Club Arnage

What a team of heroes. Sheer determination and bloody mindedness. We may have been the underdogs but  write us of at your peril.  ;D ;D ;D

Couldn't agree more Bob

That's better.  ;D ;D ;D


New world champion tomorrow will make it a brilliant wekend. 8)

Yep, we actually looked like we wanted to play today :)

Will hold my breath for tomorrow.

Today is becoming surreal


Bye bye Blacks

Come on you Scots

Wow what a couple of cracking games.
Waterloo part 2 next week.

Could someone please explain to a foreigner what the heck you're talking about?  ???

Rugby World Cup Lang


Skippy = Australia
Blacks = New Zealand
Scots = plucky inhabitants up north

For the first time ever I wanted France to win a rugby match.

Remember Agincourt ;D

Its a game called Rugby, an even more boring version of football but with more groping rather than kissing!

Boring? Bloody Boring? Philistine.

Rugby = A Thugs game played by Gentlemen.

Football = A Gents game played by thugs.

Could somebody wrap Mr Wilkinson up in cotton wool until the French game  ::)

I was lucky enought to have decided to go to the Walkabout (aussi pub) on temple yesterday. Wow what and atmosphere! People I phoned after the game had finished thought I was in the stadium!

I am thinking about driving to Paris next weekend to watch the game in a local bar.

Two beers please ;D ;D

The reaction here is one of amazement that between us (UK and France) we've managed to knock both the anipodean teams out (sorry, Doris.)  Much mutual congratulation in the bar yesterday!

Sorry Termie I just have to correct that post UK???? didn't you mean England? I am sure our Scots Welsh & Irish friends would have pointed that out ;D ;D
Will also be interesting to see what the atmosphere is like in the bars in France next week

Got there before I did Neal ::)

Bob Having spent 20 of my former years in that wonderful place caleed the front row, I like to pride myself on my spped off the mark :-\

Sorry, it's got to be a habit.  Usually I offend somebody by referring to them as English and they turn out to be Welsh or something. ::)

Edited for accuracy  :)

;D

No doubt Debs you are looking forward as much as I am to seeing our Gallic/Garlic cousins having their frog's legs torn off on saturday. Or will it be a case of the Jean Claudes burning the English lambs? It'll be a grand occasion anyhow.

PS For what it's worth that great big hairy French bloke who looks like a giant bad-tempered Jesus played a blinder. I wouldn't like to smell his breath, mind.

 ;D

MR Chabal to you and me I think. ;)

Did you see him when the All Blacks were doing the Haka?

He looked as though he was about to leap and rip their throats out with his teeth ;D

I liked this one
"Quote off the TV on Saturday night.......................

Brian Conley... "well the lottery jackpot is standing at 4.7 million quid, thats enough to buy every Australian in the world a box of tissues"

Seb Chabal :
http://ma-tvideo.france2.fr/video/iLyROoaftFYQ.html

allez les bleus.. nuff said!!

Last Saturday only.  :)

we wil see ;)

I think they call this Ettiquette

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Can I just say that Saturday was going just fine right up until a certain forward pass was missed by the referee.  Cest la Vie. That is how sport goes sometimes.  At the end of the day England beating the Aussies was enough to put a smile on my face.  I am now torn though.  Do I want England to beat the frogs and Argentina to beat the Boks setting up a final that is a rematch of the first game of the tournament, or do I want England to win?   ??? ??? ???

Dx

That very much depends on whether you want a lift to Stansted or not ;)

LOL!!!!

Oi!! Not so much of the frogs... england to win, you are having a laugh...

>Martini...

PS SEBRING to the lot of you!

Since last weekend condom sales in Australia have dropped dramatically. It has now been proven that to f**k fifteen Aussies you only need one Jonny.

Share holders in Alibi are also, understandably, very concerned.

Ah.  In that case...I want England to win.  ;D

Dx

Must agree with everybody I spoke to at Silverstone, England does suck at this game ;D

Looking forward to the semifinals, will be great to watch this weekend.

Bit dissapointed we have to miss the haka though :(

Well done England.
ade

Eat my shorts!!  ;D

F

(Sorry wont be seeing more of Chabal tho - will just have to see him when he is back in Sale   :P )

Allez Les Blancs!!  :D :D :D

You may have noticed that I have changed the title of this thread.


