Rugby, I'd never thought much of it until last night. Last night I went to see the Australia v Ireland game at Subiaco Oval.
Was flipping brilliant.
The score? Ah, you know, I wouldn't want to get all smug about it but.....
Wooohooo! Am definitely going to become a proper aussie now. They win things. A lot!
Now I have never seen a rugby game before and had no idea of the rules but thanks to some last minute coaching from a rugger bugger mate in Sydney, I at least knew the essentials of the game and which team member to scream and swoon over.
Swoon No. One. The big fijian guy...Lote Tuqiri. Mmmm
Swoon No. Two. Captain George Gregan.
So the game started off by cuddling a lot and then Ireland were very kind to keep the ball up my end of the game so I could see what was happening (the Aus goal end). I jumped up and screamed loudly when I thought some bloke had got one of them try thingys but apparently he was offside. Filthy bugger!
More cuddling ensued and then Aus scored the first try at about 25 minutes into the game. There was much dancing and cheering from the crowd and then australia seemed to really warm up for there was more skidding along the grass, more shirt pulling and more neck grappling.
When Dave went to get beers there was a real live fistycuffs on the pitch. First of all it involved the really short aussie and the really short irish guy. Irish tried to punch aussie then aussie got a swing in and then some other irish guy got strangled (the irish with the big blue earphones on....does he have sticky out ears or something?) and the the bouncers (refs) stepped in and there were many mean looks from the players on both sides.
In the second half Irish caught up for a while and for a short time were actually winning. Luckily Aus came back to kick their arses and scored many more tries and conversions although all up the other end of the field cos they had swopped sides (bah...many photo ops missed!)
I had a fantastic time and hadn't realised how great live sport is to watch. The telly always deadens the excitement for me. And to be honest, how can you possibly take part in a full blown mexican tsunami at home on your sofa?
6 comments:
cool, i quite like rugby. murrae wants to get into it. its a bit scary cos hes a wuss but not on the rugby pitch apparently!!!! lets face it he has the build for it. short and stocky, if he wanted to and knew how to then he'd be like a tank running at you!!!
Nat, have you been watching any of the world cup? Australia playing Italy at the moment 0 - 0 still if you're interested!!
isnt rugby a bit posh?
moo me too!!! but i know they got beat 1-0. they were robbed!!!! the pentalty was not justified!!!!! italy deserved to get beat. am not a happy chap!
Shaz, Murrae will love aussie rules as well I think!
And I agree about the footy game. am gutted. That penalty should never have been given. Bah, they're coming home!
Moo, was watching it at work last night on my night shift. All of my patients were knackered this morning cos they stayed up til the wee hours of the morning to see us get beaten!
Cookie, i live in a classless society (almost) over here. There is no such thing as posh sports!
Well, judging by the guys I went with anyway!!
That ref was a a complete knobber, Italy did not deserve to go through and that penalty wasnt even a penalty!! I bet your patients are well pissed off that they missed valued sleep over that game!!
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