About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

[JamesWales]

Re: About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

Why? Wales have beaten each team in that pool, including battering Australia whilst Fiji side who laboured to victory against Georgia and beat Australia by 7 (Compared to Wales' 32). I wouldn't want to play them and would rather one of Australia or Fiji if I were Argentinian

But you have to play someone in the quarters and I think teams would rather face Wales, Argentina, England or (probably Fiji) than Ireland, France, NZ or South Africa.

[JamesWales]

Re: About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

Fiji playing awful atm.

Portugal play some lovely stuff mind.

[City123]

Re: About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

But you have to play someone in the quarters and I think teams would rather face Wales, Argentina, England or (probably Fiji) than Ireland, France, NZ or South Africa.

Yeah, but they knew it would have to be one of Wales, Australia or Fiji and I reckon they'd rather play the latter two

Fiji are in a spot of bother here

[JamesWales]

Re: About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

Yeah, but they knew it would have to be one of Wales, Australia or Fiji and I reckon they'd rather play the latter two

Fiji are in a spot of bother here

Yeah, fair point 👍

[City123]

Re: About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

Fantastic scenes as Portugal win by a point, fully deserved

[jeepster]

Re: About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

Fantastic scenes as Portugal win by a point, fully deserved

Played with the ball in hand,well done Portugal

[Des Parrot]

Re: About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

Fantastic scenes as Portugal win by a point, fully deserved

I enjoyed that, everybody wins with that result. Fiji looked nervous and therefore tight, Portugal never stopped believing and their defence kept them in it.

[Harry Paget Flashman]

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Fiji are the most overrated team in the tournament.

Game management was awful.

England (if they drop Farrell from centre) will grind a result out comfortably.

[chrisp_1927]

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Fiji were missing a few big hitters last night and it certainly showed . Although that still doesn't explain the crazy amount of knock ons, that absolutely killed them.

I think kurovoli makes them a much better side, Lomanis passing from 9 was absolutely abysmal at times.

Semi should be back for England game aswell I guess

[LA Bluebird]

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Yeah let’s not forget with a slightly better pass or handling they would have been kicking for the game against Wales too.

Wild card team and maddeningly inconsistent but they are better on paper than Samoa who England were very lucky to beat. On their day they will give them a major scare.

[Moodybluebird]

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Who knows, Fiji may have been playing with quarter final in mind. They are better than that.

[The Bloop]

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Could well see 4 northern hemisphere teams in the semis - the complete opposite of 2015.

[fugsyphil]

Re: About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

Could well see 4 northern hemisphere teams in the semis - the complete opposite of 2015.

That would be cool and unlikely to ever be repeated

[Harry Paget Flashman]

Re: About time we had a rugby World Cup thread?

Yeah let’s not forget with a slightly better pass or handling they would have been kicking for the game against Wales too.

Wild card team and maddeningly inconsistent but they are better on paper than Samoa who England were very lucky to beat. On their day they will give them a major scare.

If my auntie had balls...

Wales were out of sight at 60 minutes and never looked like losing. Made subs and a few brain farts let them back in.

Fijis results in the WC have seen them scrape past opponents (worst Australia team in history and a poor Georgia) or lose. They beat a poor England team drained of energy in the middle of a fitness building campaign in the warm ups and that's their first win against a tier 1 nation since 2018.

Rugby fans desperately want them to be good because its romantic that they play flamboyant offloading, running rugby but ultimately their basics are poor when under pressure. They've improved slightly but revert to type every time.