Rugby: eQUIPped to play (Classic Rugby Quotes)
January 19th 2008 23:00
Ahhh Rugby...what a game.
To play, one must not only be faster than a speeding Bull...more powerful than a loco opposition Forward....be able to leap tall locks in a single bound...look! up in the sky!...it's a plane, it's a bird...it's nothing. Look at the ground idiot. This is Rugby.
Where was I? right...one also needs to have a way with words. Equipped to play...
First up...from the mouth of a LeGGend...in happier times of course;
A very cutting comment from George Gregan, the then Australia Rugby Captain, near the end of their semi-final win over the All Blacks in the RWC '03, as New Zealand head for yet another defeat in the global tournament. In '07...it's 4 more years again.
From RWC '07 comes these wise(cracking) words...or words of wisdumb;
All Black's hooker Anton Oliver on the dressing-room mood after defeat to France in the Rugby World Cup.
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Argentina second row Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe on a potential match-up against the All Blacks (in hindsight, beating them wasn't so hard).
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Nick Easter after England silenced the doubters with their quarter-final win over Australia.
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And now the Classics;
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An anonymous fax to the New Zealand rugby team in 1995 before they went out to play England - a game in which Kiwi Jonah Lomu became a rugby legend.
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Sir Tasker Watkins dryly summed up the game in 1979.
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quotes taken from The Daily Telegraph
images courtesy of NZ City and ABC
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To play, one must not only be faster than a speeding Bull...more powerful than a loco opposition Forward....be able to leap tall locks in a single bound...look! up in the sky!...it's a plane, it's a bird...it's nothing. Look at the ground idiot. This is Rugby.
Where was I? right...one also needs to have a way with words. Equipped to play...
First up...from the mouth of a LeGGend...in happier times of course;
Four more years, boys.
A very cutting comment from George Gregan, the then Australia Rugby Captain, near the end of their semi-final win over the All Blacks in the RWC '03, as New Zealand head for yet another defeat in the global tournament. In '07...it's 4 more years again.
From RWC '07 comes these wise(cracking) words...or words of wisdumb;
Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.
All Black's hooker Anton Oliver on the dressing-room mood after defeat to France in the Rugby World Cup.
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It doesn't matter whether it's cricket, rugby union, rugby league - we all hate England. It's time to get square and knock them off in Marseille."
ARU chief executive John O'Neill gave England their motivational boost to defeat Australia in the World Cup quarter final.
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Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.
South Africa captain John Smit addresses his players as Fiji draw level in the Rugby World Cup and threaten another World Cup quarter-final exit. It worked...they won the RWC '07.
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You blindfold yourself and spin around for 10 times and then open your eyes and try to chase it down.
Canada coach Ric Suggitt on preparing to play against Fiji's expansive attacking style. ******
If we have to play against New Zealand, I'll explain it like this. To win, their 15 players have to have a diarrhoea and we will have to put snipers around the field shooting at them and then we have to play the best match of our lives.
Argentina second row Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe on a potential match-up against the All Blacks (in hindsight, beating them wasn't so hard).
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I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom
. Nick Easter after England silenced the doubters with their quarter-final win over Australia.
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And now the Classics;
No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.
J.P.R. Williams in 1984 on Wales losing 28-9 against Australia. ******
We've lost seven of our last eight matches. Only team that we've beaten was Western Samoa. Good job we didn't play the whole of Samoa.
Welsh rugby star Gareth Davies in 1989. ******
Remember that rugby is a team game; all 14 of you make sure you pass the ball to Jonah.
An anonymous fax to the New Zealand rugby team in 1995 before they went out to play England - a game in which Kiwi Jonah Lomu became a rugby legend.
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In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why
. Sir Tasker Watkins dryly summed up the game in 1979.
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Grandmother or tails, sir?
To Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips, Gordonstoun School's rugby captain, for his pre-match coin-toss preference from an anonymous rugby referee in 1995.******
quotes taken from The Daily Telegraph
images courtesy of NZ City and ABC
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Please Note:
The Comments Section has been disabled as I am currently unable to respond to any comment/s left. My apologies for the inconvenience but if I wanted your opi...I'm kidding! I'm kidding.
According to Blog Ettiquette for Dummies (B.E.D)...not responding to comments left is 'What Not To Do' #1 (Chapter 3: How To Win Friends and Lose Your Mind).
So I made my bed using hospitable corners...
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