The All Blacks and the Baa Baa's

Not as insidious as the title may suggest. It is the autumn internationals series in rugby in the UK at present and since I went to watch the wallabies play (and lose), thought it wouldn't be right if I didn't go and watch the All Blacks round out their tour by playing the Barbarians at Twickenham. The Barbarians team this weekend was a who's who of southern hemisphere players including approx 9 Aussies, 5 South Africans and also strangely enough 2 All Blacks.

Paul, Tammie and myself had front line seats, and I mean front line. The playing surface was a mere 5 m in front of us. There is a something to be said about being close enough to smell the sweat, but when they play is down the other end you tend to miss out :( Overall the game was a bit of a let down given the quality of both teams, there was just not alot to get excited about even though the right team won by a handy margin.

On the upside Paul and I are closer to our quest of visiting the home stadiums of each of the 6 nations teams. 2 stadiums down, 4 to go.

Final Score: New Zealand 47 df Barbarians 19

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