ARSE World Cup Thread!

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:38 pm

That reminds me. Did anyone catch the NSW premiers comments this morning ? Boy talk about being a prize dickhead. Here we are for perhaps the first time with all of australia rallying behind the Australians and what does this birk say. "We are going to have a parade in Sydney, Home of the Socceroos" Sydney is NOT the home of the socceroos, you arogent prick. ALL of australia is. Thats the point, it unified the country perhaps more than any other sport in resent years, and the first thing he does is try to make it / them sydney centric. By christ that annoys me no end.

BigPete33 · Post by **BigPete33** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:57 pm

fourthof5 wrote:That reminds me. Did anyone catch the NSW premiers comments this morning ? Boy talk about being a prize beckman. Here we are for perhaps the first time with all of australia rallying behind the Australians and what does this birk say. "We are going to have a parade in Sydney, Home of the Socceroos" Sydney is NOT the home of the socceroos, you arogent prick. ALL of australia is. Thats the point, it unified the country perhaps more than any other sport in resent years, and the first thing he does is try to make it / them sydney centric. By christ that annoys me no end.

didn't see the interview myself but if thats wot he said he can take a long walk off a short jetty.

you're exactly right...the whole country is the home and we love it. Nothing else has come close.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:16 pm

Ã‚Â« @fourthof5 Ã‚Â» http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/1952 ... bv10rn.gif
Ã‚Â« &nzkiwi Ã‚Â» well fourthy that still aint as bad as the underarm cricket match

tochÃƒÂ©

Vilante · Post by **Vilante** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:25 pm

fourthof5 wrote:Ã‚Â« @fourthof5 Ã‚Â» http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/1952 ... bv10rn.gif
Ã‚Â« &nzkiwi Ã‚Â» well fourthy that still aint as bad as the underarm cricket match

tochÃƒÂ©

nutty · Post by **nutty** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:14 pm

petey · Post by **petey** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:25 pm

Says it all.

pixelboy · Post by **pixelboy** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:40 pm

fourthof5 wrote:That reminds me. Did anyone catch the NSW premiers comments this morning ? Boy talk about being a prize beckman.

Maurice aint a beckham... Beckham is much smarter!

Post by **Big Kev** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:45 pm

AstrO wrote:
Big Kev wrote:I really think FIFA need to clamp down on this simulation and diving. It's ruining the game.
At this point I think it would be very hard to remove it from the game... Maybe I should start following another sport or just keep it to F1 and WRC.

At the end of the day it's cheating.
They use video evidence retrospectively to award goals or owngoals to the rightful scorer so why can't you review videos of diving and then dish out massive fines (Ã‚Â£250,000) per offence. It's no different to rigging a game, paying a goalie to let in a shot or betting on the outcome of your own match.

Sarsippius · Post by **Sarsippius** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:10 pm

All seems pretty typical for soccer to me, the biggest rip off game in existence. Despite my dislike for the game I wanted us to go well but could see something like this coming a mile off, I have to admit though I did still hold onto a little hope we'd beat Italy.
I'm glad that it's pretty much all over now.

petey · Post by **petey** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:40 pm

We would have beat italy, theres no doubt in my mind.

I'm extremely disappointed but i can't say i'm surprised.

Post by **norbs** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:55 pm

Sarsippius wrote:All seems pretty typical for soccer to me, the biggest rip off game in existence. Despite my dislike for the game I wanted us to go well but could see something like this coming a mile off, I have to admit though I did still hold onto a little hope we'd beat Italy.
I'm glad that it's pretty much all over now.

Big call Sarsi. Biggest rip off game? Not quite sure what you mean, but as far as people watching and participating, the numbers shit all over the 3 other codes out here.

And dont tell me there aren't problems in the other codes either.

Post by **norbs** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:58 pm

fourthof5 wrote:That reminds me. Did anyone catch the NSW premiers comments this morning ? Boy talk about being a prize beckman. Here we are for perhaps the first time with all of australia rallying behind the Australians and what does this birk say. "We are going to have a parade in Sydney, Home of the Socceroos" Sydney is NOT the home of the socceroos, you arogent prick. ALL of australia is. Thats the point, it unified the country perhaps more than any other sport in resent years, and the first thing he does is try to make it / them sydney centric. By christ that annoys me no end.

Not unlike the Commonwealth games hey Nige. Melbourne tried to turn them into a show about Melbourne. AFL players in an opening ceremony, with ballet dancers for fucks sake. Not saying what that wanker said is right, but he wont be the 1st and not the last either to try and make political mileage from it.

See Captain Fuckwit Joh Howard the other day jumping out of his seat like Menzies just rose from the dead. He wouldn't know a soccer ball if you fucked him with it.

Scuderia_Alan · Post by **Scuderia_Alan** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:06 pm

norbs wrote:
fourthof5 wrote:That reminds me. Did anyone catch the NSW premiers comments this morning ? Boy talk about being a prize beckman. Here we are for perhaps the first time with all of australia rallying behind the Australians and what does this birk say. "We are going to have a parade in Sydney, Home of the Socceroos" Sydney is NOT the home of the socceroos, you arogent prick. ALL of australia is. Thats the point, it unified the country perhaps more than any other sport in resent years, and the first thing he does is try to make it / them sydney centric. By christ that annoys me no end.
Not unlike the Commonwealth games hey Nige. Melbourne tried to turn them into a show about Melbourne. AFL players in an opening ceremony, with ballet dancers for fucks sake. Not saying what that wanker said is right, but he wont be the 1st and not the last either to try and make political mileage from it.

