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Rugby World Cup 2015 |OT|
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LiquidSolid
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Looks to be a high scoring game. 3 tries in 9 minutes.
Man...
I was supposed to go on a one week holiday to the world cup starting today. My flight was cancelled, can't leave until Monday. Stuck on this fucking island. Will miss the England v Australia and Ireland v Italy matches I had tickets for. I'd planned this for a year.
Gutted, tbh. Not as gutted as my English friends, for whom this is one of the biggest games ever, but gutted all the same.
FUCK YOU JOAQUIN will you fucking move your ass out of here already!! Fucking slowest hurricane to ever exist!
I'm going to try and rebook and go to the Ireland v France match. Let's see what happens. Jesus christ though.
I was supposed to go on a one week holiday to the world cup starting today. My flight was cancelled, can't leave until Monday. Stuck on this fucking island. Will miss the England v Australia and Ireland v Italy matches I had tickets for. I'd planned this for a year.
Gutted, tbh. Not as gutted as my English friends, for whom this is one of the biggest games ever, but gutted all the same.
FUCK YOU JOAQUIN will you fucking move your ass out of here already!! Fucking slowest hurricane to ever exist!
I'm going to try and rebook and go to the Ireland v France match. Let's see what happens. Jesus christ though.
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Deleted member 1235
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Damn all blacks still error ridden as all fuck. carter missing everything.
fastest bonus point all tourney though, thats great!
fastest bonus point all tourney though, thats great!
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Deleted member 1235
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its worrying stuff. france or ireland would be laughing all the way to the goal line. i have tix for that match
phisheep
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It may have been 43-10, but NZ playing like a rusty chainsaw rather than a scalpel.
By my notes there was a 52 minute spell (from min 21 to 73) where NZ scored once, dropped the ball 11 times, had a lineout stolen, gave away three scrum penalties and two other penalties missed by the ref. Against a better team some of that would be punished.
The knockout stages may be more interesting than I expected.
By my notes there was a 52 minute spell (from min 21 to 73) where NZ scored once, dropped the ball 11 times, had a lineout stolen, gave away three scrum penalties and two other penalties missed by the ref. Against a better team some of that would be punished.
The knockout stages may be more interesting than I expected.
electristan
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really impressed by Georgia compared to the last world cup.
much better play and fitness levels all around.
much better play and fitness levels all around.
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Deleted member 1235
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yeah could be rough. although that's hard to measure as both teams change their mindset and play far more cautiously. I think NZ was throwing it around with a 'we'll win this' type mentality. What was shocking was the absolutely HORRIBLE HANDS. From everyone. And carter flubbed the boot as well. Really that should have been a try scoring demonstration. but it wasn't.
Credit to Georgia though, it looked like they screwed NZ on a number of occasions, really really well.
LiquidSolid
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Well that was an utter mess. It seemed like after those first couple of tries, half the team figured they could just play Sevens, throw a million cute 50/50 passes and come away with an easy win. Very little respect was given to the Georgians, who gave it their all and piled on the pressure, creating most of those mistakes.
I'm not panicking but I'm not really confident about our chances. Too many out of form players, possibly because of the weird changes that've been made to the usual schedule this year.
Credit to Georgia though. World Rugby really need to jump on the improvements we're seeing from them at all levels. Getting them into the Six Nations should be the goal.
I'm not panicking but I'm not really confident about our chances. Too many out of form players, possibly because of the weird changes that've been made to the usual schedule this year.
Credit to Georgia though. World Rugby really need to jump on the improvements we're seeing from them at all levels. Getting them into the Six Nations should be the goal.
Interesting match.
Not sure what was going on with the All Blacks, they certainly didn't look like the sum of their players through much of that match although it' not going to be an issue for them until after the pool stages.
From what I've seen so far, Australia are looking the likely world champions as things stand. Can't see England or Wales really bothering them over the next couple of weeks.
