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, 06:16 am
Of course, the French aren’t going to win, are they?
18 Oct 2011, 06:17 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-48: I know he has the stick, but every thing has to be voted on. Its a documented process.
Yeah the refs have been awkward – no question – and that in part is because of the Referreing Panel etc. Not ideal, not what the players or fans want.
Having said that, within the lottery that is the RWC, some times you just gotta keep rolling the dice, and live by it. I just find it a bit absurd that in 07 the referring blunders effected us, and we were all told to zip it. It hurts like fok when youre on the receiving end, we know.
18 Oct 2011, 06:18 am
Whatever happens, the yarpies exited in the QFs — four more years, boys!
18 Oct 2011, 06:21 am
Good grief Kiwis I hope for your self important sakes this does not end in tears and having to wait 28 years for another crack.
For some Kiwi fans that must feel like a lifetime.
18 Oct 2011, 06:26 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-54: Well, one thing’s for sure — the IRB 4th ranked yarpies won’t be having anything remotely resembling a victory parade, no matter what happens in RWC2011
18 Oct 2011, 06:30 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-55:
Na we had one four years ago.
18 Oct 2011, 06:31 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-53:
Not yet. Technically, we’re still the current champions.
18 Oct 2011, 06:32 am
I don’t have an issue with a bit of planning going in for a parade if the AB’s do win, after all the council were lambasted for poor planning on the night of the opening ceremony.
However, getting ahead of ourselves is hardly right.
With the exception of a small percentage of Kiwi’s, most of us are not making any bold predictions.
For those, you need to point the finger at all the foreign journalists, includeing Keo’s mob.
18 Oct 2011, 06:34 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-50:
“If the French win, the victory parade simply gets canned. Nothing happens. Auckland operates as usual.”
Should the unexpected happen… there is no way anything in Auckland will operate as usual.
18 Oct 2011, 06:35 am
@TheTackler(TheTackler)-55:
Stop living in the past and grow up. I’m pretty certain the black and coloured Springbok players don’t take kindly to being called Yarpies.
18 Oct 2011, 06:36 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-59:
Nothing much will be moving the day after the final, its a holiday.
18 Oct 2011, 06:37 am
@bryce_in_oz(bryce_in_oz)-59:
You mean, other than getting motherless?
18 Oct 2011, 06:38 am
@Brads(Brads)-58:
Poor planning? This for a supposed First World country AND with an Aussie actually responsible for the technical special effects on the opening night…and the Kiwis still could not get their butts into gear to make the first night properly planned.
This is why Oz will always be the leader on that continent and why the Kiwis need hard working South Africans to help them out with our trained professionals.
18 Oct 2011, 06:41 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-63:
“This is why Oz will always be the leader on that continent”
Sounds like you think New Zealand is part of continental Australia.
Did you miss the geography classes at school?
18 Oct 2011, 06:45 am
@Brads(Brads)-64:
18 Oct 2011, 06:45 am
@Brads(Brads)-64:
What continent is NZ part of?
18 Oct 2011, 06:48 am
Why don’t we ask the SAFFA’s what they would rather be doing planning a premature world cup parade because you’re in the final or watching the curried cup in SA?
18 Oct 2011, 06:51 am
@Brads(Brads)-64:
Why, because it’s not on the same continental shelf. Semantics.
18 Oct 2011, 06:51 am
@David(David)-66:
No continent. New Zealand is an Island nation. An archipelago actually.
We might be grouped with other countries and called part of Australasia, or Oceanaia but that is a regional name.
Australia is a continent on its own.
18 Oct 2011, 06:55 am
Ah he’s just trying to be a wiseass.
18 Oct 2011, 06:57 am
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-67:
knobbie, we try not to do things prematurely, it tends not to satisfy.
Just asked old Tacitus, he opened a can of whoopass prematurely and is still paying…
18 Oct 2011, 06:58 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-68:
What are you talking about.
If we are not on the same continetal shelf, as you correctly state, how do you come to think New Zealand is part of continental Australia.
Not semantics at all.
18 Oct 2011, 06:58 am
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-67: well, lets hope they do it properly as it may take another 24 years to start planning one
However, good luck for the game, should take the frogs by 20 at least if they play like last week.
18 Oct 2011, 06:58 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-71:
so you’d prefer to be knocked out and watching the curried cup, fair enough
18 Oct 2011, 06:59 am
@My nr1 nr2 too(trupisero)-73:
cheers, we won’t lose at the garden of Eden
18 Oct 2011, 06:59 am
@Brads(Brads)-72:
Stop trying to steer away from the subject. It won’t work with me.
