Sunday, February 6, 2005

Tee Hee.
Previously on Craig's blog...

Something about drink probably... anyway, the Six Nations opened this week (rugby tournament between England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales). First match we get our most... [tries thinking of a nicer way to say hated]... hated rivals England, at home. That is speaking from a pure sports fan sense of course. Was the outcome a good one for our hero? Find out... now!

Wales 11 - England 9 baby! I need say no more, but I will... because we scored 2 more points than they did and whupped their sorry asses.

This is a rivalry much like the Yankees and Red Sox, in terms of the intensity between them. I went down Abercwmboi rugby club, which is the team I play for, to watch the game with most of my team mates.

So the game starts off and we are looking pretty dangerous from the get-go. In a complete, non biased ;) opinion, we looked stronger, faster, healthier, more athletic and with more flair. Shane Williams (Wales winger) takes it over the line for the first score, and we're in the lead. Everybody's happy.

Then Steven Jones misses the conversion. See, rugby differs from the NFL in that one of the active players has to make all the kicks, there is no specialist position just for kicking (though, in fairness it is usually the Outside Half - the NFL equivalent would be the QB). Now, I'm not Steven Jones' biggest fan. I'm the sort of person that breaks down into tears every time I see that he's been picked to play. He starts missing kicks at goal, and you can see that my opinion of him is not going to improve.

Now, I'm not sure if Steven Jones missed another kick before he finally made one, but I think the score was 8-3 at half time. Don't quote me there. Charlie Hodgeson scored an England "field goal". England always seem to need a hero at Outside Half, and this is their new guy since Johnny Wilkinson got injured again and Olly Barklay keeps messing up.

So the second half starts and England score another kick, 8-6 Wales. Some time around this point Steven Jones misses again, by now he's really beginning to annoy me, especially since Gavin Henson is right next to him and his kicking form has been right on recently.

Now, a rugby match lasts 80 minutes, and 73 minutes in, England and awarded a penalty and kick another goal, so they now have a one point lead.

Then, 76 minutes in, we get a penalty about 40 metres from goal... and Gavin Henson steps up to kick it. Finally they relieved Steven Jones of kicking duties, the idiot. Henson kicks it sweet as you like, straight through the up rights. Wales 11 - England 9. Today's headlines all praising Henson as the hero, and rightly so, the guy was awesome all match.

That's just put me in a good mood now, and probably will for a while. Next week we've got Italy, a game which we should win. Currently watching Ireland and Italy... it's 3-3 with just over 20 minutes gone, and to be honest Ireland should be about fifteen points infront by now, but their just not playing very well for some reason.

So a very sport oriented post on Suberbowl Sunday... but that's all I could think to talk about.

11-9...


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