The Roar Rugby Review
Columnist By Andrew Logan, 2 Jul 2008 Andrew Logan is a Roar Expert
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In this week’s show, we discuss some of your comments on the Australia vs France Tests, look at the big matches coming up, and catch up with a couple of guests who know a thing or two about French rugby.
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Former Wallaby hooker Marco Caputo spent three years in France, playing two national finals and one Heineken Cup final, so he knows a bit about how things work over there.
After the discussion on the site the other day about how many Tests he played, I called him and found out that he was going to be in Sydney.
So I dropped in to his hotel and asked him a few questions about his playing career in France, his toughest opponent, what it’s like on the field in France, and what he liked most about the experience.
You can see some of his comments during the show. Thanks for letting us rearrange your hotel room Marco!
The other personality is renowned French chef and part-time French team ‘mascot’, Guillame Brahimi.
Guillame spent some time playing rugby in Sydney for Woollahra Colleagues, so Mat Collett caught up with his old teammate and asked him a few questions about the French.
It was shot last week, so he was optimistic about their chances at that stage. Keep cheering your boys on this week Guillame.
Other topics under discussion are Australia A vs the NZ Maori next week; the lack of curtain raisers in modern rugby; the Bingham Cup; and the ELVs for the Tri-Nations.
All this, and a few giggles at Mat trying to pronounce “Soaialo”!
We’d love to see your comments and suggestions, as well as ideas for people and things you’d like to see on the show. We look forward to hearing from you.
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July 2nd 2008 @ 6:21am
Doctor Best said | July 2nd 2008 @ 6:21am | Report comment
Excellent presentation, guys. Good to hear your Aussie accents, and nice to see a couple of rugby commentators being so relaxed and right for a change.
A point about the curtain raisers: I was astonished to find, when I went to England years ago, that there were no CRs played there. And the English were astonished to hear we always had them in Sydney. But, absent any developments on this score, the organizers of the Oz/France tests could do way better with the pre-match intros. The Marseillaise is one of the most vibrant anthems around, but it can’t be performed at a rugby game by a soprano, as was the case last week, because the key is way too high for the French players to sing along and passionately shout it out. I’ve never seen a French rugby team less interested in singing it than last Saturday’s team.
Similarly, the young woman who sang Advance Australia was quite lovely, but our guys couldn’t sing along with her, either. We need baritones for the anthems, or if we want to have the distaff side perform, Wagnerian mezzos, which shouldn’t be such a tough call in opera-mad Sydney.
And pul-eeese, can we have a better rendition than the adenoidal pop singer who limps through Waltzing Matilda. The crowd can’t sing along with him/her, and a big rendition would fire things up enormously. The English are way ahead of us with Chariots – they only have one verse, a verse which doesn’t really mean anything, but it’s extremely singable.
How about that? I got through an entire post without once mentioning anything detrimental about Aussie props or locks.
Keep up the good work, fellas. And stop being so damned fair.
July 2nd 2008 @ 7:54am
Spiro Zavos said | July 2nd 2008 @ 7:54am | Report comment
Great work fellas. A terrific video presentation. I liked the reference to the Sydney Convicts winning the Bingham Cup. Mark Bingham was on board one of the planes that attempted to take out the Pentagon on 9/11. He was an enthusiastic rugby player in the San Francisco area. His heroism was so outstanding during the awful ordeal of his last hours that a popular line of T-shirts was created: TERRORISTS BEWARE, RUGBY PLAYERS ON BOARD.
July 2nd 2008 @ 8:25am
Dexter William said | July 2nd 2008 @ 8:25am | Report comment
Dr Best
Can’t agree with you more on the subject of singing the National Anthem.
Rugby Event organiser take note:
Pick singers that just sing the Anthem straight – no Sarah Vaughn types.
Very important to choose a Singer that can sing at a note where big ugly rugby players can sing along to.
