04/23/24
March 06, 2006
Novel excuses for losing: Well, I've heard a few, but how about "Town was too boring"? That's right: after a hiding in Hamilton, the Queensland Reds have blamed the city for being so boring as to put the players into a snooze before the big game. But how boring is Hamilton, really? After all, Waikato and All Black half-back Byron Kelleher seems to keep himself amused.
Why are all the old Hartford Whalers nodding? Good story, rodgerd. I've never been to Hamilton, but I think I could understand how being "Stuck in a hotel lazing around just counting the hours till we can get out and get playing certainly wasn't the best preparation." I don't see that as farfetched, but throwing that excuse out to the media is pretty lame.
posted by BullpenPro at 05:53 PM on March 06, 2006
I thought Hartford was in Connecticut.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 06:48 PM on March 06, 2006
You only have to look at the Super12/14 tables over the competition to see the Reds need to use every excuse in the book. Why the ARU decided to put another team in when rugby north of the Tweed is in such bad shape I don't know. And don't get me started on John Connolly. Or Queensland private schools. /attempts to hijack thread
posted by owlhouse at 07:24 PM on March 06, 2006
Bummer! Now the Cowboys will need to come up with another excuse the next time they go to Philadelphia.
posted by Bud Lang at 08:51 PM on March 06, 2006
Hamilton, NZ is a boring place. Hell, even Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is ten times more exciting. But the Reds suck, and blaming the city is a pisspoor lame excuse for losing. And Byron Kelleher has lost the plot for the past year, too much porn distraction on the brain (Justin Marshall, all is forgiven, you can return home now, there's a job opening for you). Much more worrying for the ABs is the drinking and carousing of Daniel Carter -- keep yr nose clean Danny-boy.
posted by the red terror at 08:49 AM on March 07, 2006
Oh, and Kelleher doesn't actually live in boring landlocked Hamilton, he just works there and makes the daily commute to practise from his and Kaylani Lei's swanky sexual gymnasium located on a remote piece of coastline near Tauranga.
posted by the red terror at 08:53 AM on March 07, 2006
If someone from Brisbane says your town is boring... In fact I've been to Hamilton and have lived in Brisbane for a time. I think the Reds doth protest too much.