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Mucky,
What a great result - all I can think of is how much of that beautiful singing must be going on during the matches.
Just one more time - fingers crossed!

Thanks Prue,
Wales is buzzing at the moment all anyone talks about is rugby, it's really true that when Wales are succesful in either footie or rugby the whole of Wales smiles and sings..lol
Saturdays game will be immense, I think all the past results will count for nothing as Ireland are a great side who will go up at least 3 steps at the Millenium stadium. The only sad thing is that when Wales gets really hyped up into a frenzy about something like this it usually goes pear shaped. Lets hope that is not the case.
I will be in an Irish pub called 'small' O'neils before during and after the game if anyone wants to help me battle to the bar.

;-)

Muck

We spent some time in 'small O'Neils' during the World Cup - I remember it well!!

Thats really strange, I was there last month when we hammered England :-) and I really can't remember much about it at all..lol

:-)
I will have a drink on your behalf

Muck

:)

Are any of you going to N.Z for the lions tour.

Hi clivchris,
I wish.....but unfortunately it's highly unlikely.
But I am confident there will be plenty of Welsh there.
The only Englishman is likely to be Clive woodward...lol


:-)

Muck

Wales will do it again. I don't think Ireland stand a chance. Wales deserve every piece of this grand slam. Lets just hope they don't choke.

Well Cardiff is at fever pitch tonight, the city center is preparing for 75000 people in the Millenium stadium and 140000 outside. The Civic center which is about 500 yds from the stadium will have a huge screen on the lawn and the weather forecast is good.All the pubs are preparing to make a fortune and the Irish people are all preparing to win. The problem is I'm not so sure they will.. ;-)
Our under 21 team beat theirs tonight 32 -5 so its looking good so far.

I suspect that if I manage to get anywhere near a bar I may just have a beer or 2 tomorrow.
Good Luck Wales
The best side will win ( Wales of course...lol)

If I am still sober I will try to find my notebook and tell you all about it tomorrow.

Cymru am byth

Muckie

Well what a day !
I and almost every other Welsh man and Woman in the world converged upon Cardiff, every pub was packed the lawn in the civic center was packed, the sun shone and it was a beautiful sunny even warm spring day.

And the result was just perfect, despite some 2nd half Irish pressure we finally did it !!!

Every Irish man and woman I spoke too in the pub were the nicest friendliest happiest bunch of people I could ever have wished to meet. Even in their loss they were full of congratulations for all the welsh and we all had a great time together.
I guess that's what its all about.

So today my head is pretty good, Mrs Muck and I stink of garlic after heading to the Taurus for the biggest steak I have ever seen in my life.

My thanks to my Irish friends who were in small O'neils pub, you were the best.
Well done Wales..We did it !!!!!
Grand slam, triple crown, and a song or two from Max Boyce to start it all off....
The whole of Wales is smiling today.
I have just been to the shops and so many people are still wearing their rugby shirts (most with beer stains down the front) I am sure they will never take them off....lol
Muck

Congratulations Muck.

Good on Wales. Look forward to seeing a few Welshmen over here in June and July with the Lions.

Hope the celebrations went well, the singing was strong and the heads are not too sore.

Steve

Well done Mucky - what a great result - and as I said before I can just imagine how wonderful the singing was - or still is!!

Wow - well done for Wales - it doesn't get any better than this!

Cardiff - back then there was a time when someone's grey haired granny gave John Eales the World Cup!

Margo, Not much singing to be heard then!!

John who......?

;-)

Woohoo, go the Welsh! What a fantamatastical result!! My 87 year old dad launched into a pretty great rendition of 'Dear Land of My Fathers' in honour of the win. My brother and sister-in-law, who live in Gloucestershire and have come back to NZ for 2 months holiday, were also full of excitement at the news of the win.

Prue

No - Aussies are not great singers!

Mucky: :P

Congrats Mucky. I arrived back in Dublin yesterday (was in Milan) to a very disapointed Ireland. They have a knack for kidding themselves. Very proud they are. They honestly thought they'd win.

