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26th October 2011, 20:53 | #1 |
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(spun off from the RWC Final thread, getting distracting)
I'm old enough to remember the Battle of Nantes in 86. That was some fucking brutal shit. Buck Shelford got punched in the face by some French cunt and had a bunch of teeth knocked out. Then some other French cunt went tapdancing on Buck's groin in rugby boots, ripping open his scrotum and leaving one of his nuts dangling out. So Buck got stretchered off and taken straight to hospital. LIKE FUCK HE DID. Buck walked to the sideline during play and got the team physio to stitch up his scrotum with a needle and thread while Buck held his testis in with his hands, gritting his gums against the pain because he'd just had his teeth knocked out. Once the work was done downstairs Buck had his mouth packed with bandages and he ran back out on to the field to continue play and smash some French motherfuckers in front of the 3 or 4 fans in attendance who hadn't fainted at what they'd just witnessed. Later in the game some other French cunt punched/kneed (I forget) Buck in the head and knocked him out cold to stop him fucking their shit up. French rugby at its finest. But its how Buck took it that people remember from that day. |
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Described brilliantly here: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shelford.html
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27th October 2011, 16:52 | #4 | |
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Thus arose a quasi-mystical Arthurian desire for Buck to return and make everything all better whenever anything goes wrong. When Dusautoir scored that try against the ABs in the RWC final, you can bet somewhere there were Kiwis shouting "BRING BACK BUCK" at the television. * Buck's replacement was some mulleted kid from Auckland named Zinzan, who fortunately turned out to be ok at rugby. |
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27th October 2011, 17:07 | #5 | |
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Wow....I'm seriously surprised you've never heard that story before. That's like one the biggest legend of NZ rugby. Only difference is that it actually happen and it was captured on film. What a hard fucker.....every time I see a Soccer pussy go down on a dive I think of old Buck and I just get mad. |
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27th October 2011, 17:10 | #6 | |
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It makes a lot more sense now |
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27th October 2011, 17:31 | #7 | |
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You're forgiven then....consider yourself now duly informed :-) |
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27th October 2011, 17:34 | #8 | |
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Just like Kronfeld was suprisingly dropped. For McCaw. |
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27th October 2011, 17:35 | #9 |
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All Whites vs Paraguay, 2010. onstage at Crowded House gig, 2010. ABs-Wales 2005 cricket, Wellington, 2011 ABs-Scotland, 2007 etc etc etc. |
27th October 2011, 17:52 | #10 |
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Haha nice
There seems to be a strong general consensus that he added a lot to the Haka as well. Once I'm back home tonight I'll check out some of the vids around of him performing the Haka. I've seen some of the old school videos of the early- to mid-1900's ABs performing the Haka and must say, they don't seem to have anywhere near the aggression or challenge that the 1985+ AB's have shown (not to say they couldn't play rugby!). |
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27th October 2011, 18:10 | #12 |
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Yep that's precisely what I'd read earlier
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27th October 2011, 18:30 | #13 |
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Here's another one of the legends: at RWC1987 there was a bit of biff in the NZ-Wales semifinal. Buck flattened Welsh lock Huw Richards with a strong punch, right in front of the touch judge. Oh shit. The touch judge conferred with the ref, NZ held its breath, and the ref went to his pocket. And red-carded Richards, who was still flat on his back on the grass.
The first ever red card in World Cup rugby was issued for the infringement of pissing Buck Shelford off. |
27th October 2011, 18:50 | #14 |
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Ahahaha, that's awesome :P
I really must do some more reading to further my knowledge of Buck - guy sounds like a living legend. |
27th October 2011, 18:59 | #15 |
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I want to see that scrotum splitting match. As a study of character of course, not as a Halloween (heathen/pagan) celebration.
