God must hate you guys...

Jerrek · 26-06-2004, 22:04

I don't follow rugby, but my roommate does and he showed me this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugb...al/3838221.stm

Lucky? Or not? 15 - 15 is, um, a wide margin.

**Paul M** · 26-06-2004, 22:10

15 - 15 is a very small margin by my calculations

26-06-2004, 22:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jerrek

I don't follow rugby, but my roommate does and he showed me this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugb...al/3838221.stm

Lucky? Or not? 15 - 15 is, um, a wide margin.

Shouldnt that be 51 - 15.

Anyway.

Did anyone really think that England would beat the Wallabies, seeing as they where pants against the All Blacks.

Its beginning to look like England winning the World Cup was because they where less crap than the teams they played.

BBKing · 27-06-2004, 09:30

God hates us so much he's given us the World and European Cup Champions this season.

Not a lot to worry about, really, the All Blacks and Wallabies just wanted it more, plus 14 of the 15 Aussies had a really good reason to pull out the stops - they got beaten by us in the final back in November and that's something that really riles them (you wait till the Ashes next year).

We're rebuilding - last time England started rebuilding the side Australia beat us 76-0 in 1998 - six years of steady progress later we're World Champions.

From the BBC report of the time:

Quote:

the ruthless Wallabies ran in four first-half tries, and another seven in the second half.

In contrast, England's 19-year-old fly-half Jonny Wilkinson missed two comfortable penalty chances.

I wonder what happened to him?