You BBBEEEEYYOOOOOOTEEEESS ;D ;D ;D

I will change it again this time next week. ;D ;D ;D

My mate got tickets to the final ages ago as part of a package ballot deal.

The f**k*ng spawny bastard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

England v the boks/argies

Bring it on. No one expected us to get this far (including me) anything can happen now...............

Come on England. having just woken up the wife & kids due to being out for the match and not watching till 12am  Come on ;D ;D

congrats my friends :)

Fantastic (though unbelievable).
What's going on
Cricket, F1, Football and now Rugby all seem to be coming together quite nicely.

Well done England. ;D ;D ;D ;D

The last 10 minutes were hard to watch, but it was so enthralling you coudn't tear your eyes from the telly.


What an evening, my local was rocking. 2 of our rugby crew got there at five to eight and couldn't get in, it was so full.

Woke up this morning at 4 o'clock on the sofa, am told I was rather 'over refreshed' when I left the Indian at midnight. ;D

I don't feel very well this morning, but very HAPPY.

I'm not really into sport involving balls but I did watch the last few minutes of it last night, well done to the boys....let's see who we get next...

Our local pub isn't very far away from us and the noise coming out of the place was unreal - it sounded like a good party  ;D

We are there, so who against is immeterial but I have my preferences:-

Gentleman's Game:-

Goucho's, we beat them in the Falklands!

Springboks, we beat them in the Boer War! but they did screw us for 36-0 the last match.

So the 'boks are my preference as it will allow us retribution if we succede.

Cissies Game:-

Who cares as long as the team gels and Owen & Rooney are on form

Get rid of Robinson and replace with James. Also put Matt Taylor in there.

God's Sport:-

There has been a lot of mind games over the past few months in F1 and I hope in my (Welsh) heart that Hamilton has not been affected by it.

All I want to see is a nice clean race with no antics such as displayed by Prost/Senna/Schumaker. Just a straight 'Gladitorial' affair.

Are we Conker's?

The English and the French are doing battle once again, but in a slightly less physical fashion at the World Conker Championships.

Northamptonshire is hosting the annual event and over 300 entrants are at the village of Ashton, near Oundle - with 13 of those participating listed as French.

After losing out in the rugby on Saturday night, "The Frogs" will be hoping to salvage some sporting pride against "Les Rosbifs".

Landlady Sandie Gardner, 37, originally from Windsor but running a bed and breakfast in Abjat-sur-Bandiat, near Limoges, France, claimed the ladies' World Conker Champion crown last year.

Her home village is now the setting for the French conker championships and she forms part of the French national team.

Contestants have travelled to the UK for the 42-year-old event from as far afield as the US, Brazil, Canada and the Ukraine.


As again we invented the game, see if we can put this one to bed as well.

Jerry

Right,

Hotel in Paris (2km from Stadium) Booked today for a very reasonable 170 Euros.
Ferry Booked! Damn the only sailing left to suit was a 0400 from Dover to Dunkerque!

Come on England we can do it.

PS. Does anyone have a spare ticket?

I am working in Versaille at 0700 on Sunday morning, That has been booked for months! Oh how I would love to get out of that!

That was a very nice game to watch. Congratulations on making it to the final!

Sod it. I know we over performed to get to the final but it still hurts when you lose.

Well thats what happens when you pick the wrong coloured rose!

Would just like to add my bit. I am not a Rugby man and last nite was the first nite I have ever been out to watch a match in a boozer.
Myself and Lady Pig-Pen went to the Old Barn in New Milton with a Saffer who she works with.
He was the only one there... surrounded by white shirts with roses.
We had a fab nite, got well drunk and everyone congratulated him when we lost..... if only that could rub off on the footy lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANKS TO ALL THE PEOPLE AT THE OLD BARN AND TO THOSE THOUSANDS IN PARIS WHO PARTIED IN TRUE BRITISH STYLE (WITH NO ARRESTS!) I am now a rugby fan!

Welcome to the wonderful civilised world of rugby your lordship.


You could spot the footie surpporters down our local for the England/France match.

They were the ones booing La Marseillaise.

Shame on them >:(