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T20 World Cup – Alternative Commentary

Moses — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:24:17 +0000

G’Day All,

I’ve been a bit quite around here lately, spending most of my time on www.greenandgoldrugby.com. I’ve also disabled comments on this blog as the amount of spam coming through is unbearable!

Anyway, as I watching Australia dominate the T20 it’s much more interesting to listen to www.testmatchsofa.com than the tripe being served up on Fox. Better still, I’ve added a widget to the right so just press play and enjoy!

Crap Lookalikes – Kobus Wiese is McBain

Moses — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:13:56 +0000

On closer inspection, these are loafers.

Thanks to tonight’s Rugby Club on Fox for this one…

Crap Lookalikes – Francois Steyn is Steffi Graff

Moses — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:44:31 +0000

Kraut Smimsuit Model

Dropkick Boer

Crap Lookalikes – Dale Steyn is Bear Grylls

Moses — Sat, 23 May 2009 06:05:35 +0000

Crap Lookalikes – Phil Waugh is Hansel from Zoolander

Moses — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:49:43 +0000

Scavenging Fetcher

Fetching Looker

Super 14 Round 1 Tips

Moses — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:34:14 +0000

I’ve posted my selections and reasons over at Green and Gold Rugby. Go and tell me what you think there..

14 reasons to be Super Excited

Moses — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:00:20 +0000

Lachlan to Turn it on from the wing

Chris Hickey – successful club coach stepping up into the professional world promising an exciting brand of Rugby and lots of Easts connections
Luke Burgess – Wallaby Scrumhalf extraordinaire and the media just can’t get enough of his eloquent discourse
Kurtley Beale – took us to a lead in the final last year before fate struck oh so cruel a blow.
The centres – if Tim Tam Tahu and Rob Horne can stay injury free they promise to be one hell of a centre partnership. Managed to get through AAC and Mortlock in the trial, now it’s Nonu’s turn..
Al BaxTAH – Australia’s most capped prop looking for some fresh sauce for his Sheridan pie
Tatafu Polota-Nau – so so mobile but can he throw straight?
Sharon Flahive – Gave me a smile and a wave in the second trial match, I reckon she’s keen as
Phil Waugh – the beautiful man is back and wont be leaving without the Robbie Deans trophy
The Draw – pretty good this year with 7 home games and reasonable travel arrangements
Matthew Burke – back home and on the staff as our new kicking coach, if he can get Kurtley ticking the scoreboard over we’ll take some beating. Rumoured by Moses to be stepping up to attack/backs coach during this season.
Dean Mumm – the White Mummba now combines awesome try scoring ability with his Wallaby experience to try and fill the hole left by Vicks
Will Caldwell – promising to get angry this year, I want to see some mountaineering at ruck time, do it for Rocky
Scott Fava – Only Jason Eaton outperforms Scotty in the important area of facial hair development.
Beers – well they’ve only VB at the SFS but it’s one small step up from Tooheys New. And with post match drinks at the Fox and Lion one can at least wash the mouth out with James Squire’s Pilsener

Financial pressures mount

Moses — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:29:40 +0000

Vodafone hit by the GFC

As I feared this morning the Vodafone announcement of throwing the poms out on their árse could be more widespread than initially reported. The ARU have just announced that Australia A will withdraw from the Pacific Nations Cup in 2009, and that the Australian Rugby Shield will be suspended. These has been no word of a Vodafone link, but the co-incidence is not a good sign. I write more on this development over at Green and Gold Rugby.

It gets worse for the combined cricket board of Denmark, White South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Wales and England with the news that Allan Stanford is pulling out of his Stanford tournament. Matt Prior is most upset as he has not yet floated his indecent proposal.

Pie-man strikes back

Moses — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:46:13 +0000

Growden ate all the pies

Greg Growden’s back to his old tricks. I had led myself to believe he’d toned it down since Knuckles refused to answer questions from ‘the fat one’ at last years Rugby World Cup, but that’s probably cause I avoid anything with pie-man’s by line on it these days.

What could possibly be his motivation for writing off the Welsh captain and star winger 3 days before we play Wales for a clean sweep of the Northern Hemisphere?

Giteau was not even the best in the position he played, let alone the best player in the world. This is not our fight, leave it to the kiwi’s to explain how McCaw was robbed and lets get on with our preparaton for a clean sweep.

One of my many complaints about the pie-man when I wrote the bone growden petition was:

His ramblings consistently give opposition teams motivation to step up against the Wallabies

and in this context it’s fair to say he’s back to champagne form. The Welsh are understandably upset that some Aussie hack has called into question the credentials of Shane Williams who I believe to be the most exciting backline player in the last 12 months, and a deserving winner of the IRB player of the year award. Besides, McCaw was offside for 11 of the last 12 months.

Fleet Street Flutter with Fantasy

Moses — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:15:19 +0000

It seems that Sportsmail Reporter from England’s Daily Mail watched a different game to the rest of us last weekend.

Vickery and fellow prop Andrew Sheridan were frustrated by Australian spoiling tactics which saw scrums persistently collapse, England giving away a string of penalties and even suffering the indignity of being pushed off one of their own scrummages.

So, according to a journalist so brave he signs his articles as “Sportsmail Reporter”,the scrums collapsed due to “Australian spoiling tactics”, cause um, they’re Australian and just enjoy collapsing scrums. It had nothing at all to do with the pompack retreating after the engage, nor the English props not binding despite numerous warnings from Jonker.

As for the ‘indignity of being pushed off one of their own scrummages’, do you think he’s referring to the attacking one 5 metres out from our posts, the one on halfway, or the one on their 22? It’s difficult to be sure but that seems more like 3 to this uneducated convict.