By Darren Walton
November 24th 2009 @ 3:26am
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Wallabies hurting more than anyone, says Elsom
Captain Rocky Elsom has assured disillusioned Australian rugby fans that no-one is hurting more after Saturday’s exasperating loss to Scotland than the Wallabies themselves.
Still dumbfounded by how his side lost a match it dominated so heavily against the world No.9 team, Elsom on Sunday said he’d never seen a more depressed bunch of teammates than [...]
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Mick Gold Coast QLD said | November 24th 2009 @ 9:51am | Report comment
Nah, heard that one too many times before already, Rocky. Just words.
Mick Gold Coast QLD said | November 24th 2009 @ 10:19am | Report comment
Hang on – I’ve just thought about that and discovered I never ever heard Thornett, Shehadie, Farr-Jones or Slack speak of their players’ feeeeeeelings.
Do we have a new public service mentality happening here in the Wallabies? How did they manage to name one bloke as captain – it’s supposed to be an “inclusive” thing.
“I demand my employer funded grief counselling for our deferred success against Scotland!”
Do the referees now say “Touch, pause, engage – are you comfortable with that?”
I really, simply do not care about how the participants most to blame for their failure feeeeeeeeeel. Their bank manager feels no different this week to last week and I’m sure that helps ease their depression.
Worlds Biggest said | November 24th 2009 @ 10:30am | Report comment
so they bloody well should be hurting, strips need to be torn from these pretenders after that farcical performance. What I or thousands of others wouldn’t do to be in there position. We would all do it for nothing in a heartbeat to wear that jersey. These muppets get very well paid to represent there country but play like 14 yr old schoolboys most weekends. They’re a joke. After 5 years of this rubbish I am very close to giving up on these clowns and that is coming from a passionate Wallabies fan.
Campbell Watts said | November 24th 2009 @ 3:44pm | Report comment
I don’t think you can overstress enough HOW RIDICULOUSLY OVERPAID this playing group is!!!
In all honesty who decides Gits is worth a million plus per annum??
O’Connor $600k???? At 19??? What – was he going to go overseas if they didn’t pay him that??
“It wasn’t great in there” says Rocky – is it normally great after a loss is it?? Come out with some honesty please! You shoud be telling us this is the lowest point in you life!! That is the commitment we expect!
“It wasn’t great in there” is the sort of thing you say after losing the sports quiz night down at the local!!
BAH!! I wipe my hands of you pathetic show-ponies! May the Welsh wipe the floor with you!
PastHisBest said | November 24th 2009 @ 4:02pm | Report comment
“What – was he going to go overseas if they didn’t pay him that??”
And if he was then good riddance, because it’s not about the honour of the jersey then is it?
Antony said | November 24th 2009 @ 7:10pm | Report comment
If your hurting so much, start off all of you (every single wobbly) by giving every single test match salary from 2009 to charity. God knows you guys dont deserve it! Some less PRIVILEDGED people could do with it.