Aussies do the double against the Dutch hockey team!

[Konovalov]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/hockeys-champ-of-champs/2005/12/19/1134840769521.html

The reign of the Dutch as the worlds best mens Hockey team appears to be over. Australia has comprehensively defeated them in the final of the Champions trophy having previously beaten them in the final at the Athens Olympics to grap the Olympic Gold Medal. All that is missing now is next years hockey World Cup which is to also be played also in Germany like the Football World Cup. Go the Kookaburras.

:rock: :rock:

[snowsub]

Yep, only 2 more trophy's to get this season, Commonwealth and World Cup :up: :rock: :rock:

[Konovalov]

Yeah, I almost forgot about the Commonwealth Games.

[Dan D]

"Kookabburra sits in the old gum tree,
eating all the gum drops I can see,
Stop Kookabburra,
Stop Kookabburra
leave some there for me-e-e...!"
:huh:

[Happy Times]

Hockey? This is hockey.. http://www.dallasstars.com/uploads/photos/perm/main/MOOLOFBOFDLM/skoula483.jpg

[diver]

That's ICE hockey in most of the world.

[Kiwi Zero Six]

It's about time the Aussies won something.

Good on the Dutchies for taking pity.

[snowsub]

It's about time the Aussies won something.

Good on the Dutchies for taking pity.

:rotfl:
It's a pity we didn't get beaten by the kiwi's :P

[diver]

It's about time the Aussies won something.

Good on the Dutchies for taking pity.

Ha, that coming from a kiwi!

What world championships of anything have you guys won in the last 8 years?

[Kiwi Zero Six]

It's about time the Aussies won something.

Good on the Dutchies for taking pity.

Ha, that coming from a kiwi!

What world championships of anything have you guys won in the last 8 years?

Netball.

What have you won in the last FIVE years?

Need I mention the recent Rugby (the Poms can mention that, too, actually), the Netball or the Rugby League (your own sport funnily enough).

The cricket was close.

[diver]

Netball.

I mean a real sport. Netball is just an excuse for chicks to get sweaty together whilst wearing short skirts and tight tops.


Australia won the Rugby League every year up until now. And what do you mean "our sport", it is only popular in two cities.

Who again defeated NZ in the rugby world cup semi?

We beat you in Cricket. And so the poms won the ashes, after 2 decades of Aussie dominance they were bound to win it by accident.

NZ lost out to the Solomons in World Cup Football qualifying, i didnt think that was possible if you had tried.
and NZ were gearing up to be the big fish in Oceania atfer Aus moves to Asia, unfortunatly for you the kiwis will still be bridesmaid, this time to the Solomon Islands :D

Oh well, you kiwis always have Australian professional sporting leagues to finish last in... NBL Basketball, A-League Soccer, NRL Rugby, all have teams representing your entire country that struggle against teams represnting single cities.

[Kiwi Zero Six]

They don't represent NZ, they represent Auckland, which is not a part of NZ.

You say that about Netball like it's a bad thing.

Face it. Aussie is not dominant in anything anymore.

[snowsub]

I mean a real sport. Netball is just an excuse for chicks to get sweaty together whilst wearing short skirts and tight tops.



Come on, just add water and/or jelly and weak cloths and you have yourself a sport :P


Edit: good lord, I lost nurseboy and stepped into sailorboy, teach me to post :-j

[XabbaRus]

Netball.

We beat you in Cricket. And so the poms won the ashes, after 2 decades of Aussie dominance they were bound to win it by accident.



by accident...hmm sounds like a sore loser. We were just the better team. Granted got whacked by Pakistan but I think that was down to complacency.

Any way..cricket aside, we'd beat you at ASW every time...if your subs don't leak in the mean time. :up:

[Kiwi Zero Six]

"Helm mate, take her down to maximum operating depth mate"

"Take her down to 10 metres, aye commander mate"

:arrgh!:

[diver]

Do I detect Jealousy Kiwi Zero Six?

After all what would NZ know about ASW and subs. With 2 baseline Anzac class "frigates" (really just oversized corvettes), 5 Seasprite helicopters (impressive :-j ), and outdated P-3..K.. Orions (gotta love that retro charm), a sub wouldn't even have to submerge to go up and win against that crummy lot.

Collins class rule. None of your oh-so-funny jokes will change that.

XabbaRus, yes in all seriousness England did deserve the Ashes. But Australia are still the best in the world, and we are better than the world as seen in our crushing defeat of the WorldXI in 3 one dayers and in the super test.
And leaking? Is that anything like what happens when one of your subs runs into the ocean floor, or when your reactors break down leaving your subs stuck in Gibraltar for months on end? :-j

[Fish]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/hockeys-champ-of-champs/2005/12/19/1134840769521.html

The reign of the Dutch as the worlds best mens Hockey team appears to be over. Australia has comprehensively defeated them in the final of the Champions trophy having previously beaten them in the final at the Athens Olympics to grap the Olympic Gold Medal. All that is missing now is next years hockey World Cup which is to also be played also in Germany like the Football World Cup. Go the Kookaburras.

