Sunday, October 07, 2007

upsets

in 2003, England beat Australia's Wallabies in the RWC finals, with a johnny dropkick.
in 2007, England scrapped through the quarter finals, beating Australia's Wallabies (as Cara said, w/o scoring a single try, to be precise 4 penalties. australia scored one, one conversion, one penalty). 12-10

in 1999, France beat New Zealand's All Blacks in the semi finals.
in 2007, France scrapped through the quarter finals, causing the All Blacks to be knocked out for the first time in RWC history during the quarter finals. 20-18.

in the first match, i was honestly feeling a bit conflicted. towards the end, i really wanted australia to win. in the beginning, i was feeling sad thinking that it'll be the last time i see jason robinson play. wtf. i love stirling mortlock. oh man i felt damn sad when he kept missing his kicks. england played with a lot of heart and very aggressively. but still, i don't think the wallabies should have lost to penalties. it was heartbreaking. yet at the same time you can't deny wilkinson's kicking prowess. could possibly only fault aus from giving penalties away. blah sucks.

i was hoping that my heart would be like mended watching NZ thrash france. wtf. seriously i'm really damn pissed. ARGH the second try that france scored was a forward pass. blatantly obvious. maybe i'm not completely aware of rugby rules, but i thought forward pass was an offence. guess not. the ref took so long to approve of so'oialo try, and then just gave france the bloody forward pass try. and he kept picking on mccaw. maybe it's just me being oversensitive cos the commentators thought the ref was doing a great job. but he is a bloody inexperienced ref. and i didn't really get the mcalister sin bin thing. it looks 'unintentional' to me. but mcalister's try with carter and (was it collins!) was awesome. they could have done it so many more times. and what the hell was up with defence!! omgosh. and what was mcalister doing, a dropkick at halfway line with 30seconds to go?! well maybe if it was carter.. and what's with all the subs. crap. carter subbed out. then nick evans subbed out. and they had no flyhalf. and mcalister had to step up. yes he plays fly half or center but.. flyhalf is like how important right?! why are they so unlucky to get injured or for whatever 'tactical' reasons. and why why rockokoco didn't score! he was the only guy who scored the most against the french team and now when he's needed... kelleher to me, played well as a scrum half. but was subbed out and replaced by leonard, who i thought played quite well. oh man are all these people going to like retire? i hate it when they go off and retire after the world cup. hello, just got 'initiated into rugby fraternity'. sad.

aiya. i know as a noob, i'm commenting so much. still it's just all these questions in my head. the all blacks didn't deserve to be knocked out at this round. they didn't really commit that much errors. aiya don't know. i never gave up hope until the whistle was blown (even when it was 80mins) because it is unbelievable that the all blacks would be beaten by france. seriously. like wtf. AHHHHHHHHHHH

2 bloody upsets in one day. and i watched both matches consecutively cos i miss the first 30 mins of aus live, so decided to catch repeat. how am i to recover from this? rwc has no more meaning from now on. i hope england beats france and goes to the finals. then south africa better win the damn world cup. i don't really like south africa, but by 'deservingness' and with who is left, they deserve it. and argentina better beat scotland. oh man. i feel like i'm damn jinx but i'm just one person. but what the hell.

haha just read that anton oliver ''turning down numerous offers to play rugby in the UK Oliver has chosen to play rugby in France which will be more of a cultural experience.'' Well at least there he will join up with legends of the world rugby game , including Springbok Victor Matfield, former Wallaby Captain George Gregan , and former All Black captain Tana Umaga'.

Luke Mcalister got Man of the Match. well that's consolation. oh and stephen larkham, together with gregan and robinson is 'definitely' retiring after after world cup. at least robinson gets to play another game or more. wonder who else is retiring.