10 months ago, some friends and I won a ballot for tickets to the Rugby World Cup in Tokyo. We had a great idea that we could skip the pool games and watch the finals because the Wallabies are so good, no other team would be able to come 2nd to the All Blacks. So rather than going for a bunch of pool games as we did for the Russia 2018, we thought we’d skip them and go straight to the business section of the tournament. I ended up with tickets for the last pool game (Aus vs Georgia), the two quarter finals Australia could possible make and both the semi finals. All in all, 5 games with a possibility of seeing the Wallabies 3 times.
A World Cup is basically a global dress up party. Everyone comes dressed in their team colours – and some go the extra mile. For the game against Georgia I was sporting culturally appropriate head wear along with my Wallabies jersey and blow up Boxing Wallaby.
Due to an unfortunate result against the Welsh, our quarter final was against England – a tough ask and it was quite possible that we would lose a dress up day. There was no choice but to make this game the game we all wore our onesies.
The game didn’t turn out that great and it marked the end of our Wallaby dress ups. There were plans to switch allegiances and support the All Blacks instead for the semi finals.
We obviously didn’t have a lot of All Blacks gear on us, but a quick trip to the local All Blacks store to pick up an All Blacks kimono and I was ready for the semi finals
But alas, there were some people who were willing to buy our semi finals tickets off us for a stupid amount of money, so it was a trip to the local pub to watch the game rather than watching at the stadium.
All in all it wasn’t a great campaign. The Wallabies exited earlier than we thought so the tickets we bought weren’t that useful, but the tanking Australian Peso meant that we made a substantial profit on the tickets and that paid for plenty of beer.
