Rugby World Cup 2023/ Crochet & Knitting chit chat

[PhattPike]

@peddlerscross

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I still hope New Zealand win on Saturday

[balbec]

Just like Emgland fans. In any sport.

[Aertel220]

https://twitter.com/RugbyPass/status/1712079263011156141/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1712079263011156141&currentTweetUser=RugbyPass&mode=profile

Portugal are coming like a train.

[Diabhal]

I’ve never seen as much interest from non-Irish born colleagues in anything as there seems to be for Saturday. There’s something about Jonathan, Fua Leiofi Bundellu and Josh that has the entire country in love with the sport of rubby union. There’s talk that some of the lads from Bangladesh originally are going to have to get into PJ Flaherty’s of Salthill before the Welsh match just to get a seat for the main event. It’s like a more inclusive Italia 90.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

MCD Productions

Jaysus what a night for lads

The game will be screened on the venue’s big screen - kick off 8pm
7pm: Doors open
8pm: Ireland vs New Zealand on the big screen
10pm: The Saw Doctors

[gilgamboa]

@EstebanSexface

A quarter final coming up against serial winners new zealand, a stage the irfu has never passed and lads have us winning world cups indefinitely. You couldn’t make it up

It’s like they are setting us up for a fall deliberately

[gilgamboa]

@peddlerscross

still hope New Zealand win on Saturday but I’ve definitely lost my zip and have instead switched the main focus of my INTERNET musings to more important matters like the Split Season, POWER RANKINGS, Roy Curtis and Big Rob Ryan.

You definitely have too much time on your hands anyway

[ScorpioLyons]

The NZ game will be over as a contest at half time. Gerry Thornley has already got a Zombie pun ready for his composition of excellence.

[EstebanSexface]

Rubby lads like us know the score

[myboyblue]

Olly is some boyo

[Locke]

You would have made a great out-half mate.

[Keadyshouldhaveplayedin89]

Everything since Drico scored a hattrick in Paris in 2000 has been leading to this.

To think that Ireland could be marginal favorite’s against New Zealand in a World Cup Quarter final says it all. Halcyon days. Andy Farrell could be the right man at the right time.

As any Mayo man would tell you though, burying old ghosts can sometimes overwhelm you.

The All Blacks remind me a lot of Kilkenny. Never to be found wanting when it comes to effort. Always supremely skilled. As hard to kill off as the Delta variant of covid.

Ireland are probably 12 points the better side. They’ll need to be to win by wan.

[myboyblue]

Jesus

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Munster beating Toulouse in 2000 was huge for Irish rugby

[Fagan_ODowd]

@peddlerscross

Back in 2007 I was a very early convert to the Anti-Rugby Football bandwagon. I think it might have been brought on by the whole narrative about ‘growing up as a nation’ when England came to Croke Park, but I was secretly delighted when the 2007 World Cup blew up in their faces. The next 4 years would have been spent not saying it too loud but by around 2011 I was big and bold enough to be very much part of the Anti Rugby movement buoyed on by the GAEJ on Premierview. I first dipped my toes on the INTERNET in 2010.

The period from 2012 to 2019 though would have been absolute peak Anti Rugby Football for me. There were some simply incredible times during this period - the 2013 bottle job v New Zealand, 2015 v Argentina and 2019 v New Zealand. The level of media hype and bullshit during this period was simply extraordinary and we also had Paul Kimmage in our camp on the whole drugby thing. It was a perfect storm really and anyone not part of it was missing out.

However since Faz has taken over in 2020, I have mellowed somewhat - maybe it was the pandemic, maybe i have matured, but I am no longer of the mindset that Rugby Football is completely evil, and I wouldn’t really hold it against anyone who attends or plays the oval ball. Faz comes across a great guy and the players themselves come across fairly level headed. I will never forgive Johnny Sexton for skipping the queue on me in a Ranelagh Barber Shop in November 2018 but he is a ferocious competitor which i admire.

I think the anti-rugby football bandwagon has gone a bit stale since 2019, I look at some posters on here and wonder if they are flogging a dead horse - after the Japan/New Zealand debacle it felt like we had no more worlds to conquer. Like Dublin after doing 6 in a row.

I still hope New Zealand win on Saturday but I’ve definitely lost my zip and have instead switched the main focus of my INTERNET musings to more important matters like the Split Season, POWER RANKINGS, Roy Curtis and Big Rob Ryan.

That’s a lovely post.

[jellyfish]

I’m going to the game in Paris on Saturday - our tickets are in section N17.

This must be a sign!

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Have New Zealand matured as a nation? Seems to be no pressure on them and no meltdown over all the recent defeats.

[Aertel220]

I have no idea who this fella is but from the multiple clips I’ve seen of him gyrating to Zombie then I can safely say that he is the ultimate bandwagoner.

[LionelRitchie]

@BruidheanChaorthainn

Have New Zealand matured as a nation? Seems to be no pressure on them and no meltdown over all the recent defeats.

I think they’re a humble enough crowd that they recognise where they’re at.

Plenty of better kiwi teams than this one have won nothing so think that tempers supporter expectations

[ScorpioLyons]

Jacinda Ardern buried them as a nation.