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Australia defeated Argentina by close to 20 points  :D
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Hooray ! 8)

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Where's Bobo ?

Who'd be a Zimbabwean Bobo ?  ;D

Matthew Hayden (a Queensland boy) set a new Test Cricket Record for the highest score in Test Match history against them in Perth today - 380 runs  :D :D :D

Australia scored 6/735 declared in the process  :)
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I knew you'd be doing this sometime.

Hard luck to thems Zimbabweans. Great news for Australians and Hayden.

In other news, some people danced around on TV today to celebrate the beginning of the rugby world cup.

May the sporting begin.

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Oh yeah - see above !  The Aussies are pretty happy with that today too !  :D

PS  I was watching Hayden and thinking of this thread, just for you Bobo  :) :) :)

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Is there any difference between Aussie rugby and English rugby?
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Aussie rugby is much better...

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I saw some rugby matches when ABC's Wide World of Sports aired some a while back. I had never even heard of the town of Widnes until then. They must be the Green Bay Packers of England.

Is there any difference between Aussie rugby and English rugby?
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Hey Indy !

If you saw Widnes playing, in all likelihood you were watching Rugby League.

There are two types of Rugby, "League" and "Union".

I am not saying that Widnes DON'T have a Rugby Union team, but they are much better kinown for their Rugby League side.

It gets a bit confusing - on the face of it the two games are the same but there are some significant differences.

Union is played with 15 players, League 13 per side.

League is much more stop/start, whereas Union actively promotes itself (at least in Australia) as 'the running game'.

Also, if someone referes simply to "Rugby", tradition suggests they are referring to Rugby Union, rather than league.

It is Rugby Union that is currently being played as a World Cup Tournament in Australia at present (refer my posts above).

Hope some of that has made it all clear as mud  :P :P :P

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Well I've just come back from playing a game of football... was subbed 75 minutes through the game, but it sure was a good game for me considering I haven't been playing for prolonged periods...

Pretty happy with how it went, too, so not all is bad.
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"was subbed 75 minutes through the game" in recognition of your stirling contribution, without doubt, Bobo  ;)

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"was subbed 75 minutes through the game" in recognition of your stirling contribution, without doubt, Bobo  ;)
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Rugby World Cup


Australia  142  Namibia  Nil

That was a tad embarrasssing for all concerned  :-/
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Wasn't it just!

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Rugby World Cup


Australia  142  Namibia  Nil

That was a tad embarrasssing for all concerned  :-/
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Namibia isn't considered a rugby powerhouse, is it? ;)
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:D Not any more ! ;D

I was glad to see the USA win the other day, and Canada defeat Tonga tonight !

Well done to both !  ;)

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<walks in>

<looks around>

<leaves>
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Hey !  You know you don't belong here !  ;D

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Hey !  You know you don't belong here !  ;D
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Sez who? You gonna make me leave? :P

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Sez who? You gonna make me leave? :P
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Intruiging behaviour !  3 posts earlier I could swear you had  ??? :)

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Intruiging behaviour !  3 posts earlier I could swear you had  ??? :)
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Smarta$$! ::)

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...and Canada defeat Tonga tonight !
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...and this despite Tonga's "interesting" adoption of the new "boot to face" and "headbutt a few teeth out" tactics.

I'm looking forward to Ireland vs. Australia tomorrow morning (our time) FB. We've got Michael Lynagh here in the UK on the studio panel for the TV coverage. In the build up to this game they showed some old footage of punch ups between Ireland and Australia in 1990 and 1999. The first one involved about 20 players in a melee and the host said "...and I think we can see you involved here, Michael", at which point they freeze framed it and circled Michael wandering past about 20 yards away from the action with a quizzical look on his face!

Don't get me wrong, he's a gentleman of the game and an all time great, it was just so funny to see that look on his face.

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P.S. Why is this thread in the "Penguin Board Games" section?
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Dunno - you'll have to ask Fuss about that.

The Aussies scraped through to beat Ireland 17 - 16 tonight.  Whew!

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Dunno - you'll have to ask Fuss about that.

The Aussies scraped through to beat Ireland 17 - 16 tonight.  Whew!
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Hooray !  Take that Keith Woods, you assassin  ;D

We didn't want to play the French in the quarters either, much prefer Scotland !  ;D

Why is it here ?  Errr - it was actually originally a thread by Zella.  There is one called the worthless thread, where you could post about something that doesn't fit anywhere else...

As Zella is a sporting infidel, she saw fit to create a similar thread for sport !

It got lost - so I created another one !  :D

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Melbourne Cup tomorrow...... the horse race that stops Australia.
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I thought all of them did that. ;D ;)

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That's true.  We use any old excuse to have a bet and a celebration.  ;D

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Who's been following the Rugby World Cup?  I can't wait for the England-Wales match this Sunday.  It should be interesting
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Managed to watch a bit of the match.  We had the girls (me and daughter) cheering for England and the boys (hubby and son) cheering for Wales.  Though England won Dai is trying to claim a moral victory because they scored more tries than England.  ::)

Roll on next Sunday (which is also daughters birthday!)

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Managed to watch a bit of the match.  We had the girls (me and daughter) cheering for England and the boys (hubby and son) cheering for Wales.  Though England won Dai is trying to claim a moral victory because they scored more tries than England.  ::)

Roll on next Sunday (which is also daughters birthday!)
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karen, I really thought I was gonna see a boilover there ya know !  :)

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:D :D :D :D

Australia shrugged off it's underdog tag and stuffed it to the All Blacks from NZ in the semi-final tonight !  :D :D :D

They never knew what hit 'em !

This means we will play either England or France in the Final.

In one way I hope it's England, so Bobo and I can have a little argument about it !  ;D

In another way everyone here (including NZ) hope it's France and we flog them, as part revenge for them spending the last 3 decades in the South Pacific with their nice little nuclear bombs..... >:(

Idiots.
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PT is always a happy man as I remember jaytee  :)

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In one way I hope it's England, so Bobo and I can have a little argument about it !  ;D

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Well that's the wish that came true FBVP.  Didn't see all of the match but Johnny Wilkinson 24 -France 7 was a good result for us  ;)

Looking forward to the final

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2 thoughts :

I hate Jonny Wilkinson, but then again so does all Australia !  ;D


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What's wrong with Jonny Wilkinson? ???

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Indy,

The one main criticism or Rugby Union is that it is to easy to score points by kicking goals, thereby missing the main aim of the game, which is to score tries (your equivalent = touchdown) - i.e. - get the ball over the opponent's line.

The school of thought is that England rely too much on Wilkinson's kicking.

My specific comments were only based on the fact that he kicked a goal 23 seconds from the end of extra time to lose the World Cup for Australia.  :'( :'( :'(

So basically, it was sour grapes !  :D

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To celebrate the fact that snooker was finally on the TV again, I played snooker this morning against a friend of mine and scored... wait for it... a break of... one hundred... and... forty... six. Waaaah! >cry<

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Bobo

My best break ever was 28 and I thought I was hot stuff  ;D

Be proud man !  :)

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Bobo

My best break ever was 28 and I thought I was hot stuff  ;D

Be proud man !  :)
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I kept playing reds straight from the left hand corner of the table into the bottom right pocket and blacks into the bottom left. While all the time, my brother was going, "When are you goin' to be finished?!"

I had to take a final pink because I was out of position, though. Aw well...

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AC/DC Bobo !  Sink The Pink !  :D

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A few years ago in my previous department we ran our own fantasy soccer league.  I came second one year, won the following year and totally bombed the last year I did it.
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