Eight Becomes Four
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I wish there wasn’t a 3rd/4th playoff, what a waste of a game. You lose this week, you should go home.
I’d much prefer we had a bowl final for the teams who qualified 4/5 in each pool, playing off through to get one qualifying spot for the next WC (as 3rd place getters in the pool have already qualified).
Also means no Argentina, Scotland, Italy, or Fiji (which would make a nice plate semi final, I’ll admit).
Would have something fun to watch and should be a cracker - would likely be Georgia and Tonga in the bowl final, but maybe Uruguay or Samoa there too. I’d love to see that game, rather than some loser final.
@gt12 said in Eight Becomes Four:
I wish there wasn’t a 3rd/4th playoff, what a waste of a game. You lose this week, you should go home.
Rugby followed the football model as this game is still a money generator.
Cricket doesn't bother with 3rd/4th playoffs but most other team sports do.
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@Snowy said in Eight Becomes Four:
@Billy-Webb said in Eight Becomes Four:
Let me know in advance and I'll take you to a game
@voodoo Two ways to go there - a very rested liver, or a well trained one.
Don't let @Snowy scare you @voodoo . He more than held his own on his trip out here, and that was over multiple days at the Sevens.
Usque ad mortem bibendum
@Billy-Webb said in Eight Becomes Four:
@Snowy said in Eight Becomes Four:
@Billy-Webb said in Eight Becomes Four:
Let me know in advance and I'll take you to a game
@voodoo Two ways to go there - a very rested liver, or a well trained one.
Don't let @Snowy scare you. He more than held his own on his trip out here, and that was over multiple days at the Sevens.
Usque ad mortem bibendum
I got that, but my Latin isn’t good enough for “right back at ya”.
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@gt12 said in Eight Becomes Four:
I wish there wasn’t a 3rd/4th playoff, what a waste of a game. You lose this week, you should go home.
Rugby followed the football model as this game is still a money generator.
Cricket doesn't bother with 3rd/4th playoffs but most other team sports do.
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@Machpants said in Eight Becomes Four:
@voodoo Ah rhymes with blokes, easy to remember!
Yeah my tip for Afrikaans would be to speak English with a very heavy Scottish accent and you're most of the way there.
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@Machpants said in Eight Becomes Four:
@voodoo Ah rhymes with blokes, easy to remember!
Yeah my tip for Afrikaans would be to speak English with a very heavy Scottish accent and you're most of the way there.
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@Bones sprinkle “ja, nee, thank you, dankie”, “jou ma se poes”, bliksem, doos and “donderse ref” in liberally and Bob’s your mother’s brother.
@Smuts said in Eight Becomes Four:
@Bones sprinkle “ja, nee, thank you, dankie”, “jou ma se poes”, bliksem, doos and “donderse ref” in liberally and Bob’s your mother’s brother.
I know better than to utter the second one...
This one is worth knowing though....jy is 'n mooi meisie.
Try saying Ek verstann nie and not sounding like a drunk Glaswegian.
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@Smuts said in Eight Becomes Four:
@Bones sprinkle “ja, nee, thank you, dankie”, “jou ma se poes”, bliksem, doos and “donderse ref” in liberally and Bob’s your mother’s brother.
I know better than to utter the second one...
This one is worth knowing though....jy is 'n mooi meisie.
Try saying Ek verstann nie and not sounding like a drunk Glaswegian.
@Bones take it up a notch when you’re on the charm: “jy is lieflik” (you’re lovely) or if you’re feeling properly cheesy: “nee, dis onregsverdig om so pragtig in so snaaks te wees.” (No, it’s unfair to be so beautiful and so funny.)
Or: “Parys? Geen wonder jy’s so gesofistikeerd.” (Parys - a shithole, substitute Germiston, Poffadder, Tweebuffelsmeteenskotfointein or whichever armpit of the universe your jarpie lass is from - no wonder you’re so sophisticated)In my experience, This is about when her unreasonably large Rockspider boyfriend shows up squinting out from a brow showing an improbably prodigious depth of bone behind it. So you got to diffuse the situation:
“Luister kerel, Stephanie/Amor/Lizette het my nou net gevra of sy my die strand/Suid Afrikaanse sterre kin wys.” (Listen Oke, Annetjie/ Patrys/Hannelora just asked me if she could show me the beach/South African stars.)
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@Duluth said in Eight Becomes Four:
@voodoo said in Eight Becomes Four:
Almost an asterisk title if they get up
Just like 2007
and 1995
@dogmeat said in Eight Becomes Four:
@Duluth said in Eight Becomes Four:
@voodoo said in Eight Becomes Four:
Almost an asterisk title if they get up
Just like 2007
and 1995
The biggest asterisk in the history of rugby
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@dogmeat said in Eight Becomes Four:
@Duluth said in Eight Becomes Four:
@voodoo said in Eight Becomes Four:
Almost an asterisk title if they get up
Just like 2007
and 1995
The biggest asterisk in the history of rugby
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@ACT-Crusader close, as I said in the Aura watch thread, that’s 87.
