Game Day!! Force v Rebels

[terrycobner]

Whoever said nib is the House of our Pain was on the nail. How many home games have we actually won ?
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[BeeJay]

I don't know what was in your Bratwurst, Rex, but you are on the money again with that analysis. I'll be back again next week in Blue, for the 8th year in a row, up in FF, just hoping they put in a performance worthy of respect.

I always worry about extended warm ups on warm days like yesterday. The guys were blowing in the warmup!

Even Mafi went off with cramp.

[Jules]

I have calmed down today and know I can't just give up supporting them no matter what. It's just hard to think that its the same team that a couple of weeks ago was proud as punch of when they beat the reds! I will be there next week in my gear praying to the rugby gods for a good performance and that any injuries this week were only minor..
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[valzc]

I don't know what was in your Bratwurst, Rex, but you are on the money again with that analysis. I'll be back again next week in Blue, for the 8th year in a row, up in FF, just hoping they put in a performance worthy of respect.

I always worry about extended warm ups on warm days like yesterday. The guys were blowing in the warmup!

Even Mafi went off with cramp.

There's something in that BeeJay - we arrived lated just before the start and when they came out for kickoff we thought they looked tired already. And they seemed to be physically flat the first 20 mins, which gave the rabble the chance they needed.

[travelling_gerry]

I was worried when Longbum went into lala land after the first scrum and was walking around in circles. Morefood I think decided to go out in sympathy with him.

The attrition rate of MMM, then Sias unsettled us.

[Alison]

I was worried when Longbum went into lala land after the first scrum and was walking around in circles. Morefood I think decided to go out in sympathy with him.

The attrition rate of MMM, then Sias unsettled us.

Re MMM injury - Phoenix Battye isn't playing for Wanaroo today as planned, as he is injury cover for MMM. Seems MMM could be out for several weeks :-(((

[Alison]

I was worried when Longbum went into lala land after the first scrum and was walking around in circles. Morefood I think decided to go out in sympathy with him.

The attrition rate of MMM, then Sias unsettled us.

Reckon Ma'Food's knee threw a tanty as it was fed up of bearing the weight of the belly above it!

[The InnFORCEr]

Whoever said nib is the House of our Pain was on the nail. How many home games have we actually won ?
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Speak king of which, imagine how the Highlanders fans are feeling ATM, playing much better rugby without the results.

[FingerTips]

Could have fitted that into the old stadium and had room left over. They carry on with results like yesterday and someone will have wasted a lot of money on that grandstand.

1. Game
   The gutted feelings have sort of stopped. Now it's despair and déjà vu. We've been here too many times before.
2. New Stadium
   Great view from row W, after the sun had set, around about 20 minutes into the second half. Which clever lads and lasses scheduled the start of the game for 16h40, as the afternoon sun shone directly into the eyes of the upper rows of the Eastern Stand? Surely a triumph of the needs of TV broadcasting schedules over the comfort of the paying punters.
   And as for the gridlock which was the post match queueing to get out of the Eastern Stand - too many people, too few exits. If there ever is an emergency and they have to evacuate the new Eastern Stand in a hurry, then the resulting panic and crush may produce more cadavers than there are mortuary spaces in the State of Western Australia. IM[unqualified]O, it's a cheap and nasty construction - every expense spared.
3. Attendance
   In 2011, the average match attendance was 16,000. I haven't seen the 2012 annual report from Rugby WA, but I seem to remember an article in the West saying something about a reduced average attendance in 2012. The first home game this year pulled 12,100, last night's 11,500. Not a good trend. Rugby WA probably has all fingers and toes crossed that there will be a big turnout by the Kiwi Diaspora for the Crusaders' Massacre of the Innocents next Saturday.

Has there ever been less than 10,000 in the crowd for a Force game at home?

[shasta]

Great first post

Think I'll go slit my wrists now.

[jargan83]

Surely a triumph of the needs of TV broadcasting schedules over the comfort of the paying punters.

TV rights pays the bills for sport these days so Fox Sports would have a big say in determining the schedule

[SNOB]

TV rights pays the bills for sport these days so Fox Sports would have a big say in determining the schedule

And now I know why they charge the punters so much. They had to fly the whole Fox commentary team over.

[SinBin]

..I'm just dreading what the Saders will do to us next week. ..

We've got a habit of raising our game against the big teams and rolling over to easy beats...

[Piston]

Speak king of which, imagine how the Highlanders fans are feeling ATM, playing much better rugby without the results.

True, but if they have played the Rabble twice so far this season they would have had 2 wins by now!
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[jargan83]

True, but if they have played the Rabble twice so far this season they would have had 2 wins by now!
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Could say the same for them playing the Force
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