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Well America are doing well against Portugal, oh, well were, its now 3-2

And whats this about you playing the Rochdale(UK) team thur<?>

My home town you know

my rugby team is playing there touring side on thur...should be interesting...they have been playing pretty good this week but hopefully they will be very tired and we will send them home with a nice big loss

USA USA USA actauly my other team is (diffrent sport) the Carolina Huricanes are the underdogs to get the stanly cup and they just won last night (game one of best of seven) so I am doing pretty good...if my luck stays there the Nets will take the lakers at least in game 1..and my rugby team is prob concidered underdogs in the match up thur


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Oh right, I thought it was a joke and you had found out where I was from magically but you are actually playing Rochdale.

So few people have heard of good old Rochdale. Well, good old rochdale... ok so it might be a little boring.

Anyhow, goodluck And USA were good against Portugal

I was impressed

the funny thing is then we got another game sat against another touring side at some staduim in Jersey...all I know is I have to get a blazer and a tie to be in proper dress for the trip...so thrift store here I come we are playing "Garryowen of Ireland fame" team...and I think from what I heard last night that it's there c team...I might look up and see if they have a web site


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Their C team. Well 2 things come to mind there.

1) Players in the C team cannot be very good, by definition, or else they would be in the A or B team

Or

2) They must be quite good to have enough players to have 3 teams in the first place

Any luck with the website

Blazer and tie. Very nice

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I've tried to goto the site but I keep timeing out...acording to yahoo they are part of the All Ireland League

If what they said at practice...their c side usualy comes over and plays another team here (I think they said Princeton..not sure if it would be the school team or the city team) and hands their butts to them...that other team isn't as good as ours though...and I think the whole reason we are getting to play them is that the other US team was tired of lossing to them (there loss our gain)...this will be the first time we have played in a staduim of any sorts...heck the US super leage (thats our best teams) were playing the semifinals in just a plain old lined feild in the bronx last weekend...kinda sad realy


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Ah, so you're hitting the big time

It will be very to play in a stadium

Will many people be there<?>

hmmm good question Rugby in the US is not very popular so prob not...actualy the quote from the captain is "tens of people might show up" ...


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Aw, well, its the thought that counts Just think of all the teams that have played there before you

And the changing rooms might have hot water

actualy we follow a little schedule for our warm up rotine and one part is always called ok go into the locker room and get your kits on all the way....only we have never really had locker rooms so we just go over to our bags and change in front of everyone...this time we will actualy be using locker rooms so thats a step up


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And the pitch will be nice too

I used to play squash for a team and our facillities were terrible. We once played at this luxurious club and gos our behinds whupped

But the changing rooms were tremendous

all the guy's from the UK and other places where rugby is a big sport can't belive the pitches we play on...just because you have to look out for manhole covers and rocks and the ground is super hard and there are ocasional broken bottles...bunch of crybabbies if you ask me


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right. Are you calling them whimps<?>

It sounds a little dangerous if you ask me!

just jokeing around....about the conditions of our regular pitch...it wouldn't take much to beat our pitch..
(broken bottles are very rare and we do try to police the fields before hand...and there are manhole covers only on some of the fields )


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My friend played cricket on a pitch in England where there was a hill on one side so the boundary rope suddenly rose about a foot in height on one side

hmmm can't say that I know much about cricket so I will have to take the ness on your word


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It would be like having a football pitch with a curved touchline

depending on when the drinking starts that could be a reality for any team


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very true.

Well hopefully that won't be the case for England and we will beat Argentina convincingly.

I am reminded of England beating Germany 5-1 to help us qualify for the World Cup in the first place

well 1-0 ain't to shabby


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