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, 23:32 pm
@Nils(Nils)-592:
you mean London-Edinburgh-Cardiff-’France’ ?
you mean outside-of-Sydney-Australia ?
Went to both of them, so atleast there is a point-of-difference. Australia was fun, but ONLY if you were in Sydney. The ABs, for eg, were based in Melbourne, Aussie Rules territory. There wasnt anything that even vaguely resembled a RWC-vibe. Cool town to visit, sure. Just not during a RWC. Even Sydney is a R.League town, Aussies just love to appear nonplussed about rugby, its their wee protest, their “we’re farken Austraaalians, mate, we dont give a sh*t for that ‘rah rah’”.
France was wonderful IN France. But they sold themselves down the Loire to the thieving IRB-cohorts in UK. Every RWC that UK has managed to get their greedy little fingers on absolutely sucked. I travelled up to Edinburgh to see ABs vs Scotland B. For such a wonderful town, Land of my Fathers, they didnae give a sh*t either because it wasnt ‘their’ tournament.
This is my 6th RWC. Its a rugby country. A small country where fans can get around from stadium to stadium easily, not spread around 4-5 different countries. Not mixed’n'mingled with competing sports. The minnow-teams were not just tolerated but EMBRACED, Ive certainly never seen anything like that before. Everywhere it was rugby rugby rugby.
I appreciate your comment that ‘Administrators always say that’. But when the fans are SHOWING it, then you surely have to sit up and take notice. OK, its my home country and I might be biased. But I also have 5 other RWCs to compare it to, and 2011 has been comfortably the best of the lot as a rugby fan.
18 Oct 2011, 23:36 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-601: Fair points. I can judge only what I watched on the telly.
France07 (I mean Republic of France) was awesome, every game, loved it. As for Austraia, ok, I do not know about every place, was too sleepy in the early farking mornings.
Cudos to your country, considering what they have gone through, they have done an admirable job.
18 Oct 2011, 23:36 pm
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-593: Sensible if you’re into sheep farming, dope smoking, dwarf tossing or throwing yourself off bridges with a big rubber band fastened to your ankles… For now I will just content myself with Mud Island, South France for summer holidays and the odd sojourn across the Atlantic for a bit of fun.
18 Oct 2011, 23:39 pm
Nope, nothing beats RWC 1995. A movie was made about it. Invictus. Quite a few books have been written about it too.
Boeing flyovers and all…
Nope RWC 1995 is the pinnacle. Always will be.
18 Oct 2011, 23:41 pm
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-598: Youre right and its a shame, as many good Saffas have accepted the result of that game – angry maybe – like we had to in 07.
Having toured SA in 95, I came to understand the brutal determination and mindset of many SA people, and unfortunately how blinkered they were to other countries, peoples and their cultures. Maybe it was do with the regime that was in place prior and how it was still laced through their society, continually telling themselves how superior they were, thus, casting aspersions on the rest.
So I learned that you can not have a sensible or balanced conversation with the head strong variety of SA, theyre simply too myopic to accept alternative viewpoints, and too insecure to educate themsleves.
For the good ones that I have met – and there have been many both through rugby and business, theyre a great bunch, closer to us in our undertsanding of rugby than many from the home nations, and respectful.
New Zealand rugby fans have always respected the Springboks, it split our country in 81, for those of us who were pro-tour, all we wanted was a good game of footy against our greatest foes. We put ourselves on the line to support that – but in way, thankfully, in hindsight, the other half who protested against it added more fuel to the fire to have apartheid shut down.
Its sad to see some SA people speak so derogatory in a churlish manner simply because the topic involves NZ. Im not being precious here, there is a line, and quite often, some of them step over it due to desperation, insecurity, anger and a poisoned mind.
Vist TheSilverFren.com and you wont see this vitriolic nonsense spouted out on there about SA people, we dont see the point.
18 Oct 2011, 23:42 pm
” theyre simply too myopic to accept alternative viewpoints”, coming from a Kiwi… Lol.
+++++++++++++Bellywobbling fuckchuckle+++++++++++++++
18 Oct 2011, 23:43 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-603:
dont forget “honour and bravery in defeat”, Boy George.
18 Oct 2011, 23:45 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-607: Gu Gu Guffaw…
18 Oct 2011, 23:45 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-604: RWC 95 wasnt anything like what was portrayed in Invictus.
The token placements of small groups of black people at Ellis Park, with manipulated TV angles distorts the truth beyond imagination.
The only great thing about 1995 was the way NZ played rugby, the rest was humbug. I attended 9 games through Ellis Park, Loftus and Newlands, other than the AB’s games, the rest was pretty dire.
18 Oct 2011, 23:47 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-603: you want us to open the nasty can of worms that is South Africa? Dont be so stupid HG.
18 Oct 2011, 23:47 pm
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-609: SA won there, remember, had NZ won, HG would call it rigged as well.
18 Oct 2011, 23:48 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-608:
swiiiiiiiiing lowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
sweeeeet chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaariottttt
comin for to carry me hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooome
VICTORY LAP>>>>>>>VICTORY LAP !!!!!!
18 Oct 2011, 23:50 pm
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-609: Thats great. Denigrate the SA RWC 95…
- “Its sad to see some NZ people speak so derogatory in a churlish manner simply because the topic involves SA”
- “New Zealand rugby fans have always respected the Springboks”???
-”and respectful”
Exposed…
18 Oct 2011, 23:51 pm
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-610: Come on. Go for it. Open it up “respectful Kiwi”…
18 Oct 2011, 23:51 pm
@Nils(Nils)-611:
1995 was so rigged, Hollywood dedicated millions of dollars to it and dressed it up in Disneyland.
