Waikato miss semis
24 Oct 2009
A 26-18 loss to Auckland robbed Waikato of a place in the New Zealand Cup final.
Waikato needed a four-try bonus win to to book a play-off berth, but failed, despite a valiant attempt. The result means
Southland travel to Wellington for one semifinal next weekend, while Canterbury will host Hawke’s Bay.
Auckland lead 13-11 at half-time, and Waikato had opportunities to secure the victory, but squandered a number of those.
Auckland scored through Jamie Helleur and Charlie Faumuina, while Ash Moeke kicked three penalties and two conversions. Waikato responded through five pointers from Jack Lam and Trent Renata, and Callum Bruce slotted two penalties to go with a conversion.
44 Comments
24 Oct 2009, 12:01 pm
Delapsus resurgam. When I fall, I shall arise.
24 Oct 2009, 14:46 pm
Yawn.
24 Oct 2009, 14:56 pm
I second you on that yawn.
24 Oct 2009, 15:07 pm
#2 Twig: #3 Wezwp:
Then take a Nap ………..you pair of tired arsed yawners.
24 Oct 2009, 15:17 pm
The 28 fans on the stands were really entertained by this game. They will go out and convince their friends that sheep sharing should be done only Monday to Friday and that Saturdays are meant for watching rugby.
Eish but it seems worst that a club game. The support is really dwindling
24 Oct 2009, 15:19 pm
#5 JL1: You would get more supporters than that watching Stow on the Wold II’s in a howling gale in a field!!
24 Oct 2009, 15:23 pm
#6 carol: How you doing? Did you get my mail about the rugby, if so please pass it onto as many friends that you know that love rugby
24 Oct 2009, 15:30 pm
#7 JL1: I did, it would be great….dropping bit hints to WRS!!
Actually, if a ticket to an international match is £60, it looks almost like a good package!!
I am trying to convince myself……!!!
Will pass it on though..
24 Oct 2009, 15:32 pm
#8 carol: Norm seems interested as well
I am also going to Ireland v SA so that will cost a packet, cheapest tickets are £130-00 behind the posts
24 Oct 2009, 15:40 pm
#9 JL1:
Convert that to Rand…………….*****.
24 Oct 2009, 15:43 pm
#9 JL1: Behind the posts and not in a box!!
Your package gets cheaper all the time!! Think a table of 8 is beyond me though, unless I win Euro millions this weekend!
24 Oct 2009, 15:43 pm
#10 cane: At least we will not be 28 fans…
Anyhows, spread the word and get your mates back to watching rugby
24 Oct 2009, 15:49 pm
#12 JL1:
130 Quid………….no game is worth that.
It is then beyond a game.
It is then a Statement of Privilege.
24 Oct 2009, 15:52 pm
#13 cane: Sort of depends how many ‘quid’ you have got!!
It is all bonkers!!
24 Oct 2009, 16:13 pm
#14 carol:
1560 Rand, to see a game you can watch for free, live, in any bar in Dublin.
And these are the cheapest tickets, behind the goal posts?
May the “middle men” all rot in hell.
Rugby is a legacy, passed from one generation to another. And without the enthusiasm of the up coming generation, all is lost.
When a Dad can no longer take his Son to see His National Team Play………………RL, Socccer….or if you like Computer Games, inch by inch they win.
24 Oct 2009, 16:59 pm
What is our life? A play of passion, our mirth the music of division. Our mothers’ wombs the tiring-houses be, where we are dressed for this short comedy. Heaven the sharp judicious spectator is, that sits and marks still those who act amiss. Our graves that hide us from the searching sun, are like drawn curtains when the play is done. Thus playing march we to our latest rest – only we die in earnest, and that’s no jest…
24 Oct 2009, 18:34 pm
#16 WP Till I Die:….. and who said that WPTID?
24 Oct 2009, 18:38 pm
Sir Walter Raleigh.
24 Oct 2009, 19:29 pm
#18 WP Till I Die: The bowling sailor was a poet too…well,well…
24 Oct 2009, 22:55 pm
Francis Drake was the bowling sailor who famously called the Cape of Good Hope “the fairest cape I saw in all the circumference of the earth”.
Walter Raleigh brought tobacco to Europe from his South American travels.
24 Oct 2009, 23:02 pm
#20 TheTackler: how do you work our the circumference of a 3D object?
24 Oct 2009, 23:34 pm
#20 TheTackler: also potatos to europe from America.
25 Oct 2009, 02:21 am
#1 Yip and the way your teams are playing it could take a loooooooooong looooooooong time.
25 Oct 2009, 06:22 am
well whatever he brought to Europe from the Americas be it tobacco or potatoes or both, if Walter Raleigh actually said that about life and death, at least he knew whats what between mirth, sorrow, pleasure, pain and jest.
25 Oct 2009, 06:28 am
and Cane is right, let the middle men all rot in hell. £130 to watch a rugby game in the sleet and snow from behind the goal posts, thats got to be some kind of insanity. Something has definitely gone amiss and as true as god made them little green apples it wont be long before all that amiss gets right about face again one way or the other, come hell or high water, the cycle of rectitude has no mercy.
