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Elsom fires as Wallabies smash Japan

Rocky Elsom scores one of his three tries.
Backrower Rocky Elsom helped himself to a hattrick of tries as Australia opened their World Cup campaign with a 91-3 mauling of out-matched Japan on Saturday.

The Australians led 23-3 at halftime after three first-half tries to put the plucky Japanese to the sword in the second term with 10 more tries in a powerful and at times free-flowing start to the tournament.

The Wallabies scored 13 tries, 10 conversions and two penalty goals to Japan's lone penalty goal.

Elsom proved a handful for the defence while fullback Chris Latham, back from a serious knee injury and replacement Berrick Barnes - the youngest member of the squad - scored two each as the floodgates burst opened in Australia's biggest win over Japan in four meetings.

The Wallabies had the luxury of cotton-balling their playmaking fly-half Stephen Larkham 13 minutes after halftime, giving youngster Berrick Barnes his first international cap.

Barnes scored with his first touch backing up a George Gregan break to score in the 57th minute as Stirling Mortlock raised Australia's half-century with the conversion.

It became a procession to the try-line as replacement Drew Mitchell (twice), flanker George Smith, Barnes, Latham and replacement hooker Adam Freier scoring tries as the Japanese surrendered.

Japan now have only one victory in 17 encounters at the World Cup beating hapless Zimbabwe 52-8 in 1991.

Australia's only sour note was an apparent serious leg injury to replacement Mark Gerrard, just moments after he came on for Mortlock, who kicked 20 points from two penalties and seven conversions.

The Australians playing methodically built their winning platform in the first half with Elsom scattering the defence with his charges.

Elsom picked up two tries in seven minutes, one off a Larkham inside ball in the 24th minute and the other off Latham.

The Wallabies got particular satisfaction from a push-over try in the 19th minute when lock Nathan Sharpe finished off a 25m rolling maul with the Japanese unable to withstand the Australian power.

Elsom made it a hattrick of tries a minute after the resumption, striding through two weak tackles for an easy put down for Mortlock to convert for 30-3.

The impressive Latham initiated Australia's fifth try, leaping high to take a high ball and in the next ruck Larkham sent Sharpe away linking with Gregan for winger Adam Ashley-Cooper to dash away unopposed seven minutes into the second half.

Australia have beaten Japan in all their four meetings, the last time a much closer 42-23 win at the 1987 World Cup in Sydney.

It was a vibrant atmosphere inside the Stade Gerland with brass and drum bands and the appreciative crowd enjoying the autumnal sun.

Result of the World Cup Pool B match between Australia and Japan here at the Stade Gerland on Saturday:

We expect nothing less. lol

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Can someone explain it to me? Every girl I speak to from Russia seems so serious. Sure, they smile, but as for humour.. I can't work out what they find amusing. Am I just getting unlucky or is Russian humour so esoteric that English people can't get it?

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I love you.

Do you want to know your fortune? i'll tell you what will happen in your future..my magic ball will show all the truth..

Do you think this is true?
The music that was "big" when you were in your 20's will be the music you like when you are in your 30's, 40's 50's and 60's?
In the 80's I was 20 something and having a blast, now I'm in my mid 40's and still favor the 80's music.
I just can't imagine a generation of 60 year olds favoring hip-hop 40 years from now.

Woud like to invite viwers to see my new show:)

When it's your time to check out of this place called earth, how do you want to go out?

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here are the CC chathost rules, with the new ratings from a few months ago...

Notice close that the rules are only for any video that says RESTRICTED, meaning CC has sold the video to a hotel or some place... and they even say that only about 10% of all video will be restricted, adn the rest of the video's that dont say restricted, teh new rules are only suggestions, and the hosts can do what they want...

lost all contact with her anyone know why?

to all Romanian hosts called Maria. Includes ex host RedPassion - really miss that lady.

watch her gnaw thru the leg of her chair!

I prefer old, bold with gold and bald with a hint of balm on the palm.

