South looking North

Howdy from Christchurch. Just off the telly after watching the news. The vibe here is pretty much that all Northern hemisphere rugby is in sorry state and the gap has opened hugely in the last 4 yrs. The commentators here are more or less stating it as fact that New Zealand will play South Africa in the final and treat most games in between as a bit of a distraction ( bar the aussies of course).
It's hard to blame them and for an Irishman down south looking north it makes the so called 'Achievement' of eddy winning a few triple crowns ring very hollow indeed. The holy grail of winning the 6 nations for Ireland would be seen down here as being the best of a pretty bad lot. It makes for dreary reading of the sports columns here- and lets face it sports journalism down under is unreadable at the best of times. However, as a typical romantic irish sports fan I live in hope that Ireland and hopefully one of our celtic cousins has enough in them to knock the tri-nations down a peg or two yet... God.. I forgot about France and Argentina....Think I have to go with dave. Argys for the semis.
Look forward to reading about the Georgia game- to be honest my heart and soul will be elsewhere this weekend, shouting for my beloved red jersey in Croker.
cheers, waughboy Print this post