Official Rugby World Cup Thread

[The Sceneman]

starts tomorrow!

list of matches and times for the pool stages: http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/fixtures/poolstage.html

Japan are playing so even weeaboos can get in on the action.

[pilonv1]

Lets just hope England/South Africa don't win.

[pilonv1]

Shame I wont be watching this until later tonight, Rugby LEAGUE final series starts with Dragons v Tigers

[pilonv1]

League is great. Not a huge fan of union but I'll watch a world cup of nearly anything

[Cerveza mas fina]

Go ireland!

[naff]

Didn't watch any games tonight, myp2p is down and couldn't be arsed finding a new site for streams, help here would be appreciated, a good new/alternative sports streaming site would be awesome. My cable box is fried, video works but audio doesn't  ended up just grabbin a few beers and chilling out. Anticipating the NZ - France game the most out of the first pools, though France will prob just send out their B team playin it safe

[The Sceneman]

Didn't watch any games tonight, myp2p is down and couldn't be arsed finding a new site for streams, help here would be appreciated, a good new/alternative sports streaming site would be awesome. My cable box is fried, video works but audio doesn't  ended up just grabbin a few beers and chilling out. Anticipating the NZ - France game the most out of the first pools, though France will prob just send out their B team playin it safe

we could just try tuning in Maori TV? do we have any rabbit ears?

[pilonv1]

Didn't watch any games tonight, myp2p is down and couldn't be arsed finding a new site for streams, help here would be appreciated, a good new/alternative sports streaming site would be awesome. My cable box is fried, video works but audio doesn't  ended up just grabbin a few beers and chilling out. Anticipating the NZ - France game the most out of the first pools, though France will prob just send out their B team playin it safe

We get the games here on delay after the NRL. Not much use watching Eng/Argentina 5 hours after it's been played.

Also, check your pm's

[naff]

Awesome thanks pilon 

[pilonv1]

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/union-news/boobs-on-bikes-cancelled-for-world-cup-20110912-1k5fl.html

what is this madness

A parade of topless, motorcycle-riding strippers scheduled to take place in Auckland this month has been cancelled to preserve the Rugby World Cup's family atmosphere, organisers said Monday.

Sex industry entrepreneur Steve Crow has organised "Boobs on Bikes" parades, featuring topless strippers and porn stars riding pillion on motorcycles, in cities across New Zealand for the past eight years.

The next event was scheduled for Auckland on September 24, coinciding with a crunch pool match pitting the All Blacks against France at the Eden Park stadium in New Zealand's largest city.
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Crow planned to have 20 topless women, each featuring bodypaint in the colours of a World Cup team, ride through the city centre ahead of the match.

But the businessman announced on Monday that he was cancelling the parade, saying there had been a public backlash against the idea of linking nudity to the World Cup, the largest event ever staged in New Zealand.

"For the first time in the history of boobs on bikes, the tide of public opinion is most definitely against us holding this event at the date and time proposed due to the 'family nature' of the big rugby thingy that is happening all over N.Z. at this time," he said in a statement.

Crow cited an online poll which showed 68 percent of respondents did not want the parade to proceed during the World Cup.

"So, and in keeping with our longstanding belief in democracy, as much as it pains us to do so, we are cancelling," he said.

Conservative lobby group Family First, which had called on city authorities to ban the "offensive" parade, welcomed the backdown.

"Families are the real winners, but so too is the image of New Zealand which is being beamed to the world because of the Rugby World Cup," the group's national director Bob McCoskrie said.

The parade is not the first promotional stunt to be cancelled after attempting to take advantage of the huge public interest in New Zealand during the World Cup.

Telecom Corp., a major All Blacks' sponsor, last month pulled an advertising campaign urging New Zealand supporters abstain from sex during the six-week tournament as a way of showing support for the home team.

The campaign, featuring slogans such as "abstain for the game", was cancelled after criticism from Prime Minister John Key and former All Black captain Brian Lochore, who labelled it "crass, degrading and disgusting".

And plans to stage "the running of the sheep" down Auckland's main street were dropped after animal welfare activists raised concerns about the event.

The event would have involved about 1,000 sheep being herded down Queen Street, accompanied by sheep dogs and bikini-clad models riding quad bikes, in a light-hearted take on the running of the bulls festival in Spain's Pamplona.

even though it's on the website for Australia's biggest newspaper

http://images.smh.com.au/2011/09/12/2619799/ipad-art-wide-boobsonbikes-420x0.jpg

[The Sceneman]

nooooooooo not boobs on bikes. That thing is BS. I remember when dudes from my office were like OMG lets go to it whenever that shit rolled around. I never saw the attraction, as there was a strip club across the road from work where you could drink beer and see tits n vag and everything. A much better option for a lunch break.

[The Sceneman]

USA vs. Russia tonight

[pilonv1]

Lollabies

At least we have the USA next game

[The Sceneman]

yeah, the Wallabies reamed the US alright.

Big game tonight, NZ versus France. I hope we buttfuck them

[naff]

My body is ready 

[pilonv1]

who cares about the All Blacks. It's all about these boys now




Go Warriors

[The Sceneman]

the NZ vs. Australia game was awesome, one of the best games of rugby I've seen!

Final should be awesome, NZ will win though, no doubt about it.

[pilonv1]

Now it's time for the real thing, rugby league test matches in England