"It's Not Coming Home And It's Not Funny"
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How did England's World Cup exit spark the opening reaction?
Oh, good morning, Chani Long. Good morning, Matt Heath. G'day. You okay? Oh, I didn't enjoy that game. I enjoyed parts of it. But yeah, classic frickin' park the bus situation. 1-0. Well, I mean, of course you park the bus. 1-0, you score a goal in the first half. Then you park the bus for the next 50 minutes. Yeah, and then just concede the midfield and then just hope nothing bad happens. Hey, for 85 minutes, England were looking glorious. You know, maybe it was coming home for 85 minutes, but evidently it's that last sort of five minutes of real time and then about 45 minutes of added time that'll really get you. All the analysis was that, you know, England hold on for the last 20 and then, you know, unleash.
But it's not the way it worked, is it? Yeah, 2-1, Argentina through. Argentina-Spain final, and I'd have to say I've got zero skin in the game in the final.
Yeah, well, I kind of like that idea.
I've got anti-skin in the game. Yeah, do you want the game to be maybe called off? I don't know why you'd bother playing it, would you? Is that England in there? Well, the real why would you bother playing it is the third and fourth. I think they need a... Oh, no. The third and fourth are so rough on teams. The humiliator of being like, we're going to send you out there to go one more. Does England have to play... England will be playing against France on Sunday morning. That's the final. 9am. England-France, what could have been... I mean, just training so hard all week for that and just a lot of time thinking about a lot of strategy. They should go. They will not think about that one at all. You know, your coach is about to get.
They should conspire. Yeah. They should conspire and make it like 15 all. Yeah.
Just to really ruin the legitimacy. No goalies.
No goalies. Swap goalies. Yep. Just take the piss out of it. Swap shirts. So FIFA and Gianni Infantino goes, oh, we probably shouldn't do these. These are a bit of a joke. They are a joke, eh? I mean, in Rugby World Cups, when the All Blacks have had to try and play those. The ultimate humiliator was when we lost in 2019 and Ben Smith was left off in the semifinal. We lost against England. And they put him on for the third and fourth playoff and he was man of the match, best guy on park. And you're like, it almost would have been great if you'd played him in the actual game that mattered. You fuck. No one has taken responsibility for not playing Ben Smith at that point. I mean, you know, the little speech, you need to take one for the team.
It's like, no, you need him on the fricking park. I think Steve Hansen at one stage was like, yeah, it might not have been my greatest call, but it's sort of the one that you go, well. It's the stupidest call. You've got the guy with experience, the guy that. Yeah, we should take a sir off him. Is he a sir? If he is, we should take it off him. He should have that pulled off him. What was the logic in that? Hey, George Bridge is a great guy.
Yeah, great legs.
Yeah, great legs, yeah. Was Steve Hansen in classic New Zealand to analyse the FIFA World Cup with rugby?
Via rugby.
Via the lens of rugby. But was Steve Hansen just mesmerised by those lovely shaved legs? Yeah, I mean, he hot-legs Houlihan or George Bridge.
He really was. He was a hot piece of rugby.
He was always too good-looking for rugby, wasn't he?
I think so, because we had the severed pieces. Where is he now? Is he playing?
Playing for Western Force. Yeah, over in Aussie. Yeah.
Western weakness.
But that third and fourth playoff for Rugby World Cup is even worse, I think, than the football one.
Yeah.
It's so physical. Yeah. that World Cup campaign. The last thing you want to do is just put your body through a potential injury ravaged third or fourth playoff. Imagine getting a career ending injury or even a career altering injury in the third and fourth playoff. If you snap your knee into it. I guess you can run out all the players who did fuck all during the tournament. You go, all right guys, out you go. Go have a run. At least you can sort of. Is there prize money available?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did England's World Cup exit spark the opening reaction?
0:00–4:26
2
Why debate the value of third-place playoffs after a World Cup?
4:26–15:06
3
How did billeting and costume culture come up while discussing fans?
15:06–25:11
4
Why are the All Blacks and Warriors scheduling conflicts causing uproar?
25:11–51:47