Carn the Wallabies

I don’t care what the odds are. I don’t care that we haven’t been playing well. I do care about loosing and I believe that we can play to whatever level we are confonted with. Oh -and I also care passionately about beating the Kiwis- all the more sweeter if we do it in the last thirty seconds of the match. It amplifies their pain and my pleasure. With Carmen elected as ALP President I know there is a Santa – later tonight I want to know there is a God as well! It’s not just a game…IT’S RUGBY. It’s not about how you play the game…IT’S ABOUT WINING. UPDATE: It’s also about spelling…I meant to say it’s all about WINNING. (thanks Blue – see comments) Of course my poor spelling fades into insignificance when the mighty Wallabies rattled the All Blacks last night scoring 22 to 10. I kept on saying Eddie Jones has a plan and like a good general, he’s hiding his tactics. Everyone told me Eddie wasn’t smart enough but he’s the one with a smile on his face this morning. Beside winning last night he has just been handed another 12 month contract. We had a token Kiwi at the party and with it being a small TV I coudn’t see the time/scoreline and kept on kicking his chair and getting him to read it out. Mumble mumble ….louder, we can’t hear you. To soften the blow I told him in 1995 I was in Timaru in NZ and ended up watching the All Blacks and Wallabies play. I and my long suffering bride were the only Aussies in town and there must have been a hundred Kiwis in the hall where we were watching the match on TV. The Wallabies led throughout the match and I was beside myself getting up the locals. I’m sure they were thinking Hah Ha…funny fellow and getting a bit peeved until the last 45 seconds of the match when the All Blacks crossed the line, converted and won by the smallest of margins. All those nighmares were buried last night when the Wallabies won. Better than that, we played far better rugby than our southern cousins and deserved to win – the All Blacks were never in it from the first minutes. I’m of the opinion that the Poms one and only tactic is to play for penalties so Wilkinson can kick them to victory. They’ll need more than that to beat the French so I’m betting on an Aussie / French final. Read full game reports here and here UPDATE 2:I was wrong but in retrospect I’d rather we have to play a team that doesn’t play rugby. The passion of the French produces good rugby while the Poms buried the game when they decided to base their tactics on one kicker. Hang on to the ball and don’t concede penalties in the Pom territory and the cup is ours. It’ll be a long week.