Fw: NOBS WORLD CUP RUGBY UPDATE.

Good afternoon rugby fans all across the Nobs World Cup Rugby World.  As promised we have our report from John Truman, down under.   First before we get to that we have a correction.  The game against the Staff College is on Wednesday, October the 26th at "7PM" not 1pm.  Thanks for all the calls and letters pointing that out for me; nice to see people are reading this.  This "SATURDAY" its the visiting Ottawa Senator's at 1pm in Brampton.  Speaking of the Staff College our early intelligence reports have them travelling to play us with a squad of 27 and a medical officer!  Looks like they are expecting casualties, we better have Keith on hand.   Have already heard from 8 of you who plan on playing that evening, hope to hear from more of you soon.  Let hear now from John, hope to see you on the pitch Sunday, Da Thug

 

 

 

From: John Truman [mailto:john.truman@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 7:11 PM.

 

Hi Craig, wow what a weekend.

First off I have to start off this report with a correction to my last one. Mt.Taranaki does indeed have snow on the top lots of it. We were looking at the wrong volcano which is not hard to do around there. In the afternoon we drove back into New Plymouth and the clouds had cleared and thee he was in all his glory about 3 times bigger than the one we were looking at. Almost a perfect cone with a white top very similar in shape to Mt Fuji. Apparently it's called a he because according to Maori legend he lost a fight to another male mountain and had to run away to Taranaki Park.

Anyway we're now in Gisborne on our cruise before heading back to Auckland for the next round. Everyone around here is convinced that Wales will make the final based on their displays and the locals love their style of play. Actually given why's happening to the All Blacks re injuries they are not sounding too confident about their own chances now. Wales did look good though and the atmosphere in the stadium was electric. I would say there were slightly more Irish there than Welsh but it didn't seem to matter from a noise perspective. It was a sea of red in the end and no-one wanted to leave especially as the Welsh team came out to do a lap of honour and thank the supporters. Too bad Ireland had to lose because they played their hearts out but the Welsh defense was outstanding. Ireland could easily have won as they were camped on Wales' line but just couldn't punch it over. You could visibly see Ireland's heads go down after that spell  and in the end they ran out of steam.

I won't comment on England's display as I guess you all saw it but the French performance was quite a surprise. I also suppose you have heard about Tuilangi's antics as he got arrested for jumping into Auckland harbor from a boat tour.

We also went to the Aus/SA game which I thought was interesting in it's own way. I secretly wanted Aus to win but had to keep quiet as we were sitting in the middle of the Bok crowd so had to keep a little quiet. Actually I ended up thinking that Aus didn't derseve to win as they were very ordinary but obviously young enough to outlast the older Boks.

So on to the semis and I can' wait. Both games should be fantastic and the local talk is that everyone is happy with the pairings as all 4 teams are  playing fast open rugby.

That's it for now. Haven't come across Tait or Ravi yet but will be meeting up with Steve Jack in Auckland. Take care all and enjoy.

Cymru am byth...your intrepid Welsh reporter....JKT

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