Thread: Aussies VS Poms

Rivalry between these two nations has always been strong. At the Olympics especially. I was in a bar last night and two Brits almost came to blows with a couple of Aussies about ' the Games'. I am a bit of a backseat observer in all this, I enjoy watching the Olympics but to have a brawl about a medal count?



From MSN.com.au this morning, some people surely take sport very seriously.

Barbs heat up as Aussie-Brit rivalry boils over

05:39 AEST Wed Aug 20 2008
8 hours 53 minutes ago




Britain and the barbs have started flying in Beijing, where the Brits could beat Australia on the Olympic medal table for the first time in 20 years.Britain hasn't ended the Olympics ahead of Australia since 1988, but currently has 16 gold to Australia's 11 after claiming four more yesterday.
Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates got the ball rolling when he said Britain's medal haul from the aquatic sports wasn't bad for a nation with "few swimming pools and not very much soap".


It wound up the British press, who have been wallowing in their country inching ahead in the medal count.
On Tuesday The Sun ran a story about its pursuit cyclists winning Britain's 12th gold with a picture of them holding their medals under the headline "G'Day Sport".
"Aussies were flamin' mad last night as Team GB continued to lead them in the Olympic medals race," it trumpeted.
"And despite jibes about Poms only being able to win at 'sitting-down sports', Australian pride really was smarting."


The Sun said Coates and his British counterpart Lord Colin Moynihan have a bet in which the loser will have to pay the medal difference in bottles of champagne.
"Having got our nose in front of the off-colour Wizards from Oz, the battle now is to keep it there," it added.
London's Daily Telegraph can see the finish line.
"The Australians are getting desperate here in Beijing. As Britain eases past them in the medal table, they face the ultimate humiliation: being beaten at the Olympics by the Poms," journalist Jim White wrote.
"As a great sporting nation, the Aussies might yet secure enough bullion to keep the grim Ocker nightmare at bay, but their Olympic chiefs are already conceding defeat."


For a change, the Australian media has been forced onto the back foot in their neverending sporting battle with Britain, which reaches a climax when they play each other in cricket or rugby.
"Poms are winning, call an inquiry," screamed the Sydney Morning Herald.
"Once, not so long ago, Australians were a proud people who walked tall with jutted jaws," wrote Peter Hanlon.


"The Poms were a source of amusement, a fallen imperial master weeping over a dog-eared scrapbook, its tattered images of Steve Redgrave, Seb Coe, Mary Rand and those blokes from Chariots Of Fire fading by the day.
"Now there's not a hutong in Beijing you can disappear down without a smug cockney voice trailing you on the breeze — 'Jeez cobber, what's happened to the Aussies, mate, ay? Bloody crook, fair dinkum!'
"Oh, the shame."
Coates, or Coatsey as he likes to be known, said he enjoyed the rivalry, although "my sense of pride says that we can't let them beat us".
"They are certainly serving it up to me, that little former coxswain who's the president of the British Olympic Association, (Lord) Colin Moynihan," he told reporters.
"He's (saying): 'Coatsey, we're coming at you'. I've been getting that all week and you know that he dropped some soap in when he took some of my beers the other day."
And Coates warned Australians to prepare for more gloating.
"Their new-found cockiness has got some substance to it," he said.
"We're just going to have to go home and reflect on this and deal with it in our own way.

National pride is what it's all about. Good for the Poms, even though I'm an Aussie.

(Aussies VS Poms)Aussies VS Poms20-08-2008 03:36 PMPropertygrewahearh




Very unsportsmanlike. About time the Poms got a little happiness, Aussies have been shitting on them for decades.

Originally Posted by momo8

National pride is what it's all about. Good for the Poms, even though I'm an Aussie.

eh thought you were Swiss!! Lucky I can't red you now, gave you a green on another post.

Besides does not matter who wins the Poms or the Aussies. It the taking part that counts.

^ Swiss mother, Aussie dad, dual nationality/passports. Apologies.Poms are doing a good job anyway, good for them.

I reckon good on the POMS, radio station this morning was suggesting that the aussies have become complacent, and probably need a kick up their asses, whereas the brits have really spent and worked hard at improving since Athens.

But i have known more than a fair sure of arrogant cocky poms, and do understand how too aussies almost had to belt some of them.

Not saying all poms is bad sportsman, but quite a large number are.

In the bar last night these Poms were bordering on the hooliganism one sees in football. The Aussies have a good sense of humour as always I think, they were all tossed out because someone started mouthing off the Chinese guy who pulled out of the hurdles.

Something about 'He's owned by Nike'. Not nice, amazing though how sports make the nicest of people turn into nuts, and use 'national pride' as an excuse to act like a***holes.

I don't think this Aussie, English thing is as important to the English as it is to the boys from Oz.

I'm a cricket nut but lets be honest would I prefer to win the next Ashes or see England beat Germany in the Football World Cup final. No contest. In fact as I grew up in 70's and 80's the cricket series that means the most to me is playing the West Indies.

In Rugby beating the French, Scottish, Welsh or Irish is more satisfying than any of the Southern Hemisphere crowd.

Yes we are up for a contest against the Aussies but more because it clearly matters to them rather than any great significance to us.

Who gives a stuff about the Olympics anyway its just a couple of weeks when the minority sports get centre stage.

Originally Posted by Jardine

In Rugby beating the French, Scottish, Welsh or Irish is more satisfying than any of the Southern Hemisphere crowd.

And yet you chose a Scots name for your username.

Odd.

Poms...Aussie's. Neither can use a toothbrush and neither would pass up a chance at pointing out the others sheep loving abilities.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Originally Posted by Jardine

In Rugby beating the French, Scottish, Welsh or Irish is more satisfying than any of the Southern Hemisphere crowd.

And yet you chose a Scots name for your username.

Odd.

And he was born like his father in India. Educated, lived and played his cricket for England. Good enough for me, you have problems with that?

all this bloody chauvinism

well done those athletes for taking part, as long as they did not use drugs

as for the medal table, fucking nonsense

except if the Chinese beat the US, of course

cricket is as exciteing as watching paint dry

There's a wee bit of athletics to come, so we may get shafted up the back strait,

so to speak.

Nothing unusual there.

Originally Posted by nedwalk

cricket is as exciteing as watching paint dry

You'll get a red from KW. I did, when I said the same thing once.

Originally Posted by Ivor Biggun

You'll get a red from KW. I did, when I said the same thing once.

and so you should, sir, so you should.

In fact, I reckons that nedwalk should get double being an aussie and all and still saying that!