38 days to go, just wondered if anyone else is gonna be glued to the tv during september/october.
(ps for you americans Rugby is like soccer but the ball is a different shape and the blokes dont wear fancy dress like in Gridiron..)
Any kiwis out there?!
not me…just might watch the amateur portuguese team matches…
they have made an amazing achievment allready! 
Ive not seen the portuguese play any rugby but NZ V Portugal is on September 15th, very keen to see how they do.
Yup gonna be interesting alright - we’re in with a shout this year but we’ve got a tough enough group - depth is our problem, got a few too many irreplaceables on the side…
I will, well maybe not totally glued but still.. and we play new zealand on our first game.
joconnell - im really looking forward to seeing ireland play, you’re a very tough side. My boss is irish and reckons we’ll be playing you in the semis and that he might have 4 tickets to the match(id give my left leg for one!)
rivoli - good luck mate!
cheers for that, we may use a wee bit of luck there
do us a favour and take out carter and mccaw thanks 
No problem, we’ll bring back Tana Umaga (the predator) to replace them!
you reckon it’d be considered fair play?
more like ‘fear’ play!
I’ll be glued for sure 8)
I’d say it’d be interesting to see tana playing ireland again - there’s a few flankers that wouldn’t mind a run at him - slightly more direct than luke mcallister - aaron mauger seems to be the targeted weakness in your back five at the mo…
The only man who scares me on the french side is Sebastien Chabal - did he used to wrestle dinosaurs?
Just kidding - you boys always produce results in WCs, whereas we tend to lose it under pressure.
Chabal got battered by munster but yeah he got a nice hit in on one of your pack a while back - I’m sure jerry collins fancies a go…
Is there a bit of bad blood there or something with Tana?
himself and kevin mealamu took out brian o’driscoll in the first play of the lions tour and umaga retired soon after - there’s new laws on spear tackles since the thing was such a big affair.
Fair enough, big brutal hits are part of the game but not something like that which can end a players career.
Reminds me of Richard Lowe who used to go for players eyes (with his fingers) if he thought the cameras werent on him.
And another player called Hopoati (not an all black..) who got ridiculed out of the game cause his ‘defense’ tactic in a maul was to put his finger up another players rear end and it was caught on camera and plastered all over the tabloids!
Oh yeah - heard about that guy - you’d be a bit wary of him in the showers after a game…
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