The Rugby Roundtable

Am informing Paul Tito of your obvious Ginga bias.

He will not be amused!

You all do not know how unbelievably stinnk I felt this morning when i heard, the news….. such excitment for the weeks new podcast turned to depression in the space of a little over 30min.

Kev, good on ya son, hope your new podcast goes well for you, i can tell you that i will be tuning in. And to clarify the issue for good: i am not a ginga, haven’t been and hopefully wont be… You looked so funny that 1 time on 3News coz you looked like you had scoffed 3 pies and not swallowed & once the ginga-bashing started the ball just kept rolling… no malise was intended: Long rein Colonel Ginga!!

To Jed & Staf, may these changes bring about a bigger, better, stronger RRT. Keep up the excellent work boys!!!!

kev, as the sober ying to jeremys raging yang, you will be missed. i dont know who they will pick on now youre gone?

as another person of colour (red), i understand the necessity of the role we play within any group dynamic. the constant jibes throughout our life about our poor tanning potential means that by a certain age, criticism runs from us like water of a ducks (or swans) back. however wrong you were, however bad your predictions for winners, scores and team selections, you just kept coming back for more abuse from the lads.

i look forward to the innaugural ‘kevin “the swan” sinnott hour’ almost as much as the next rrt.

congrats to all on 68 fantastic episodes. for those listeners who have perhaps begun to take for granted the quality of the rrt, i say to you: listen to ‘tah talk’, the nsw podcast. that pigswill really puts things into perspective.

@Jedi
Quite a big surprise, actually!

@All
Ladies, gentlemen and you forwards too, followers of The Blackness, leading citizens of the Rugby Universe and members of Our Little Pub: I believe it is about time we stand up, whenever we are, and give Kev, Staf and Jedi a roaring ovation for three years of RRT podcasts on allblacks.com. Sixty eight (68!) episodes of class, rugby wits and raw passion for The Blackness.

Kev, you will always be one of the three knights of the Rugby Round Table. We are NOT going to miss you because we are going to be listening to your podcast too (twice the fun!). Go you beauty! And we do acknowledge you. Gingas do have a special place in the RU.

Staf, Jed, there will be a big void for you to fill. Thank goodness you have MG 3.4.1.2.5 (French version) to help you out. And you do have some talent on your own (yeah, right!).

Well, as I said before, twice the fun and twice as many things for my wife to get pissed off about. >:)

Aroha nui tā

I don’t really have much to say, so in this entry I will simply take the chance to be critical.
@Gato: three years of Rugby Roundtable on allblacks.com… don’t you mean one and a half?:)

But… but… but… We likes the Ginga :’(

Oh well, you won’t be gone, i guess, if you’ll have your own podcast. I’ll be looking forward to it.

Good luck to the three (quatre) of you on the change. We’ll be here, as always, cheering for you guys.

May the Blackness be with you!

@Lorraine
Oops you are right! Sorry, my brain is still working in IT years (times 2 or 3 factor).

M u s t c u t o n t h e C-O-F-F-E-E

Bummer

Sorry Kev’s not part of the new make up – was a great podcast, hope his and yours maintain the standard.

Thanks Maaaaad Dutchman!

Shocking. The unholy trinity is rent asunder!

Can’t do without Kev. I too will be tuning into both.

So are the boys going to be blogging anymore? Where are you? I want my entertainment. Prof Thian, don’t make me go up there and go Clint Newland on ya, pal. Worse still, I’ll call the Ginga and rain fiery red hell upon thee and the Staf.

For all you other rugby lovebunnies out there, I happenned to catch the AB’s – Police game at Rugby Park, Lil’ England yesterday and can I say it was a marvellous event (thanks Ritchie).

If you guys have been to a club footy match (and I assume that we all have) that is just what it was like. It was the best footy game I have ever been to. The match was 4 x 15min quarters and was almost a gala affair. This was despite the presense of a large crowd of Christchurch’s finest (no, lads that does not mean the Manchester Street Girls). I actually counted 35 police cars and 5 Fire engines. If I was a thief, it would have been a golden opportunity cause I think that there were very few actual officers on duty who wern’t there!