I prefer Long Hair
Mmmmm Mmmmmmm Good

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If someone really looking for a friend than must visit here in screens moodysnake and puprishika cos i believe noone is better than her in cc. she is the best one and give u good advices. cos she hav good head on her shoulders........very nice girl. must see at least 1 time.

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Rugby World Cup 2007 , Some help 4 u Girls
Saw this , and thought it might help the ladies and those from accross the ocean, who may not know much about the >>>Rugby World Cup 2007:
(ps, yes USA are in it ...:p)

Go on girls, follow the pack

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 07/09/2007



Rugby widow Janine di Giovanni was facing the coming weeks with trepidation ... then she discovered The Caveman

Rugby WAGs: How to spot a scrummy
A few months ago my husband announced: "It's the Rugby World Cup this year, so you won't be seeing me for a few months."
Whatever. Rugby, like most sports, means nothing to me. Growing up in America, the racket made by my four brothers crammed in a room watching The Super Bowl left scars. Too much testosterone.

There are many reasons men and women are different species, and sport is one of them.

Why would anyone sit in front of a box watching bulky men kick a ball around when you can read a good book, take a walk or lie in the bath?

And so, it was my karmic fate to marry a man who was the French equivalent of my brothers. There is not an ounce of feminine yin in him, not a touch of metrosexuality. And rugby is the most male of all sports. It is, as one male friend (gay) told me: "American football without padding."

I did not realise quite how serious my husband was about rugby until a few weeks after his declaration, when he said he was leaving for New Zealand.

As a journalist with a French television network, he was going to film a mythical group of men called the All Blacks, whom he had dreamed of meeting ever since he was 12 years old, a budding rugby player in Burgundy, and his father took him to Paris to see them.

"They are masters," he says in the same reverent voice he uses to talk about the Coen brothers' films or the trumpet player Lee Morgan.

"Do you understand what this means?" he said. "It's the All Blacks." He showed me a film of them doing something called The Haka. They remind me of the monsters in my son's book Where the Wild Things Are. He packed his cameras and left, whistling, for the airport. I don't think, aside from the day we got married (I like to think), I have ever seen him so happy.

When he returned, he had All Black rugby shirts for our son, and himself (not for me, I got some kind of Maori necklace) and they sat together watching rugby DVDs and hooting. My son is three.

And so, rugby has divided the males and lone female in this household. I think I am not the only woman experiencing this right now.

France is engulfed by rugby fever as the World Cup gets underway. At the Galleries Lafayette, the Harrods of Paris, there is even an evening of rugby dating planned for single fans so that no one feels left out.

Every metro stop I passed yesterday had a pink or purple poster bearing the legend: Paramour du Rugby 1987-2007.

Paramour du Rugby? For the love of rugby? Where does all this passion come from? "Rugby," my wise friend Ariane explained to me, "is the chic sport. Everyone is following it because it's cool. Football is for peasants."

My husband confirmed this. "It is bobo," he said, using the French term for bohemian beaugoise. "But it also has roots in the land." He

then droned on about the south-west, where Basque players are short, dark and bulky. "Real men," he said. He suggested I try to enlighten myself with a new book by a rugby player's wife called Le Petit Guide du Rugby Pour Les Filles. "It will help you understand," he said sweetly.

I am not so sure. As each day goes by I watch him transformed by the excitement of the World Cup into a different being. He even told me that Poilane, the famous French bakery on Rue du Cherche Midi, has bread in the shape of a rugby ball and perhaps I should buy one.

Rugby has also brought out a sexist side to him.

"Can I go with you to a rugby match?" I asked when he left to meet his film crew for a "rugby meeting".

"No," he said, "it's not a game for little girls."

A month ago I might have agreed with him but I've been doing some research and I have discovered Sebastian Chabal, aka The Caveman or The Anaethetist (because if he touches you, you're out for the count). He is beautiful, in a scary, Neanderthal kind of way. All over France, neglected World Cup women are falling in love with him.

