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Rugby World Cup

  • 16-07-2003 4:54pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,604 ✭✭✭


    I am hurry home so didnt remove the > signs so sorry still a good joke.

    > > Following complaints made to the IRB about the All Blacks being allowed
    > to
    > > motivate themselves by performing the 'Haka' before their games, other
    > > nations were asked to suggest pre-match rituals of their own. The IRB
    > > Rugby World Cup 2003 Organising Committee has now agreed to the
    > following
    > > pre-match displays:
    > >
    > > a) The England team will chat about the weather, wave hankies in the air

    > > and attach bells to their ankles before moaning about how they invented
    > > the game and gave it to the world, and how it's not fair that everyone
    > > still thinks New Zealand are the best team in the world.
    > >
    > > b) The Scotland team will chant "You lookin' at me Jimmy?" before
    > smashing
    > > an Iron Bru bottle over their opponents' heads.
    > >
    > > c) The Ireland team will split into two, with the Southern half
    > performing
    > > a Riverdance, while the Northerners march the Traditional route from
    > their
    > > dressing room to the pitch, via their opponents dressing room.
    > >
    > > d) Unfortunately the Committee were unable to accept the Welsh
    > suggestion
    > > following representations from the RSPCA.
    > >
    > > e) Argentina will unexpectedly invade a small part of opposition
    > > territory, claim it as their own "Las In-Goals-Areas" and then be
    > forcibly
    > > removed by the match stewards.
    > >
    > > f) Two members of the South African team will claim to be more important

    > > than the other 13 whom they will imprison between the posts whilst they
    > > claim the rest of the pitch for themselves.
    > >
    > > g) The Americans will not attend until almost full time. In future years

    > > they will amend the records to show that they were in fact the most
    > > important team in the tournament and Hollywood will make a film called
    > > 'Saving No.8 Lyle'.
    > >
    > > h) Five of the Canadian team will sing La Marseillaise and hold the rest

    > > of the team to ransom.
    > >
    > > i) The Italian team will arrive in Armani gear, sexually harass the
    > female
    > > stewards and then run away.
    > >
    > > j) The Spanish will sneak into the other half of the pitch, mow it and
    > > then claim that it was all in line with European "grass quotas". They
    > will
    > > then curl up under the posts and have a kip until half time, when their
    > > appeal for compensation against the UK Government will be heard.
    > >
    > > k) The Japanese will attempt to strengthen their team by offering good
    > > salaries to the key opposition players and then run around the pitch at
    > > high speed in a highly efficient manner before buying the ground (with a

    > > subsidy from the UK Government).
    > >
    > > l) The French will declare they have new scientific evidence that the
    > > opposition are in fact all mad. They will then park lorries across the
    > > half-way line, let sheep loose in the opposition half (much to the
    > delight
    > > of Wales!) and burn the officials.
    > >
    > > m) The Australians will have a barbie before negotiating lucrative
    > singing
    > > and TV contracts in the UK. They will then invite all their mates to
    > come
    > > and live with them in Shepherds Bush.
    >


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Wolf


    Good :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭de5p0i1er


    Should make for an interesting pre match build up.


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