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Craig HillWallabies v Italy: just scraped pasta the post...
November 12th 2006 02:21
Wallabies - 25
Tries: Rogers (why??), Shepherdson (yay Forward!), Mortlock
Conversions: Mortlock 2
Penalties: Mortlock 2
Italy - 18
Penalties: Pez 6
I watched this. Wish I hadn't. Didn't watch it in full. Kept channel hopping back to MaxTV, which had a great countdown happening...late 70s, 80s hits...forgot how cool Axel Rose used to be...forgot how super cool 'Rock Lobster' is....anyway....
Will amend, add and provide a better analysis when I'm no longer depressed.
Yes, I'm a sad case I know...okay...I know...I feel like someone took my favourite pair of vintage fuschia suede and leather kick ass boots and used them to go bushwalking...then washed them with a hose and left them in a corner, then...
What?
Never mind.
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Okay...I had written this in the wee hours of Sunday morning, post match, bleary-eyed and fortified by a choice drop of red, my love by my side...so thought I may have not paid proper attention to the game, in between Axel, Cyndi, Kenny Loggins et al...
So....Had recorded the game, watched it again, still doesn't make any sense to me as to how we won but have noticed a few other things. These are in green...to be sure, to be sure...modified 12/11 10:48pm AEDT
Yes, we won. Barely. Was not a victory.
I knew Loose Cannon would do a Russell Crowe (refer earlier post)
Told you Rogers can only think if the thinking is done for him. If it wasn't for Larkham (sigh) Rogers would be just a try-hard. It was Larkham's (sigh) brilliant 'ghosting' and pulling in of the Italian defence and lack of glory hogging that created this opportunity for Flat Rogers.
...and I am so damn right about how wrong it is to have him at #12 (inside centre)...Larkham (sigh) is not comfortable here.
He's still brilliant but it's like...um, using a Ferrari to tow a dinghy in a permanent school zone.
As much as I adore the man and feel that the game should be renamed Larkham Union...or at the very least, focus all cameras on him...even when he's not playing!...I digress...Larkham's timing is seriously off. He looks awkward, like he keeps forgetting he's not playing at fly-half.
I'm getting a bit tired of reading how the backline is all fired up and ready to explode...they do look like they've got indigestion at having to play in a mixed up fray.
I'm all for change, after all with rugby the number on your jersey is the position you're playing not your lifetime assignation... BUT there is something wrong with this mix. Either they haven't trained together enough or they all hate Flat Rogers tattoos.
As for the Forwards...I don't care what the flock of creep say (that would be the poppy harvesting media), they did well.
Rocky Elsom 'mongreled' well and he barely looked up at the screen to see if he was on.
I like Al Baxter...possibly because he reminds me just a little of *HRH John Eales
*Heavenly Rugby Highness
I stopped topping up my wine when I saw there were 2 balls on the field...rugby balls, you vulgarian you...but yes, there really were 2 balls on the field.
Look...the Italian jobs played with a lot of aggression, they had structured their games well and got to the breakdowns quickly, etc and yeah...the Ref hated them.
As for Ramiro Pez (italian flyhalf)...he kept slotting those penalty kicks like his namesake lolly toy...one after the other...oops, empty slot...oh, look there's more.
Shepherdson...what a Guy!
Love it when a front-rower shows them puny backs how it's done...it must have been all the gallery tours which inspired him. Guy is a major art buff. And a Brumby to boot.
Mortlock...well, he was pretty good....except for his post-match understatement; "Unfortunately tonight we were a little bit off our game..."
No s**t Sherlock...er...Mortlock.
Still kudos to the Captain for keeping his ship afloat.
Wycliff Palu (#8) should be be given a Medal of Valour. He saved the game.
Lote Tuqiri...dude...you're The Shark not The Lark...the Sin Bin is not a pleasure zone.
Do not talk to me about it's the win that counts. It's how the win was won that matters.
I'm going to go back to my moping now. I'm spent.