:rock: :rock:

Congrats to the Australian team! Very well done. :rock:

Till we come back of course. :up:

[diver]

They don't represent NZ, they represent Auckland, which is not a part of NZ.


They are called the New Zealand Warriors, New Zealand Knighs, and the New Zealand Breakers.

They represent all of NZ.

[Abraham]

Thanks for rubbing it in, Konovalov & Co.!
:hulk:

[Kiwi Zero Six]

Diver, you are, quite honestly, a King Size Richard of the first order.

Did you misplace your sense of humour, or just never have one at all?

[Kalach]

*Additional generic Kiwi insult* :P ;)

[snowsub]

Cmon, let's not turn this thread into a trans-tasman bagging contest
There's enough of them over here and I'm sure enough of our tourists over there :rotfl:

Lets' get back on topic and back to baggin the dutch :P :lol: :sunny:

[Abraham]

Lets' get back on topic and back to baggin the dutch
Ja hoor, daar gaan we weer... Back to topic...

Well, the Dutch men's hockey team may not be the best of the world anymore, our women have beaten the living daylight out of the German women's team.
And our hockey men are actually only on a rotating schedule with the Dutch football team, that will establish itself as the # 1 team next summer by beating Argentina in the opening match, Britain in the quarter finals, Germany in the semi finals and then of course that sensational final against Brazil!

(I hope)
:D

[diver]

Diver, you are, quite honestly, a King Size Richard of the first order.

Did you misplace your sense of humour, or just never have one at all?

Your the ****head who made a stupid comment.

The Collins calss submarines are no joke. And "humour" such as yours has led to a serious crew shortage. Nobody wants to be recruited to submarines because the view or common "fact" amongst the average joes is that the collins class submarines are unsafe. We never had crew problems with the oberons and sailors were much worse off in them.

Stupid innappropriate and irrelevant "jokes" like that are major contributers to the problem, and it is a big one. The Aussie public need to have confidence in our boats and our men, and need to know that they have recieved value for money.

When Aussie Submariners get abused in pubs because of stupid myths put out by the media and carrier on by w@nkers like yourself it has come to the point where no more can be tolerated.

Go be of some use, rather than contribute to a serious problem, and by the comments you made you are contibuting, even if only in a small way.

Find a REAL sense of humour, I've got one, but i have no time for idiocy.

[Abraham]

@ Kiwi Zero Six & Diver:

C'mon mates, no personal offenses allowed on this forum. We're just a day or two past Christmas and I'm sure you're still in the mood, so cut the inappropriated stuff and make your point without insulting each other!
(No exeptions for Aussies and/or Kiwi's)

Abraham
(with his moderator cap on!)

[Type941]

The reign of the Dutch as the worlds best mens Hockey team

For a moment there I thought you were on drugs... Than I realised it's grass hockey. :doh: (I thought whatever happened to the Canadians, Americans, Czech and Russians)

[Abraham]

The reign of the Dutch as the worlds best mens Hockey team

For a moment there I thought you were on drugs... Than I realised it's grass hockey...
Well... grass hockey... Nowadays more like artificial grass hockey, just as you guys play ice hockey not on natural ice but on artificial ice.
:D

[Konovalov]

Well... grass hockey... Nowadays more like artificial grass hockey,

:yep: :yep:

These days thankfully we get to play on water based synthetic instead of the sand based artificial grass surface that you commonly find on tennis courts. At least back in Sydney we played almost exclusively on water based synthetic. The surface is better, more true, and is condusive to a more attractive and entertaining game of hockey. Also for me it means no more nasty abrasion skin injuries as a result of the rough sand based surface. That stuff would take your skin off if you were decked (hit the ground) or slid on it. Now days thankfully you just get a little "carpet burn" if that. :up:

[Abraham]

Thanks for the info, Konovalov. My knowledge didn't get any further than knowing it was not grass that hockey is played on...

[diver]

Water based fields are nice on the knees if they are properly maintained, but with water restrictions in force clubs have had to cut back on the amount of water they use, last time i played the ground was in very bad, dry, condition. I would have rather played on sand based than on that sorry excuse for water based.

[Excalibur Bane]

Darn, and there I thought the post was going to be about the Aussies doing some kinky, wild orgy on the ice with the Dutch. Then I remembered it's just a bunch of guys. Oh, well. Maybe next time. :(