Ab's V Portugal

[markE]

I don't know if I can switch from the league.....

[Ashley]

Christ that was an enthusiastic anthem from Portugal!

[Ashley]

Portugal fumbles.............we gain 40m! HAHAHAHA

ROKOCOKO!!!!!!!!!!

[Ashley]

WHAT THE FUCK EVANS?! WHAT THE MOTHERFUCKING SHIT?

A god damn 8year old could have made that conversion.

[Ashley]

Hahaha this is why we love Rokocoko!!!!!!! 2 down!

[badassmofo]

looked like sommerville went backwards then, lucky to get that scrum back. Slow start really, prob a bit of rust.

[Ashley]

Glad we decided to watch it at home rather than the pub. This is getting embarrassing.

Team is in fucking shambles, Evans WC debut is in the pisser and the only good thing is Collins knocking people the fuck down.

Sneaky fucking drop goal there.

[FMXMatt]

WTF is our back row doing?

[Ashley]

COLLINS!!!!!!!!! WILLIAMS!!!!! MAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGER!!!!!!

[FMXMatt]

Now we're talking

Portugal getting tired already, but still, Henry is gunna have to hand out some clips round the ear for some of the shithouse play up until now

[Ashley]

I hope he hands out swift kicks to the arse. Finally playing like we're supposed to.

Edit; FUCKING EVANS!!!

[TD]

It's Portugal. Calm down.

[JERI]

Still feel a little sorry for Portugal, they play with a lot of passion, but they're simply getting outclassed physically.

[FMXMatt]

I rekon portugal would beat the italian team the way they're playing

[badassmofo]

crap start to the 2nd half.
And we let them score a try. Nice.

[fobski]

gg loltugal

fuck this game

"Watches Premier League football instead:

COME ON CHELSEA

COME ON CHELSEA

[pig]

Missed the start due to watching the league - is Muliaina injured or what - if so how bad ?

[fobski]

Slight Hamstring pull from what i heard

hes all on ICE

[Ashley]

AHAHAH @ collins

"Smell my finger!"

[Ashley]

That was a bloody good conversion from Evans there.

[JERI]

Jerry Collins for prime minister!

[markE]

Ashley WTF are you on ?

[silva^]

lame, AB's looked second rate, full credit to Portugal, they made the ab's look decidedly average for a good portion of the game.

[CCS]

Christ, I'd rather hear Ian Jones' commentary than Ashley's.

[caffiend]

Some really shitty passing resulting in about what, 3 intercepts? Maybe we wouldn't have thrown them against better teams, but if we had, that may well have been 3 tries against us. "Jason" Leonard (shame on you Grant Fox) and Mauger the culprits tonight.

I'm still having waking nightmares about that Mortlock intercept in 2003

Lauaki was pretty good at lock; and WTF with Hayman coming on in the 2nd row?

[caffiend]

Kelleher, Leonard, Ellis, Carter, Evans, Mauger, Toeava and Smith should be made to watch this video on repeat while their testicles are mildly electrocuted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSvy9Xt-TLM

[CCS]

Originally Posted by CCS

Christ, I'd rather hear Ian Jones' commentary than Ashley's.

Errr... Ian SMITH's commentary I meant. At least Jones has a clue what he's talking about.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Originally Posted by caffiend

Lauaki was pretty good at lock; and WTF with Hayman coming on in the 2nd row?

Why didn't we take Flavell again??

[Kryten]

Originally Posted by Ezekiel 25:17

Why didn't we take Flavell again??

Because he's a red card waiting to happen.

[xor]

Originally Posted by caffiend

Kelleher, Leonard, Ellis, Carter, Evans, Mauger, Toeava and Smith should be made to watch this video on repeat while their testicles are mildly electrocuted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSvy9Xt-TLM

With a name like Stirling, he better be fast.

On the ab's though. Why are people giving them shit for getting 108 points? They played with a 2nd string team and fucken trounced Portugal. The ab's aren't showing their cards at all to the likes of AUS and SA.

Caffiend, when you play a team that is as ridiculous as Portugal, you can afford to do hail mary passes. I bet you and Ashley think that Evan's sucks for not kicking for touch too huh?

Awesome work by the flankers and just cutting them to pieces with a man on in the back line. And I think Mcdonald at fullback was awesome too

[caffiend]

Originally Posted by xor

Caffiend, when you play a team that is as ridiculous as Portugal, you can afford to do hail mary passes. I bet you and Ashley think that Evan's sucks for not kicking for touch too huh?

Nah, I think Evans had a solid game; and you're right, we should be throwing it around against teams we know we're going to spank. It's just that intercept tries have featured a bit too often in recent AB history - especially in crunch games.

And I'd rather that last night's scoreline was 67-0 than 108-13.

[surreal]

How about the All Black 22-restart tactics... that short one works against no one. No one, ever. Ever. At all. Nope. Please stop.

[Rince]

to be honest re ABs performance vs the minnows ...... ask me again about 10am on the 7th October by which time we would have had our first real test match of this WC.... and then ask me again 14 days later...... then we'll know whether the last four 4 years have been worth while or just one big circle jerk.....

[Ab]

Just watched the game. I'd almost call that a win to Portugal, scoreline or no.

Dear All Black backline, when an amateur second-row player from Portugal can see the cutout pass coming and intercept it, that means YOU FUCKING SUCK.

Very average performance from Smith.
Toeava was invisible.

I was punching the air when that Portugese drop goal went over, and I was cheering for the out-of-shape amateur forwards as they went head to head with the All Blacks, grinding away from 5 metres out, and came up with a try.

[slippers]

Dear Abaddon - this game meant nothing.

nothing _AT_ _ALL_

We had 6 front rowers on the paddock at one stage. nuff said.

I thought conrad smith went missing more than Toeava but I don't really care..cant take a thing out of this game except that we got thru relatively injury free.

[Kryten]

There's probably one thing to take from this game - Portugal deserve massive respect for fronting up and playing the way they did. It would be a shame for a 16 team World Cup to not include teams that play with as much guts as that, despite the disparity in games such as these.

What was with the AB jersey swapping? The Portugese players were (understandably) very keen, our guys not so much. Some sort of sponsors thing?

[Kryten]

Haha, 2-1 to Portugal - http://www.stuff.co.nz/4203953a10.html

[Ab]

Originally Posted by slippers

Dear Abaddon - this game meant nothing.

nothing _AT_ _ALL_

Fortunately no-one told the Portuguese players that. They played their guts out.

[Savage]

Yeh props to the Portuguese for putting in one hell of an effort. Haven't seen a national anthem sung with that much gusto in a long time, let alone the complete rapture on the goal kicker's face

[StN]

Originally Posted by Ab

Fortunately no-one told the Portuguese players that. They played their guts out.

Yep - and they'll be telling their Grandkids for years.

Full credit to the reserve 'A players' for having a crack a soccer with them.

Jerry nearly did what he did at Jade (ie pissed himself on he field) when that chap suckered him in to a photo op shoulder charge.