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27th October 2011, 19:09 | #16 | |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj839DQuMaI Upon viewing it looks like Buck smashed Richards right in front of the ref. I love the fact that the Welsh captain gets in Buck's face afterwards and Buck seems to say "he was punching one of my boys so I smashed'im bro," and the big Welshman steps away as if convinced by the power of Buck's argument |
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27th October 2011, 19:12 | #17 |
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Edit: Must read whole thread before linking to video!
hahaha YESSS Oi, don't hit my mate... BOOM Last edited by Luse : 27th October 2011 at 19:14. |
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Yeah that Welsh captain was no small fulla either! Haha, I feel like I've missed so much legendary history from the AB's. |
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27th October 2011, 20:52 | #20 |
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I love the trainer's technique - The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!
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27th October 2011, 22:29 | #21 | |
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27th October 2011, 22:51 | #22 |
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Oh that was cringey.
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27th October 2011, 23:01 | #23 |
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I remember seeing a vid at some point about NZ's previous rugby legends and their refusal to leave the field of play despite being injured. The theme of the vid was something like "but he played on!" Apparently this is somewhat of a tradition in NZ rugby. Clearly I'll never be a rugby player, but I have bottomless respect for those boys.
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28th October 2011, 01:27 | #24 |
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The concept of "substitutions" was only introduced to rugby in 1969. Up until then if you were too injured to play your team was down to 14 men. Rugby players who grew up before the seventies basically had it ingrained in them that leaving the field for any reason was letting the team down, because there was no such thing as a replacement. Even after 1969 you could only come off the field because of injury - none of this tactical substitution faggotry where a player can be subbed off if he's having a bad day or if the coach wants some fresh legs out there in the second half. That only became legal in 1996.
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28th October 2011, 01:39 | #25 |
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Isn't that around the time the sport became professional? In the past it was for pride and glory. Now it is a lot more like a job, with health and safety etc. to worry about just like any other jobs.
re: Buck and that Welsh dude, it was the dude who threw the first punch, THAT'S why he was sent off. Nowadays for retaliation Buck probably would have been sent off as well. |
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28th October 2011, 02:17 | #27 | |
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So what are YOU bringing to the table? For a change, how about from the non-vapid, non-rabid side of you that has been hiding SO WELL from us? |
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28th October 2011, 06:23 | #29 |
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Look up 7 posts?
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28th October 2011, 09:50 | #30 | |
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I hate to be pedantic, actually who am I kidding, but they didn't have the carding system in 1987. |
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28th October 2011, 10:11 | #31 |
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hahah yep, from the vid it was just a finger, get the hell outa here boy
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28th October 2011, 13:14 | #34 |
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Yes, I remember that epic display of steely determination and sheer fucking awesome. Don't fuck with Buck.
Makes Q. Cooper's pulling of a cunt muscle and having a liedown before even getting to the line look pretty faggy. How say you, savages?
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28th October 2011, 13:50 | #35 |
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Should be Buck up for the knighthood TBH.
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28th October 2011, 14:06 | #36 | |
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Still a bit lame, can see Buck's into it though! Just 2 years later after Buck took the captaincy.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fg4FyhZ-Kg |
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28th October 2011, 14:19 | #37 |
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The 80s were a million years ago, culturally. To be proud of Maori culture and show it was an almost revolutionary act. It's hard to imagine, now, but back then it wasn't the lame whiteboy haka that was embarrassing; it was showing that you gave a shit about Maori culture that was embarrassing.
New Zealand has grown up a lot since then. And Buck is one of the guys who dragged the NZ public towards enlightenment. You gonna argue with Buck? |
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28th October 2011, 14:35 | #39 |
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I'm sure after the Wales standoff incident I learnt that the All Blacks didn't stand down from the haka until the other team did - yet throughout the cup I noticed the All blacks were the first to turn their backs after the haka. Am I remembering wrong or did the IRB muscle in to avoid a repeat?
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28th October 2011, 14:39 | #40 |
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I noticed that too and figured it was the AB's taking away the opportunity to make it a spectacle. Either that or they were under pressure to break for ads...
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