"Brett Robson" <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message
news:bkqpns01duu@drn.newsguy.com...
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:11:51 GMT, Jason Cormier  ...
> >
> >On 9/23/03 13:21, in article bkpvek$4ijkp$1@ID-141600.news.uni-berlin.de,
> >"mr.sumo snr." <mr_sumo@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Excellent!
> >>
> >> BTW - can't remember the show's name but during the Sydney Olympics in
2000
> >> there was a late night 'alternative' view of the days action presented
by
> >> two middle-aged guys.  An Austrian CIR at the time lent me about 5
3-hour
> >> video tapes of these shows each of which had me in stitches (though
since I
> >> can't remember the name of the show or the presenters I wonder just how
good
> >> they really were!).
> >>
> >> ANYWAY - anyone know if they'll be a similar show broadcast during the
> >> upcoming slaughter of the Celtic nations (Rugby World Cup)?
> >
> >Roy and HG. According to rec.sport.rugby.union posts, they will be doing
the
> >same for the RWC.
> >
>
> Actually it's "The dominant backline of rampaging Roy Slaven and HG
Nelson, who
> can take the ball uphill into the wind, turn defense into attack, and at
the end
> of the day win a lot more than they lose".
>
> They have a 3 or 4 hour show every Sunday afternoon on TripleJ (it's a
radio
> station), you can stream at triplej.abc.net.au  but I should warn that
several
> hours of them can be a bit much especially if you aren't Austrian. They
also do
> live sport commentaries, watch the TV with the sound off and listen to
them with
> the radio. They talk shit all the way through but their 30 second summary
at the
> end is usually the best of any summary.
>
>

Cheers.  They are surely a national "kalcharal" asset.  I'll have to make
arrangements to secure some tapes.  The local JETs are fairly tame - I'm
sure I can bully one of the Austrian ones (of course that joke WILL be lost
on them....) into making their mother record all the shows.

--
jonathan