Attention Kiwis & Aussies-The fun starts Sept 7th..

[crazycanuck]

I pretty much ignored the lead up commericals to the world cup..I know what it must be like in NZ at the moment...

Perth isn't a rugby mad town..we have to put up with footy.. I was quite surprised to see TWO pages about the RWC on saturday!!!! Gee, how nice of the West Australian (the paper)

My co worker taped the US-England and Canada-Wales games for me..I guess i'm watching them tonight!!!

C

[DirtDiva]

That fella doesn't exactly have a suave, Italian look either. Looks rather more as though he's stuck in a student sidey-growing contest - deserves the win too.

[RoadRaven]

AllBlacks-Italy

That was the make-up of the inaugral world cup opener so many years back - I watched it with my partner and his dad. I had no kids then...
We thrashed Italy then too.

Its good though, for the "unlikely-s" to get a chance to play against the "probables"... for teams like Italy to play the Allblacks... I think its a great - if I was in the Italy side, I would be absolutely chuffed to get a chance to play the ABs (or Wallabies etc) on an international stage. I'm afraid I watched the replay on that one - I had had a 66km hilly road race and was bushed by the evening and couldn't stay awake til midnight.

But I did watch the Argentinians beat France... wow, what a great game - the looks on the French of such disbelief after the game were amazing to see.

CC - you are right about the advertising here... the biggest playing ad at the moment is showing a series of everyday NZers who injure themselves in various everyday ways - a cut shaving, a graze falling over etc etc - and guess what - everyone's blood is black!

My youngest wore all black to school on Friday and amongst other things they had an aerial photo of all the school kids taken on the field in the shape of a silver (but black) fern. They are trying to win a competition to prove they are the biggest AB fans - the winning school gets the ABs to visit for the day!

I gotta watch out for Grizzly Adams - I have somehow missed him completely!