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Hell this has been one loooooooong week. Can we have some bloomin' rugby already!
Sort of makes me think it would have been nice to have a plate competition running to fill the gap mid-week.
I have no idea whether that's a good or bad concept for anyone else, but at least i'd have something to watch and talk about. -
Hell this has been one loooooooong week. Can we have some bloomin' rugby already!
Sort of makes me think it would have been nice to have a plate competition running to fill the gap mid-week.
I have no idea whether that's a good or bad concept for anyone else, but at least i'd have something to watch and talk about.@Billy-Webb said in Eight Becomes Four:
Hell this has been one loooooooong week. Can we have some bloomin' rugby already!
Sort of makes me think it would have been nice to have a plate competition running to fill the gap mid-week.
I have no idea whether that's a good or bad concept for anyone else, but at least i'd have something to watch and talk about.I've loved the idea of a Plate competition since 1987.
It's more rugby for teams that generally don't get much test footy.
Be hard to get up for for teams like Argentina, Fiji, Scotland (even Italy ... But not in 2019) who had designs on the main draw, but still a worthwhile exercise IMO.
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Hell this has been one loooooooong week. Can we have some bloomin' rugby already!
Sort of makes me think it would have been nice to have a plate competition running to fill the gap mid-week.
I have no idea whether that's a good or bad concept for anyone else, but at least i'd have something to watch and talk about.@Billy-Webb said in Eight Becomes Four:
been one loooooooong week. Can we have some bloomin' rugby already!
Sort of makes me think it would have been nice to have a plate competition running to fill the gap mid-week.Loved pool weeks, weened off in finals week, then in 10 days, we will have no rugby...WTF!!
As an aside, a multi on England/Wales final is over $10 at TAB...less than $2 for a NZ/SA multi
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@Billy-Webb said in Eight Becomes Four:
been one loooooooong week. Can we have some bloomin' rugby already!
Sort of makes me think it would have been nice to have a plate competition running to fill the gap mid-week.Loved pool weeks, weened off in finals week, then in 10 days, we will have no rugby...WTF!!
As an aside, a multi on England/Wales final is over $10 at TAB...less than $2 for a NZ/SA multi
@taniwharugby don't you dare
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@Billy-Webb said in Eight Becomes Four:
been one loooooooong week. Can we have some bloomin' rugby already!
Sort of makes me think it would have been nice to have a plate competition running to fill the gap mid-week.Loved pool weeks, weened off in finals week, then in 10 days, we will have no rugby...WTF!!
As an aside, a multi on England/Wales final is over $10 at TAB...less than $2 for a NZ/SA multi
@taniwharugby said in Eight Becomes Four:
@Billy-Webb said in Eight Becomes Four:
been one loooooooong week. Can we have some bloomin' rugby already!
Sort of makes me think it would have been nice to have a plate competition running to fill the gap mid-week.Loved pool weeks, weened off in finals week, then in 10 days, we will have no rugby...WTF!!
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it's so fucked. i hate this time of year. All the footy is done with, cricket season is not in full swing.
weekend evenings are so barren
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it's so fucked. i hate this time of year. All the footy is done with, cricket season is not in full swing.
weekend evenings are so barren
@mariner4life said in Eight Becomes Four:
it's so fucked. i hate this time of year. All the footy is done with, cricket season is not in full swing.
weekend evenings are so barren
NFL.
Monday night, Tuesday night, Friday night + Sunday NCAA. Sweet.
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it's so fucked. i hate this time of year. All the footy is done with, cricket season is not in full swing.
weekend evenings are so barren
@mariner4life said in Eight Becomes Four:
it's so fucked. i hate this time of year. All the footy is done with, cricket season is not in full swing.
weekend evenings are so barren
At least you have cricket, I've got nothing until the Super comp starts again.
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@mariner4life said in Eight Becomes Four:
it's so fucked. i hate this time of year. All the footy is done with, cricket season is not in full swing.
weekend evenings are so barren
At least you have cricket, I've got nothing until the Super comp starts again.
@Nepia said in Eight Becomes Four:
@mariner4life said in Eight Becomes Four:
it's so fucked. i hate this time of year. All the footy is done with, cricket season is not in full swing.
weekend evenings are so barren
At least you have cricket, I've got nothing until the Super comp starts again.
Nba bro. Regular season is a bit shit these days but it's better than nothing.
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Problem with the US sports is they are on while I am at work