18 Oct 2011, 07:02 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-71: more oom koos
18 Oct 2011, 07:03 am
Ask yourself….why has this First World country never been given a Football World Cup…*sigh*…..not BIG enough….not enough venues and not enough money.
Shocking….and that’s besides the fact that it could slide back into the ocean at any moment.
18 Oct 2011, 07:03 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-76:
You started it.
Cherry picked part of a sentence from one of my posts, and now you ***** and moan.
Stick to the subject and I will be happy to do likewise.
18 Oct 2011, 07:03 am
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-75: can’t see that happening either, The spoilt brats probably still partying.
18 Oct 2011, 07:05 am
@Brads(Brads)-79:
Na was actually backing up what you had said and ellaborating further.
18 Oct 2011, 07:05 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-78</a
because about 3 people play football in NZ but you knew that because you know everything smartie pants
18 Oct 2011, 07:05 am
Hey knobbie knobknob, I assume from your very immature posts over the last couple of days you were not even born the last time NZ played in a final, so I will give you some leeway.
But do you remember how much the previous premature parade costed the Auckland Council? Was it $150k or was it only $50k, come on, help me out here…?
18 Oct 2011, 07:06 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-78:
What a cracked piece of logic.
Denmark has never hosted the WC, they are about the same size as NZ but have a far superior Football team and it is their national game.
There are plenty of other examples.
Come on, sharpen up, that troll was as flat as bat guano.
18 Oct 2011, 07:07 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-83:
who cares world champions in 5 days time
18 Oct 2011, 07:07 am
@KiaKahaNZ(KiaKahaNZ)-42: I was referring to it being a face, in that it would never make enough money and therefore the next world cup had to go to “a banker” nation (England) and only after then could the world cup go to a less familiar market like Japan. New Zealand had their chance in 2003 to co host but couldn’t get their act together and so rightfully lost the opportunity, through their own fault.
Rugby needs to be taken to other audiences in order for the game to grow. Having said that, its never actually been in New Zealand’s interest for the game to grow, they like it just the way it is, with the occasional law change in their favour aside!
18 Oct 2011, 07:07 am
I’ll bet they’ve allready engraved the trophy too!
18 Oct 2011, 07:08 am
@NZINCHINA(NZINCHINA)-82:
I heard that soccer is quite popular there. Some say the crowds at soccer games are better attended then your domestic rugby games. Judging by the empty seats I tend to agree somewhat.
18 Oct 2011, 07:09 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-86:
England has all the money so why don’t you guys grow the game if it concerns you so much, England were a disgrace on and off the pitch, you aren’t a rugby nations a rsehole
18 Oct 2011, 07:10 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-88:
yer one semi professional team but don’t let that get in the way of your story
18 Oct 2011, 07:12 am
Keep on counting those chicken knobbie…
18 Oct 2011, 07:13 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-91:
keep watching the curried cup buddy
18 Oct 2011, 07:13 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-86:
It was taken to SA back in 1995 and won by the host nation.
But I don’t see where the game has grown to any degree in Africa since then.
18 Oct 2011, 07:14 am
curried cup?! Keep on being an idiot…
18 Oct 2011, 07:14 am
@Brads(Brads)-84:
Denmark and a few other European countries but I’m sure they can do it financially. I bet even Poland could manage it and their GDP is waaay lower than yours.
One thing is for sure, if an African country with a high crime rate and 45-50% unemployment can do rugby, cricket and soccer world cups, UN conventions and a host of other huge money sapping showpieces…then New Zealand needs to step up and show us why they are still considered First World like their cousins in Oz.
18 Oct 2011, 07:18 am
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-95:
wev’e done the cricket WC and this is our second rugby WC, do your homework pal, you are still bitter over your 1/4 exit and this is your comeback very lame
18 Oct 2011, 07:20 am
@HongKongSlong(HongKongSlong)-86:
It’s embarrassing…and Australia were furious about it too.
An African country has to show the Kwis how it’s done….with our monopoly money, corruption, unemployment and crime…yet we still manage to do it all on our own (no Aussies to help with our opening night special effects) and we do it ON TIME with no glitches.
18 Oct 2011, 07:20 am
tempting the mocker gods with this.
don’t worry about Prespawn, he has to tune in to that little block of Islands NZ to watch the rwc final. I hear he’s sharing the couch with Bismarck, they are going to discuss the game from their loungerooms.
18 Oct 2011, 07:20 am
Just watched a pice on One News.
The reporter said he had been told by both the Auckland Council and the NZRU that a parade had not been planned.
Now that is semantics I suppose, because they could have flagged it as a possible task to organise.
Which then brings into question the motives of the NZ Herald trumpeting the story on the front page of their rag.
18 Oct 2011, 07:21 am
who gives a toss about soccer?
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