Oracle of DelphiThere’s A New Sport In Town....Rugbilism
January 16th 2007 02:08
It’s Rugby meets Boxing.
A heavyweight match between the former and the current Keepers of the Key to Win.
In the Red corner....
the Coach of Poach,
The Man Who Emptied Our Cabinet,
MacQueen's Clown Successor,
The Current Coach of the Qld Reds.....Eddie ‘Mon’ Jonnnneessssss.
In the Green corner....
the Coach of Positive Approach,
the Man Who Is Taking The Cat Out of Catastrophe,
The Coach of the Always Great Because They Just Are And Don't You Dare Say A Word Againt Them Qantas Wallabies....John 'Knuckles' Connollyyyyyyyyy.
Get this, as a follow up from my last post....former friends Jones and Connolly are now trading verbal punches because of the Latham incident. (link provided)
Apparently Jones is pissed (technical term) at being questioned regarding Latham's injury and why he allowed him to play because hello?...rugby players are too fragile to be breathed on when not being battered and mauled on field.
Jones and Connolly were friends and coincidentally, have traded places as Coaches.
Connolly coached the Qld Reds '89-'99 and was awarded Super 12 Coach of the Year award in both 1998 and 1999.
Jones coached the Wallabies '01-'05...and I don't want to talk about what he did. The Wallabies got to Rugby World Cup Final '03 despite him.
Mostly because of Stephen Larkham.....sigh...
Ahem. Where was I?
from www.rugbyheaven.smh.com.au
And just for you non Rugby AFfiLiates but I still love you because you read my rugby posts, Jones also said;
This all stems from the fact that the (betr)A(y)RU has supported a clause that says Wallabies will not be allowed to play in the Super 14 matches in the lead up to World Cup... but that's another riposte...
Coming right up.
Much to my surprise and despair, I'm backing the Red corner
The Wallabies are being treated like Wallababies.....Jones is right. I really hate to admit it but the man has finally got something right.
Rugby is a contact sport, contact sports require contact, shit happens.
Get over it people. We have to get *Bill back and verbal rucking is not the way to train.
I'll leave you with the words of the King himself....Rod MacQueen...
Okay...maybe I'll leave you with this...I understand why Connolly is angry.
If it was Larkham instead of Latham...I'd still be in the Red corner...I'd be seeing it and there would be blood....
*Bill - The William Webb Ellis Cup; Rugby World Cup Trophy and what Stephen scratched his initials on...naughty, gorgeous, brilliant MAN that he is...
A heavyweight match between the former and the current Keepers of the Key to Win.
In the Red corner....
the Coach of Poach,
The Man Who Emptied Our Cabinet,
MacQueen's Clown Successor,
The Current Coach of the Qld Reds.....Eddie ‘Mon’ Jonnnneessssss.
In the Green corner....
the Coach of Positive Approach,
the Man Who Is Taking The Cat Out of Catastrophe,
The Coach of the Always Great Because They Just Are And Don't You Dare Say A Word Againt Them Qantas Wallabies....John 'Knuckles' Connollyyyyyyyyy.
Get this, as a follow up from my last post....former friends Jones and Connolly are now trading verbal punches because of the Latham incident. (link provided)
Apparently Jones is pissed (technical term) at being questioned regarding Latham's injury and why he allowed him to play because hello?...rugby players are too fragile to be breathed on when not being battered and mauled on field.
Jones and Connolly were friends and coincidentally, have traded places as Coaches.
Connolly coached the Qld Reds '89-'99 and was awarded Super 12 Coach of the Year award in both 1998 and 1999.
Jones coached the Wallabies '01-'05...and I don't want to talk about what he did. The Wallabies got to Rugby World Cup Final '03 despite him.
Mostly because of Stephen Larkham.....sigh...
Ahem. Where was I?
from www.rugbyheaven.smh.com.au
With the World Cup only nine months away, the biggest obstacle to the Wallabies mounting a serious challenge in France is the feud between former best mates Connolly and Jones.
Their relationship nosedived after Jones described Connolly's request for a report on Latham's injury as "demeaning" and "right out of line".
Veteran fullback Latham has had a knee reconstruction after being injured at Reds training during the week, putting one of the Wallabies' most potent strike weapons in severe doubt for the World Cup.
Connolly questioned why Latham had broken from his RTA program to participate in the Ballymore session, but Jones insisted no such agreement was in place.
Hopes the game's powerbrokers would be able to sort out their differences at a midweek meeting exploded when the pair stormed out after three minutes.
