Kiwis plan victory parade
18 Oct 2011
Reports in New Zealand indicate that plans are already underway to stage a ticker-tape parade for the All Blacks in Auckland next week.
The All Blacks lifted a nation when they beat the Wallabies in last Sunday’s semi-final. While their coaches and players are talking up their final opponents and shunning those that would suggest that they have one collective hand on the Webb Ellis Cup, preparations for the post-match victory lap have already begun.
According to The New Zealand Herald, Auckland Council chiefs and the New Zealand Rugby Union have been in talks to organise a ticker-tape parade up Queen Street on Wednesday or Thursday next week. Some of the locals feel this is presumptuous, while others are worried that it is simply tempting fate.
The newspaper reports that those involved in the staging of such a parade have been reluctant to comment, with NZRU spokeswoman Julie Clausen stressing that the focus is on winning the competition and that all talk of victory parades is premature.
It has been confirmed that a celebratory event will be staged regardless of Sunday’s result. Organisers of the Labour Day festival, Kiwi Day Out, say this is not a pre-emptive party for All Black success, but rather a celebration of all teams in the World Cup.
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18 Oct 2011, 01:33 am
Oh boy, HG and co will have a field day with this.
18 Oct 2011, 01:35 am
No harm in that. If you’re likely to disrupt a city of over 1m people it’s just as well to plan ahead for that possibility. If it isn’t needed, you just can the whole show and it’s just business as usual.
18 Oct 2011, 01:39 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-2:
Yep, thats the way i see it as well but to few on here its not that clear cut.
They laughed cos Kiwis bought tickets to the Finals in 2007.
But did you see the amount of Bok fans in the semi final last week when ABs vs Ozzies.
Whos laughing now huh?
18 Oct 2011, 02:09 am
You prepare for the most likely scenario and, if it does not eventuate, you quietly ditch that plan. Sensible way to go, I’d say?
18 Oct 2011, 02:37 am
No problem in planning. there is only problem if you’re found out by the press
18 Oct 2011, 02:54 am
A bit premature.
Once upon a time when Uruguay beat mighty Brazil in football WC final in legendary Maracana (1950, I guess), the motivation secret was simple. The Uruguayan coach nailed on the door the big picture with the words “Brazil – the world champions”. It was enough to motivate his kids to beat the hell out of rthe favourites Brazilians in front of shellshocked 100 000 spectators.
I do not know whether that was urban myth or indeed a fact.
18 Oct 2011, 03:07 am
@Nils(Nils)-6: Shesh, it was almost 174 thousand thre in Maracana. 8)
18 Oct 2011, 03:22 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-3:
Talking about selling unwanted tickets.
There were a number of fellows across the road from Brittomart near the main fan zone with handwritten cardboard placards trying to hock off their finals.
18 Oct 2011, 03:24 am
The NZ Herald is run buy idiots
18 Oct 2011, 03:30 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-3:
Mate give credit where credit is due…….most of those Bok fans had on their Bok jersies with their faces painted black……… yes black, in support of the AB’s
Good on them………..did not see too many AB’s in 2007 with green face paint?
18 Oct 2011, 03:58 am
Not sure I get all this, surely it won’t take long to print a few stickers to put over the year, sorry years on the ‘victory’ banners they have stached away in the store room….ok, some may be a little dusty because we are talking 20 years but so what!
18 Oct 2011, 04:05 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-2: Jeeez Tackles not like you to sit with one either side. We will need that parade to celebrate the AB’s putting the french on the Bar b Q and giving them a good old grilling…end of story. This is our party, in our house and no one is going to wreck it…particularly some sneaky little frenchmen who use the shadows late at nite to plant bombs in OUR Auckland harbour on OUR ships and kill OUR people, and detonate their disgusting N devices in Our back yard amongst Our neighbours in the Pacific.
After Sunday, we will have made history as the most successful team ever in the history of this planet and it will be as sweet as!!
18 Oct 2011, 04:07 am
….but before all the knockers come out calling me arrogant etc its not at all, just total and unmitigated belief in my teams capabilities and the devastation the Frogs are facing.
18 Oct 2011, 04:11 am
@whatever(whatever)-10: No because we were all bowing our heads praying that at least the Boks would keep the trophy in the Southern Hemisphere and give the poms a hiding.
18 Oct 2011, 04:16 am
@captain fantail(captain fantail)-14:
18 Oct 2011, 04:17 am
@captain fantail(captain fantail)-12:
er, build a bridge mate……….
18 Oct 2011, 04:22 am
I am embarrassed about this. However, dont think this is the whole of NZ planning a parade because its not. Its some over excited councillor and the team of temporary rugby watchers getting all gaga over this.
The real rugby fraternity over here are ducking for cover.
18 Oct 2011, 04:25 am
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-17:
Hehehe relax Kia, it is a done deal. No way the froggies will spoil the party this time.
18 Oct 2011, 04:29 am
The NZ Herald editor woke up with a hard on and decided he needed to shoot his load.
18 Oct 2011, 04:31 am
only the
keewees
will know
how to live
with themselves
this wc
was a
set up
i had little
respect
for keewees
before
now i have
none
inbred
cheaters
18 Oct 2011, 04:37 am
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-17: If the absolute horror was to unfold the ABs and Richie MCaw still deserve the parade either way for their services and how they represented our country over the years.
@whatever(whatever)-16: I was there when it( Rainbow Warrior) happened, was in Tahiti when the testing was in Mururoa and have been in the reactors in Grenoble when the results of the testing done in the pacific were safe to be put on french soil so I’m not some hippie that has picked up a cause but have seen it all first hand.
18 Oct 2011, 04:38 am
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-20:
I am crestfallen
18 Oct 2011, 04:39 am
@Brads(Brads)-22:
be so
inbred
18 Oct 2011, 04:39 am
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-20: Porra the sad sack of s hit doest realise that not one person on this site gives a rats a rse what u think..except maybe U.
