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    Champion All Blacks missing from World Cup ad

    DUNCAN JOHNSTONE
    Last updated 10:48 02/09/2014



    New Zealand and the world champion All Blacks have been snubbed in an extravagant new advertisement featuring a Game of Thrones star promoting ticket sales for next year's Rugby World Cup.

    English actor Charles Dance, who played the evil head of the Lannister clan in the TV blockbuster Game Of Thrones, puts in a fine performance in the World Cup advert as he delivers a passion-fuelled team talk in a rugby dressing room.

    There are English, Welsh, Italian, Scotland and South African players portrayed - some of them actual internationals like Welsh prop Adam Jones - but no sign of any All Blacks.

    The closest Kiwi link is England's New Zealand-born hooker Dylan Hartley. Oh, and "our" World Cup, which the All Blacks defend next year in England, is there.

    There are referees, groundsmen, management personnel including English greats Martin Johnson and Lawrence Dallaglio and Scottish legend Ian McGeechan, volunteers from around Britain and supporters from Samoa, South Africa and Australia all squeezed into the room.

    But no sign of any New Zealand presence in the 2m 30s extravaganza - unless you can second guess a snippet of a black sleeve at one point.

    The advertisement is pushing the next wave of tickets sales for the tournament that go out to the general public on September 12.

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/a...m-World-Cup-ad

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    much ado about nothing

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    But Gunny, it's "their" cup now

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    Quote Originally Posted by The InnFORCEr View Post
    But Gunny, it's "their" cup now
    Maybe they thought it wasn't relevant to include them in this advertisement given that they can only win it at home

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    Nah, they were too scared to invite them. They shit their pants being on the same field as them let alone being in the same room as them

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    Wests Scarborough 1st Grade juggernaut has played finals rugby each and every year since its inception and continues this remarkable feat yet again this season and unbelievably it's still rolling on and as an added little circle jerk for the masses Wests actually hold the record for the current longest unbroken finals record.

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    Slow news day across the ditch?

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    actually this article is totally incorrect---at the 58 second mark,top right hand corner-black jersey with a silver fern!

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    Well spotted Gunny, got a few Kiwis I need to advise!

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    I wonder, if the camera pans hard left, around the wall of that change room, are Cercei and Jaime having a jolly good seeing to in a shower cubicle?


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    Quote Originally Posted by brokendown gunfighter View Post
    actually this article is totally incorrect---at the 58 second mark,top right hand corner-black jersey with a silver fern!
    Sharp eyes there... I bet you loved Where's Wally!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jargan83 View Post
    Slow news day across the ditch?
    Shouldn't that be "dutch"....

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    Quote Originally Posted by UnionThug View Post
    Sharp eyes there... I bet you loved Where's Wally!
    cant actually lay claim to first finding it;a reader on another website noticed it

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    but how good was the video! Ignoring the bleeting from our dancing neighbours, that was a class advert.

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    From the game of thrones to the Game played in Heaven. If I remember correctly - he's dead.

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