See Captain Fuckwit Joh Howard the other day jumping out of his seat like Menzies just rose from the dead. He wouldn't know a soccer ball if you fucked him with it.

You know it makes sense...

Enforcer-J · Post by **Enforcer-J** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 10:21 pm

Dammit, I got a mental picture of that...quite disturbing, even for me.

Montey · Post by **Montey** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:33 am

If you have a bunch of time on your hands and you want to see how funny it can be winding up the English about football check this thread out: http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcfor ... 338.0.html

If you don't want the time, take this posting as a funny sampler (and read the quotes it puts it in to context): http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcfor ... #msg438220

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:40 am

norbs wrote:
fourthof5 wrote:That reminds me. Did anyone catch the NSW premiers comments this morning ? Boy talk about being a prize beckman. Here we are for perhaps the first time with all of australia rallying behind the Australians and what does this birk say. "We are going to have a parade in Sydney, Home of the Socceroos" Sydney is NOT the home of the socceroos, you arogent prick. ALL of australia is. Thats the point, it unified the country perhaps more than any other sport in resent years, and the first thing he does is try to make it / them sydney centric. By christ that annoys me no end.
Not unlike the Commonwealth games hey Nige. Melbourne tried to turn them into a show about Melbourne. AFL players in an opening ceremony, with ballet dancers for fucks sake. Not saying what that wanker said is right, but he wont be the 1st and not the last either to try and make political mileage from it.

See Captain Fuckwit Joh Howard the other day jumping out of his seat like Menzies just rose from the dead. He wouldn't know a soccer ball if you fucked him with it.

Valid point there norbs. Of course Melbourne was actually hosting the games, but its still a valid point. I just hate shit like that.

Bacchulum · Post by **Bacchulum** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:40 pm

AstrO wrote:
BigPete33 wrote:Astro ur in adelaide too right?

Let me put it this way...they opened up adelaide oval to show a football match thats still considered a minority sport in this country...and it wasn't even a 1/4 final yet.

Ever been to the casino? That's where i watched the match and the place was FULL from top to bottom. Security guy confirmed it was at capacity. Happy to say 95% aussie fans too.

Sheer weight of numbers of people getting behind our guys and cheering the fuck out of them and experiencing all the emotions that go with a world cup certainly cant do any harm.

Even if there's a slight sour taste cos of how it ended I'm very confident that a lot of people who started to show an interest will remember how much fun they were having and there will definately be a positive flow on effect.
We would have been better off going down 1-0 with a goal that was worth something, I'm sure people would have taken it better. As it was all the non-soccer fans I've talked to today (that have been into the world cup) have just gone on about how gay it is because they are all a bunch of diving girls. I'm sure they will all go back to watching AFL & League now.

Is that gay as in "Aussie Rules players taking 2 weeks off for a "twinge" in the muscle" type gay????

I see tons of Aussie Rules players fall over in "supposed" agony after a little bitch slap too, if they think it will sway the umpire.
Simulation is a part of all sports (Schumacher/Rascasse) and those who only see it in one are deluding themselves or too embarrassed to admit that they have a closed mind, so just ignore them.

nutty · Post by **nutty** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:10 pm

Yea, AFL isnt excatly a tough sport. try playing 80min of union

Anyway, anyone watch this mornings games? bit of a upset with Spain loosing to France, and Brazil goes through with a easy win

petey · Post by **petey** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:19 pm

HAHA, Did you see Henry take that dive? and they scored off it too, absolute classic.

BigPete33 · Post by **BigPete33** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:45 pm

Agree with nutty about afl

union is far more physical.

Seems to be a good positive flow on effect happening already...have a read

http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,86 ... 40,00.html

fp · Post by fp » Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:53 pm

pixelboy wrote:
fourthof5 wrote:That reminds me. Did anyone catch the NSW premiers comments this morning ? Boy talk about being a prize beckman.
Maurice aint a beckham... Beckham is much smarter!

He said beckman, not Beckham

Enforcer-J · Post by **Enforcer-J** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:55 pm

Bacchulum wrote:
AstrO wrote:
BigPete33 wrote:Astro ur in adelaide too right?

Let me put it this way...they opened up adelaide oval to show a football match thats still considered a minority sport in this country...and it wasn't even a 1/4 final yet.

Ever been to the casino? That's where i watched the match and the place was FULL from top to bottom. Security guy confirmed it was at capacity. Happy to say 95% aussie fans too.

Sheer weight of numbers of people getting behind our guys and cheering the fuck out of them and experiencing all the emotions that go with a world cup certainly cant do any harm.

Even if there's a slight sour taste cos of how it ended I'm very confident that a lot of people who started to show an interest will remember how much fun they were having and there will definately be a positive flow on effect.
We would have been better off going down 1-0 with a goal that was worth something, I'm sure people would have taken it better. As it was all the non-soccer fans I've talked to today (that have been into the world cup) have just gone on about how gay it is because they are all a bunch of diving girls. I'm sure they will all go back to watching AFL & League now.
Is that gay as in "Aussie Rules players taking 2 weeks off for a "twinge" in the muscle" type gay????

Or is that thumb in the arse rugby type gay??

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:31 pm

So who is still watching ? And now Australia is out, who are you following ?

Scuderia_Alan · Post by **Scuderia_Alan** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:40 pm

Well Ghana and Spain quickly fell away too so it surprises me to find that I'd quite like Argentina to have a good run considering how easy on the eye their style of play is this time around, although they can also be the very worst when they play cynical. I'd mention the other team I'd probably support but I don't feel like becoming a pariah.

Sterling · Post by **Sterling** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:02 pm

I'll be barracking for the pommies..........and definately not Italy, France, Argentina or Brazil....