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[BartMan]

Ratpoo.

It obviously still rankles that SIR Ted and the All BLacks won this last RWC despite his best efforts with his keyboard...

http://www.nzherald....jectid=10782466

"Henry hammering England rugby a bit rich" is the headline.

I've not ready any of the rest, but I think Henry point at a black jersey in a black coalmine worn by a black man painted black and say, "gee, that's a lot of black", and Ratpoo would find something wrong with the statement.

[booboo]

Of course Bart - that would be Henry being racist and arrogant and devaluing the black jesry by putting it in a coal mine.

I read some comments after the NZ Herald article that reported his comments and there IS some Henry hate out there. I don't get it. Apparently he is a very mediocre coach, with a mediocre record and was lucky he scraped through on the back on home ground advantage and favourable refereeing*...

(* As to the latter - had a bit of a look at that and by my reckoning Joubert's decisions were massively in favour in France ... but that's not allowable opinion out there in the world of All Black and Henry hate.)

Edited by booboo, 01 February 2012 - 09:33 AM.

[Nepia]

booboo said:

Of course Bart - that would be Henry being racist and arrogant and devaluing the black jesry by putting it in a coal mine.

I read some comments after the NZ Herald article that reported his comments and there IS some Henry hate out there. I don't get it. Apparently he is a very mediocre coach, with a mediocre record and was lucky he scraped through on the back on home ground advantage and favourable refereeing*...

(* As to the latter - had a bit of a look at that and by my reckoning Joubert's decisions were massively in favour in France ... but that's not allowable opinion out there in the world of All Black and Henry hate.)

It's weird, like they all took a year off for the WC and now that's over they can start putting the boot in.

[Crucial]

OK. I was silly enough to click the link and read it. Another load of rubbish that in true Ratpoo style condradicts itself and makes assertions without any backup. It's like the ramblings of an old fool propping up the end of the bar after listening to the talkback radio.
He says it is rich that Henry says England are talent wasters because by not winning the RWC in 2007 and only just winning in 2011 he must be a big talent waster himself. Can't quite work out how he reaches that conclusion.

Funniest thing is that I see he also wrote a column a couple of weeks back titled "When Bitter and Twisted goes too far"

[scruffy-lookin]

Crucial said:

Funniest thing is that I see he also wrote a column a couple of weeks back titled "When Bitter and Twisted goes too far"

I saw that headline and thought, oh he's decided to let go of the Henry-hatred and other assorted petty grudges, build a bridge and get over it. But, no, it was so completely lacking in self-awareness as to be cringe-worthy.

I guess he sees himself as a crusader for truth shouting that the emperor has no clothes while the deluded masses continue to admire Sir Ted's impressive wardrobe of achievements. That or he is King Troll who delights in getting the comments section humming while he sits back and laughs at his latest collection of contradictory comments and assertions.

[antipodean]

Has anyone seen Ratpoo and Jones in the same room..?

[Crucial]

antipodean said:

Has anyone seen Ratpoo and Jones in the same room..?

That room would be in the type of establishment that I wouldn't frequent.

[taniwharugby]

I skimmed over that this morning (Paper version) and Ratpoo agrees with what Sir Henry has to say, doesnt go into detail over all these players that Henry has wasted either, but hey, maybe he has been told he needs to up his readership and complaints a bit, what better way to stir things up with barbs at Ted?

[dogmeat]

Ratpoo is NZ's best rugby journalist. He must be I overheard Murray Deaker tell Mark Reason so.

[Rancid Schnitzel]

For some stupid reason I read this article (or at least half of it) on the train to work this morning. He is certainly an årse clown of the highest order. Henry showed him up for the 10th rate hack he is and he can't handle it. Bet he got a horn just thinking about the ABs farking up in the RWC.

[RoninWC]

Crucial said:

That room would be in the type of establishment that I wouldn't frequent.

A more fitting establishment would be one with padded walls and a "special" jacket that does up at the back...
That's where the both of those two blowhards belong.

I worked in Journalism for many years (in fact for 12 years at a News Agency) along side many true Journalists and these two tossers are simply just NOT journalists... they are sensationalist looking for some sort of ego stroke... If either or both of these two were in the States... you would be certain they'd end up working at Fox News... That's the sort of gutter trash these two peddle :knuppel:

[cat meat]

Give it a while and Ratpoo will be back saying we should have taken Deans over Henry.