All Blacks Struck by Norovirus

http://soc.li/EquR5Kd

Curses! mis-timed the poisoning by 2 1/2 years!

Wheres AWOP when you need him </3

Getting their excuses in early then???

fa0019 wrote:Getting their excuses in early then???

Yep.

"Well we're a bit disappointed to have only won by 10 points, but given how sick we were ..."

Well, we need all the help we can get...

Actually, given that half the population of the UK seems to have norovirus at the moment and the other half have coughs and colds, it could be a particularly unpleasant game.

I still hope we've had time to work on our Morris Dance response to the Haka - the one that gives us an excuse to McCaw and Carter over the head before kick-off.

Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler wrote:Wheres AWOP when you need him </3

Allow me to guess at his post

So not only do England have a few south africans in their squad, but now they have south african chefs too (that was the last timethe Blacks got food poisoned right)?

wouldn't want to be 2nds row at this weeks training

All Blacks struck by Norovirus? Has the Norovirus been cited?

Well i hope they get well sooner rather than later, hate to see this ruin a good game.

Watching the Worlds greatest two Fly Halfs go head to head, it's almost a competition on who win player of the year.

44 hours out from the start Read appeared at a media conference in a much better state so (for anyone whos had he runs!) plenty of time to 'firm up' and prepare for kick off.

Go get 'em boys... flush em out!...think solid...prepare to take some cra%^p, then go out and play some rugby.

viewtothegym wrote:Well i hope they get well sooner rather than later, hate to see this ruin a good game.

Watching the Worlds greatest two Fly Halfs go head to head, it's almost a competition on who win player of the year.

France England isnt for a months yet

worlds greatest two fly halfs[quote]? never knew AB were playing with two tens on saturday.nice one viewthegym.

I guess Biltong did send (SUSIE) AFTER ALL.

Now they just need the ref to waive the offside line for the day in celebration but England don't have a Mandela like figure to get everyone to go mental do they? Boris Johnson?

Taylorman Read had one of those bedpan seats

viewtothegym wrote:Well i hope they get well sooner rather than later, hate to see this ruin a good game.

Watching the Worlds greatest two Fly Halfs go head to head, it's almost a competition on who win player of the year.

It's all over the English headlines tomorrow. Potential IRB players of the year Farrell and Carter go head to head.

It will make a change, the AB's sh***ing themselves during the Haka

Morgannwg wrote:

viewtothegym wrote:Well i hope they get well sooner rather than later, hate to see this ruin a good game.

Watching the Worlds greatest two Fly Halfs go head to head, it's almost a competition on who win player of the year.

It's all over the English headlines tomorrow. Potential IRB players of the year Farrell and Carter go head to head.

I imagine so

glamorganalun wrote:It will make a change, the AB's sh***ing themselves during the Haka

That's gold

Norovirus now? they are fubared for the game.

disneychilly wrote:

glamorganalun wrote:It will make a change, the AB's sh***ing themselves during the Haka

That's gold

+1 (and +1 for Laurie who's taking a breather)

glamorganalun wrote:It will make a change, the AB's sh***ing themselves during the Haka

Maybe I should have said the "KaKa"

glamorganalun wrote:

glamorganalun wrote:It will make a change, the AB's sh***ing themselves during the Haka

Maybe I should have said the "KaKa"

stop it...

Taylorman wrote:

glamorganalun wrote:

glamorganalun wrote:It will make a change, the AB's sh***ing themselves during the Haka

Maybe I should have said the "KaKa"

stop it...

Ooow, me next, me next... err, 'sounds like it might be squeaky scrum time'...no, i can do better, err, 'hope the All Cacks don't slip up'...no that's rubbish, wait, err, 'at least Dan Farter can still squeeze them through the eye of a needle'....gargh that doesn't even make sense. Damn it!

Keep them coming glamorganalun. Don't give up your day job Hood.

I hear Savea hasn't come down with the virus. So the game plan is simple. Pass the ball to the Big Bus and all aboard.

kiakahaaotearoa wrote:Keep them coming glamorganalun. Don't give up your day job Hood.

I hear Savea hasn't come down with the virus. So the game plan is simple. Pass the ball to the Big Bus and all aboard.

Hahaha, worst thing is is that a large part of my day job IS writing terrible puns. Maybe a career change is needed!

We are fast approaching the stage where one fit AB is worth 5 fit English players, if two more players recover I'd expect you to edge it. If it's 4 or 5, it's a bloodbath.

