Sacre Bleu! Fiji Bati Pwns the French!

Wilson — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:58:00 +0000

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle’s left…leg.

There’s bad news, and then there’s good news, of which the later variety comes in several incarnations.

There’s good news where a family member gets married (huray! little nephew/niece tykes!) and the whole family, extended and all gets to join in the ensuring celebration.

Then there’s great news, like you getting the promotion, allowing you access to that car you’ve always mourned at in the display window.

Then, there’s news that is so awesomely awesome, that you’ll be naming your kids after the fateful day just so that the event will be remembered down the dark, musty halls of time.

Yes. In the world of the Rugby League World Cup, the Vodafone Fiji Bati, in their first pool match, has taken the French Team and rubbed their faces in the pitch, seven times over. An epic score of 42 to 6 has made the 500-1 Fiji team now hot favourites.

Seven tries people. Seven awe inspiring, heart warming, this-aint-over-the-best-is-yet-to-come, grog swirling, patriotic pride inducing tries. If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought that such a hugh scoreline would have belonged to a sevens match between say Hong Kong andMalaysia. Scores with that big a margin don’t translate well to a supposed 1st rate rugby country such as the French Roosters. If anything, 6 points to the French means that they were forever stuck on the back foot. The french coach John Monie was right. “They had too much enthusiasm.”

For those of you who missed the game (me included, blame halloween), fear not,for thanks to the power of the Internet, a few of the tries are available on Youtube, and thus, here! Big vinaka to rugsta15 for uploading the videos and sharing the love. All thats left now is for the torrent of the full game to be made available.

/wish

Fiji – 16 France – 6

Akuila Uate’s 1st Try

Commentor note: “Anymore of this and they’ll buy him an island!”

Fiji – 22 France – 6

Akuila Uate’s 2nd Try

Commentor note: “YOOUWAATEE!!!“

Fiji – 30 France – 6

Semisi Tora’s (Commentors were refering to him as ‘Tori’) Try

Commentor note: “The celebrations will be emotional once if they cross the line – AND THEY DOOO!!!!” Gotta love the timing in that one.

Fiji – 36 France – 6

Jaryyd Hayne’s Try

Commentor note: “Get out the bowls, get out the kava, its going to be one hell of a party!“ Lol ^_^

Fiji – 42 France – 6

Akuila Uate’s 3rd Try

Commentor note: “42 points to 6! What? Who would have thought?!” Fuck yeah, you’d better recognise

Points worth pointing out:

1) Akuila Uate is the next ‘insert-great-rugby-icon-from-fiji’ player. That guy gets rugby team scouts all hot and wet.

2) I’m not going to miss the next game against Scotland this upcoming Wednesday. And if you count yourself as a true rugby patriot, you wouldn’t too. Not for all the cheap barrel nights in the world. Or beer katis.

3) Vodafone Fiji is going to be so happy. Queue another media blitz about who exactly is sponsoring that winning team. The sevens team now have extra pressure to perform from their Digicel sponsors in order to look just as good.

4) I’m just so god-darned proud to be Fijian right now that it hurts ^_^

To keep that patriotic fever pitch going, here’s a great song written by Igelese Ete for the Fiji Bati and performed by the ever amazing Talei Burns with the Pacific Voices choir.

Lulz Photo of the Month

Wilson — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:52:00 +0000

50 Brownie points for whoever can point out what’s wrong with this picture.

Hint: It has something to do with the previous post

Failed Paradise » pwnd

Sacre Bleu! Fiji Bati Pwns the French!

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