Tries: Rogers (why??), Shepherdson (yay Forward!), Mortlock
Conversions: Mortlock 2
Penalties: Mortlock 2
Italy - 18
Penalties: Pez 6
I watched this. Wish I hadn't. Didn't watch it in full. Kept channel hopping back to MaxTV, which had a great countdown happening...late 70s, 80s hits...forgot how cool Axel Rose used to be...forgot how super cool 'Rock Lobster' is....anyway....
Will amend, add and provide a better analysis when I'm no longer depressed.
Yes, I'm a sad case I know...okay...I know...I feel like someone took my favourite pair of vintage fuschia suede and leather kick ass boots and used them to go bushwalking...then washed them with a hose and left them in a corner, then...
What?
Never mind.
************************************************************************************************************************
Okay...I had written this in the wee hours of Sunday morning, post match, bleary-eyed and fortified by a choice drop of red, my love by my side...so thought I may have not paid proper attention to the game, in between Axel, Cyndi, Kenny Loggins et al...
So....Had recorded the game, watched it again, still doesn't make any sense to me as to how we won but have noticed a few other things. These are in green...to be sure, to be sure...modified 12/11 10:48pm AEDT
Yes, we won. Barely. Was not a victory.
I knew Loose Cannon would do a Russell Crowe (refer earlier post)
Told you Rogers can only think if the thinking is done for him. If it wasn't for Larkham (sigh) Rogers would be just a try-hard. It was Larkham's (sigh) brilliant 'ghosting' and pulling in of the Italian defence and lack of glory hogging that created this opportunity for Flat Rogers.
...and I am so damn right about how wrong it is to have him at #12 (inside centre)...Larkham (sigh) is not comfortable here.
He's still brilliant but it's like...um, using a Ferrari to tow a dinghy in a permanent school zone.
As much as I adore the man and feel that the game should be renamed Larkham Union...or at the very least, focus all cameras on him...even when he's not playing!...I digress...Larkham's timing is seriously off. He looks awkward, like he keeps forgetting he's not playing at fly-half.
I'm getting a bit tired of reading how the backline is all fired up and ready to explode...they do look like they've got indigestion at having to play in a mixed up fray.
I'm all for change, after all with rugby the number on your jersey is the position you're playing not your lifetime assignation... BUT there is something wrong with this mix. Either they haven't trained together enough or they all hate Flat Rogers tattoos.
As for the Forwards...I don't care what the flock of creep say (that would be the poppy harvesting media), they did well.
Rocky Elsom 'mongreled' well and he barely looked up at the screen to see if he was on.
I like Al Baxter...possibly because he reminds me just a little of *HRH John Eales
*Heavenly Rugby Highness
I stopped topping up my wine when I saw there were 2 balls on the field...rugby balls, you vulgarian you...but yes, there really were 2 balls on the field.
Look...the Italian jobs played with a lot of aggression, they had structured their games well and got to the breakdowns quickly, etc and yeah...the Ref hated them.
As for Ramiro Pez (italian flyhalf)...he kept slotting those penalty kicks like his namesake lolly toy...one after the other...oops, empty slot...oh, look there's more.
Shepherdson...what a Guy!
Love it when a front-rower shows them puny backs how it's done...it must have been all the gallery tours which inspired him. Guy is a major art buff. And a Brumby to boot.
Mortlock...well, he was pretty good....except for his post-match understatement; "Unfortunately tonight we were a little bit off our game..."
No s**t Sherlock...er...Mortlock.
Still kudos to the Captain for keeping his ship afloat.
Wycliff Palu (#8) should be be given a Medal of Valour. He saved the game.
Lote Tuqiri...dude...you're The Shark not The Lark...the Sin Bin is not a pleasure zone.
Do not talk to me about it's the win that counts. It's how the win was won that matters.
I'm going to go back to my moping now. I'm spent.
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Comment by David my David
If i keep reading your posts, which I intend to do, I don’t think it will be long before I have a rudimentary knowledge of the rules and positions of Ruby Union.
I have no idea what a flyhalf is.
Until you tell me, the only image I get in my mind is of a drunken rugby player on an overseas tour following a woman into the females toilets at a nightclub with his zip undone.
David my David …
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
I am honoured you made the journey...I came across you on my travels...thought I had taken a margic carpet ride through a sensory portal to a passionfruit orchard...so heady the scent of need...so heavy with the fruit of longing...so tangible the taste of desire...so voracious the insatiable appetite...mmmm...
