Blinded by just the sort of knee-jerk nationalism that tragically renders the working class asunder, you risk all, Glendower like, in empty but expansively expensive gesture (although I note you'd be able to pick up the Laphroaig duty-free on your marketing junket - clever boy - you should mail it from the States, it's cheaper from there).
I shall take this bet only if you repeat this challenge after due reflection - I happen to think Australia accumulates quite enough wealth from the third world as it is.
I think, too, and it pains me *almost* as much to have to say it as it does you to have to hear it, that even the Prince Henries are fielding a better 15 than you lot at the moment (still, 'pessimism of the intellect; optimism of the will' as a talented but slight Italian benchwarmer once exhorted, eh?). I don't think the Wallabies are quite as good as they think they are, but, alas, it won't be the Welsh who expose them (you'll have a good first half and fall away after that, as our lustrously-skinned Adonises call on their awesome reserves).
Also sprach marsupial boy!
>I've got a bottle of Laphroaig here which says
>that not all Northern hemisphere countries are as lily-livered as the
>Irish, and that Wales will meet Australia on the 23rd of October and murder
>them. And all I ask for as odds is your complete capitulation to the
>general superiority of the Cambrian nation, as proved by our shortly
>forthcoming victory. And of course, dragons do have rather nasty, scaly
>hides. Cymru am byth!
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>Oh yeh, and I'm likely to be on a tour of the States next week, marketing.
>So if I don't get back to you tout suite, it's probably because I'm
>jetlagged, rather than "welshing" on the bet.
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