Last Week, I was here for the weekly visit to Nan & Pops (We did go to Splash Centre for our weekly swim) & for lunch it was antipasto (We did have antipasto for the 2nd straight week) before focusing on working by clearing the leaves out by a garden vaccum cleaner and having afternoon tea then publishing a single blog from last week which is the 8th weekly edition before watching Prime on television and having beef stir-fry schintzel for dinner + last week's pear crumble dessert was an absolutely fabulous moment before my Dad took me home to end last week's episode.
II days later @ the hallowed ground of Eden Park in Auckland, NZ, when the mighty & current champions of the Rugby world (& current holders of the Bledisloe Cup), the All Blacks (IRB Ranking: numero uno) took on the Robbie 'Dingo' Deans coached Wallabies (2nd best team in world rugby + the return of NZ's public enemy no.1, Quade Cooper), well I told Dad that the rugby was on so he did answer my request & therefore accepted....but nek minnit, the national anthems of both countries were played and after the national anthem situation ended, the AB's had the chance to perform the Kapa O Pango haka instead of the traditional Ka Mate haka moments before kick off (+ they had a nek minnit's silence for those who remember our troops losing their lives by getting them roadkilled in action @ their war torn nation of Afghanistan).
The match got underway perfectly well with Carter kicking off but 2 minutes later, Australia was under pressure in the scrum early on but they escape with a penalty awarded against Crockett but both teams were scoreless because the score was nil all (0 - 0) until Dan Carter nailed his 1st penalty goal in just his 3rd attempt (3 - 0) after missing both penalties before Quade Cooper laid out again, this time by Sonny Bill Williams, then the Aussies chiped over the top which does not work out and the AB's are coming back at them and this time New Zealand did award the penalty when Will Genia (Wallaby stand-in captain for the injured Pocock) got sin binned for ball slapping down when on the ground before Carter landed a 2nd penalty goal out of the 4th attempt (6 - 0) so the Wallabies have been reduced to 14 until the end of halftime but 7 minutes later, an Australian player was offside underneath the posts when Welsh referee Nigel Owens gave NZ another penalty & then, Carter gets his third penalty of the night with a simple kick inside the 22 (9 - 0) but uh-oh, wait a minute, Genia is back on for the last play of the half after spending 10 minutes yellow carded (If he commits an foul again (like a high tackle, punishable by a penalty), a red card will be shown to him), but the ref signaled half-time with the All Blacks grabbing an unassailable lead of 9 - 0.
Then the 2nd half had already started with the game nicely poised, and a penalty was taken by New Zealand with Carter nailing his 4th penalty to bring the score up to 12 moments before Israel Dagg (The funny/charismatic but awesome All Black that has the moves like Dagger) got that tremendous try (17 - 0) by finishing off a great period of pressure from the All Blacks as well as Daniel Carter added the conversion (19 - 0), meanwhile, Berrick Barnes may have kicked the ball out on da full (not fool) awarding the All Blacks a scrum on half-way as many Wallaby replacements come on the field (4 of them including Radike Samo (The Fijian born Wallaby), Wallaby danger man Kurtley Beale (Thought that he wasn't going to play but named instead on the bench), James Slipper & Anthony Faingaa's twin brother, Saia) then the AB's put on some fresh legs (Andrew Hore for Keven Mealamu & the 2.04m Brodie Retallick for Luke Romano) just moments before NZ gave away another penalty with the ref warned to the Australian players that somebody will be going to the sin bin if they were offside again as Carter lines up another shot at goal but no problemos for Carter as he extends the AB's lead to 22 points to 0 until the final whistle which justice will prevail for the New Zealand All Blacks beating & roadkilling the Wallabies of Australia (Who had now been having their worst nightmares @ both Eden Park & ANZ Stadium) in their final score of 22 - 0 + they have retained the Bledisloe for another year and for 50 years (Or should I say, 5 decades), Australia have never scored against us when we beat them 3 - 0 in the year 1962 because the 2 consecutive losses against the AB's this year are now in their darkest days in Australian rugby history (The worst revealing secret that Robbie Deans has denied rumours of losing (Or should I say, roadkilling) his job as head coach).
Then, we go to Argentina for the Pumas Vs Springboks clash which ended in a draw with Argentina almost winning because they were 16 - 9 up but the Argentine kick was charged down by a South African, Francois Steyn as he successfully went for the corner by grabbing 5 points before another Springbok, Morne Steyn did manage to score 2 points as both teams are all tied up (They are 16 apiece) before SA award a penalty but Morne Steyn missed the penalty with just 6 minutes to play but the match was drawn at the end after the South African Captain, Jean de Villiers, took the ball up and nearly gets through but loses the ball forward when the Pumas kicked the ball out for full time.
4 days later after starting to fall asleep on Tuesday night between 9pm, I got up early now because that is the good news before I was having a shower, and getting ready to walk to McDonalds again for breakfast (I have been there before but the breakfast menu is served until 10:30am) but when I was on my way to Macca's, I just saw Nan & Pops as part of a suprise but I told them I was already going and said that I was going to see those guys tomorrow but they had left and after that, finally been going in McDonald's and bought those breakfast hunger buster (The menu consisting of a bacon & egg McMuffin, a massive McMuffin, a Hash brown & a hot chocolate) I had and now left Macca's after my famous so called brekkie and headed back straight home to end this incredible highlight package involving the art of our national sporting treasure, rugby (Bought a creaming soda drink in case I am tired enough).
P.S. (SPOILER ALERT!!!): Pops woke me up this morning before taking a shower & having weet-bix for brekkie before going to splash centre to keep me refreshing and going to countdown for some food stuff, saw Hanne before we went home here & had a fantastic Egyptian omelette with leek (Well, I chopped the leeks), did a huge amount of work + putting water over the vegetable plant and been having afternoon tea here & now (Tonight's dinner is mutton bones with mashed potatoes & swedes featuring peas & silverbeet + for dessert tonight is pear sorbet).
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