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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: kyp14 on September 28, 2003, 01:24:35 pm

Title: Rugby World Cup
Post by: kyp14 on September 28, 2003, 01:24:35 pm: Hey everyone the Rugby World Cup is coming up who do you think is going to win, Naturally being a Aussie I want Australia to win but the way we\'ve been playing the trouble with George Greigan and the loss of John Eels as captain i\'m not sure we can.

Anyway who are you going for and what do you think there chances are
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Post by: Xalthar on September 28, 2003, 01:27:40 pm: heh, I didn\'t know there was a rugby championship coming up.. But I\'ve always thought of Australia to be good at the game, so I\'m backing you up kyp14, even though you say your chances aren\'t that good... :)
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Post by: Xordan on September 28, 2003, 01:29:51 pm: lol, they better than Wales. We used to be the best, but now we gotta really bad team. :( And England arn\'t much better, so no hope for me. ;(
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Post by: kyp14 on September 28, 2003, 01:39:12 pm: I think Australia will beat England and Wales if we\'re pitted agaisn\'t them but I\'m worried about South Africa and New Zealand, One of these teams is most likely the best in the world at the moment.

We could be beaten by the French (they might be seekin revenge when we beat them in the last World Cup in the Grand Final.... at least I think it was the French)

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Wales. We used to be the best, but now we gotta really bad team.

thats true although you do have some rather big guys in that team

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so I\'m backing you up kyp14

nothing like support for the Aussies
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Post by: Izzy*dot on September 28, 2003, 03:17:08 pm: I don\'t think Belgium has a team...But since my uncle is from the Down Under I\'m also backin up kyp14 and Aussie!! :D
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Post by: kyp14 on September 29, 2003, 05:06:44 am: Quote
I don\'t think Belgium has a team...But since my uncle is from the Down Under I\'m also backin up kyp14 and Aussie!!

Up the Aussies

I got a list of the teams competing from http://www.rugbyworldcup.com as follows:

Argentina
Australia (up the Aussies where hosting the world cup this year)
Canada
England (you never know the poms might have somthing up there sleves)
Fiji
France
Georgia
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Nambia
New Zealand (could be the best in the world)
Romania
Samoa
Scotland
South Africa (these guys play mean, no kidding)
Tonga
Uruguay
USA (lol I never new USA was in it, I can\'t imagine there team doing to good, to much NFL on the brain)
Wales (once apon a time they were the best )
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Post by: Wolfmane on September 29, 2003, 02:20:46 pm: Great idea with this thread Kyp14!

I\'m originally from South Africa (now live in Denmark that does not evfen have a real rugby team!).

So guess who has my support? 8) I think this thread is gonna be a hell of a nice place to visit in the next month ot two!

The All Blacks are always the dark horse that everyone has to watch. However, apart from them the 1999 WC winners Australia and 1995 WC winners South Africa are the favorites. Then of course the French, what can one say - when they are playing badly they are useless, but when they play well they are magicians on the field! The problem always is that they swing from brilliant till baseline all the time :P

So how about opening a betting system in here on the games and especially the finals? If we award anyone who registers x-amount of crystals to bet with we can see who scores the most in the end, crystals and honor that is.
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Post by: Xalthar on September 29, 2003, 09:57:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Wolfmane
I\'m originally from South Africa (now live in Denmark that does not evfen have a real rugby team!).

That\'s because we focus on the more \"europeanly popular\" sports... like soccer, or handball... :P
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Post by: kyp14 on September 30, 2003, 02:15:04 pm: Quote
That\'s because we focus on the more \"europeanly popular\" sports... like soccer, or handball...

heh heh all the sports we never play or try to ignore, all our good soccer players move to europe but then again thats where they came from.

I agree with you on the French Wolfmane there one weird team one minute there kicking everyone up the ass next minute there licking there wounds.

I\'d like to see one of the smaller teams from like Japan, USA, Samoa and Romania make a stand this year, to make some more vareity in the competition.

And Engalnd well I\'d like them to actually win one of the many sports they invent, they invent it Australia among others whoops there ass at it.

I\'d like to bet somthing to say Australias gonna be in the grand final but I don\'t have much, maybe two or three emralds would do. Anyone to oppose me.
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Post by: Silverx on October 02, 2003, 08:31:18 pm: We\'re not that bad at Rugby...we\'re now 6-4 second favourites behind New Zealand.

Not bad. :)
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Post by: kyp14 on October 04, 2003, 12:05:03 pm: Hey Silverx
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We\'re not that bad at Rugby...we\'re now 6-4 second favourites behind New Zealand.

Not Bad.

Where are you from England.....
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Post by: kyp14 on October 09, 2003, 06:13:53 am: On friday first match is Australia vs Argentina.
Then on Saturday its New Zealand vs Italy, Ireland vs Romania and France vs Fiji.