"He's a monster," my husband sneered. I detect jealousy - and I intend to exploit it to the limit over the next six weeks.

RUGBY'S FITTEST FIRST XV

1 Frederic Michalak, France

Michalak, 24, is rugby's Beckham - he wears diamonds in his ears, strolled down the catwalk for Christian Lacroix and is heavily tattooed (he has a star branded somewhere intimate). Speaking of which, he is the "face" of a French condom brand. Zut alors.

2 Clement Poitrenaud, France

Best friends with Michalak since they were seven, the photo of the pair (right), taken for the Dieux de Stade calendar (an annual round-up of naked rugby players), shows just how close they are. Poitrenand's favourite song is I Will Survive. He has a girlfriend, apparently.

3 Dan Carter, New Zealand

A fearsome All Black, Dan is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world. Far more importantly, though, he has a modelling contract with the underwear company Jockey.

4 Rory and Sean Lamont, Scotland

Scottish Rugby Player of the Year Sean, 26, won some of us over when he posed naked for the Dieux de Stade calendar. One can only hope that Sean's little brother Rory, who is 24, will follow in his footsteps.

5 Ronan O'Gara, Ireland

"ROG" enraptured his female fans with his fly-half skills; then he married his childhood sweetheart Jessica Daly last year and broke their hearts. But just four months later photographs appeared on the internet in which an inebriated ROG appeared to have taken an undue interest in a female fan's chest. Alas, Jessica seems to have forgiven the 30-year-old, who is the face of an Irish jewellery company.

6 James Pritchard, Canada

"Pritch", 28, can be seen on the website Rugby for the Girls (www.rftg.co.uk) in a series of shower shots, and says that the three words he would use to describe himself are "cheeky, joker, and cute". Modesty is so becoming.

7 Sebastian Chabal, France

Often referred to as "the caveman" - that hair, those biceps - the bearded 29-year-old scored the winning try in England's recent defeat by France. His army of French female fans call themselves Chabalists and have voted him the sexiest player in the World Cup.

8 Jonny Wilkinson, England

The original rugby pin-up may be injured, but how could we leave out the World Cup-winning, boy next door? Once described as "epically dull" by a trusted female Telegraph colleague, with a torso like his, who needs sparkling conversation?

9 Donnacha O'Callaghan, Ireland

Six ft, 6in, 17-stone O'Callaghan caused a stir earlier this year when his shorts were ripped off during a cup game. He played on in his red underpants, but the referee insisted the 28-year-old lock change into a replacement pair of shorts. Spoilsport.

10 Jason Robinson, England

Nicknamed "Billy Whizz" after the speedy Beano character, Robinson is only 5ft 8, but he is living proof that good things come in small packages. Robinson, 30, announced his decision to retire from International Rugby in 2005 to spend more time with his wife and family. Luckily, God guided the born-again Christian to play for England one last time.

11 Mike Phillips, Wales

At 6ft 3, Phillips is one of the tallest scrum- halfs in the history of international rugby; he moved from the Cardiff Blues to the Ospreys in a reported £180-grand-a-year deal, making him one of the highest paid Welsh rugby players.

12 Brian (The BOD) O'Driscoll, Ireland

The Irish captain is known for being a highly physical player and doesn't shy away from a manly mid-match scrap. Voted Ireland's sexiest man in 2004, despite sporting a terrible mop of dyed blond curls at the time, The BOD once dated model Glenda Gilson and his new girlfriend is an actress.

13 Felipe Contepomi, Argentina

It seems wrong to support anything Argentinian in a World Cup but for this Latin lovely, an exception will be made. Contepomi combines panache on the pitch with ferocious dedication to the game; last year he played for his club Leinster hours after the birth of his first child. When he's not playing rugby or being a dad, he studies medicine.

