Laugh at me if you will, but I just stuck $20 on the Wallabies to win this years Tri Nations.
To do this, we need to beat the Boks in Perth and Brisbane, then it gets interesting.
Considering we’ve got the only 2 bonus points in the comp so far, if we score 4 tries in Brissy and pick up a third we don’t even need to win the Auckland to take the title!
Still think my 20:1 punt is a shocker?
Vodafone hit by the GFC
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.
Growden ate all the pies
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.
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.
Here’s a picture of Stephen Moore holding up his well earned Man of the Match Trophy. And what a trophy it is, from this angle I’d describe it as a well hung lawn bowling unicorn. It’s mounted on a stand, but also comes with a blue ribbon which presumably goes around your neck. Would have looked great to wear it out in Twickenham the night after the match.
Stephen Moore man of the match
Personally I’d have given it to Al BaxTAH, but Moore did have a good game also. In truth, any of the forwards could have taken the honours, even the bearded one who was no-where near the wing. Someone please tell Sharpe not to shave, well at least not until February.
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