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[funkypie]

looking at the actual groups, england and wales have difficult ones.

 

[Niven]

Wales please stop playing with my heart!

 

[Musha_Soturi]

Oh for fucks sake

 

[SHarris78]

Well this is going well.

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Year of the Urupan.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Would love to see Uruguay do well today, pick up a win. But I also want Wales to finish ahead of England in the group.

 

[BladedExpert]

Hold me CymruGAF... I'm scared right now!

 

[KingSnake]

Well, that's an interesting start. Normally I prefer Wales to England and Australia, but I also enjoy a nice upset. So, let's see how this goes.

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Aiesh, bad first showing from Hallam...

 

[SHarris78]

yay, and we're off!

 

[Musha_Soturi]

Finally, that's more like it.

I knew we weren't going to be on form today but jeezus

 

[LiquidSolid]

Has anyone got a count of the tries from rolling mauls so far this RWC? I'm pretty sure they account for at least 50% of the tries scored.

 

[Clegg]

Samson Lee is an interesting looking bloke.

 

[KingSnake]

Has anyone got a count of the tries from rolling mauls so far? I'm pretty sure they account for at least 50% of the tries scored so far.

I hope they change the rules after this cup, this is utterly boring.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Amos having a shocker so far. Bad pass out to him though, granted. Jesus Priestland...

Priestland makes up for it there. Getting bored of the booing of the TMO.

 

[SHarris78]

Nice try, great little kick from Priestland too.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Sorry if posted before:

Guy on reddit bets $900 on last nights Rugby game on Japan wins $250.000 hahahaha

INSANE :O

https://np.reddit.com/r/sports/comm...s_south_africa_at_the_rugby_world_cup/cv78jne

 

[KingSnake]

That was a very nice kick.

 

[LiquidSolid]

I hope they change the rules after this cup, this is utterly boring.

Yeah, it's shit. The rules are weighed so heavily in the attacking teams favour that they're basically an automatic try.

 

[BladedExpert]

Now I feel better. Great finish.

 

[Musha_Soturi]

Ugh. Gotta be so careful with those high tackles, especially with the short Uruguayans

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Have Tipuric and Warburton in my Fantasy team, they better start giving me something here.

 

[phisheep]

Uruguay defense much better than I expected.

EDIT: And at last an undefended maul gets called out!

 

[BladedExpert]

There's your rolling maul counter lol

Edit: And there's number three.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

God I hate teams not competing at line outs.

Edit: man, Amos is having an unlucky game.

 

[Musha_Soturi]

Woohoo! Here we go

 

[KingSnake]

Hmm, I wonder if this can be exploited for defending the rolling mauls. Just get a bit back and lose contact to the front players once the ball goes back. Interference.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Hmm, I wonder if this can be exploited for defending the rolling mauls. Just get a bit back and lose contact to the front players once the ball goes back. Interference.

Happened an England maul against Fiji and England just ran through and scored a try. Wasn't called back.

 

[phisheep]

Hmm, I wonder if this can be exploited for defending the rolling mauls. Just get a bit back and lose contact to the front players once the ball goes back. Interference.

Depends on the ref spotting it. It's been tried twice before in this tournament and the ref let it go.

 

[KingSnake]

Happened an England maul against Fiji and England just ran through and scored a try. Wasn't called back.

Depends on the ref spotting it. It's been tried twice before in this tournament and the ref let it go.

Yeah, unfortunately depends on the referee.

 

[pulsemyne]

Lovely try. Great passing.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Hat trick for Allen. Not bad.

Yeah, unfortunately depends on the referee.

There has to be a way to keep mauls a good attacking option while giving defences a hand with them. I don't think non competing is the way forward for it.

 

[SHarris78]

A couple more tries and no injuries and i'll be happy going into next weeks big match.

 

[phisheep]

This is good from uruguay.

EDIT: damn, they blew it

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Jesus that's the second Welsh injury this match? No luck at all for them.

 

[LiquidSolid]

Hat trick for Allen. Not bad.


There has to be a way to keep mauls a good attacking option while giving defences a hand with them. I don't think non competing is the way forward for it.

When refs can't even figure out some of the most basic maul rules, like how players aren't allowed to bind in front of the ball carrier and the ball can't go to the back of the maul until the maul has properly formed, I think it's time to just give up on the idea entirely. If something is shit to watch, shit to defend and shit to ref, maybe it's just time to recognise that it's just shit. And I'm not talking about moving forward with it in some different form, I'm talking about removing it entirely. Penalise all the players in front of the ball for being offside.

 

[pulsemyne]

I'm so glad I bought a new TV yesterday for the rugby. Looks a load better than my old one.

 

[phisheep]

Jesus that's the second Welsh injury this match? No luck at all for them.

Might have to move Tipuric into the centre, which would be interesting.

EDIT: super defence from Uruguay. And Amos is probably getting pissed off with Cuthbert coming inside him only to drop the ball.

 

[Musha_Soturi]

Yeah I was pleasantly surprised by Uruguay, they really made us work for it. An interesting game and a great end score.

 

[LiquidSolid]

Playing the second weakest team in the tournament and almost all their tries came from rolling mauls, yet the TV presenters are talking about it as if it's an impressive win. I don't understand.

 

[KingSnake]

Wales had a great game, despite the rough start. But I think this game showed the awfulness of the rolling maul in modern day rugby. I despise it.

 

[Zero2kz]

Got injured during my rugby match last night. I'm out for the season.

At least I have some matches to watch while I wallow in my own tears and vicodin.

 

[CCS]

Proposal to sort out mauls: allow players in mauls to be sacked, regardless of if they have the ball or not.

 

[LiquidSolid]

Proposal to sort out mauls: allow players in mauls to be sacked, regardless of if they have the ball or not.

They trialled that rule a few years ago, didn't they? I think they ended up getting rid of it (and keeping others, like the two props on the bench) because they didn't think it was safe for the players.

 

[Dr Campino]

First meaningful ABs match I've been able to see since the test match vs Australia in Dunedin in 2013. (That one was in person.)

Go ABs!

 

[CCS]

They trialled that rule a few years ago, didn't they? I think they ended up getting rid of it (and keeping others, like the two props on the bench) because they didn't think it was safe for the players.

Can't think of many other solutions short of banning the maul though.

 

[KingSnake]

Ok, this game should be spectacular either way, let's see.

 

[LiquidSolid]

Can't think of many other solutions short of banning the maul though.

Yeah, that's why I think they should just ban it. If the options are an unfair mess, an unsafe mess or nothing at all, I'll just stick with nothing.

 

[Dr Campino]

Goosebumps every haka.

 

[SnowFlakeCake]

Watching the haka will never ever get old