I found myself standing next to the coach of the Blackness, the Dark Prince himself, at one stage. I looked at him, he squinted at me . I nodded, He nodded back. Life couldn’t get sweeter.

By there end of it the AB’s were handing out a hiding as one would expect and the crowd were calling for the Blackness to relent a little and let the boys in blue sneak through for a pride saver. Glad to report that the lads kept their feet firmly on the plods neck – a good sign for things to come.

Nice also to see Greg Somerville (bet he’s more glad to see us) on the sidelines as well as Comical Ali sussing out the Canterbury climate (watch this space).

Thats all to report from Little England. May all your dreams be black.

there are worse things in life than missing a warm up match. like getting these two muppets for parents:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6937327.stm

sorry, way off topic but how awesome would it be to have the 2019 world cup winning captain 4Real Jones.

dunno if the IRB hav them Gato, but i reckon we set the ref’s ref Paddy onto him!!!

was a bit dissapointed during the week to hear that Fitzy had withdrawn his comment about the Pom’s being fatties tho…

mad cows more like!!! good to see they got stomped again by the french tho… they were just starting to think they were gods gift to rugby again after thumping a Z grade welsh troop. As mentioned on the RRT last week: ENG v SAM could be a good punch-up…

BTW does anyone know how the angry samoans went against carlos & northampton lst nite???

Samoa won 24-21, no appearence for carlos. Hey, you have to admit, us poms are good at deluding ourseleves! it keeps us happy

You are on, Insaaaaane Person from the Netherlands!

Give Jed a break. He leaves this shores on Monday and he is probably drinking all the beer he can. Lets face it, he will be narrating the games AND the only think he will have to quench his thirst will be crap English beer. Lets hope they sell Romanian beer in London, for his sanity’s sake.

Having just slammed English beer, I will now support North Harbour just because that is Buck’s team. The Shield will remain in North Harbour. Pride will prevail and the Mooloos and their supporters will back to Waikato empty handed. Why? Because El Gato says so. And Stef will loose a lot of money and be a very sad bookie.

Aparently the Fragile Froggies (formerly known as Les Bleus) are starting to break like china. They just lost one of their props. The guy broke his leg skying. Imagine what Hayman or Woodcock would have done to him.

Question to all you beauties in Our Little Pub (OLP): have you started decorating your cubicles? Come on! FEEL THE BLACKNESS. Just so you know, the toenails will become black again this weekend (my pedicurist could not give me an appointment any earlier).

GO THE ALL BLACKS!

Thankyou Gato, your input is appreciated; because it’s clearly not rational, but hey we’ll just wait for tonight to see yeah??

I do understand Jed’s busy-ness/business (damn dyslexia strikes again…) of late: the World Cup will be all the better for the ARC; I can just see the big fella slouched over a bar somewhere in London, surrounded by dozens of empty vessels.

Not sure about your toenail thing though Gato… it reeks a little too much of Ma’a & his eyeliner for me, but yeah; let’s not just Stand in Black, but paint the World black!!!!!

well, well, well…. harbour copp a 50pt hiding @ the hands of the mooloos 2nite: i’d hate to tell “you i told u so” Gato, but f*^k it, i did & im drunk enuf to say it!!!! already booked the tix 2 nxt weeks defence (& it will be) v canterbury in the tron: well lookn 4ward 2 tht, almost as much as RWC kickoff in 14 days 6.5hrs…choice!!!!!

and a thort on the lack of female input…..
its not a coincidence that all the ladies hav left as soon as gingadorio did is it???

Yes, Respect that Gato!!!!

I indeed agree that the lack of Ginganess affecting female input is a disturbing coincidence, but it did seem bleedingly obvious & needed to be stated!!!!

I would say that the boys enjoyed a good few Waikato’s on saturday night (despite the crap beer that it is), but i really cant see them making th same mistake Harbour did last year & appearing hung-over the next week: Gatland will have the boys well-tuned up for the Defense & i read today that because Rally NZ is on in the ‘Tron ths weekend, the flat-landers have to stay in AKL; so I can just see an anti-Cantab roadblock being set-up on SH1 Saturday afternoon to prevent them getting into Sheild Country to begin with!!!!

Preach, Brother Fraser!