"I made the point I thought they were right out of line," Jones said.
"A player volunteered to train, he was unfortunately injured, and then there was a royal commission into training. It doesn't happen anywhere else."
Veteran fullback Latham has had a knee reconstruction after being injured at Reds training during the week, putting one of the Wallabies' most potent strike weapons in severe doubt for the World Cup.
Connolly questioned why Latham had broken from his RTA program to participate in the Ballymore session, but Jones insisted no such agreement was in place.
Hopes the game's powerbrokers would be able to sort out their differences at a midweek meeting exploded when the pair stormed out after three minutes.
"I made the point I thought they were right out of line," Jones said.
"A player volunteered to train, he was unfortunately injured, and then there was a royal commission into training. It doesn't happen anywhere else."
And just for you non Rugby AFfiLiates but I still love you because you read my rugby posts, Jones also said;
"I saw a Crows [AFL] player broke his cheekbone at training - it's part and parcel of pre-season training. Unfortunately, these things happen"
This all stems from the fact that the (betr)A(y)RU has supported a clause that says Wallabies will not be allowed to play in the Super 14 matches in the lead up to World Cup... but that's another riposte...
Coming right up.
Much to my surprise and despair, I'm backing the Red corner
The Wallabies are being treated like Wallababies.....Jones is right. I really hate to admit it but the man has finally got something right.
Rugby is a contact sport, contact sports require contact, shit happens.
Get over it people. We have to get *Bill back and verbal rucking is not the way to train.
I'll leave you with the words of the King himself....Rod MacQueen...
World Cup-winning coach Rod Macqueen said Jones and Connolly should bury the hatchet for the sake of Australian rugby.
"Looking from the outside, I would hope sanity prevails," Macqueen said. "It would be silly to say things are good, that's obviously not the case.
"It's got to be overcome and you would hope, in the best interests of the game, that people would start to talk."
"Looking from the outside, I would hope sanity prevails," Macqueen said. "It would be silly to say things are good, that's obviously not the case.
"It's got to be overcome and you would hope, in the best interests of the game, that people would start to talk."
Okay...maybe I'll leave you with this...I understand why Connolly is angry.
If it was Larkham instead of Latham...I'd still be in the Red corner...I'd be seeing it and there would be blood....
*Bill - The William Webb Ellis Cup; Rugby World Cup Trophy and what Stephen scratched his initials on...naughty, gorgeous, brilliant MAN that he is...
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Comment by Sisi
Comment by Andrea
V8 Supercar Pitstop
These things happen in sport.
Great post; informative, witty and not too many mentions of you-know-who ... the perfect combination.
Cara xx
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
Rugby players on average look like Goliath on a pumped day (even the slim lanky ones) and they have the strength and stamina to match the bulk.
eg. Gregan is a 'small' man but a mack truck couldn't push him over...he's compact and proportioned and powerful. Densely muscled so he looks sleek but you couldn't drill a hole in his bicep.
These guys (and gals) are built, trained and honed to last. The injuries they sustain are due to being tackled by 300kg (2-3 men) flying weight every minute of the 80 minute game.
My husband no longer plays rugby (he coaches) but if I practise a leaping tackle on him, I literally bounce!!
Boinggggg!
Sooo...this whole thing really pisses me off.
These are men not ice sculptures. Their profession requires them to test the full potential of their bodies.
The Wallabies already have to give so much up and yes, it is their choice, and they get paid handsomely for it but they are not allowed to do anything which may endanger their bodies.
It's like hello?...are they allowed to have sex?
Oh God.
Mind just haywire.
A visual just Stepped in to my mind...
Gotta go Sisi.
Thanks for coming by hon.
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
Well as KarenC said on the previous post, people can get hurt jostling for space on a dancefloor!
...and yes, not too many...three in fact...
I am so happy to see you Cara.
Dusk
Comment by Sisi
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
!!!!!
Comment by David my David
The way you write?
It's inspirational and influential. It's unique.
David ...
Comment by Norm
Consumption Malfunction
Equal and Opposite
Arses and Elbows
Footy Power
I'm definitely with you in that corner.
It all sounds a bit too personal to be professional.
Norm.
Comment by KarenC
Genghis Gal
Not much more I can add ... except that a young Hawthorn ruckman (Max Bailey) is out for the season because of a freak pre-season injury - a "training mishap" if you will (www.afl.com.au). Admittedly, he's no Chris Latham, but he's a big blow to their team, as they're down a ruckman because we managed to nab Spida from them. I don't hear them banging on about it - they know it's a contact sport.
