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

[DirtDiva]

Well, why would they be being nice? The whole tournament was ours to lose and we, well, lost it. Poor boys looked like they were going to cry though.

[crazycanuck]

DD-Dan Carter's eyes said it all..

For many of the boys it was thier last career test match. Not only for NZ but also the Wallablies. George Gregan's one example..


Ok, this is scraping the bottom of the barrell but I found this on stuff.co.nz

It ain't all bad!
Stuff.co.nz | Sunday, 7 October 2007

Ten reasons why the All Blacks' 20-18 loss to France in the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals ain't that bad....

Richie McCaw's freshly cut hair put in a great performance.

They only won by two points.

Only one person lost $A5 million ($NZ5.89 million) by betting on us winning.

France could still lose the final.

We could have lost to Georgia.

Blue will never look as cool as black on a uniform.

What doesn't kill us can only make us stronger.

If it wasn't for the ref, it would have been different.

You can still drink your beer stockpile on New Year's Eve.

The French have never won an Oscar for best picture.



C

[light_sabe_r]

Okay... So NOW who do I cheer for???

Springboks? Nah...

England? NOOOOO!

France? Even though they beat the all blacks,... No

Argentina??? Yeah! I'll stick with them! GO ARGENTINA!

[MillieNZ]

hmmmmmmmm......... I never thought it was ours to lose, rather that it was the hype being built by media........seemed very similar to the America's cup, everyone thought that was ours too.............. I think it's sad that they are out, but by their own admission they made mistakes and paid the price........

I'm sorry that it ended this way for Byron etc that was their last AB game and not the way to go out interntationally................ and I hope that they don't sack Graham Henry, he's done a awesome job leading into the WC but maybe he's learnt valuable lessons that he can learn from and conitnue on leading the AB's into the next World cup, consistance could be to our advantage instead of starting with a new coach again.............

Hopefully the AB's arent' on the same flight home as the ozzie's !!!

I'll have to laugh if England win again !!!!

This is of course , just my humble opinion from a less than couch specator

[DirtDiva]

hmmmmmmmm......... I never thought it was ours to lose, rather that it was the hype being built by media........seemed very similar to the America's cup, everyone thought that was ours too.............. I think it's sad that they are out, but by their own admission they made mistakes and paid the price........

That's exactly what I meant about the media! (I guess some quotation marks - "ours to lose" - woulda helped make that clearer, huh. )

[MillieNZ]

That's exactly what I meant about the media! (I guess some quotation marks - "ours to lose" - woulda helped make that clearer, huh. )

Got it ! I'm always slow on Mondays ... the rest of the week I'm even worse !

Of course, now we have to put up with the media dwelling on it for the next month until something else comes up to capture their attention TV1 had a therapist on breakfast show on how to deal with the loss !

Good luck to Argentina, Be cool for the less known countries to win........

[crazycanuck]

I'm now cheering for England & The Pumas

I hope England whips the evil french teams ***es

C