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Post by sandy on Sept 6, 2007 8:52:57 GMT -5
Tomorrow is the start of the Rugby World Cup in Paris, and the first match will be Argentina vs France. I think all our countries are particpating, except for Denmark, so Gitte, who will you be supporting? So for the next days we´ll be fighting each other. As the wife of a former rugby player and mother of a young rugby player, you can imagine I have no escape to watching all the matches. Let the best win! (And I hope it´s us  ) |
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Post by Anne on Sept 6, 2007 9:00:26 GMT -5
Well, I am afraid that it's going to be the All Blacks at the end ...
But as far as tomorrow's match is concerned, well, I have my own private opinion ;D
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Post by sandy on Sept 6, 2007 9:05:23 GMT -5
Well of course, and I have mine, but I won´t tell you what it is |
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Post by sandy on Sept 7, 2007 16:04:14 GMT -5
Vamos Argentina!!! Sorry Anne, I had to do this.  |
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Post by Jody on Sept 7, 2007 17:40:46 GMT -5
I know NOTHING about rugby...but I do know the all Balcks! I love the youtube haka! I get totally confused with soccor, rugby, Irish football and American football. Next time someone explains it I am going to write it down so I can remember. Cricket I know..it's like baseball, pitcher and batter, except one runs back and forth instead of in circles..I'm right, right?  ? |
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Post by Anne on Sept 8, 2007 1:59:19 GMT -5
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Post by andi on Sept 8, 2007 5:02:40 GMT -5
OK its our turn today against America, the All Blacks are wonderful to watch but we ARE the previous title holders I'm not so sure we can do it again this time around but it will be fun to watch. I think it is just amazing how they get so injured , get a stitch or two then carry on. As for the size of the fellas, they are like mice when the referee tells them off, such respect and discipline! Congrats Sandy on yesterdays triumph, commiserations Anne, bonne chance to all USA and UK forum members today ;D |
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Post by Anne on Sept 8, 2007 6:56:39 GMT -5
OK, Argentina won, but "triumph" is much too big a word, Andi  |
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Post by sandy on Sept 8, 2007 7:13:47 GMT -5
Anne,
Argentina´s victory yesterday was really taken as a triumph, a historical event, you can imagine.
As for France, it seems you took it as a defeat indeed. The headline at L´Equipe was: "La peur du vide"
Andi, you really have an easy one, that´s not fair (sorry, didn´t mean to offend anyone). Americans musn´t be very interested anyway.
BTW; Luckyluc, are you the same luckyluc posting comments on L´Equipe? If so, what a small world to find you there! If not, someone is using your nickname!
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Post by geordy on Sept 8, 2007 7:25:47 GMT -5
Rugby was big when I was in college. At frat parties someone would get as far as explaining the shape of the ball(how it differs from an American style football?) and the starting scrum or scrim?...and that's about it!
There are several recreational leagues here in NYC ..partially because so many folks move here after college(where they played) to start their careers and because we have so many internationals !! They play in the parks on weekends and hang out in certain bars. These bars will be covering the World Cup games much as they did for what we call Soccer's World Cup.
But otherwise no..not too much interest here.
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Post by Anne on Sept 8, 2007 10:50:26 GMT -5
Sandy - Of course ours is a defeat and yours is a victory, there is no denying it . What I meant is that a 5 points difference is indeed a victory, but I wouldn't call it a triumph . Now the All Blacks have just won against Italy with a 62 (!!!) points difference : that is a triumph, to me ! |
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Post by Anne on Sept 8, 2007 11:49:05 GMT -5
Just for you girls, please meet Sébastien Chabal, the most delightful player of the French team : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrbp1ASVhCgHis various knicknames include Attila, the Caveman, the Butcher, the Sea Bass : I guess that you have been able to spot him on this video... Isn't he a cutie ? ;D |
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Post by andi on Sept 8, 2007 14:52:03 GMT -5
Ok so we passed our first test but I have to say The All Blacks were awesome  Oh my goodness Anne......what can I say, I would hate to meet him in a dark alley one night LOL... His hair is longer than mine! |
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Post by Jody on Sept 8, 2007 16:13:48 GMT -5
A friend just sent me link to the French Rugby team calendar! I might have to start learning about Rugby! Oh la la!!!
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Post by Anne on Sept 9, 2007 1:30:20 GMT -5
Sure Demarais ! Well, now that you have admired Sébastien Chabal, I will tell you all about the REAL treat that Demarais is referring to : "Les Dieux du Stade" ! This is the name of an artistic nude calendar, a kind of Pirelli one, featuring the most famous (and handsome) French rugby players (don't think that it ever featured Chabal) ... This was started several years ago as a one shot event, maybe a fund-raising thing I cannot remember, but the success was so huge that it was then decided that such a calendar would be made every year . This calendar is widely recognized as having been the starting point of French women's interest in rugby ;D Just google "les dieux du stade" ... |
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Post by sandy on Sept 15, 2007 14:07:43 GMT -5
Gitte
I must tell you that, at least in my country, rugby fans are far more different from football (soccer) fans. Rugby is a sport of the upper classes, so players and fans are very far from being "drooling, farting, noisy and dangerous". So there´s no such a thing as a "rugby hooligan". It would be like saying that there are "polo hooligans".
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Post by sandy on Sept 15, 2007 14:14:52 GMT -5
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Post by iank9 on Sept 15, 2007 15:04:48 GMT -5
Hmmmm....... (and not a glass of wine in sight ) I follow football, rugby, cricket, swimming. I participated in all, and attend and spectate at all local events. I have enjoyed banter and a drink with supporters of different clubs all over the UK and Europe. One of the best occasions was watching a union game v France in an Irish Bar on the Rue St Andres des Arts a couple of years ago. I remember the occasion well. A lively, good natured atmosphere, drinks a plenty, and at the end, Irish/French/English/Australians and South Africans arm in arm. A good time had by all. Likewise football. It is not who you are, where you come from or your "status" in life that makes you behave in a certain way. It is your up bringing and your own standards that dictate how you behave in situations. I don't behave in the manner described and my parents come from shipbuilding (caretakers in a local ship-yard) and coalmining (coal-face) backgrounds. Not even my dogs behave like that............ Now I'm going to have a glass (and appreciate - "learned behaviour") a 1999, Clos Badon Grand Cru St Emillion  Now back to the rugby |
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Post by andi on Sept 15, 2007 17:39:05 GMT -5
Having watched the latest escapades of our English team in the world cup, what can I say.......we always expected to get beaten (in reality) by South Africa, having been thrashed by them already. I don't believe the title will be ours again this time around unfortunately.  Ian (and Sandy), I am glad that you refer to our other sport as "football" I know that it is referred to in the US a soccer because of the clash with American football, but it does "get my goat" that David Beckham has already started saying the word "soccer"  (yes us Brits are touchy about it) lol |
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Post by Anne on Sept 16, 2007 1:02:28 GMT -5
Rugby in France isn't an upper class sport like in Argentina or in the UK : I guess this is because we don't have exclusive private schools where kids will learn specific sports . Here it is more of a geographic thing : rugby is mostly played in the South-West of France, there is no big team on the Northern part of the Loire except from Paris .
Yet rugby is very different from football indeed . In spite of the fact that the game itself is much more violent than football, players are MUCH better behaved and the sportsfans aren't hooligans here either .
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