I wouldn't mind giving Craig Bolton a groin injury ...
PS, thanks for my special mention(s)
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
What you write about the way I write?
It's humbling.
Thank you.
Dusk
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
It all just sounds a bit too sobsessional to be professional
Tis not Rugby.
Really good to see you buddy.
Dusk
Comment by David my David
This deserves repeating:
Inspirational. Influential. Unique. (Your writing style ...
Get used to it! ...
David ...
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
..and the opposite of Bolton is....(not going there)....
You know...all these groin injuries happen in the off season...hmmm....
I hope you are well Karen.
And....you know what?...I may actually take a Swan dive this year.
gasp
Dusk
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
This is all so embarrassing.
(yeah Dusk....sooo embarrassing that you're going to delete David's comment aren't you?
Because you're soooo modest you don't want anyone to see what an incredible lovely LOVELY compliment David has paid you... David, writer par excellence, without compare...go on...delete it...ha...thought so)
Thank you.
Dusk
Comment by KylieW
Celebrity Obsession
Great post. Lets face it, if these man mountains can be injured at a training session, it's obviously a freak accident. These players can take getting hit with a force equivalent to that of getting hit by a bus when onfield.
It's very unfortunate, but Connolly does need to get over it. It was Latham's decision to train.
Have a great day!
Kylie
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
Okay. I have to do this.
When Larkham gets injured then I blame everyone else.
Sigh....this is not a democracy...tis hypocrisy...
Great day tidings right back atcha Kylie.
Dusk
Comment by David my David
It's just lucky I guess that your crimson-flushed cheeks are hidden behind that Wallabies snot-rag. *
Although, I must say, on closer inspection, I think one of your eyebrows is blushing, and both eyelids. *
As to the compliments? I meant every word of them ... Your style? Unique, and influential ... I stole your style. I did it subconsciously. It wasn't a deliberate attempt at plagiarising your style, but ... My writing? It improved 200%. But, shsh. Don't tell anyone. I'd hate for one of your eyebrows to turn bright red. You'd look like a Henna head.
I was trying to think of some writers with unique and influential writing styles (and techniques) ... Joseph Heller comes readily to mind with his eighty-three word sentences followed by a three-word or two-word sentence.
It's a rarity.
There's plenty of excellent writers out there, but very few with such unique writing styles that they can influence the writing of others ... They'e once in a generation men and women, I reckon.
Pehaps Jack Kerou-WHACK OFF of the BEAT GEN (not D-Gen) ... I was actually considering asking you if you wanted to join my new genre (I'm already one of the pioneers of Method-Writing) ... but I think I'll go down in history as the first BEAT-OFF Generation writer ... Pure Wank & Multiple Toss Cliterature of the Jack Kerou-WHACK-OFF kind.
There's post modernism. Post Structuralism, and there's my Post - mid-life - crisis -male - menopausal - Destructionist - Cliterary Fiction ... and I reckon I'm going to self-style myself the first BEAT-OFF GEN Writer. No generation or gender-bending for me thanks. Just Straight mastubatory literary ejaculations, and word deposits on the opened pages of an erotic picture book. Down the spine..
Trouble is I guess? What to call a female member? They hardly toss off, unless it's helping a man out out of the pure goodness of their palms? * Taking my ex as an example (and what she used to get up to in her battery-operated spare time?) ...I'd probably go for Finger Talking Vibrationary Dildoistic Cliterature of the Interior Tickle kind, myself, me, I personally. It conjures up images of depth ... deep writing with plenty of work for the reader to do on the surface, or a superficial level, but it also contains within itself subtextual connotations and vibrations of the emenatory kind. All female members of the BEAT-OFF Gen. They'd have to make their literary deposits on Yellow Pages, I guess. Reading their 'stuff'? It's be a BUzZ!
And there you go. That's the influence I'm talking about ... I never used to write like this ... Better stop now ... And make this the subject of a post...
David ...
Comment by KarenC
Genghis Gal
Would love for you to take the Swans dive - how very exciting. There's always that spare ticket I mentioned ...
How about this for a winter plan:
You: 1 Swans adventure;
Me: 1 Brumbies adventure.
Maybe I could begin to understand that crazy game you love, and you could begin to understand the crazy game I love.
Yours in sport
Karen
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
2007
The year this Brumby duckling be-games a Swan?
The year you Swan dive on a Brumby....if it's Larkham... me first!!
Hope you are well honey.
Dusk