rugby tri Nations game

8-6-11

            Today we went to a Tri Nation’s rugby game in Auckland, New Zealand.  We got to the game a few hours early, but there was a lot of people still coming in and it took us a lot of time to get our tickets and get to our seats. Then we went to our seat and watched the big screen where they showed the earlier games that the All Blacks (New Zealand national team) played. This match was a really big game because it was between New Zealand and there rival nation, Australia. There were 60 thousand people coming to the game at Eden Park stadium. People started coming to the game really early and the security closed off parts of the road that are near to the stadium because there were so many people there. This would be a big match because it is one of the testing games before the world cup. 

            After the All blacks did the Hakka, (the Maori war dance), on the opposite side of the stadium big fire balls came up right in front of the crowd. When the game started there was lots of yelling. During the first half the All Blacks dominated scoring 2 tries and making all there kicks. The Australian team were crushed; they missed all but one kick that they got after scoring there first try.  One of my favourite things was the waves that the crowd would do. Sometimes people would through beer bottles in the air when the wave went through the. The All Blacks scored some tries until it was 30 to 7 and then the Wallabies (Australia) scored one more tries till it was 30-14. Then the game ended the final score was 30-14 and the All Blacks had won!!! Then, the all blacks captain was given a big trophy to hold in the air on the podium. The crowd cheered!!!

            Then my family and I walked through beer bottles and trash to the exit of the stadium and walked through the crowd to our car that was a mile away from the stadium. On the way back to our car I saw an Aston Martin.  There were lots of signs that said Rugby World cup official bar and they were all really packed. Plus every few minutes people would drive by screaming and all the fans would scream as they drove by too.  When we got to our car we planned to drive all the way down to Wellington, which was 8 hours away.

Zander Rolph