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I am half english and half Irish. But I support any British sides rather than southern hemisphere.

Hate the black kit.
Why are we trying to look like all blacks? After all, which of the two held the world cup the most recently and which side are massive chokers didn't?

I do support the All Blacks (being a kiwi) and was very baffled when I turned on the TV this morning!

Also what the hell happened to their kit that made all the numbers peel off?

I don't think I'm unreasonable to say that England are in fact the jammiest bastards known to man...I nearly decided to change nationality.

I got so annoyed I jumped up and stood on the spiky bit of a belt buckle with bare feet and now have a big cut on the bottom of my foot.

Insert Mutley style rantings here

Oh I am sorry Scarlet but I am ing at you hurting your foot!

Weaseel, you think thats bad. During the week at the Ireland international soccer game, they had to write a players number on his jersey with a black marker! Times are hard indeed

Pagwatch you are half Irish?. I always knew I liked you

I just cant wait for it to start proper tomorrow morning when Wales play C'mon my laddos!!!

As an England fan I think it's ridiculous.

Everyone hates us as it is, so I don't understand why we are trying to annoy the New Zealanders.

And I'll be cheering for Ireland, but can't cheer for Wales.

Thanks queenmaeve

I do feel like a prize tool that's for sure...

Probably not as much as Johnny Wilkinson does though

I don't think their kit is their biggest problem . They need to start playing rugby, not wrestling. They were very lucky today.

VERY lucky indeed. I hold out hope as they had a good last 20 minutes or so. Flashes of fire most definitely. I'm hoping it's the new squad ironing out it's kinks.

Did you know there is a Sport topic?

I don't think they look like wannabes of any kind, so YABU.

But I don't like the black kit.

Trillion. Are you channelling Bibbity? You are right, btw.

Be better if they could play like the All Blacks too

But it's sport and exercise. This is sport and mocking.

Very important distinction.

I probably shouldn't get started on the mocking though, since we all know the AB will lose in the semis. Hopefully not to France. That's just demeaning.

I'm Irish, I should really be a bit more careful with the mocking, shouldn't I? We might lose to Italy, and even the USA on a bad day (and we have a lot of those atm). Oh dear.

No channeling, we are brothers in arms in the fight to promote overlooked non-sexy sections.

People do realise that the AB's away shirt is white don't they? Pretty much the same as the England kit.

Why no fuss about that?

Because the All Blacks team colours have always been white and black.

Traditionally England have always had red and white. It seems a bit odd to change to black suddenly.

No, no we don't. The All Blacks should wear black. It's in the name.

Silly to have "away" kit when you're an international team, you will nearly always be away.

Black isn't Nz's property. It annoys me that all their sport is based on their rugby team.
Basketball team : tall blacks
Football: all whites
Hockey: black sticks
Cricket: black caps

They have taken it far too far. So what if the English team have a black jersey? Get a grip people.

They just call the kids home and away, Trillian. In reality they have to have a dark strip and a light one (going back to the days of the old black and white telly).

I do think that these particular ones were too all-black like. When the All-Blacks play in their light strip they use white with bits of black on it. Scotland also have very navy strip which can look black, so have a second strip which is white and navy.

So what if the English team have a black jersey?

So... we don't like it. We want them to wear white with a red rose on it please.

Oops, they call the "kits" home and away .

I must say, the red roses looked very incongruous against the black, didn't they. It just looked wrong.

<< I'm vaguely amused by TA's participation in the thread despite it being in the wrong place, and feel better about my own wishy-washiness about non-AIBU threads in AIBU they are wrong unless I want to post on them, and then they are ok >>

They only looked like the All Blacks until they started playing.

Erm. It's not all based on the rugby actually. Black and white are just 'our colours' as the New Zealand flag is extremely controversial and unpopular. All the iconography and names are either based on those colours or the silver fern which is a native plant.