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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2009-November-14, 04:47

But I wonder if they even know what this post is about :unsure:
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Posted 2009-November-14, 05:11

I think I do, though I'm Venezuelan and we haven't done that either. Now, why are New Zelanders Kiwis?

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Posted 2009-November-14, 06:16

Well done!

And I'm sure they know!
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Posted 2009-November-14, 08:06

I try to guess..one of this must be right!

a) They have discovered a huge oil fields off-shore ;)
b] NZ's wines have beaten all these famous Bordeaux's at The Paris Wine Trade Show :P
c) Kiwi alpinists have climbed all 14 8000ers within a week! B)
d) They have qualified for major event in a game with a very unfamiliar and strange rules :unsure:
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Posted 2009-November-14, 10:48

Congrats to D!

The kiwi is their national bird.

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Posted 2009-November-14, 11:13

But everyone from Bahrain understands this thread.
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Posted 2009-November-14, 12:51

Gerben42, on Nov 14 2009, 09:48 AM, said:

Congrats to D!

The kiwi is their national bird.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi

and also the fruit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwifruit

btw, the Kiwis are a sports mad nation!
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Posted 2009-November-14, 12:59

PassedOut, on Nov 14 2009, 05:13 PM, said:

But everyone from Bahrain understands this thread.

(: good point!
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Posted 2009-November-14, 16:15

Why exactly are we congratulating a bunch of small green-colored fruits?
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Posted 2009-November-15, 07:58

Because they have done something for the 2nd time ever

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Posted 2009-November-15, 08:06

Strangely, I am not allergic to anything food-wise. That is, except kiwi fruit. I don't understand it. Kiwi fruit used to be my favorite fruit. Then, after a while, I started noticing that my throat would itch and seize up when I ate kiwi fruit. Worse each time. Pissed me off.

Not sure what this has to do with anything. Just pisses me off that I can't eat damned kiwi fruit.
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Posted 2009-November-15, 08:28

Now you know how Bahrein feels.

The whole world can have kiwi's for breakfast except for Ken and Bahrain.

;)

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Posted 2009-November-15, 08:39

My guess is that they won some big rugby competition.

I think there are two preeminent touranments, one of them international,
and one including only NZ, Australia, England and South Africa.

Although NZ is well known for having a decisively winning record against
every country it has played, something like 50 of them including the three
noted above, its performance in the two touranments has not been as dominating.
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Posted 2009-November-15, 12:18

just in case anyone doesn't know this one,
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Posted 2009-November-15, 12:27

As no one has stated it explicitly yet (to the frustration of many readers here), New Zealand qualified for the World Cup Football (and not the 'fake' football that Americans recognize).

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Posted 2009-November-16, 05:10

shyams, on Nov 15 2009, 08:27 PM, said:

As no one has stated it explicitly yet (to the frustration of many readers here), New Zealand qualified for the World Cup Football (and not the 'fake' football that Americans recognize).

Cheers

Finally someone had to mention it.
Pity it's on the first page already.

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Posted 2009-November-16, 05:51

I think there are 3 major international Rugby contests: the World Cup, the 6 Nations Cup (for the 4 teams from GB and France and Italy) and the Tri-Nations Cup (NZ AU and RSA). But there is also some sort of cup with the 4 GB nations and NZ and AU I think? When NZ visit GB and play everybody then AU do the same. But I'm not very well informed and this thread is indeed not about Rugby. ;)
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Posted 2009-November-16, 10:11

I don't think there is a fourth cup for play amoung a number of teams. There are some individual cups between pairs of nations - Bledisloe Cup between Australia and New Zealand and the Hillary Cup (very recent innovation) between England and New Zealand. There may well be some others. When NZ beat England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in one tour (season) in the northern hemisphere it is termed a Grand Slam - bridge connection ;)

Anyway go the Kiwis. Apparently there were 35000 at the game. That is an unprecedented number of spectators for a football game in New Zealand. And probably matches the numbers for rugby games. As far as I am aware there isn't a stadium in NZ that would cater to a significantly bigger crowd. There used to be bigger crowds but those grounds have been modified to reduce the seating. Actually technically not seating as some of the spectators used to be in standing only areas.
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Posted 2009-November-16, 11:36

Congrats to NZ.

That said, the qualifying system needs to change. I think both Costa Rica and Uruguay are better than NZ/Bahrain, not to mention that some of the second place African teams are probably much better as well.

Oceania vs first loser in Asia just seems like it won't guarantee a world-cup calibre team.
Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.

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Posted 2009-November-16, 11:41

The problem is the large number of Asian teams of course, Australia's recent inclusion notwithstanding. If a region is presently underrepresented it is S America or Europe, not CONCACAF or Africa IMHO.
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