Posts Tagged ‘al baxter’

14 reasons to be Super Excited

February 13th, 2009

Lachlan to Turn it on from Full Back

Lachlan to Turn it on from the wing

  1. Chris Hickey – successful club coach stepping up into the professional world promising an exciting brand of Rugby and lots of Easts connections

  2. Luke Burgess – Wallaby Scrumhalf extraordinaire and the media just can’t get enough of his eloquent discourse
  3. Kurtley Beale – took us to a lead in the final last year before fate struck oh so cruel a blow.
  4. 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..
  5. Al BaxTAH – Australia’s most capped prop looking for some fresh sauce for his Sheridan pie
  6. Tatafu Polota-Nau – so so mobile but can he throw straight?
  7. Sharon Flahive – Gave me a smile and a wave in the second trial match, I reckon she’s keen as
  8. Phil Waugh – the beautiful man is back and wont be leaving without the Robbie Deans trophy
  9. The Draw – pretty good this year with 7 home games and reasonable travel arrangements
  10. 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.
  11. Dean Mumm – the White Mummba now combines awesome try scoring ability with his Wallaby experience to try and fill the hole left by Vicks
  12. Will Caldwell – promising to get angry this year, I want to see some mountaineering at ruck time, do it for Rocky
  13. Scott Fava – Only Jason Eaton outperforms Scotty in the important area of facial hair development.
  14. 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

Fleet Street Flutter with Fantasy

November 19th, 2008

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.

The Set Piece from Twickenham

November 17th, 2008

A hell of a lot was written in the leadup to this Test Match at Twickenham, and pretty much all of it was about how the Poms would smash the Aussie Scrum.

It was so refreshing to see us not only gain parity in the set piece but to absolutely demolish the great unwashed with two tightheads was a thing of beauty.

I’ve cut out all the scrums in a Stephen Jones tribute video for your enjoyment

I reckon the turning point when we really started to smash em up front was Palu’s substitution for Brown. Looking forward to Wycliff getting his starting spot back next week.

And to those who’ve been bad-mouthing Australia’s most capped and my favourite prop Al BaxTAH, who you’ll notice is front and centre in my banner of legends, feel free to shut the fúck up before Al sticks your head up your árse along with Andy Sheridans.

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