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Kiwichick · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:38 am Post subject: New Aussie Rugby Coach a Kiwi!!

All Blacks assistant coach Robbie Deans has just been named Australia's new Rugby Coach. Very interesting to say the least, with 5 others in contention (all Australians), and the Oz Rugby Board choose a Kiwi.

No offence to the Aussies, but I believe it would be a cold day in the proverbial before an Australian was picked for the AB's top job! It's just a matter of pride really, but good luck to Aussie and Robbie - they must have come up with the right monetary package! Embarassed

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bendi36 · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:32 am Post subject:

Coaching doesn't have to be about loyalty. And if I was the manager of the team I would want the best coach no matter what nationality or race they are.
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Kiwichick · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:49 am Post subject:

Yep, fair call Bendi, except you know as well as I do about the aussie/kiwi "rivalry". I heard Peter Fitzsimmons on the radio and he thinks the Aussie Rugby Board are bonkers picking Robbie Deans. Can't think how it would impact on the Crusaders either, be a very interesting Super 14 this year!
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bendi36 · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:34 am Post subject:

I knew their was an aussie-pommy rivalry. I didn't know about the Kiwi-Aussie one. I don't think union is that big in Australia compared to AFL, league and a few other sports. In fact I don't know any of my mates who play it (I'm in QLD). Maybe in the southern states it's bigger like aerial ping pong or something.
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Kiwichick · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:14 am Post subject:

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I don't think union is that big in Australia compared to AFL, league and a few other sports. In fact I don't know any of my mates who play it (I'm in QLD). Maybe in the southern states it's bigger like aerial ping pong or something.

Bendi, I guess the fact that Australia won the second Rugby World Cup, in 1999, and last clinched the tri-nations title - contested annually with New Zealand and South Africa -- in 2000, doesn't count as "don't think union is that big in Australia"?? The 2003 Rugby World Cup was held in Australia, and the final was played in....Brisbane, Queensland.

I'm not familiar with "aerial ping pong" sorry - guess that's something unique for you and your mates to play in Queensland.
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bendi36 · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject:

No aerial ping pong is what I call AFL. I knew we won one of the finals recently, I had no idea it was in brisbane. And I have no idea what the tri nations is? I'm sure union is big in other places in Australia...
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Kiwichick · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject:

Sorry Bendi, but Rugby Union is huge in Queensland - The Queensland Reds is one of the franchises in the Super 14 - a series played between teams from New Zealand (5 teams), Australia (4 teams) and South AFrica (5 teams).
The Tri-Nations is a series of 6 matches between NZ, Aussie and South Africa - each country plays each other twice and it is fiercely contested annually. The Bledisloe Cup is included in the Tri-Nations, which is contested only between the AB's and the Wallabys - currently the AB's hold this.

Sorry to shove statistics at you Bendi - but rugby is alive and well in Queensland, and I'm sure it will be even bigger once Robbie Deans gives the Australian Super 14 Franchises the shake up that he's promising!
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bendi36 · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject:

I don't know why your argueing with me. You live in New Zealand... I have moved all over Queensland since I was 5... I did know we had a team but that's one team over the whole of QLD. Theirs several squash teams. is squash bigger than rugby? I don't know what super 14's is or who Robbie Dean is?? Who are the AB's??
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fionnmacual · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:40 pm Post subject:

The lad protesteth too much, methinks. Come on Bendi, if you know so little about rugby, what are you doing in this thread, denying so much?

I imagine in rugby the mantra in NZ is "if it is not us to win it, anyone but the wallabies" and vice versa in Oz with the ABs (All Blacks).

Kiwichick · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:12 am Post subject:

Bendi said