Earning Respect

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"All Blacks didn't respect us - Dusautoir"

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=10820191

Seems some odd thing for Dusautoir to talking about. Since everybody know that (a) NZ fear nothing more than meet France in the knock out phase of RWC! and second you have to earning respect, not repeatedly show up with a weak combinator to take a 50 point hammering, lose to Tonga struggle past ENG and then demand respect from the world.

Am I right?

Don't worry mysti - the sun will keep shining for us all hopefully.
(check AWOP's 'job/hobby'... one of the noble professions.)

hows your sex life LB?

Excellent of late... and yours?

Average at best

Things will pick up - just put yourself out there and you'll be fine.
When it rains it pours... don't even worry about it.

Depends what his average is.

And his strike rate.

In home conditions he should be near unbeatable.

What is this thing 'sex' ?
Is it going to catch on do you think ?

Depends on with whom you have sex to know if it'll catch.

Linebreaker wrote:

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:I never did make a BDO in Auckland EBOP. I think they stopped them now. In my 20s I was in NZ for 4 years only. Was in France, US a bit in London and the last few months in Madrid. Never heard of bailterspace. Hate to think what other acts I've missed.

Splendour In The Grass is on soon FYI. Shihad, Mudhoney and Blue King Brown will be performing.

Nice.

A Kiwi workmate just told me that he spotted Ric Salizzo* outside Hyde Park this morning, near the NZ War Memorial, wearing shirt, tie, jacket, red shorts and jandals**. I guess if the cameraman's doing a head-and shoulders shot to camera ...



* Kiwi sports journalist. Used to co-host a rather eclectic sports related light relief show called Sports Cafe with Marc Ellis, Matthew Ridge - Zinzan Brooke and Eric Rush used to be regulars on it too.
** aka flipflops, or thongs if you're an Aussie

Kiwi
The "Crowd goes wild"crew are over there covering the Olympics, Yesterday McConie was at the aquatic centre interviewing people, and filming guys in ther Speedos,

Just wondering. Is it open season on Richie's eyes. Looking at the Irish series and the world cup. It seems like he's getting targeted around the face in a number of games, with hands in and around his eyes. No one seems to get cited. What sort of a message does that send. No wonder McCaw didn't acknowledge the opposition following these matches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FQkwYfqDnU

http://www.3news.co.nz/VIDEO-Was-Richie-McCaw-repeatedly-eye-gouged-by-the-Irish/tabid/415/articleID/258752/Default.aspx

Wonder if he phoned to apologise

Whilst we on the subject. I'd be keen on an NRL type system. of graded offenses with standard bans (with a reduction for an early guilty plea to save time and money).

i just want the suspensions to be in number of games rather than a number of weeks

Cmpletely agree. You could also have international ban vs a club ban (or a mix of both).

I also wouldn't mind if they actually hired citing commissioners with 20:20 vision that actually picked up incidents like the McCaw ones.

I don't know the process, and I appreciate that a lot of the players are hard as nails and don't like to tittle tattle, but it's up to these citing people to earn their keep. Incidents like the McCaw ones usually come out in Monday's newspaper, so is the citing window too short?

Maybe an independent citing process, done by paid professionals who did all the games. Given all games are pretty much televised at the elite level I would have thought it would be relatively easy. You could base it in NZ, Argentina and South Africa and it would be relatively cheap to.

What's the story with Conrad Smith?

I just caught the end of a news story about him missing the first 2 matches of the RC to have surgery on his eyes. I've noticed him bleeding around the eyebrows a few times after games.

I know he always throws himself into his game with little regard for his own safety and maybe he has got repeated knocks on the same spot; hence the surgery. Or has he also copped one, either accidentally or deliberately on or near his eye(s)? Can anyone enlighten me?

LB, there's a thread below with details called 'finest player...' or something. Basically a detached retina and he's had blurred vision for a while. May miss even more games than the 2 now. And Ellison, his natural replacement has only gone and got a bung hamstring.