Advance Australia Fair is too easy to be oversung, so Pop Singers should be avoided. Last weekend, Paulineeee sang it too quick and too much- you can tell when the Wallabies sort of semi open their mouths in singing along. I was sitting next to a women who had trouble trying to sing along too.
July 2nd 2008 @ 8:37am
Andrew Logan said | July 2nd 2008 @ 8:37am | Report comment
Thanks Spiro. The Convicts are building a formidable record in the Bingham Cup, they have definitely won it twice, and possibly three times, which is impressive. They are a pretty physical outfit too. I recall a couple of years ago at Bondi Tens that some established teams thought they might beat the newly minted Convicts fairly easily, until the Convicts vs Navy game. It was a brutal encounter with not a few fists flying and some big tackles going in. There was a new respect around the ground after that.
July 2nd 2008 @ 11:10am
Davout said | July 2nd 2008 @ 11:10am | Report comment
Lads 2 great shows in a row But a 500mB file. Who is paying for your bandwidth? Compress, compress, compress!
Absolutely agree with the need for a decent curtainraiser and the need for 2 bullets – one for the ground announcer and one for the Waltzing Matilda singer or just one for the marketing manager that thinks they are great ideas!
July 2nd 2008 @ 11:21am
DaniE said | July 2nd 2008 @ 11:21am | Report comment
Another fantastic review. I loved the interviews with Guillaume Brahimi and Marco Caputo – great to see more opinions and thoughts on rugby. Totally agree with curtain-raisers (and the anthems comments), CRs especially. We used to love travelling to club Grand Finals to see the fourth-graders play through to first-grade – it really amped it up for the Shute Shield game. Looking forward to your next installment!
July 2nd 2008 @ 3:03pm
Blinky Bill - Bellingen said | July 2nd 2008 @ 3:03pm | Report comment
Sorry to report chaps that I am having untold trouble getting you chaps to come through without very long pauses. I’ve dome all tht I can to improve the speed of my wirefree (radio signal?) type internet and down loaded fee soft ware known as SpedBit Video Accelerator. The only thing ‘speed’ about this gizzmo is the multi coloured flashes that the devise produces. Real hippy colours. Hey nothing wrong with that.
BUT…anyone else out there have a clue how to improve speed?
Cheers all
July 2nd 2008 @ 3:40pm
Zac Zavos said | July 2nd 2008 @ 3:40pm | Report comment
Hi Blinky Bill and Davout – thanks for the feedback. The flash version should be reasonably small, but we’ll aim to get a lower res version up asap. We’re hosting this via Blip.tv – you can try viewing it there if it’s any better.
http://blip.tv/file/1042333?filename=Theroarsports-TheRoarRugbyReviewEpsiode2240.flv
Another suggestion it to pause it and let it pre-buffer for a few minutes. A workaround until we get a smaller version up there for you.
cheers,
Zac
The Roar
July 2nd 2008 @ 4:25pm
Blinky Bill - Bellingen said | July 2nd 2008 @ 4:25pm | Report comment
Okay fellas, I took your tip (pause it for a while) and it seemed to go just fine this time around.
By the way I’m really enjoying your reports and sense of humour (God knows Oz Rugby has plenty to smile about at the moment) but for me those interviews with Marco Caputo (who I do remember) and zee Freeechhh jeff were the real gems.
Thanks again, keep up the good work & I look forward to next weeks review.
July 14th 2008 @ 11:21am
LeftArmSpinner said | July 14th 2008 @ 11:21am | Report comment
Guys, the interviews with Caputo and Brahimi were excellent and pertinent in the light of the french tests and the exodus of players to europe. I note that none of the other (larger) media outlets had the imagination to do these interviews. Their loss.
As I have said before, and others have said, the download speed is not even close enough to make TRRR a viable option, so the sooner you can get speed it up, the better.
Here are some thoughts: What about interviewing Tah Man? what about a segment on club rugby and schools rugby? In clubland, the Wests Pirates have been non tackling scoring machines, well until last week.