Cricket World Cup

[lambeater]

What a great day for New Zealand cricket, just beat South Africa by 49 runs!!! Now bring on the Rugby world cup! [big grin] [big grin] [big grin]

Lambeater.

 

[Frank Pellow]

My congrats to them.  

I've sort of been following the competition.  Canada didn't so well, but, at least we won a game.

I, too, like tha All Blacks in rugby.  About 30 years ago, I saw them play against Wales in Cardif Arms Park.  What a great experience!

 

[Eli]

 

[Frank Pellow]

Eli, there appears to be something wrong with that link.

 

[lambeater]

No replies from our South African buddies? Must still be sleeping off their sorrows! ;D ;D

Lambeater

 

[Guy Ashley]

I was going to jibe in about the All Blacks not being that good anymore but as the Irish played us off the park in the Six Nations I decided against it as Alan M would just take the rip mercilessly!! [sad]

 

[Chrisem]

I was going to jibe in about the All Blacks not being that good anymore

There was a time when the All Blacks were real men, as when Frank saw them in Cardif. They even won a World Cup. Then they became professional, and have never won a World Cup.
Now they're just overpaid metrosexual gym junkies.
Just my opinion, of course.

 

[Eli]

Sorry, tapatalk+links= crap

Google: YouTube Australian haka

 

[lambeater]

Good to see a fellow Waikato supporter here. Yep gotta agree rugby's just not the same. I also remember going to waikato matches and watching them Roll over the British lions on tour. Then there were the Riots when Waikato played South Africa (in the aparteid era) When the stadium was flour bombed by the small plane. Yep them was the days of real rugby. 

I was going to jibe in about the All Blacks not being that good anymore

There was a time when the All Blacks were real men, as when Frank saw them in Cardif. They even won a World Cup. Then they became professional, and have never won a World Cup.
Now they're just overpaid metrosexual gym junkies.
Just my opinion, of course.

 

[Chrisem]

Ah yes, those were the days, lameater, that brings back memories. If I recall correctly, it was Eden Park that was flour bombed, and they sprinkled broken glass onto the Waikato pitch. Or maybe it was the other way around?
I remember going to a Waikato/France match when I was a school boy and watching two French guys take on a Waikato player called Bambam. They came off second best. France lost of course.

 

[Eli]

Lomu was a badass tho. Is that who you're calling a metrosexual? I watched him leap over a standing man's head while carrying the ball.

 

[Chrisem]

No I wouldn't call Lomu a metrosexual, certainly not to his face. Shame he got injured and never made it back, he was great to watch.
There was a guy who wore mascara when he played, and another who cried when he got whacked over the head in the pub with a handbag...and another who changes his hair colour as though it's going out of fashion...

 

[lambeater]

Guess I was wrong on the flour bombing in hamilton they only got the plane buzz.
Did grow up with Grant Fox when I lived in Putaruru. Even played rugby with Buck Shelford in the Navy before he went on the Cavaliers tour to South Africa.
Lambeater.

Ah yes, those were the days, lameater, that brings back memories. If I recall correctly, it was Eden Park that was flour bombed, and they sprinkled broken glass onto the Waikato pitch. Or maybe it was the other way around?
I remember going to a Waikato/France match when I was a school boy and watching two French guys take on a Waikato player called Bambam. They came off second best. France lost of course.

 

[lambeater]

It wasn' just anyones head it was an Englishmans while the All blacks demolished England in the Rugby world cup! I think that was the same game that Zin Zan Brooke drop kicked a goal from half way?
Lambeater

Lomu was a badass tho. Is that who you're calling a metrosexual? I watched him leap over a standing man's head while carrying the ball.

 

[Mavrik]

Alas ... the All Blacks can be the best rugby nation in the world and fail to win a rugby world cup.
And ... the South Africans can be the best cricketing nation in the world and fail to win a world cup.

BMT failure ...

I do hope that Tiger makes a comeback though.
Hell ... I'm still hoping for a Schumacher comeback ...

 

[Eli]

Was talking to a kiwi the other day said the funniest thing,"Once we were warriors, now we are scaffolders"

 

[Chrisem]

Lambeater, you played with Buck?! You famous, man!

 

[lambeater]

And Foxy although it was school boy stuff. Buck also had a brother called Dean who was just as good but never really wanted his rugby to be as serious. Also if I recall during the sports/ political protests wasn't the Ring leaders name John Minto. Still miss NZ though. Sure was good times driving to the Mount to go swimming then stopping off at Mc Claren falls on the wayback to jump off the bridge above the old power station. Don't think I could do that now though
Lambeater

Lambeater, you played with Buck?! You famous, man!

 

[Chrisem]

Was talking to a kiwi the other day said the funniest thing,"Once we were warriors, now we are scaffolders"

Eli, are you a scaffolder? Just noticed your avatar, is that you hanging off those rope things?

 

[Chrisem]

Wasn't too keen on Foxy, I thought he kicked the ball into touch too much and slowed the game down. Yeah Minto is still around. Unfortunately he was allowed to breed, and now his son is carrying on his fathers tradition of stirrer for hire. I wasn't too keen on that Springbok tour, but after the behavior of those protesters, I ended up more against the protesters than the tour.
We used to spend Christmas at the Mount when I was a lad. 3 weeks at Andersons Motor Camp. Haven't been there for years, it's like a mini Gold Coast now with high rises along the beach front.
How long has it been since you left the mighty Waikato?