Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: RWC 2015: This wasn't in the script! https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348470#post348470 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348470#post348470 the game's a foot...
Such are the loads that good, nay, great players have to bear…….sigh.
Unsporting cad that I am, I admit to a certain delight in watching the slow-motion preplay of a possible legacy-defining flag-fail-own-goal for Mr Key...
(albeit an expensive piece of comeuppance for us all to…

]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:38:08 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348468#post348468 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348468#post348468 Have you considered a job at the Sun?

Funnily enough, one of my best friends works for the Sun.

But actually, the line came from my flatmate, a man who hates rugby and South Africans with an equal and indiscriminate passion.

]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:04:51 +1200 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348447#post348447 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348447#post348447 I sympathise with Richie, For 43 years I played hockey and got temporarily suspended 5 times. My rate is shit loads less that his. Yet, I was always being reminded and spoken of as a bloke who was forever in the sin bin.

Such are the loads that good, nay,…

]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2015 21:00:37 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348425#post348425 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348425#post348425 Chance exponents…
Now we all discover that John Key’s national hero (and close txting buddy), Richie McCaw, really is a sneaky cheat.
Whatever happened to role models?
…and who corrupted who the most!

]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:28:54 +1200 WaterDragon https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348421#post348421 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348421#post348421 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:00:17 +1200 Graham Dunster https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348415#post348415 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348415#post348415 And in real news, West Ham, with their vanquishing of Manchester City, have now knocked over three of the Premier League's big boys, after already seeing off Arsenal and Liverpool.

But youse jokers carry on with the other code!

]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:23:37 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348393#post348393 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348393#post348393 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:38:42 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348392#post348392 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348392#post348392 Irish fans in Cardiff go mental over the Japanese win. Bless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJdfTERaZI4

]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:28:09 +1200 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348372#post348372 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348372#post348372 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:38:20 +1200 Alfie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348371#post348371 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348371#post348371 Lest we forget, Fumi Tanaka is an integral part of the Highlanders team. Appearing live here with Joe Wheeler. ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbh4FwE6v0g

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 17:14:38 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348363#post348363 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348363#post348363 It was superlative rugby. Loved the crying man the camera kept returning to.

The Chiefs need to get Michael Leitch back, He ought to be considered for the ABs too. One hell of a good player.

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:54:21 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348361#post348361 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348361#post348361 If anyone's mystified by the "truck and trailer" terminology, England's first try is in these highlights. The England No.2 has the ball and a couple of times completely unbinds from the maul –– meaning he has a bunch of players ahead of him (and therefore offside) running interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTrWqhsLxKU

It…

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:43:18 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348360#post348360 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348360#post348360 The Japanese players and supporters celebrate. Everyone's crying.

https://youtu.be/JXhrwadiFQ4

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:30:45 +1200 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348359#post348359 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348359#post348359 As one writer put it:
Well played, sir.

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:11:54 +1200 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348358#post348358 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348358#post348358 A nice piece by Nigel Yalden in the Herald. Another reminder that being a working sports journalist is less "the best seat in the house", more the flustered projectionist who misses most of the show.

To answer his question: I was asleep. In years to come I won't have been, obviously,…

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:56:06 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348355#post348355 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348355#post348355 The Japanese played like fifteen little energiser bunnies throughout the game, their tackling was superb, they won all of their own scrums, most of their lineouts and they even managed to monster the Springboks with their rolling maul.

Their second try was one of the best set-move scores I've ever…

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:22:23 +1200 Alfie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348353#post348353 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348353#post348353 With that scoreline, does that mean Japan got a bonus point too?

SA got one bonus point for scoring four tries, and another for being within seven points at the end. Japan scored three tries and just get four points for the win.

**But what a fucking fantastic win it…

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:03:46 +1200 chris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348352#post348352 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348352#post348352 SANZAR gets bonus points. ]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:53:40 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348351#post348351 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348351#post348351 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:32:14 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348350#post348350 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348350#post348350 John Campbell previews the match for the Sunday Star Times, in his inimitable style:

Tomorrow will not be easy. There is the occasion, there is the weight of history and expectation, and there are the (Springbok-beating) Argentinians themselves. As all rugby followers know, the Argentinian team is built on the…

]]> Sun, 20 Sep 2015 12:06:36 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348349#post348349 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-rwc-2015-this-wasnt-in-the-script/?p=348349#post348349 Discussion from blog post.

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