The final, when it came, was an oddly scrappy affair, the Wallabies scoring the only try in the most distinctly un-Wallabies fashion: off a rolling maul.
Eat in on the communal table, outside on the street, or take the food up to London Fields for the unofficial fashion-off that takes place on the grass when the sun comes out.
I guess it's a bit of a fashion-off, except these are two innately unfashionable companies each trying to outdo the other by proving they have more money and better PR contacts.
But there is still hope for the old-fashioned, off-line matchmaker.
It is a world in which an old-fashioned off-spinner such as Graeme Swann can rise to the top of the rankings.
"My daughter is larger than Lindsay and very curvy, so I see her in an old-fashioned off-the-shoulder wedding dress with a big skirt".
The good news is that a new generation of real London buses, missing since the Routemasters left regular service, is finally, after years of cumbersome, heavy, noisy and old-fashioned off-the-peg vehicles, about to bloom.
This summer's wind of change in favour of the bowler has been mainly a reversal to old phenomena of swing, seam and old-fashioned off-spin bowling, partly to do with the more recent doosra.
It was a first-class display of old-fashioned off-spin bowling: he tossed the ball up and varied his pace subtly.
A purveyor of old-fashioned off-spin with little of his team-mates' X-factor, he has earned the nickname 'Ronseal' in some quarters for his unfussy approach.
Jon Stewart declared it "a good old fashioned Poor-Off".
