I'm really disgusted at the way the big rugby nations have closed ranks yet again to stab Japan in the back, send the 2011 World Cup to New Zealand, and keep the top table exclusively for the old boys' club.
It's blazerdom at its corrupt worst.

Where is the basic integrity? Still less the pridandpoission that once made our national game great?

At the very least, if we were going to sell our soul and condemn the world's rugby fans to floating winnebagos and death-trap unlit stadiums in active volcanoes, we should have tried to get more out of it than a measly concession that the All Blacks will come to Wales and slaughter us a bit more often than they currently do.

At the very least we could have demanded that:

(1) The All-Blacks agree to throw all fixtures against us for the next few -- say, 25 -- seasons.

(2) They stop poaching Pacific Islanders, give up all rights to their existing Samoa/Fiji/Tonga-ers and repatriate them all to their true homeland just South of the M4.

(3) They replace the Haka with a brief humble pre-match apology.

(4) Tache has to go and live on their island and become their chief rugby correspondent.

(5) Tana Umaga has to ask for the tournament to go to NZ 'like a lady'.

(6) Steve Hansen has to explain once and for all whether or not he is a clueless twat, to end the internecine Gwl@d feud.

(7) All claims of being cheated in 1905 to be rescinded forever, and Bob Deans to be posthumously penalised for holding on.

(8) God Save The Queen to be restored as NZ national anthem, and you have to sing all the verses -- over and over again -- until even Lawrence Dillaggllgllo chortles at your royalist fervour.

And probably lots of others.

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