All Blacks

[longqi]

I back the Wallabies but just had a look at the record of the All Blacks 1903 2012

Has there ever been a sporting team of any kind with a similar record??

No other rugby team comes even close
They have beaten every other team many more times than they have lost
They hold every championship they can win

Win/loss record nearly 80%
Score for and against 12000 for; 6000 against

Maybe Americas Basketball team could beat that??
American Dream Team probably could but not if you include all the other basketball games prior to the Dream Team and Dream Team only plays pretty rarely

Cant think of any other team ??

 

[slim6y]

Are you a kiwi longqi? Or just a union fan?

Another record, held by Man Utd is the most fans in the world!

ABs fall way behind...

I'm fairly sure that US basketball isn't No.1 in the world though...

 

[SteveNT]

The Darwin Ice Hockey team has never been defeated despite challenging all the top teams in the world!
They have won every match on forfeit

 

[smithson]

The allblacks rock

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The allblacks rock

 

[phantomreptiles]

Kiwis are just better

 

[Umbral]

It's a very impressive record indeed!

 

[Stuart]

Pity the South Africans "poisoned" them to win the 1995 World Cup

Nah, but really, they are a phenomenal team

 

[longqi]

Are you a kiwi longqi? Or just a union fan?

Another record, held by Man Utd is the most fans in the world!

ABs fall way behind...

I'm fairly sure that US basketball isn't No.1 in the world though...

Not a kiwi but yes I like both union and league
I knew they were good but seeing it in official records was pretty impressive
To have a record like that over 100 years is not to shabby

Steve

The Darwin Ice Hockey team has never been defeated despite challenging all the top teams in the world!
They have won every match on forfeit

very impressive but the for/against points ratio means they must possibly come second??
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[SteveNT]

Nah, they award themselves 4 points every time the opposition doesn't show.

They got a fright last year when a Canadian player in Darwin offered to take on their whole team single handed. But the the rules say 1 bloke is not a team. Rack up another 4 points!

 

[slim6y]

The Canuck should have rounded up a couple of hobbos and drunkards and just told them he'd shout them a beer if they put these skates on and sat on the ice for an hour...

 

[SteveNT]

(Just quietly, we dont have any ice!)

 

[slim6y]

slightly smoothed concrete perhaps?

 

[longqi]

slightly smoothed concrete perhaps?

My dad had a stroke when I was about 16
Knocked him about a bit
We had a truck coming with concrete for our pretty steep driveway

Got a couple of school mates together and laid the concrete
Worked it til it was smooth as a babies bum
Looked fantastic
But couldnt drive up it because it was so slippery
Had to hit it with jackhammers to roughen the top off

oops

 

[slim6y]

So they did it again... And with annoyingly clinical fashion against the Boks last night (this morning our time).

The thing is... I put a tip on (just a freebie, so no money lost) that the overall (combined) score from both teams would be less than 47.5.... Final score, 16 - 32... YEARRRRRRRRRRG!

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Oh, and TWO more reasons why teams like the All Blacks have success...

Ritchie McCaw (the boy from Oamaru): "The influential captain even suspected his foot was broken, but instead of putting his RWC campaign at risk, he didn't have an X-ray on the injury." It continues with "Instead he got through the tournament on painkillers and adrenaline."

But that's NOTHING on Wayne "Buck" Shelford: "Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and an errant French boot found its way into Shelford's groin, somehow ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. Incredibly, after discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physio to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed."

Stupidity, pride, heroics... What ever it is... It works!

 

[longqi]

But that's NOTHING on Wayne "Buck" Shelford: "Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and an errant French boot found its way into Shelford's groin, somehow ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. Incredibly, after discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physio to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed."

Stupidity, pride, heroics... What ever it is... It works!

I had tears in my eyes imagining how much that would hurt
Bad enough getting your goolies banged
But to have one actually hanging around doing its own thing???
YOWTCH

Hopefully we can get close tonight
Just got 10/1 with 15 points

 

[smithson]

The men in black by 10 points I will be a hard game !

 

[longqi]

Finally picked a winner or at least a draw
ty ty ty

So we got a bit of backbone and played hard
Not a pretty game

 

[smithson]

It was a crap game the ref made some bad az calls
and them two dirty dirty Aussie players one with a late charge and one with knee and
head butt but all in all a crap game by the all blacks!