18 Oct 2011, 23:51 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-612: ***************Wobbling bellyfuck******************
18 Oct 2011, 23:53 pm
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-615: Is that so?
*********ChumbaWumbaGuFFAW~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
18 Oct 2011, 23:56 pm
Wish someone gives HG a Prozac, his batteries may not last long enough, considering current load and acceleration, and we need him here for an entertainment during the next
FOUR YEARS.
8)
18 Oct 2011, 23:57 pm
@Nils(Nils)-618: Is the Ticker Tape planned for tonight… or tomorrow…
or maybe… Monday… after the game is won?
18 Oct 2011, 23:58 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-600:
Correct HG
We hear how bad POB is when you lose any game.
But this QF exit has taken the cake. Now you think the whole world is against you, even your own refs are corrupt as you stated.
18 Oct 2011, 23:59 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-614: I dont need to. I’ve already won this round.
18 Oct 2011, 23:59 pm
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-619: I don’t know, I don’t live there.
Just slow down a bit, I understand, you have stamina, fine, this is a marathon not sprint.
19 Oct 2011, 00:00 am
@Black Panther(Black Panther)-601: And if you host RWC anywhere other than NZ SA or Wales it’ll be the same. Rugby really doesn’t count.
19 Oct 2011, 00:01 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-620: The cake was one oke during Super tournament telling me that Bulls in fact have a disadvantage having to readjust to home altitude after away games while opponents … er…. who cares about them anyway, they just have an unfair advantage, those visitors.
19 Oct 2011, 00:02 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-620: Not the “whole world”… mainly antipodeans though… especially with off field dealings and officialdom… and on field officialdom.
Nope, not the “whole world” at all… (Although I suspect you chaps tend to think of yourselves as the “whole world” most of the time, especially regarding rugby)
19 Oct 2011, 00:04 am
@Nils(Nils)-622: Damn… I wanted to watch the Rigged World Cup Victory parade… Especially if its before Sunday…
19 Oct 2011, 00:05 am
@Nils(Nils)-624: Um… Bulls??? WTF?
19 Oct 2011, 00:05 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-626: Easy, have a load of beer and boerewors and watch the telly.
19 Oct 2011, 00:06 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-627: Bulls. The boys from Pretoria.
19 Oct 2011, 00:07 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-627: Only the Sharks for me… Yes, the same team who were penalised by Brycie for a…. wait for it…. Bellyfarkenchuckling wobbleguffawing….. hehehehe….
Dangerous Scrum…….. BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
19 Oct 2011, 00:08 am
@Nils(Nils)-628: I thought so… DOne and dusted… before its done.
Some would say over confidence…
Others would say rigged…
19 Oct 2011, 00:08 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-627: It was right here on Keo. Must be buried deep down into the archives.
You are stunned? I was too. I thought I have heard it all before this.
19 Oct 2011, 00:10 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-631: I agree with you on that point. Looks not nice, tempting the fate.
Remember, those okes are city officials not the players. They know hard job what lies ahead. Politicians? Name me a country where politicians are titans of deep thoughts.
19 Oct 2011, 00:10 am
@Nils(Nils)-632: Your ticker tape delirium is getting the better of you…
19 Oct 2011, 00:12 am
@Nils(Nils)-633: “Name me a country where politicians are titans of deep thoughts”…. New Zealand – the “whole world”?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~chucklingfuckwobbles~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
19 Oct 2011, 00:12 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-634: ?
19 Oct 2011, 00:13 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-635: Geez, you really are an illiterate idiot seeing visions. Learn to read for starters.
19 Oct 2011, 00:15 am
Hey, garcon, do not serve HG table, he has jad enough
19 Oct 2011, 00:15 am
@Nils(Nils)-637: So the “whole world” is not going to boycott Rugby World Cup 2015 after winning Rigged World Cup 2011?
19 Oct 2011, 00:17 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-639: boycott, wtf?
Are you seeing visions?
GARCON, STOP POURING!
19 Oct 2011, 00:17 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-625:
lol
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones that make a brighter day
So lets start giving.
19 Oct 2011, 00:19 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-641: No, the world has to stop giving to HG, he has incoherent enough, seeing visions, unable to read.
Maybe he needs taxi.
19 Oct 2011, 00:19 am
@Nils(Nils)-640: Va te faire foutre. Qui est votre garcon?
19 Oct 2011, 00:19 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-630:
Is that the same sharks that took a quick tap against the Hurricanes with the wrong ball close to the line andscored the try to win??
Obviously that ref didnt read his e-mails
19 Oct 2011, 00:21 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-644:
Or was it a quick line out with the wrong ball? I think that was it.
19 Oct 2011, 00:22 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-644: It wasn’t Brycie clearly…
Keep trivialising clear corruption though… it becomes you, as a “respectful Kiwi”……. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::guffawingchucklefucks::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
19 Oct 2011, 00:30 am
@Nils(Nils)-642:
No i think the whole world owes Hg an apology, i am sure this is what he is looking for.
HG i am speaking on behalf of the whole world, we are sorry the Boks were not good enough, maybe in the Rigged World Cup of 2015 you will get your well deserved 3rd Cup.
19 Oct 2011, 00:30 am
@Heavens Game(Heavens Game)-643: C’est ton merde, ca m’est egal.
Un man pie dirsas, kas ir tavs viesm?lis.
19 Oct 2011, 00:30 am
Putain de merde!
Bryce Encule…
Paddy Enfoire…
Night, night.
19 Oct 2011, 00:31 am
@Hurricane(Hurricane)-647:
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