14 James Hook, Wales

The baby-faced fly half is heart-flutteringly fearsome on the pitch. Widely regarded as one of the hottest young sporting talents in Wales, Hooky was made man of the match after his first international game against Australia last year.

15 Josh Lewsey, England

The thinking woman’s World Cup crumpet, and boy does he know it: “I’m always studying and have just achieved my law degree” – his third, the others being in physiology and biochemistry. Sir Clive Woodward is said to have shown Josh’s torso to the rest of his squad as an example of the perfect physique

THIGHS AND LOWS

Expecting the arrival of linguistically challenged fans from all over the world, the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs has released a "French Survival Kit". We've handpicked the ones to keep in your handbag...

Game conversation

Who's your favourite player?
Quel est votre joueur favori?

A try
Un essai.

Who's winning?
Qui gagne?

We lost!/ We won!
On a perdu !/ On a gagné!

GIRL TALK

Where's the main shopping area?
Où sont les magasins ?

I would like to buy this rugby jersey
Je voudrais acheter ce maillot de rugby

Do you have it in another colour?
Vous avez une autre couleur?

POST-MATCH CHAT-UPS

Do you practise any sport?
Faites-vous du sport ?

I'm single
Je suis célibataire

Do you know a good place to go dancing?
Vous connaissez un endroit bien pour danser?

My number is
Mon numéro est le…

BAR-FLY BANTER

We're going to celebrate
On va fêter ça !

Let's have a drink
Allons boire un coup

A bottle of white/red wine
Une bouteille de vin blanc/rouge

Cheers!
À votre santé !

I have a hangover
J'ai la gueule de bois

AND WHAT THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE IN THE SURVIVAL KIT

He's an Adonis!
Il est un Adonis!

What thighs!
Quelles cuisses!

What a fine tackle!
Quel plaquage!

RULES AND RUSES

The Match Each team has 15 players, eight burly forwards and seven much prettier backs. Matches are 10 minutes shorter than in football - that's 80 minutes of bare-faced, politically incorrect, thrilling brutality.

Passing You're only allowed to pass the ball to someone level with you, or behind you. You can move forwards by running the gauntlet of enemy defenders while desperately clutching the ball to your chest.

Tackling Apart from tackling above the shoulders, opposing players are allowed to do pretty much anything they want in order to get the ball off you - and they do. Crushing your face into the mud and belly-flopping on top of you are all encouraged. Watch and weep.

Scoring A Try, worth five points, is scored by running with the ball over the opponent's goal line and planting it on the ground in a triumphant manner. You're then given the opportunity to "convert" the Try - which means kicking it over the crossbar between two posts for another two points. If the opposition commits a foul, you get a penalty kick worth three points. Finally, you can take a Jonny Wilkinson-style drop kick during open play while everyone is doing their damndest to get the ball off you. Very difficult, so worth three points.

Lineouts These occur when the ball goes off the pitch. The players line up next to one another, the ball is thrown between them and they all perform acrobatic feats of athleticism in order to grab it.

The Scrum When play needs to be restarted there will be a scrum. Each team's forwards put their arms around each other and lock necks with the opposition. Their aim is to drive their enemies off the ball.

Rucks These are the bits that look like a body-builders' street brawl. They occur when everyone's trying to get their hands on the ball after someone's been tackled to the floor.

hmmm--talk about boredom-go into community chat room tonight and just sit back and watch what words are being type on screen,,I found out also be careful of whom you chatting with now,, members changing names and thinking they are someone else,, some members using real names that belong to other people, people being rude, people thinking they are hot stuff, people who think they know everything and people, well i can go on and on,, wo its time to leave this site and get me a real life out there,, even I get tired of the host trying to make me feel like im wanted and play those games with my head just to get into my pocketbook--hmmm it is really getting bored now, been here to long,, good luck to all new members

lots of greetings - klem

anybody elce get this message everyday ?

aigulsweety (9/6/2007 7:44:56 PM): Hello sweety.How are you dear today???

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