Cpl Carrot Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 (Quick NZ question....) A lot of the Sauv Blanc bottles sold over here is advertised as "Malborough" and also bears the label "Montana", even though the brands appear different. I'm guessing the former is the region? The latter is the company? Fill me in? Correct. (filler) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonS Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I just had the most amazing Thai red chicken curry down at Boat Quay. A smokey smell, and spicey hot but not burny hot. Outstanding. Recomended. Also; we get the RWC for four more years. Yay, (I thought the last ten minutes was absoutely fascinating, although I can easily see how it might be considered boring.( 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Cheap shot? McCaw coming across the top & the #10 lifts his head into the way - it was accidental - get over it!! You obliviously missed the knee into the AB #8's head that wasn't actually in a ruck at all - but never mind - 4 MORE YEARS!! Wipu is a fill in kicker & IMO the last 2 games showed that - he stepped up when needed, but the management made a mistake giving him the duty at the start. The first line in hte local press is fair I think: The All Blacks are hailed as worthy World Cup champions, but the world rugby media also heaps praise on France. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Love to know what the odds were on Woodcock being the first try scorer. And if anyone had taken the bet! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Interesting story (written prior to last night) about some of the refereeing inconsistency in the game Rugby World Cup a lottery amid refereeing chaos. Clairvoyant given some of the decisions last night. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Woodcock was $40 for a try, and $100 for the first try!! As for the reffing - Bollocks - as everyone told us 4 years ago, and as we learned to do - get over it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Woodcock was $40 for a try, and $100 for the first try!! As for the reffing - Bollocks - as everyone told us 4 years ago, and as we learned to do - get over it! The article is more about things like referees penalising the same thing (scrum wheels) in opposite ways and the overall poor management of the actual game by the IRB, as opposed to their attention to detail on the $$$ making aspects of the sport. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce90 Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 It's better than it used to be. Wasn't there a famous occasion during, I believe the 1959 Lions tour to New Zealand, when the All Black scrum half asked the referee Pat Murphy, a New Zealander, " Whos put in for the scrum ref ?" " Ours" said Mr. Murphy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalins Organ Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Yes the refs used to be completely biased - South Africa had an apalling reputaion, and I believe there's a chapter in a book about the 1905 AB's tour of the UK where they note that the ref's walked the field in 3 piece suits and walking shoes, couldn't keep up, and blew penalties to slow the game down - our problems with Nth Hemisphere refs have a long history!! I watched 2 replays of the game yesterday, using slo-mo on a digital recorder, and in each case the close up shots of the front rowers who were penalised clearly showed the offender as being the 1st to buckle. The only obviously dodgy call all match was a lineout throw in the 1st half that probably wasn't straight - but that's the Assistant referee's call, and possibly it didn't deviate until it was past the lineout and low to the ground (jsut by way of excuses ). The French complained that time was taken to get Cruden off the park but not when 1 of their forwards was down - which ignores that Cruden's injury was exactly where a scrum was going to have to be taken, while the French forward was half a field away from the lineout that the ref told them to get on with. Also time went off when the French #10 went off even though he was nowhere near play. the French also complained that they had all the pressure on the AB's, but didn't get the penalties that they "deserved" - but you don't get penalties for applying pressure - you get penalties for the other guys screwing up, and if they don't screw up then you don't get any penalties, and there were simply no obvious penalties that were not given. There was nothing else on TV that was even remotely strange. What was noticeable was the number of tacklers who were obviously rolling away & players obviously letting go of the ball when they were off their feet (from both sides) although there were a couple of penalties each way for failing to do so. also I read somewhere that the AB's gave away exactly 1 penalty for hands/not rolling away in the semi final vs Australia - don't know what the Aus count was - maybe someone is actually teaching the top teams the rules & it is getting through?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce90 Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Yes the best referee on the All Blacks tour of 1905 was undoubtably Mr. Dallas of Scotland 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 And now the French have been fined for advancing on the Haka. The IRB seriously need to be locked in a sack and dropped into the Pacific. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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