I will come again.
...
If I may, I'd like to use/add your description of what a flyhalf is on a previous post explaining rugby positions... I should have called it The Scrum-a Sutra.
I will give you full accreditation of course. Once I stop laughing.
A 'flyhalf', otherwise known as -
the five-eighth: because he is the s-portal between the 8 forwards and the 5 (superfluous) backs. Yes it's a 15 person game and yes there is a scrumhalf but he/she is neither for nor back.
the playmaker: because this is the most influential position (influential not important...the Forwards are the important ones), makes all the key tactical decisions. Is usually the kicker. Sometimes get kicked. By the Forwards.
the pivot: because the game revolves around this position. Especially if pivot's name is Stephen Larkham. Then I'd like to revolve around that position...
the #10: jersey number of the position on field. Unless you're Stephen Larkham...then you're a perfect 10 all the time...
Hope this helps David my David.
Please let me know if I can help in any other way.
And please...do come again.
DuskDevi
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
Thus named because the full name of this position is flying half-back .
Flying because they need to be quick thinkers and swift runners and not because...contrary to *prop-ular belief...they're used as frisbees by the Forwards.
*prop - #1 and #3, toughest of the tough. Ate backs for breakfast before carb-free diets (Backs are too sugary)
Comment by JoshZ
I generally don't watch the rugby, but this little read was most certainly interesting. Thanks.
JZ
Comment by katyzzz
Photography Tips
MS Paint Art
On your home page, lookin' good!
katyzzz
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
Thank you for reading, glad you enjoyed it...I'm sure 'real' rugby writers would shudder reading my post-match analyses but I write as I talk as I see it.
Got 'First Casualty'...(thanks to your fantastic review link provided)...will let you know my experience.
Hope you are well, speak with you soon.
Dusk
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
As annoying as this may sound to those who get annoyed by the way I write...the HP pic is my personal form of Evolution on Orble...my Orblution...the unveiling, so to speak.
Thank you for visiting.
DuskDevi
Comment by katyzzz
Photography Tips
MS Paint Art
Well said and very amusing, I like the way you write it's just the subject matter. Probably that part of my brain is missing or else I've not had the privilege of the cultural exposure. I was pleased to see you 1/2 exposed though, as I've already said. Very pithy of me isn't it?
katyzzz I'll keep dusk in mind for some of my art.
Comment by JoshZ
I like the way you write. Probably because it is how you talk. Funnily enough, my own way of writing is very similar to how I talk.
Doing great, had all I could eat ribs tonight at a friend's birthday dinner.
Hope you enjoy the book.
JZ
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
Get this...I had ribs tonight as well!!!! I love ribs. Yum. All you can eat hunh? If I did that, you'd have to roll me me home!!
I got that about you, that you write how I think you speak...I'm sure I wrote that in a comment on your site...it's why you're so easy to read even though your reviews are quite unnerving in their intelligence!...whoops...just remembered, had promised to explain the classical music terms I used to describe the way you write...like an orchestra plays...you build it up and then gently bring it to a close...
If I don't do this tonight, I'll do it tomorrow. Happy to see you buddy.
Dusk
Comment by JoshZ
And the ribs were great. I showed the ability to stop myself from completely gorging. Very proud.
I hope it sounds like I speak, mainly because the kind of information we absorb best are things like poems and songs. So if I can nail a good metre and rhythm, hopefully it will work its way into the brain and make a difference.
Comment by JoshZ
I preffered the book to the movie or miniseries (Dune).
And I HATE the prequel work.
Here is a link the a webcomic that expresses it amazingly well.........
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/10/15
Hope to see you soon friend,
JZ
Comment by DuskDevi
Rugby World Cup 2007
I was just at your place...I read a few of your other blog posts...I am so right about the way you write I should be a Blogger Reviewer!..hmmm maybe... Anyway, point is...I love the way you write, so easy to read but never 'dumbed' down'.
Will be sure to leave comments on these.
Books, without fail, are always better than the movies...and I love movies.
Thank you for the link.
Will have a look at it asap.
Bye for now JZ
Dusk