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Originally posted by finbar
Everyone will suffer in the heat, just some more than others. The Australians are obviously used to living with heat, but obviously don't play in it. Our "rugby season" finished a few weeks ago. Our cricket season is under way. In fact, the Wallabies just spent a week training in tropical Darwin to acclimatise themselves.
Everyone will suffer in the heat, just some more than others. The Australians are obviously used to living with heat, but obviously don't play in it. Our "rugby season" finished a few weeks ago. Our cricket season is under way. In fact, the Wallabies just spent a week training in tropical Darwin to acclimatise themselves.
I don't think the WRC is pivotal at all. Those questions are constantly being posed and answered. In this forum too. Go back and read some of Tamerlin's posts. You shouldn't have trouble finding them, just look for a plethora of 
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Frankly, I think the old so-called division between the two styles broke down quite a few years ago. France have always played a mixture of the styles, even if their backline involvement wasn't as structured as the SH style. And England, over the last 5 years, have gradually developed a style that combines the two. Bottom line - IMHO, rugby will never turn into L*****, despite Tamerlin's tirade of s.
s. Frankly, I think the old so-called division between the two styles broke down quite a few years ago. France have always played a mixture of the styles, even if their backline involvement wasn't as structured as the SH style. And England, over the last 5 years, have gradually developed a style that combines the two. Bottom line - IMHO, rugby will never turn into L*****, despite Tamerlin's tirade of s.
On this point I can't agree with you and I really think our favorite game is facing a dire threat. IMO it is vital that a Northern Hemisphere team wins this World Cup if we don't want this game to become a Rugby L***** pudding played by 15 players, you know that I think this is almost already the case in the SH. IMO, the changes are vehicled by the referees encouraged to do so by the pundits investing large amounts of money in our beloved game. The problem is that a new victory by a SH team could accelerate the process when a victory by a NH team could slow down this decay or put an end to it.
Another big problem is that this RWC will be helmed by the same referees that are encouraged to alter the game to suit the investors' needs.
This is the reason why I really hope England (I have abandonned all hope as far as the French team is concerned) will kick all those heretics out of Australia.
On a completely unrelated note, my urge to escape this sh*thole of a country has just increased with a judicial ruling here that Roquefort cheese cannot be imported from France. Our authorities require milk products to be pasteurised - heated to 72 degrees for no less than 15 seconds to destroy bacteria. Roquefort is heated only to 32 degrees. Despite the fact that no one has been known to have died from eating Roquefort anywhere in the world, it's not allowed into this country. Nor, in fact, into New Zealand. The only two countries with such stupid, archaic regulations.
It's the same sort of medieval thinking that prevents us importing uncooked meats - prosciutto, pancetta, etc - from Italy!
Where's my passport! Move over, Tamerlin, here I come!
Where's my passport! Move over, Tamerlin, here I come!
It's not Friday, but I'll forgive you. 
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