25 Oct 2009, 09:15 am
ANZ cup…I think it’s a bit flawed in the sense that all the best players are’nt available when the competition reaches its peak,i.e the play-offs.Now that the semi’s are here,the spectator gets denied the oppurtunity to see a Carter,a Smith,a Nonu in action.Big name players who would’ve added much value to the contests..compare that to the Currie Cup where you have national players being introduced at the business end of the competion,adding much more excitement and hype to the whole thing.
25 Oct 2009, 09:29 am
Sir Walter Raleigh…unjustly imprisoned by King James I…
25 Oct 2009, 10:24 am
The first line is wrong. It says they were robbed of a chance to play in the final!
Ha, they didnt even make the semi’s. Poor journalism. Cut n paste didnt work all too well this time.
25 Oct 2009, 10:34 am
#21 SpringbokSarah: You take a very long piece of string and loop it around the three dimensional sphere its widest girth. Then you lay it flat and measure how long it is. That’s the circumference.
On the sphere we call Earth it’s known as the Equator. Simple, really. (Except we don’t actually use string. Ships would get it entangled in their propellers, you see? We use imaginary string instead.)
25 Oct 2009, 10:35 am
#12 JL1: 28 fans, that would have been double the number at some of the midweek British and Irish Lions games…
bravo on that!!!
25 Oct 2009, 11:34 am
#30 poppa
You obviously didnt see the WP-Lions midweek game then. 40 odd thousand there on a Wednesday! Boom!
25 Oct 2009, 12:04 pm
TheTackler, you could always just take the diameter of that sphere and multiply it by pi to get the circumference…or double the radius and multiply by pi…with Earth the problem is that, while a geoide, is not a perfect sphere…
25 Oct 2009, 13:51 pm
#30 poppa69: you can’t be talking about the 35 000 plus people that packed the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium for the Southern Kings game. Fall back Poppa.
25 Oct 2009, 18:36 pm
#30 poppa69: Poor dig Poppa, poor dig.
As #31 WP_: and#33 Transformation: has shown…
25 Oct 2009, 22:30 pm
#32 WP Till I Die: I’d have to drill right through the middle of that sphere and out the other end in order to obtain the diameter. That’s too hard, and I don’t have a long enough drill-bit, so I’d prefer the long string around the widest girth solution. Much easier, you’d agree?
25 Oct 2009, 22:49 pm
#35 TheTackler:
no, it is not a physical thing like a piece of string or drilling through a sphere.
one needs to use the f=function principal, which measures the area beneath a curve and then apply the 3d version by adding the z axis.
simple
25 Oct 2009, 22:58 pm
Jeez some of you guys are fooken PATHETIC.
Now youre trying to ‘win’ rugby arguments based on spectator no’s ?! Is it not enough to confine your chest-beating solely to the teams exploits ?
Wow, didnt realise that such smallminded people actually existed. JL1, youre an absolute ********.
Fact remains that the rugby landscape has changed and continues to in front of our eyes. When I grew up in the amateur game there was, perhaps, 1 game of rugby on tv so people went to the stadiums. They were, in comparison, packed. Now every single game can be enjoyed on tv in the comfort of your own lounge or bar and the stadiums arent so packed any more.
The Goose that laid the golden egg has been cooked, reheated, microwaved, made in to stir-fries and regurgitated for the family dog before it makes its way to the compost heap so something else can grow from it. Springbok vs All Blacks used to be once or twice a decade, now its 3 times a year. Fact remains that we love to watch em but can we honestly say that each game carries that edge-of-the-seat anxiety attacks of yesteryear ? Nah, its just another entertainment product used to launch advertisements for soap-powder and disposable nappies now.
Here in Edinburgh I even tried to mock the locals for selecting a 2nd XV team to play the ABs in the RWC’07. Do you know what, they dont even seem to care any more.
Play less Tests, not more. I grew up listening to matches on the radio. What magic, what images of heroism formed in my imagination. And I dont remember dickheads like JL1 trying to spoil my fun by telling me his team sold more hotdogs at halftime.
25 Oct 2009, 23:05 pm
actually i am talking rubbish.
sarah is still young so she wouldn’t have got as far as f.
i was thinking of the measurement of the volume of a sphere.
for circumference, wptid is absolutely correct – one would need the radius or diameter and simply apply pi.
simpler
25 Oct 2009, 23:09 pm
Only 37 posts and this has turned in to a very strange and ‘random’ thread!
25 Oct 2009, 23:14 pm
#38 carol:
you lot turned back the clocks so you now have another hour to blog????????????????
only guys like robzim and skoppie can keep up otherwise you have to make do with the yanks and kiwis
25 Oct 2009, 23:39 pm
#39 charo: Hi Charo, you are quite right, the clocks have changed and it is really inconvenient!! 2 hours behind South Africa!! Grrrrr
Robzim survives on very little sleep, he is amazing……a real Night Owl!
How are you doing anyway?
26 Oct 2009, 03:55 am
#39 charo:
…and the odd Saffer nearby those countries.
26 Oct 2009, 09:53 am
#36 charo: That won’t do when explaining it to someone who even has trouble conceptualising how one can possibly work out the circumference of a three-dimensional spherical object. K.I.S.S. is the key.
26 Oct 2009, 10:55 am
#1 TheTackler: Don’t you think Latin is a little high-brow for an Erectile Dysfunction testimonial?
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