Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: When the Game is Over https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233725#post233725 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233725#post233725 TV1 sideline commentator for his details.

I think it was Ian Smith, who was being paid by SkyTV at the time. Not that it matters. That was certainly a low point in the whole commentary of the RWC.

Still, maybe Dusautoir had the last laugh, although I'm sure he'd prefer…

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:14:44 +1300 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233721#post233721 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233721#post233721 the Rugby hierarchy have released this press statement...

Repost to the smalltalk thread...?

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:38:36 +1300 Rich Lock https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233720#post233720 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233720#post233720 If they're going to send the infringement notice to the French captain, then they probably should make sure they don't ask a certain TV1 sideline commentator for his details.

Dear commentator guy,

Thierry Henry is a french football player. Y'know – soccer.

On the other hand, Thierry Dusautoir is captain…

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:36:53 +1300 JacksonP https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233719#post233719 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233719#post233719 Yes, I am mightily pleased that Donald was our saviour as I never understood the venom levelled against him in the past. A very good Number 10 and a thoroughly decent bloke.

One other reason I'm very pleased we won is that we can continue the Piri Weepu hero meme…

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:28:35 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233718#post233718 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233718#post233718 The Gall...
Good Grief! French to be fined for crossing the line...
Maybe Klingon Key can be fined for trying to shake Richie's hand before Bernie...

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:13:16 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233693#post233693 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233693#post233693 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:35:50 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233689#post233689 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233689#post233689 If you listen to the commentary on Sky, it is stunning how their tone changed when Cruden had to go and Stevie took the field. I swear the roof damn near collapsed from the collective inward breath of the room's spectators as well.

But rumour has it that 1 point…

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:10:09 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233654#post233654 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233654#post233654 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:39:17 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233649#post233649 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233649#post233649 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:57:21 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233646#post233646 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233646#post233646 They had a crook kicker

Well if a week wasn't good enough for him, he wasn't good enough to be there. Others as shown, could do the job.innit
Jus' sayin'
And let's face it, there is much to be fixed. The AB,s get to party hard. We get to .....…

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:36:46 +1300 DexterX https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233645#post233645 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233645#post233645 On the game itself – although I am glad we won, it did not feel like we were watching a victory. When the French rampaged in the second half I was stunned and sat down and hand beat the cream for the pavlova.

I watch all the Super 15 and…

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:35:02 +1300 DexterX https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233644#post233644 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233644#post233644 When the game is over – for me I don't think I will ever forget what it is like just now in NZ – the circumstances visiting NZers now are to my mind the worst has been, by all sorts of measures, in my lifetime.

"We've got to mop up…

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:21:28 +1300 Cecelia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233643#post233643 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233643#post233643 I feel you as Stringer Bell would say.
But heck (I know bugger all about rugby)
Didn't they deserve to win?
They held on
They had a crook kicker
If the latter
Had got one ball over
It would have been
A more
Resounding
Victory

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:58:34 +1300 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233642#post233642 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233642#post233642 Now can we get back to saving the country from
the impending depredations of multi-millionaire Key
and his hordes of soul-less zombies...
Still a bit yawny down this end, but maybe see you here.

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:57:21 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233640#post233640 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233640#post233640 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:48:24 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233639#post233639 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233639#post233639 Turn out the lights, turn out the lights...

As a post-coital depression suffuses the sated nation
I wonder what was gained and what was lost
sure we won, just (and yes, I know, that's enough)
but it all seems rather hollow...

It was like watching Israel gag and 14…

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:41:23 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233635#post233635 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233635#post233635 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:09:30 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233634#post233634 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233634#post233634 but it'd be nice if some foreigners who aren't transport experts passed comment on who awful the public transport experience in NZ as a whole, and Auckland (as the largest city) in particular, really is.

Well, I talked to a reasonable but totally unscientific sample of foreigners who found public…

]]> Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:41:20 +1300 Just thinking https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233620#post233620 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233620#post233620 My spies tell me Auckland is sizing up to be as big as the opening.
Good luck & keep sober enough to walk and not swim home.

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:08:39 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233619#post233619 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233619#post233619 Sunday, Oct 23, 6.00pm
three long hours to go
and We ain't got nothing yet...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ZysakLlIk&feature=related

I just hope we haven't sowed the seeds of our
own demise and been Pushing too hard...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHho-rj448s&feature=related

'cos if we don't win there could be
a cramping Psychotic reaction...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhDnmmfJGyk&feature=related

and really we…

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:59:47 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233617#post233617 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233617#post233617 I spotted a column that judging by the drawing of
the author, must've been by Henry Rollins

snap

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:33:26 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233613#post233613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233613#post233613 It does – unfortunately...
Westenra Union?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfNyp5THxyI&feature=related

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:27:24 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233612#post233612 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233612#post233612 Nah, not racist, but ... it seems unusual to take on both race and religion in such a tune.

Yeah, I guess more racial than racist. You don't really hear songs any more about "black and white" people, but then race and civil rights were fairly big topics at that…

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:25:12 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233611#post233611 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233611#post233611 Many a slip twixt Cup and lip ...
So how'd we do? And how were my predictions?
This column was originally published in the
September issue of Red Bulletin magazine

At least you weren't saying, for your Austrian
drink meister masters, that – it was in the can!
:- )…

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:14:16 +1300 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233610#post233610 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233610#post233610 it'd be nice if some foreigners who aren't transport experts passed comment on who awful the public transport experience in NZ as a whole, and Auckland (as the largest city) in particular, really is.

Yes it would be interesting to hear if that really is their opinion. Given they wouldn't…

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:13:56 +1300 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233608#post233608 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233608#post233608 I'm kind of glad that the RWC didn't really have an official theme song.

It does – unfortunately... [warning: NSFAWDT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ZR2R3NeBI

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:11:45 +1300 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233606#post233606 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233606#post233606 awful the public transport experience in NZ as a whole, and Auckland (as the largest city) in particular, really is.

Got this too now.

And, this is going a bit far dontchathunk?

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:18:22 +1300 Matthew Poole https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233600#post233600 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233600#post233600 I'm really curious to see whether any of the government's reaction to Auckland's desire for something approximating balanced transport spending will make it beyond our borders.

Auckland is unquestionably a much, much more "world-class" city now than it was in even 1990, let alone 1950, but we're still running on a…

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:48:51 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233586#post233586 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233586#post233586 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:30:28 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233583#post233583 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233583#post233583 I'm kind of glad that the RWC didn't really have an official theme song

Whoever decided not to actually *play* The Feelers much deserves our thanks.

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:00:04 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233582#post233582 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233582#post233582 Let's watch the "Join Together" video and marvel in the slightly uncomfortable, almost racist lyrics that seemed pretty ordinary in the mid '70s:

Nah, not racist, but ... it seems unusual to take on both race and religion in such a tune.

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:49:05 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233581#post233581 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233581#post233581 Let's watch the "Join Together" video and marvel in the slightly uncomfortable, almost racist lyrics that seemed pretty ordinary in the mid '70s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZZ_yYtGe5s

I'm kind of glad that the RWC didn't really have an official theme song.

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:31:48 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233580#post233580 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233580#post233580 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:45:03 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233578#post233578 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233578#post233578 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:15:58 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233577#post233577 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-when-the-game-is-over/?p=233577#post233577 Discussion from blog post.

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:15:57 +1300