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Don’t have either, rather sling money at my PC just because of the online greatness and I know a console with gather dust eventually..well rather quickly. All the games I’d want to play will be on the PC at some stage….Gears of War, GTA4, FIFA etc.

I very nearly went for an XBox 360 so if you’re going to get one that would be my choice (maybe wait for the new version lower micron CPU) though for RROD avoidance or get the Elite.

PS3 online will suck (because it’s free and it was a bollox system on the PS2) XBox live is great and is a much better service. Not many developers are going to ‘risk all’ by not covering both formats so any game the PS3 gets (apart from the usual suspects i.e Gran Turismo etc) is going to be a ported version of the XBox 360 one FACT. So you’re paying the extra for what????? Blu Ray??? HD/DVD must must beat Blu-Ray too, picture quality on HD is far superior and having Sony controlling the Media can only be bad thing.

well worth 15 quid, it’s full on stoopidness.

Medic/Heavy combo ftw!!

surprisingly its apparently fake (like I care) but I don’t know who I want to hit more could these dicks be more smug?? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hJawBCLTeaA&NR=1

cocks.

Haha bait taken !!!

Soz I was only poking the fire, I just wish they’d given the try to liven up a pretty dire game.

Seriously though, it’s shut up a lot of the ‘Saffas’ here that were tirelessly going on about how it would be a total whitewash.
Also, going back to the AB’s game what use were the aid of “tele replays” and a “qualified international referee” or even linesmen there???(btw, the video Ref was an Aussie :))

You’re right tho how Flood got away with it by probably saying “No Ref, I was trying to stop myself not push Monty into the camera.”

Look at this article from the NZ Herald website, although the author Peter Bills is chief rugby correspondent for Independent News & Media in London.

Henry best off without tarnished trophy

England were brave and courageous, South Africa disciplined and dedicated to defence. So was this a World Cup final to put before the planet via global television? You must be joking.

What South Africa and England churned out in Paris was – in a technical sense – poor, unadventurous, defensive-minded rugby, littered with aimless kicking.

But this isn’t rugby as we know it. Nor is it the rugby most people want to see played now or in the future. Sure, the South African nation will celebrate and claim all is well in their land now the mighty Bokke rule the world once again. They’ll be deluding themselves if they believe that.

Never mind the frightening crime levels in their country, the nagging poverty and the alarming divisions between whites and blacks, between rich and poor. Winning a World Cup in such an ugly manner hardly reflects well upon either the ultimate champions or the game itself.

South Africa have now played in two Rugby World Cup finals, won them both and not scored a single try in either.

We are surely entitled to ask not only what that tells us about the Springboks’ approach, but also about what is wrong with the modern game. Do people pay anything up to 1000 euros ($1925) or more to watch a match of penalty goals, as well as interminable kicking up in the air?

This was one of the most boring Rugby World Cup finals in history. Neither side wanted to risk anything; consequently, they kicked the ball away and invited the opposition to make mistakes with it.

England did, conceding five penalties in the first hour that were all translated into points. Those acts of transgression decided the game.

And that was all it took to win the trophy. No attacking-minded play, no inventiveness, little skill behind the scrum, scant originality in the play.

The formula was dire and depressing. Only England’s Mathew Tait offered a glimpse of back-line creativity and cunning.

So is this what rugby has come to, circa 2007? Is all that matters the fact that World Cup officials can sanction outrageous sums for tickets to the final, demand 15 euros ($29) for a programme and 30 euros ($58NZ) for a couple of bags of fries and two beers? Just a cynical exercise in how to fleece the public? Never mind the product; sure, that’s garbage and we all know that. But throw in a few fireworks after 80 minutes of mind-numbing boredom and hope the pundits will go home happy.

The fools might have done; any with a brain would have known that what they saw was complete rubbish.

About 12 months ago, All Blacks coach Graham Henry told me frankly “If winning a World Cup means we have to play defensive rugby, we have to kick the ball away and not play, then I’d rather not win it.”

I have to tell you this: I believe Henry was dead right. Why would you want to win a World Cup playing no rugby, focusing entirely on defence and keeping the other lot out?

If this is what it takes to win a World Cup, New Zealand is better off without the tarnished trophy.

This glittering World Cup is no trophy of excellence. It’s been dumbed down to a trophy of the basics … who can deny longest, who can strangle the opposition, who can stop opponents playing, who can force mistakes from their rivals? That is what is required to win a World Cup in the modern game and New Zealand rugby is better off without such a devalued ambition.

New Zealand got a lot wrong in their campaign, but playing no rugby, kicking the ball up in the air and just trying to keep out the other lot, were not their failings.

This once-great game is at a crossroads, post the 2007 World Cup. Unless serious steps are taken to reward attacking play, to negate the incessant kicking and find some way to marginalise those who just don’t want to play, we can forget all about rugby as it once was.

In Paris in front of 80,000 people, we had a foretaste of what this game will become in the future unless urgent action is taken to address its failings. Frankly, if this was a vision of the future, it was frightening.

Surely this is a no brainer, TF2 ftw!!!!!

…not that my vote counts for shit 🙂

I’d like to know of anyone that attempts step one as demonstrated and doesn’t open up their thumb.

I reckon you could use a bog roll tube and make a rocket or maybe a plain ice cream stick B17 variety the possibilities are truly endless.

To those that think this is cruel and sadistic I would say, you don’t see people bringing stray flies to the RSPCA, or dropping a litter of maggots on the RSPCA’s doorstep. Flies are an autonomous entity in their own right and as such are not governed by any bleeding heart organisation. Besides, I bet they’d enjoy a trip in a real (all beit wooden) plane.Flies are basically spider food so to give them the gift of a free plane is just generosity beyond belief. It also gives them a purpose and a really important life lesson in co-operation that they would have otherwised missed out on. If they choose not to ‘play the game’ and instead freak out and crash the plane it is their own fault for not co-operating. Luckily seeing as the plane was a gift, they will not be charged or even sued (for american flies) for any damage. It doesn’t get any better…..for flies that is.

Genius …. Biggles/10

lol

ffs Jonny you sick pup, I’ve just spat tea up the monitor.

‘spat tea’ is not a euphemism for bashing one out either