Thanks EBOP... read about it in the the "Ma'a Nonu" thread.

blackcanelion wrote:Just wondering. Is it open season on Richie's eyes. Looking at the Irish series and the world cup. It seems like he's getting targeted around the face in a number of games, with hands in and around his eyes. No one seems to get cited. What sort of a message does that send. No wonder McCaw didn't acknowledge the opposition following these matches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FQkwYfqDnU

http://www.3news.co.nz/VIDEO-Was-Richie-McCaw-repeatedly-eye-gouged-by-the-Irish/tabid/415/articleID/258752/Default.aspx

Yes. Talk about "Cowardly". Eye gouging a prone opponent is the coward's cowardly. It's seem to me that there might be some blind eye turn to it (no pun meaning) because right now IRB are obsession about "tip tackles". Maybe now that Paddy O'Brien is gone from the IRB boss job some more consistency might be coming.

EBOP wrote:Wonder if he phoned to apologise

Chiefs into the SXV final and half my predictor true already.

Now for the stormers to joining them...

( I will be accept apologies for doubting me later )

That's where we differ - Sharks for me. Are you "allblacks1", AWOP?

Skyped cousins in Chch at HT in the 1st semi. They weren't too happy but 'they' already have enough silverware in the cupboard.
(I didn't say that to them though)

Last time chiefs get to the final was some disaster, of course.

This time at home may be different outcome. Just hope they can do it.

anotherworldofpain wrote:Chiefs into the SXV final and half my predictor true already.

Now for the stormers to joining them...

( I will be accept apologies for doubting me later )

No apologies necessary.

Well you know there was not some conspiracy there that is preventing my prediction about the later Stormers come back. It was close but even then I was wrong about it so I much be contrition.

I think is a sad thing because there is no way that Sharks can win next week in Hamilton but the Stormers could have, so already we know the SXV winner.

Congratulation to the Chiefs!

Are you kidding AWOP?

Sharks weren't expected to win against the Reds and the Stormers. But they did.

No I am not making a joke.

Well the sharks have beaten two of the three conference winners thus far away from home, I reckon it will be tough for them, but they ain't gonna listen to anyone telling them they should be fatigued.

We had a saying in the army at meal time "Sluk nou en kou later" (swallow now, you can chew later)

I reckon Plumtree will tell his men the same, "play now and tire afterwards on the plane back."

My mother always say "chew your food properly or you will choke on something."

anotherworldofpain wrote:My mother always say "chew your food properly or you will choke on something."

In the army the platton sargeant is you mother, your father, your boss, everything, when they say swallow, you ask how quickly, you even ask them afterwards when you can start chewing.

Incidently, our record for our company was 180 guys standing in a qeue, 6 minutes and 45 seconds, from the first to the last guy leaving the mess hall.

My record is spending 6 hours and 45 minutes in the 3 michellin star restaurant on the taster menu with the matching wine.

Good work- sounds like my experience at the fat duck!

mystiroakey wrote:Good work- sounds like my experience at the fat duck!

Ah, man, I would love to have a cullinary experience at old Heston's restaurant.

Waiter I'd like six salmonella starters and a main of meticulously arranged ecoli!

By the wayhe also has a pub local to the fat duck. Also world class but more chilled.!!

Awop What triple michelim Star restaurant have you been to?

I hear that Le Fantôme Gris in Mayfair is a cracking little restaurant.

Well I hope that's a valuable lesson to you all.

Only is the lesson that sugarnspikes get banned for having nothing worth while to say and just trolling on my threads.

I didn't know he got banned or was trolling you. I thought you two were best of friends?

Maybe I have cultural misunderstanding Linebreaker.

We'll take that as a comment. You handle him very well.

Are you following the Olympics? If so, what event/athletes do you respect the most?

anotherworldofpain wrote:Only is the lesson that sugarnspikes get banned for having nothing worth while to say and just trolling on my threads.

There is something that doesn't ring true here - why in some of your posts do you write in pigeon English and in others you write in very poor English?