The competition is in four pools 1,2,3 and 4 the winner of I think 1&2 vs each other and the winner of 3&4 vs each other and then the winners of that go to the grand final.

and to know ones surprise Australia , France , South Africa and New Zealand the four bigshots have been seperated into all four pools, I reckon two of these teams will be in the Grand Final.

EDIT: there were 80 countries involved in the rugby world cup qualifying rounds so maybe denmark did have a team
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Post by: Davis on October 10, 2003, 03:06:18 am: I\'m from USA, I didn\'t even know we had a rugby team. In fact, I\'ve never even seen a game of rugby.
Then again, I don\'t particularly like any of the sports we have here either, but I don\'t think half the people I know have even heard of rugby.
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Post by: Isgrimnur on October 10, 2003, 11:41:41 pm: ENGLAND!! ENGLAND!! ENGLAND!!

Guess who I\'m for??

As for the Frogs (sorry, French) well why\'s everybody so bothered about them there good but we\'ve beat them quite a few times.

I think it will probably be between England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the French if they play well. Im already involved in my works sweepstake where I\'ve ended up with Romania and Uruguay so it looks like my money has been wasted :(
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Post by: Davis on October 11, 2003, 12:55:19 am: Your sig is from a book, right? Which one?
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Post by: Isgrimnur on October 12, 2003, 08:37:37 pm: As it says at the bottom Terry Pratchett\'s book Guards! Guards from the Discworld series of novels.
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Post by: kyp14 on October 14, 2003, 02:24:08 pm: woo hoo Australia won there first game

24 - 8 Australia won agaisnt Argentina
45 - 17 Ireland won against Romainia
67 - 14 Argentina won against Nambia
61 - 18 France beat Fiji ( one of the few matches I saw, it was funny they got into a punch up)
32-11 scotland beat Japan
72-6 South Africa beat Uraguay
84-6 England Beat Georgia
70-7 New Zealand beat Italy
41 - 10 wales beat Canada

I got all these results from http://www.rugbyworldcup.com you didn\'t expect me to remember them. I\'ve posted them so people who arn\'t interested in Rugby and are to lazy to go to the site can see the results and maybe become interested.
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Post by: Isgrimnur on November 22, 2003, 08:15:53 pm: HEHE I had to resurrect this thread!!

We are the Champions, We are the Champions

/me gets drunk and starts singing
SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT
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Post by: seperot on November 23, 2003, 12:19:17 am: **feels patrotic for the first time EVER**

**feeling fades away**

well that was fast :P
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Post by: kyp14 on November 25, 2003, 12:49:22 am: Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong
Under the shade of a Coolabah tree
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled
\"Who\'ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?\"

Down come a jumbuck to drink at the water hole
Up jumped a swagman and grabbed him in glee
And he sang as he stowed him away in his tucker bag
\"You\'ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me\'\".

Up rode the Squatter a riding his thoroughbred
Up rode the Trooper - one, two, three
\"Where\'s that jumbuck you\'ve got in your tucker bag?\",
\"You\'ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me\".

But the swagman he up and jumped in the water hole
Drowning himself by the Coolabah tree,
And his ghost may be heard as it sings in the Billabong,
\"Who\'ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?\"

Our pride will not be diminished
up the aussies
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Post by: Jaxan on November 26, 2003, 04:28:43 am: Aussies LOSE!!!!!!!!

I\'m not even English, but they\'d kicked in that game!!
w00t
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Post by: kyp14 on November 27, 2003, 10:50:14 am: they only just won in the last 24 secs of the second half of the over time
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Post by: seperot on November 27, 2003, 03:02:51 pm: it was a very very very close gam. just what you whould expect from a final
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Post by: Natrina on November 27, 2003, 03:17:55 pm: OMG! rugby? I never played that game.. (lol how could I?) But I dont like it, it\'s too strange and needs such a big field :P
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Post by: kyp14 on December 01, 2003, 01:30:00 am: imagine if it was a small field it would just be one giant maul the entire time
Title: Who won?
Post by: Kal Keraden on December 01, 2003, 05:50:34 am: Who won? I must know!

Go Australia!!!!! (My Birthplace: Sydney, Australia) Yeah! :D

I stopped playing. I got mauled to death last time.
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Post by: Antium on December 01, 2003, 06:00:56 am: Me? I don\'t really care much for Rugby. If I cheered for any team. It would be Australia.
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Post by: seperot on December 01, 2003, 10:26:08 am: England Won

^.^
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Post by: Antium on December 01, 2003, 04:37:54 pm: Oh well. Too bad for the Aussies. But then again, I don\'t care much.
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Post by: Kal Keraden on December 02, 2003, 03:29:39 am: Aww...they lost!
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Post by: kyp14 on December 02, 2003, 10:59:16 pm: stop it I feel like crying
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Post by: seperot on December 02, 2003, 11:49:31 pm: MUHAHAHAH WE WON WE WON

**dances around in a mocking fasion**