Having said that, all teams have their off days and all teams also have days where they manage to play beyond themselves and combining that with knockout rugby means that nothing is certain.
Not sure what was going on with the All Blacks, they certainly didn't look like the sum of their players through much of that match although it' not going to be an issue for them until after the pool stages.
From what I've seen so far, Australia are looking the likely world champions as things stand. Can't see England or Wales really bothering them over the next couple of weeks.
Having said that, all teams have their off days and all teams also have days where they manage to play beyond themselves and combining that with knockout rugby means that nothing is certain.
England really should narrow down the number of sport they try to be good at.
phisheep
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So, today we wave goodbye to our English friends?
Not going to lie, I really hope Australia wins. Then I get four years of making fun of my colleagues at work.
Not going to lie, I really hope Australia wins. Then I get four years of making fun of my colleagues at work.
Were in a no lose situation. If we win, it will be a massive performance and we will be in the quarters. If we lose, it will be a brave battling performance against a tough South African side with our secondish string. Then a win next week gets us a quarter final against the winners of the Aussie vs Wales match, so likely Australia, given Wales injury situation.
Exactly. God its nice to not be in a situation of desperate panic for once.
Really enjoyed the game last night. Georgia were great and had so much heart throughout the whole match it was a joy to watch them. Will be rooting for Japan and Scotland today. I'm torn between England and Australia. A host nation being out early on for a tournament does effect the atmosphere during the whole event, then again the arrogance of the English commentators make me want to punch something. Also... you know, it's the English rugby team
I'm saving the desperate panic for next week. It's hard to get too excitable when you support a country as shit as Scotland.
affleck1981
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SomedayTheFire
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That's a bad call. Didn't look particularly forward to me.
SomedayTheFire
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Think Samoa are VERY lucky pulling down that maul deliberately seconds after getting a yellow card.
That's another. Samoa so indisciplined.
That's another. Samoa so indisciplined.
Late, no arms shot on the chest.
SomedayTheFire
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Finally for Japan! Not impressed by the Samoans illegal defending. Penalties everywhere!
Amazing defence!
Amazing defence!
Rin Tohsaka
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What a try
SomedayTheFire
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Japan continue to surprise me! I was thinking play for the penalty and they just go and grab a great try! Brilliant. That conversion was super too.
affleck1981
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Same way USA did when Scotland had the same rest period?
Perhaps! It's all conjecture of course, but Japan are the team who have shaken up their group, unlike USA.
Yep and it's great for world Rugby as well.
SomedayTheFire
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That was fairly easy for Japan!
affleck1981
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Lack of bonus point will hurt them - think Scotland should beat Samoa. Japan need us to beat SA now...
Absolutely. There definitely needs to be an expansion to the yearly tournaments to include more of these teams to help them develop.
If they're gonna stick to Northern/Southern hemisphere divide, then the Six Nations really needs to have two leagues, with promotion and relegation. Watching Japan shake up their group has been magnificent, and seeing Georgia play so courageously against the All Blacks last night has convinced me that the Six Nations being a closed shop has to end.
Those "second tier" teams deserve a chance to face off against the top Six Nations teams (in particular England, Wales, Ireland and France) on a semi-regular basis, while Italy and Scotland sometimes need a fire lit up under their collective arses (which the threat of relegation would do).
It would make more sense to bundle Japan in with the Southern Hemisphere teams. You can't really expect European nations to go that far to play mid-season.
affleck1981
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Come on Scotland!
Inclined to agree due to timezones, but I was just talking about if they insisted on sticking to Northern/Southern Hemisphere divide.
Regardless of whether Japan competes, I think it'd be good to have a bigger Six Nations so that more international teams are playing each other regularly, and some of them getting the chance to play against the more experienced teams.
At the moment the Northern and Southern yearly leagues are too closed off from these other developing teams, and it's really stifling the sport when the elite teams close themselves off from the rest of the world for 3/4 years.
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