Last year when they came 2nd in the 6 nations ppl were claiming France and Ireland were the best 2 teams in the world. That was funny...

Only a few days ago Irish people I know were saw France as a bigger threat. 'We only need to beat Wales by 10 points' they'd say =) They were worried France would beat Italy by too much and take the 6N away from them. =)

Anyway, after seeing Wales come very close to beating England in the world cup I knew they had a lot of potential. They had a lot of class but were lacking the experience needed to win games. 2 years on they have that experience.

So good on ya! Excellent performance, Wales has earned every bit of this Grand Slam/Tripple Crown/Six Nations tournament.

Thanks all for your kind words.
Wales really must build upon this success, the side is young the under 21 side is doing well this leads to a great future hopefully. If we can get 11 or 12 players in the Lions squad for NZ that will be tremendous experience.I suspect though that Mr Woodward will fill the squad with his English friends, lets hope not.
Here is a link to a BBC story, which really shows what this success means to a small country like Wales.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4366299.stm

Cheers

Muck

Next big game at Cardiff - the Wallabies are coming - World Cup 2007!

See you there Margo !!

>Next big game at Cardiff - the Wallabies are coming - World Cup 2007!

The wallabies will be playing there in september this year. I intend to be there decked out in yellow!

Also the world cup 2007 is being hosted by France. Are they really going to play a game in Wales?

Current IRB world rankings:

1 (1) New Zealand 90.90
2 (2) Australia 88.58
3 (3) South Africa 85.78
4 (4) France 84.67
5 (7) Wales 83.08
6 (6) England 82.81
7 (5) Ireland 82.14
8 (8) Argentina 77.63
9 (9) Fiji 74.17
10 (10) Scotland 73.48

Yes Brisbanite, some games will be in Cardiff, this is part of a reciprical agreement from 1999 world cup where wales used french stadiums for the competition.

Muck

That's great. Will most certainly have to make the trip over the Irish sea for that one. When the wallabies tour this year they'll be playing Wales, England and Ireland. I'm going to try to get tickets for each of the games.

Tickets are finally available to Australian residents for these games. That means it will be more than possible for someone with an Austrlian address (like me) to buy tickets and have them sent to my real address =)

Otherwise there's virtually no chance what so ever of getting tickets to anything in this country.

Hey Bris,
Get some for me too,I'll join you.
:-)

Muck

Fascinating that a topic like this - not at all relating to this end of the world - can pick upn 25 responses.

Go the Wallabies!

>Fascinating that a topic like this - not at all relating to this end of the world - can pick upn 25 responses.


When ppl on this side of the world think Rugby they think of Aussies and Kiwis. Here in Ireland, it seems the number 1 two places for Irish ppl to go to see a game (if they can't be at the game) is the down under bar and the outback bar. The two Aussie/Kiwi pubs in the city.

Because you can always guarantee the game will be on tv there! Some pubs here will play a local soccer match rather than an international rugby game. Even if Ireland are playing!

I was in a hotel in Wallsall and the Wales Scotland match was due on TV. I asked the manager if the game would be shown and he said no because he preferred football !!
Naturally I had a chit chat with him about who comes first him or his customers. He didn't care.
I am pretty sure that if England had been on he would have made sure it was showing.
No one was watching the TV and all that was on was results.
I watched it in my room. Wales won then too !
Nasty Englishman.

Muck

>I was in a hotel in Wallsall and the Wales Scotland match was due on TV. I asked the manager if the game would be shown and he said no because he preferred football !!

I find that sort of attitude towards customers here in Dublin too. There isn't enough competition in any industry.

I first encountered this problem of a game not being shown when the wallabies played in Ireland 2 years ago. We were on the west coast. Stopped in at a pub for lunch and to watch the game to find that it was soccer on ever tv screen. But, in this case, the pub owner was more than happy to put the real footy on one of the screens for us.