Do the full box in before you go to bed and you might just about get away with this one. Might I said. Fruit cider? FFS pal, is this what it's come to? I am genuinely upset at this revelation , who in the name of Jesus H Christ did you buy the bastards for? Kinnel.
It was john. For the mrs friends, who drank my bloody Gin. I really cant. My piss stinks and i've had four. I cant face the other two. I sent Chazz jr to shop today thinking he'd come back with two bottles of Coke or pepsi so i could have a few Bacardis tonight. Irn Bru he comes back with!! Jesus christ thats rank.
I tried Irn Bru when living north of the border, and was convinced after trying it, it was just Scots piss in a bottle.
I was at Wembley yesterday, fantastic attendance and a great event. Whilst the crowd was impressive it felt like most were there for the occasion and not the game much like the Olympics, people were more bothered about running in and out of the concourse to get beers or playing on their phones than they were watching the game. It did surprise me how much hate there was from English fans for the Kiwis and how they seemed to be supporting Argentina, would have thought it was the other way round. As for the game, New Zealand didn't get out of first gear and didn't have to, they knew the bench would win them the game in the second half when the Pumas tired and that's exactly what happened, the Kiwis have a bench that would be in every other teams first fifteen.
To be fair there was easily more than a thousand empty seats there yesterday, so I highly doubt there was 89,019 there which is just 981 under capacity. Same as the Challenge Cup final, given the empty blocks there's not a chance over 80,000 were there.
I remember betting against City,we were playing WHU, at Upton Park. ?They were Champions, we were relegated, we won 2-1! Cost me £150, lesson learnt that day.
With an event like that I imagine that blocks were bought by corporates who didn't use all the tickets but didn't send unused ones back for resale. Still an impressive attendance for a game involving two neutrals. The RU have a good marketing department. Though the fact that 9.4million, the largest audience for a TV sporting event this year, watched the opening game suggests that there is more interest in union, at least for international games, than is widely thought.
Yeah it was a great crowd, I was surprised how many actual New Zealanders and Argentinians were there, not sure if they'd travelled over or happened to live in London but there was absolutely loads of them! The ballot system was a genius idea, people over anticipated demand and applied for multiple games (up to 20), by applying they had to supply their bank details and if successful the money was taken automatically, stopping people backing out. It turns out all games but the final were available for general sale after the ballot system, I've been getting spammed with emails from them for nearly a year, however the ballot system left people with tickets they probably wouldn't have bought if they knew they could just pick and choose games on general sale but as they'd already paid for them they are obviously going to use them. I ended up with 10 pairs of tickets through the ballot system thinking I'd only get one or two, I'm only going to two of the games, luckily other people have been kind enough to take the rest off my hands. I'm not saying there wouldn't have been huge crowds regardless of the ballot system, its obviously a very popular event but it strikes me as a great way of guaranteeing high attendances months before the event starts.
That is surprising and disappointing. I've been to a few RU internationals, and I've always been struck by the friendly nature of it all, plus I've always thought the Kiwis were a team respected for their achievements in the game. Sometimes, as we've seen in football, a good bit of marketing hype can attract newer people that may have knowledge, but lack the soul for the event. Looked a cracking day out all in all, I'm jealous.
Maybe hate was a bit of strong word, I supposed they were more the pantomime villains, the atmosphere was really friendly on the whole. I just assumed the English would be willing anyone to beat the Argentinians, regardless of the sport!
They had to close the World Cup pop-up shop on Oxford Street at the weekend, they couldn't cope with all the Japanese tourists.
. There's a picture on FB of Japanese restaurant detailing the sushi menu with a special of Springbok!
The Argentine people are great, I've been lucky enough to visit BA, the folk don't talk about the Falklands, they are more interested in talking about 'The hand of God'.
Same and agreed. Sides, the sort of people who would "support" the All Blacks are the same who "support" Liverpool but couldn't point to the place on a ****ing map of Merseyside.
Other examples of marketing is playing some club fixtures at Twickenham. They have played Saracens and Harlequins games at Twickenham and got close on 80,000 and just over 80,000 at Wembleynfor club matches between teams which normally get 10,000. That is like playing an FC v .Rovers or Leeds v Bradford Super League game at Old Trafford and getting 75,000 there.
