ball as the Wallabies did on Saturday night, there'd be five or six blokes on the blower to Coles looking for gigs shifting cartons of soup to aisle 12, yet you can't shut up union fans crapping on about the "incredible skills" of their game.
Some of the backs who play union are no doubt gifted, but they never see the ball, every promising movement derailed by a pointless "tactical" kick for touch; Lote Tuqiri might as well have set up a card table on the wing and sold shots of Pernod he had so little to do.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I saw some statistics on the weekend that said, on average, the ball is in play less than 40 per cent of the time in rugby union - and Aussies have the gall to criticise American NFL for its stoppages.
Then there's the fitness of the players: If Matt Dunning is what rugby union considers a world-class athlete (compare him to league props like Steve Price, Roy Asotasi, Luke Bailey or Petero Civoniceva), get me a bucket of KFC and slab of VB - I better start training for the 2011 World Cup.
Which brings me to my next point: If rugby is so good, how come they constantly poach league players? The answer is publicity. How else would they get page upon page in The Daily Telegraph if it wasn't for Rogers-Sailor-Tuqiri-Tahu et al. Adam Ashley-Cooper and Stephen Hoiles just don't sell papers.
People talk about the tradition of rugby, but that's crap. Twenty years ago you could fire a gun at rugby Tests in Australia and hit four former Joey's boys on a bucks night.
Rugby also has no statistics. Stats are an indication of level of interest, or analysis in a game. No Wallaby fan would know if George Smith makes two tackles or 22 tackles a match.
It's often quoted that Aussies are passionate about rugby because the '03 World Cup final in Sydney was one of the highest-rating shows in Australian history. But it was about beating the smart-arsed Poms. That it was rugby is irrelevant. Aussies are passionate about the Hillsong Church too, you know. It's like saying horseracing is our No.1 sport because everyone watches the Melbourne Cup each year.
Finally, if rugby is so good, why don't the networks pay a fortune when the media rights become available? They don't, because it's not. Check out a Foxtel ratings guide, and you will find no rugby among its top 10 programs. It's all NRL and AFL games.
Look at the internet. During the footy season the biggest rugby website would be lucky to have one-fifth the audience as the biggest AFL site, or one-third the league audience.
Rugby fans in New Zealand care. In South Africa they care. In Australia, they just don't. Rugby is the fourth banana behind AFL, NRL and soccer/football (whatever you want to call it).
And before you call me un-Australian for slagging the Wallabies, lemme just say it did bother me a little that the English won, so much so I shagged a lovely Pommie gal Saturday night.
As the moment of consummation rolled toward us, I whispered in her rose pink ear - "this is for Gregan".
Thankfully there wasn't a ref around to blow it up.
In all fairness Beave, was she a good root?

[IrnBruMan]

Y

I think league is just as good a spectator sport as it is to participate in, but rugby is boring as fuck to spectators if it's a non-eventful game, but at least the players are still getting a workout.

Fuck, Kessler looks like some fag from Linkin Park in your avatar :lol:

[TBooze]

Rugby is better to play than to watch

League is just as good to play as it is to watch

IYKWIM

League is a lot slimpler thus a half wit can enjoy it a bit more. But to play Union you have to have an edge, what is Rugby without rucking, mauling and proper scrummaging? League like ice skating is an art not a sport the only think you need is speed, you do not even tackle properly.

[pecks]

I think league is just as good a spectator sport as it is to participate in, but rugby is boring as fuck to spectators if it's a non-eventful game, but at least the players are still getting a workout.

Fuck, Kessler looks like some fag from Linkin Park in your avatar :lol:
Y = Yes. :D

I do agree a bit, though union has grown on me a bit. I now prefer seeing the end to end kicking duels, etc. But I'd still like to see the backs come into play more. I also prefer the forwards role in league too.

Yeah, he looks pretty nerdy. Hard to think that someone looking like that is on the verge on breaking into the top 10 p4p.

[IrnBruMan]

League is a lot slimpler thus a half wit can enjoy it a bit more. But to play Union you have to have an edge, what is Rugby without rucking, mauling and proper scrummaging? League like ice skating is an art not a sport the only think you need is speed, you do not even tackle properly.

Are you talking to me? Because I don't recall rattling your cage.

I've played both codes extensively and I voiced my opinion based on that experience and being a spectator of both for many years. League players don't tackle 'properly'? :lol: Lordy days :rofl League players tackle to stop the man, not just to bring him to the ground and then try to steal the ball from him.

A halfwit = someone who uses the word 'simpler' but can't spell it properly, not someone who can understand rugby league :hat

[jameswilson]

4yrs UNI at Bath hey :think = Fuck all knowledge about Rugby league :yep

2 degrees in that 4 years as well.

Yeah dont forget that first off England isnt a rugby league nation at all (its only really played in the North) and 2 Bath is one of the biggest Union cities in England.

Iv seen some of the guys in here quote their bench presses and they arent alone. When I started at Uni I was 14stone which is just under 90Kg, and in that year I was benching 90Kgs for 4 sets of 6, I never did 1 rep maxes that year but you get the idea, I was only just benching more than body weight. Now Im a little bit lighter and bench 115 as my 1 rep max. When I see guys benching nearly twice their body weight, when they are fucking huge as it is its pretty sick. On another note tho I wouldnt wanna be like a few of these steroid freaks I see in the gym, Iv seen one guy who is literally like a blob, hes about 5ft10 tall, and 5ft10 wide as well, and he was benching like 200k for sets of 10 which was absurd because the bar was bending over him. Id say its far better to be strong but have some fitness to you as well, and I think guys like Sheridan and Matt Stevens who are big strong heavy guys, but get about the pitch too show this. Also I think you'll shag a lot more birds as well if your not one of these blobs who bench 500Kg.

[kel]

In all fairness Beave, was she a good root?

G'day Jackal how's tricks champ?

Mate u know better than most i've been drilling that pommy cunt for over 4yrs...... So my answer to the above is absolutely.

[TBooze]

Are you talking to me? Because I don't recall rattling your cage.

I've played both codes extensively and I voiced my opinion based on that experience and being a spectator of both for many years. League players don't tackle 'properly'? :lol: Lordy days :rofl League players tackle to stop the man, not just to bring him to the ground and then try to steal the ball from him.

A halfwit = someone who uses the word 'simpler' but can't spell it properly, not someone who can understand rugby league :hat

;) Actually I was generalizing, I think the simplicity of League does attract fans, a lot of people I know do not know the rules of Union, and indeed there is plenty of grey areas. League went the route of everything being black and white... I find it not very enjoyable myself, and it still struggles to take off as a sport outside of Australia, New Zealand and Northern England, but it does have an appeal to some without doubt...