Needless to say, i am not optimistic.

mr_stonelea wrote:All Blacks struck by Norovirus? Has the Norovirus been cited?

thanks! morning coffee now liberally sprayed over keyboard

damage_13 wrote:

mr_stonelea wrote:All Blacks struck by Norovirus? Has the Norovirus been cited?

thanks! morning coffee now liberally sprayed over keyboard

And at least this time Hansen was happy to share it with the press if theyd stayed around long enough.

Apparently there is a hearing this morning to detrermine the length of ban the IRB are going to give Noro

an IRB spokesman said "We need to flush this kind of thing out"
a spoeksman for the All Blacks said "the whole situation stinks"

I'll get my coat

well it's not like the Norovirus hasn't got previous. It always strikes from behind, then complains that the victim was lazy running.

Apparently it has issued an apology this morning, so will probably get just the 5 week ban

Classic Hood! Puns invariably fail to raise even a chuckle. My favourite though is A small boy swallowed some coins and went to hospital. As the parents intercepted a nurse in the corridor, they frantically asked her 'How is our son doing?' to which the nurse replies 'Sorry. No change yet.'

In the same hospital, a boy was born without eyelids. The doctor told the father, 'don't worry we haven't circumcised him yet...we'll use the skin from there to give him new eyelids'

The father said 'But Doctor, won't he be cockeyed?'

The Doctor said, 'yes but think of the foresight he will have'

I think the AB's will be far too fast for England tomorrow, the pitch suffer with skid marks everywhere.

Look, lets stop all this Cr#$%p, the ABs are gonna wipe their ars^&es and sh&*^t all over them.

Well...if they have any left...

Their force field will keep the defenders at bay and they will slide in for many tries.

I don't think England's chariots will be sweet tomorrow when the AB's will blow their wheels off.

Not to take away from an excellent England performance but something tells me the All Blacks haven't managed to entirely recover from this virus...

They wont use that as an excuse. No chance. Even if its partly true. McCaw declared they were ok before the match so that shouldnt come up again. I'll be annoyed if Hansen uses it as an excuse.

ALPanorak wrote:Not to take away from an excellent England performance but something tells me the All Blacks haven't managed to entirely recover from this virus...

agreed not the same all blacks as the rest of the year

Taylorman wrote:They wont use that as an excuse. No chance. Even if its partly true. McCaw declared they were ok before the match so that shouldnt come up again. I'll be annoyed if Hansen uses it as an excuse.

I think you are right. I doubt they will.

Taylorman wrote:They wont use that as an excuse. No chance. Even if its partly true. McCaw declared they were ok before the match so that shouldnt come up again. I'll be annoyed if Hansen uses it as an excuse.

Which will be to the ABs credit. I think it must have had some impact.

It's irrelevant mate. It's like putting out a rotation squad. If the victory says an opposition win, it's an AB loss and you live with that. Let's not take away from England's performance.

It will be wetter than a wet fart in the shallow end if Smith even dares to suggest that this was the reason for the defeat. I think he's too big a guy to do that, though.

Whether it did or didn't have an effect is probably irrelevant. It's one of those things that teams have to very occasionally deal with. It may have affected them but I don't think they will hide behind it. It was a very good win to England.

Why on earth was Brodie Retalick picked ahead of Luke Romano for the Twickenham match V England. Perhaps this was a selectorial blunder by the coaches or selectors.

Really I think it was pretty evident that fatigue and the illness added to the general not giving a poo attitude the all blacks bought to the first half. Sure it was the best all round England performance post scw but let's not pretend that something didn't knock the stuffing out of a side that has dominated for two years and who England haven't got close to in years. On the day the scoreline was deserved but on occasions we saw flashes of the real all blacks....and that isn't one that is 17 points worse than England

think you've got to give England fair dues PSW, we got dominated in every area today. Forget about the virus, McCaw won't make an excuse out of it, so no AB supporter should

It is what it is, a well deserved tonking by England!

Just for the record and not to be contraversil I have heard that there are a number of AB's being not very well post game.

Very good performance by England and well deserved win, can't help but feel sorry for the AB's though...

I'm sure it must have had some impact on them but that's just the breaks I guess.

I doubt it had that much difference.

In 95 you had near all the players down and some were even vomiting on the pitch mid match.... And yet they didn't concede a try and almost won.

This one sounds like it was rather mild compared... Something every man and his dog gets at this time of year.

Mccaw plays half the season with a dozen broken bones each year no doubt... A little dose of the flu ain't going to hit that old warhorse.

I don't know for sure if it affected them but I've just had a nasty bout of the old D and V and 3 days later reckon I'm only around 75% of my normal fitness.
To me the AB's looked off the pace from mid first half so as the game wore on was bound to take it's toll