We were off to a bit of a rocky start... after a nice 30 min walk from the hotel to the stadium I had to get the ticket out to find out which gate to enter (stadium was crazy) by the time we got to the right gate and into the 'queue' to enter the stadium i had lost 1 of my tickets!! (i use the 'queue' very loosely, its nothing like going into suncorp, everyone just bunches around a driveway looking gate where 6 people check your tickets then pat you down) Apart from being an absolute IDIOT i have no idea how i did this, luckily though the stubs were seperate from the main ticket, so we were left with 1 ticket and 2 stubs, the first guy we explained this too wasn't going to let us in but thankfully the man next to him overheard, said not to worry about it & let us through *PHEW* but then we had to show our tickets again to get to our seats where we had the same dilemma, we were lucky again though when a ticket woman (angel) came from the back and let us through!
after all of that we sat down just in time for kickoff and relaxed for a minute, thanking our lucky stars, the seats were great as we were right behind the Aussie goal posts for the 2nd half where we lost count of how many tries were scored! End result was 91-3 an absolute thrashing!
a quick bit of advice to anyone seeing the rugby in france - all french sporting events are ALCOHOL FREE, so the beer sold inside the stadium, and from venders in their vans outside on the stadium premises are booze free! make sure you read the sign 'Amstel Free P______(some french word)' means no alchol. The row of french guys sitting in front of us were having a great laugh everytime one of the many aussie supporters sitting near us came back with loaded up trays of 'beer' (they still sell the alchol free version for 5 euro a cup!!!) we were glad to have only bought 2 outside before someone warned us!
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