18 Oct 2011, 04:43 am
@captain fantail(captain fantail)-24:
so what
you keewees
will remain
a sad bunch
of cheaters
who have
cheapened
the rwc
once again
18 Oct 2011, 04:50 am
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-25: lucky we only put our B team out to play eh cuzzy tosser
18 Oct 2011, 04:53 am
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-25:
Aren’t you a Bulls fans, hasn’t been a good year has it mate, enjoy the final.
18 Oct 2011, 04:56 am
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-25: Jeez bro if wez was a but smarta we cudda wun the Mandela Plate, thu freedum cup eh and maybe the tri nations but we was really dumass eh and cudnt thunk thit fur ahead to thu wirld cip eh….bit now we git nuthink eh….must be rilly fat and stoopid eh…. we had thum all filled thut we wuz all injurd but we wuz rilly trainin hard to git beatin by them Ozzy boys ind umbarruss oursulves….just fat ind not so cliver eh cuzz ind now im rilly a luttle ingry man.
18 Oct 2011, 04:56 am
@captain fantail(captain fantail)-26:
don’t blame
your
b team
you are a
sad bunch
of inbred
cheaters
you are not
worthy
of being
rugby union
players
league
is your style
do not
marry your
sister
but then
you probably
done so
already
what a sad
lot
you are
18 Oct 2011, 04:58 am
@captain fantail(captain fantail)-28:
bro
then cudda
then the
rest
i rest my
case
18 Oct 2011, 04:59 am
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-29: bye bye
18 Oct 2011, 05:00 am
in closing
the keewees
has turned out
to be a
sad
sporting
nation
too much
inbreeding
good night
18 Oct 2011, 05:01 am
should be
have
good night
18 Oct 2011, 05:04 am
@captain fantail(captain fantail)-21:
Mate, do you dispise the Germans, the Muslims etc for the things they as a race/religion have done in this world?
Jeez, the French players and supporters have F uk all to do with the Rainbow Warrior or nuclear testing. Talk about holding a grudge and small minded?
I suppose you also told the Ozzies to “f u k off home on Sunday” ?
Why are you keewee blokes so small minded? Does it have anything to do with the size of other stuff?
18 Oct 2011, 05:09 am
I think the pre-planning will have come in handy, come Sunday.
18 Oct 2011, 05:09 am
@captain fantail(captain fantail)-21: Has your head been tested for radiation contamination? The French might not be as safe back in France after all!
18 Oct 2011, 05:10 am
@whatever(whatever)-34:
Hehe reminded me that I was also once told to f u k off home…but it was not on a Sunday and the person uttering the word were a prostitute…and all I asked was for her to show me her t its…some people are just born grumpy!
18 Oct 2011, 05:12 am
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-33: sweet dreams cupcake
18 Oct 2011, 05:17 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-35:
True because come Monday they will have to pack it all away for another 4 years…
18 Oct 2011, 05:18 am
@Porra the Fat and Clever Speedster(Porra)-29: Now you’re having a go at league. Not winning any mates either side of the tasman there fella.
18 Oct 2011, 05:33 am
Why so prudent New Zealand? Its obvious this world cup is in the bag, why not plan for the greatest victory parade the world has ever seen now, so you can correct the farce the tournament has been up until now?
18 Oct 2011, 05:42 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-41: Why has it been a farce? Or has it been more of a farce than other RWC’s?
The whole concept of a RWC is a farce, but when we suggested this back in 07 we were lambasted as being bad sports. Whether we win this or not, knock out rugby does not tell us who the best in the world is, or who a world champion is, its merely who won that tournament.
A better tournement would be the top 10 playing 9 games each, with the most comp points at the end being deemed worthy champs.
But if youre referring to the officiating, then thats completely out of our hands, despite POB being in charge, its the entire committe of 8 reps (from the major playing nations) that vote on each directive, and motions are passed accordingly. POB doesnt sit there with a big stick and perform a dictator role.
18 Oct 2011, 05:50 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-18: mate, thats what we thought after rogering everyone in 95 and SA sneaking past France at Durban.
We all know what happened next
18 Oct 2011, 05:54 am
French odds getting bigger by the day… now $7.5-1 (never been higher than $5-1 in the history of the cup).
18 Oct 2011, 06:02 am
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-42:
Err Kia, relax! I think in your haste you misunderstood Slong…he is actually saying it is a farce because the best team in the world has missed out for 24 years…winning it will at least fix one part!
18 Oct 2011, 06:04 am
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-43:
Different this time, at home against a rubble team, it is in the bag.
18 Oct 2011, 06:05 am
Kiwis plan funeral. You guys must be shitting yourself, but why? There is no way in hell you can drop another cup right. I’m hearing roumors that the game still has to be played on sunday.
18 Oct 2011, 06:09 am
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-42:
On another point, POB is the boss and carries the big stick. Don’t try and spin it any other way…
But on the officiating, to many games ended with the biggest talking point being the impact of the ref and I am not talking about poor refereeing but discussion about the ultimate outcome being changed by it. Forget who was on the perceived receiving end of all this but it is not good for rugby. Hopefully something drastic is done about it or else rugby will struggle going forward.
18 Oct 2011, 06:13 am
GO FRANCE YOU GOOD THINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
18 Oct 2011, 06:14 am
If the French win, the victory parade simply gets canned. Nothing happens. Auckland operates as usual.
If the ABs win, as is likely, and a victory parade is held, several inner-city roads will have to be blocked off and people needing to get to businesses, hospitals, etc etc urgently will need to know what the alternative arrangements and routes are.
Can’t be anything wrong with doing this sort of contingency planning, is there?
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