Weekend Finals

An insightful take on this weekends footy finals from Sporting Sport Opinions.
UPDATE; Very high suck-factor involved in the Sea Eagles win over the Broncos!
UPDATE II; This doesn't help.

Cheat?

So yes. I was a bit wild about the Wallabies vs Ireland game on Saturday night. Is it just me or is this whole tournament all about making an insignificant country with low self esteem feel better about itself? This same country that dominates world rankings until the World Cup rolls around every four years where it then makes an early exit. To some, (especially those in this particular country), this situation is an injustice because the tournament is judged in isolation and the victor gets to carry the tag of "World Champions" for the following four years. To which I say tough. Several years ago the IRB had the chance to award the hosting rights to an emerging nation. There were several contenders which would've promoted the game to a new and wider audience. However, in its wisdom, the governing body chose to go with a country that couldn't even co-host the event in 2003. So; host the event with all the home ground advantage that comes with it - check. Then make it as hard as possible for your fiercest rival to compete. Instruct those referring their games to make the complicated laws and interpretations even more inconsistent to manufacture results that make the road to the final even harder for the rival. I believe this is what we saw on Saturday night. I believe what we saw was cheating in progress before our very eyes. I believe this bloke is a cheat! Can you guess where he hails from?
UPDATE; Why couldn't have Tim Horan and the other Aussie commentators picked up on this earlier? Just getting a little sick of the "over" PC approach these guys are taking. Can you believe this douche bag ref even had the hide to ask one of the Wallabies if he's a doctor or a lawyer when explaining a controversial call. What a wonka!
UPDATE II; And this is why you don't award high profile events to third world countries, (or at least ones with third world attitudes!)

"...and a milkshake.... THICK!"

Time to wind the clock back a bit here to the late 1970’s. It was a balmy summer’s evening, just on dusk and Dad, Tracy and I were going to grab some diner from the local Hungry Jacks drive-through. Now this was a pretty big deal at the time because, unlike today, having fast food for a meal was a real treat – getting it from a drive through…. unheard of! Don’t get me wrong, we’ve had take away from Chicken Treat, Red Bull (real name of a franchise) and the Mexican Cantina before too. But Hungry Jacks; well, Hungry Jacks was always the bench mark; the flash place.

So we set off in the blue Toyota Corona station-wagon all excited about the adventure and planning out our order so we’d be ready when we got up to the “speaker-box”.

The real knack of the whole ordering experience at the drive-through was to know the menu and not get flustered. You’ve got to know your Whoopers from your Big Macs, your Yumbos from your Quarter Pounders. We ended up ordering a “couple of Double Decker Burgers and a Milkshake….thick!” There was quite a bit of a pause before we were waved through but we did end up getting a couple of drinks and meals (and glares) at the other end. Tracy and I suggested Dad needed a bit more practice, but we’d be happy to accompany him again.

What've We Been Watchn'?

Look, we haven't actually watched this movie but Elliot and I watched the review by Daniel Tosh and we're still not sure if this is an actual movie. Click the link and watch Daniel's "shorter" review. Looks like a classic either way.

What've We Been Watchn'?

This is the second part to a Spanish movie we watched on the World Movies Network. Basically there's an apartment building that gets completely sealed up by "the authorities" because of the tenants having gone ape-shit crazy and displaying rabbi-like symptoms. It's filmed in a "Blair Witch" style with an unsuspecting television crew getting accidentally caught up in the mayhem when they attend a fire with the fire brigade (whom they're supposed to be filming a doco on). Turns out that the problem all stems back to a possessed girl that secretly lived on the top floor of the buiIding. She truly has the negative Midas touch - everything she touches (or bites) turns to shite. Nothing ends well for any of the protagonists.
In this second installment we pick up the story with a medical/SWAT team going in to get a blood sample from the girl to develop an antidote. The residents are still wild and waste no time in attacking the team. After one attack the Doctor leading them reveals that he's actually a priest. He discloses that the patient zero was possessed by the devil and the Vatican sent him to save mankind. A good one to watch with company so you can pretend to be brave and laugh (nervously) through the scary bits.

What Not to Take to the World Cup

From Jim Tucker & Iain Payten of News Limited Newspapers;
Car parts top the list of contraband items at the Rugby World Cup
MORE than a million tickets have been sold to the World Cup extravaganza and the rugby police will be out in force at stadiums to ban anyone bearing a vuvuzela, skateboard, gang patches, flags with sticks longer than 80cm or...car parts.
That's right. Forget trying to bring a car bonnet or battery into Auckland's Eden Park. Don't try bringing in a cold burger from McDonald's either.
The list of prohibited items for the tournament's 12 stadia runs to 28 categories as tournament organisers try to maximise the enjoyment of fans.
World Cup organisers are obsessed by protecting their sponsors so ambush marketing is a big no-no.
In theory, if a group of 30 Wallabies fans all arrive at Sunday's clash against Italy at Auckland's North Harbour Stadium wearing a variety of gold jersies, inadvertently carrying Qantas logos, they could be asked to remove them as Emirates is the official Cup airline.
The tournament doesn't own the crowd so we don't think it will reach that silly stage.

Sometimes you just have to fall asleep under the coffee table...

Can you guess what happened to John...?

It Ain't No Stonehenge... but the Druids Have Moved In!

 

Did I say Druids...? I meant the Drewitts. New address on Peggy Close is open for business and looking good!

Sure there's a few sore muscles and a couple of bruises from the big day last Saturday...(curse you heavy slate pool table!), but kicking back and watching Locky's last round game on one of the new Sony Bravias was worth it.

Rugby World Cup 2011

So the tornement is just around the corner. Everyone agrees it's going to be massive. There's characters aplenty and none bigger than the Springboks coach Peter de Villiers.

The Fro Bro!

He nailed a 40m try after palming off their number 6 and out-running two of their fastest backs! Australia 25 - NZ 20. Now for the World Cup starting next week - can't wait!