Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Where did all my whiskey go?
We finally managed to polish off the last of the whiskey from our enormous 6? litre bottle of the stuff.
It was first cracked open at my 21st which dc_red may remember many years ago. I think that whiskey cracked a few of us at the time as well.
And what was the great occasion which warranted my father pouring shots (mainly for himself) like there was no tomorrow? Well that would be the All Blacks putting the Northern hemisphere all in their place at once. It's a lot more convenient beating them all at once rather than spreading it over a year or two because there's always some up start that reckons they can beat us if they get the chance.
The All Blacks now have a 103 win, 6 draw, 15 loss record v England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Lions combined.
And we have now won 12 games straight v European opposition.
And extended our record over the Lions to 27 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses.
And what's more in the professional era we have won over 30 times v European opposition and only lost 4 times (2 v England and 2 v France).
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Right, I went to the Broncos game which was bloody good. Very enthusiastic effort where they always looked likely. 13,752 showed up to watch the game and the atmosphere was good. Shame more aren't coming out to Ericsson to watch them play this year because sides who aren't doing any better are being better supported at shittier grounds in Aussie.
The average attendances for the season in the NRL has been dropping a bit as the temperatures and rain have done the same. But that tends to happen with most competitions during their middle stages. They should start to pick up again in 3-4 weeks.
Current average is 16,161 for a total of 1,777,670.
Still on track to beat last years average of 14,836 rather comfortably.
Back to the Warriors and the win over the Broncos netted two points that probably weren't banked on so in a way it means they can crop a 50/50 game somewhere along the way and still be in the reckoning.
Such as this weekends Cowboys match in Townsville.
It's a game that they can and maybe should win with their origin stars out but I wouldn't bet on a big Cowboys crowd not cheering their boys home. The Warriors will need to win one of their next three to still be hanging in there but ideally they need two wins and then they will be well placed to make the eight.
Anyway, here's my predictions for the season updated (with bracketed figures current totals):
40 Broncos (26)
38 Eels (22)
36 Cowboys (20)
36 Sharks (22)
34 Roosters (18)
34 Sea Eagles (22)
30 Storm (18)
29 Bulldogs (17)
28 Dragons (18)
28 Warriors (16)
26 Panthers (12)
24 Raiders (18)
20 Tigers (16)
11 Rabbitohs (9)
6 Knights (6)
I think points differential may come into play this year to decide 8th spot with about 3-4 teams likely to be in and around that 28 point mark.
It was first cracked open at my 21st which dc_red may remember many years ago. I think that whiskey cracked a few of us at the time as well.
And what was the great occasion which warranted my father pouring shots (mainly for himself) like there was no tomorrow? Well that would be the All Blacks putting the Northern hemisphere all in their place at once. It's a lot more convenient beating them all at once rather than spreading it over a year or two because there's always some up start that reckons they can beat us if they get the chance.
The All Blacks now have a 103 win, 6 draw, 15 loss record v England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Lions combined.
And we have now won 12 games straight v European opposition.
And extended our record over the Lions to 27 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses.
And what's more in the professional era we have won over 30 times v European opposition and only lost 4 times (2 v England and 2 v France).
************************************
Right, I went to the Broncos game which was bloody good. Very enthusiastic effort where they always looked likely. 13,752 showed up to watch the game and the atmosphere was good. Shame more aren't coming out to Ericsson to watch them play this year because sides who aren't doing any better are being better supported at shittier grounds in Aussie.
The average attendances for the season in the NRL has been dropping a bit as the temperatures and rain have done the same. But that tends to happen with most competitions during their middle stages. They should start to pick up again in 3-4 weeks.
Current average is 16,161 for a total of 1,777,670.
Still on track to beat last years average of 14,836 rather comfortably.
Back to the Warriors and the win over the Broncos netted two points that probably weren't banked on so in a way it means they can crop a 50/50 game somewhere along the way and still be in the reckoning.
Such as this weekends Cowboys match in Townsville.
It's a game that they can and maybe should win with their origin stars out but I wouldn't bet on a big Cowboys crowd not cheering their boys home. The Warriors will need to win one of their next three to still be hanging in there but ideally they need two wins and then they will be well placed to make the eight.
Anyway, here's my predictions for the season updated (with bracketed figures current totals):
40 Broncos (26)
38 Eels (22)
36 Cowboys (20)
36 Sharks (22)
34 Roosters (18)
34 Sea Eagles (22)
30 Storm (18)
29 Bulldogs (17)
28 Dragons (18)
28 Warriors (16)
26 Panthers (12)
24 Raiders (18)
20 Tigers (16)
11 Rabbitohs (9)
6 Knights (6)
I think points differential may come into play this year to decide 8th spot with about 3-4 teams likely to be in and around that 28 point mark.
Comments:
It's no wonder that evil stuff (the whisky) lasted another 8 years. I might add I was doing fine that night until your Dad started pouring the potent syrup from the oversized bottle. The surprising thing, perhaps, is that I do remember it.
Yamis wrote: "Back to the Warriors and the win over the Broncos netted two points that probably weren't banked on so in a way it means they can crop a 50/50 game somewhere along the way and still be in the reckoning. Such as this weekends Cowboys match in Townsville.It's a game that they can and maybe should win with their origin stars out but I wouldn't bet on a big Cowboys crowd not cheering their boys home."
Infidel.
Infidel.
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