The final word
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I am always appreciative of the readers that send stuff in. Some I use, some I don't. Sometimes I feel bad after some of you put together a LENGTHY email and it doesn't get used. But I know you understand. Today I received an email from Quintin M, who basically put this entire story together. I didn't have to lift a fucking finger. His timing was just right - I wanted to put a very last Kiwi bashing article together so that we don't have to endure the constant drips and drabs flowing into our inbox. When you reach the end of this article, the topic is CLOSED.
Oh, what's this.... hang on a second.....
Before I get into that, I have JUST received an email from Jonathan E, with a link to a story on Keo's site - featuring a quote from MORNE DU PLESSIS, which features a quote from him to the current Boks:
"We need a new story to tell... about you guys... people are tired of 1995"
STUNNING! MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY! Well done, Morne! JP, tell your dad he is a fucking legend. GOOD-BYE FRANCOIS! CHEERS JOEL! SEEYA JOOST!!!! God, I've said it before, if there was ever a better reason to win the World Cup...
Ok, and now the final Kiwi images you've probably seen them:
The All Black Choker
My personal favourite
Muppets - The All Blacks leaving France
And here is a link to a story before the All Black France game in the New Zealand Herald where a journalist, Chris Rattue, punishes himself by giving SUCH a big go BEFORE the game, I can't even imagine how much of a tit he feels like now. God that is emboerrissing!
And then, on the other side, we've got Mark Souster from The Times who tossed The All Blacks around like a cat with a dead mouse in its paws. Please enjoy this beautiful attack:
The UK press has climbed into the All Blacks following their shock World Cup exit.
The Times correspondent Mark Souster held nothing back in his assessment of the game.
“New Zealand have to face reality now. They are not world champions and may never be again,” he wrote. “They believe it is their God-given right to be world champions. Graham Henry has smirked and rotated his squad and spent millions of Kiwi dollars on his expedition. For what? Their most catastrophic performance in World Cup history.
“They know there is a new world order in rugby, based not solely on playing power and resource talent but also harsh economic fact. And the gulf is going to get wider. They helped to create, indeed instigate, the open era. Yet it is all about to backfire. Without adidas’s largesse, New Zealand rugby would probably be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. But how much longer will the sports giant want to be associated with a broken brand? Players have left in droves and more are doing so, a haemorrhage of talent that cannot be sustained without long-term harm to the sport there. The trouble is the NZRFU cannot compete with the commercial supremacy of the northern hemisphere. They may not like it but that’s life.”
Stephen Jones, Britain’s most respected rugby writer, laughed off David Kirk’s claim that the All Blacks had too much talent.
“Once Richie McCaw was taken out of the equation by a wonderful and long-overdue application of the laws by Wayne Barnes, the outstanding young English referee, New Zealand did not have a forward of true world class anywhere, save in their two props,” wrote Jones.
“Jerry Collins, the one-trick pony, was in the corral. Rodney So’oialo, the No 8, was ordinary. For god’s sake, they are men of great heart, but they are just bangers. Both men have been ordinary for years. Compare So’oialo’s all round game with, say, Lawrence Dallaglio at his best and you have an anthill and a mountain.
“And so on throughout the team. The odd great player, far more journeymen. Too much talent in the backs? The New Zealand midfield shovelled rubbish along the line way behind the advantage line. No-one had the tactical nous or the skills, apparently, to try a drop goal at the end. Take Luke McAllister out of the team (and that is just what Sale Sharks have done) and there was a lack of class whenever the ball went beyond the scrum-half.
“Too much talent? It’s the garbage we were pedalled when All Black coaches, media and followers told us in Kirk-like fashion that actually, they had three teams which could all have won the World Cup. Fine. So why didn’t you send any of them over to France, then?”
AWESOME!
Oh, and I think a quick nod is in order in the form of a well done to The Loose Forward on making the squad for this weekend's game. Good boy. Go get it!
Other than that I am FINISHED and need some sun. Have a good weekend, people. I'll be in Jo'burg for The Jo'burg Attache's 30th. Should be a schtoinker!
Bye now.
thanks quint
thanks sammo
thanks jonathan
Seth Rotherham
Editor
2oceansvibe.com
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