Interestingly, if Wales lose to Australia and do not get a bonus point, we could feasibly fail to qualify even though we may have won our other three matches with a bonus point in each of these games. Strange but true.
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Interestingly, if Wales lose to Australia and do not get a bonus point, we could feasibly fail to qualify even though we may have won our other three matches with a bonus point in each of these games. Strange but true.
Georgia v Portugal was a very entertaining match
really looking forward to Ireland v SA
If Wales beat Australia a Fiji v England quarter final is the most likely outcome isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by fugsyphil
Winner of our group plays winner of Englands group which looks very likely to be England now.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Yeah I think if Wales beat Aus then a Fiji v England game is most likely, but a few permeatations yet.
Winner of our group plays the runner up of Englands.Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Christ ITV is shocking
Anyone just watch that studio explanation of the blitz defence ?
What a load of cobblers
Hoping that SA give Johnny Sexton & Co. one hell of a thrashing but reality, I'm thinking that Ireland may well snatch the win,
What a blatantly stupid system that is thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Moodybluebird
Opposite here. The arrogance of SA fans on various media has been shocking. It’s about time they got taken down a peg or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
Game is brutal thus far.Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
England win 71 nil.
I'd like to know who the feck enjoys watching that.
The cost of tickets i understand is scandalous also.
Load of old b****cks!
Know what you mean re Sexton but the South African arrogance is worse than the Aussies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathblue
IMHO we should be going for a northern hemisphere really (not England obvs)
Tremendous game this, between the current top 2 teams in world Rugby.
Kinda game that doesn't really happen in football. Low scoring, hammer and tongs, but also a bit chess like.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
Ticket prices are pretty fair tbh I think, but yeah, waste of time. But a fun weekend in Lille etc no doubt.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
You never know though. England v Chile is no different on paper to Wales v Portugal really but they were quite different games.
Interesting game. Thought South Africa were the far superior side. But some awful kicking and poor decision making by them has cost them. Haven't see the Irish pack beaten up like that for a long time, but they dug in and got the win.
I think Australia would need a bonus point against us for that to be possible. We'd finish on 15, with Aus and Fiji on 16 points.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moodybluebird
Great game tonight though
Were you watching the same game as me?Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
At no time in that game were Sth Africa “the far superior team”. It was what it was. No 1 in the world, against no 2 in the world, and the no 1 team came out on top in a brutal but brilliant game.
That's why it's so important we get a bonus point against the Aussies even if we lose the game. A bonus point win against Georgia would then almost certainly guarantee us qualificationQuote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
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Originally Posted by William Treseder
Should probably point out that I didn't catch much of the first half, so basing mostly on the second.
They dominated at scrum and seemed to make metres at will in the 2nd half. Ireland did well in the important areas inside both 22s to be fair. But I was surprised quite how much South Africa punched holes through them and made easy metres. Libbok missed a couple of sitters, and faf brainlessly took on 2 pens that should have gone to the corner. Thought South Africa were unlucky right at the end aswell. Ball seemed to be out, but the ref blew up
I’m with these comments, two evenly matched sides and as always the Boks made the opposition play their way but I still thought Ireland were on top all the way through.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
South Africa threw that away with poor goal kicking and the ridiculous decision to give away the 5 meter scrum after the drop goal attempt.Quote:
Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
Shout out to the atmosphere there tonight. Frequently poor at rugby but it sounded incredible. There must have been 50,000 Irish there. The gap between Irish and Welsh rugby in the last 10 years or so has become enormous
Think last night’s game between the so called two best teams in the world told me I’m lost to modern day rugby - I kept on being told I was watching an epic and I was bored stiff. The game’s clearly moved on and left me behind.
I know what you mean. I don't think it was a beautiful game of Rugby and it certainly wasn't high-scoring. I did enjoy it though, was a real battle. Like I said before, was the kind of clash that doesn't really happen in football for me.
Isn’t that South African rugby for decades though? Attritional, power, wear the opposition down. I do agree that it was one of the worst games to watch so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
most boring so farQuote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
I'm with you on this one Bob. I understand that from a rugby diehard's point of view this would be seen as an 'epic' but like you I think as a spectacle it was disappointing at best.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
On last night's performance Ireland could go on and win it. I can't see France nor New Zealand giving them too many fears
Had Ireland got the line out working right at the start they could have been up by double digits inside 15 minutesQuote:
Originally Posted by chrisp_1927
Can fully agree here. The physical athletes that now play this game has turned it into a much less attractive on the eye spectacle for me as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
I wasn’t paying full attention at the time, but did the commentator say that South Africa didn’t have any backs among their substitutes? If that’s true, then I really hope they don’t retain their title because I can also remember how awful the last Lions tour was - the more the modern day South Africa wins, the worse it is for rugby’s future I’d say.
Portugal are a better team than Chile, no way do Chile draw with Georgia & Portugal have players playing in FranceQuote:
Originally Posted by JamesWales
Massive problem international rugby has is how little they promote the "lesser" nations, I think yesterday was the first time Chile played a "tier 1" nation that wasn't Argentina. Compare that to football where the likes of Liechtenstein will definitely get at least 2 games against a top side in every qualifying cycle. The likes of Chile & Portugal rock up to the World Cup totally unprepared as they don't play against the top teams
Who were in their qualifying groups? Flatholm, Steepholm and one of the islands on Roath Park Lake?Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
:hehe: :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
The USA, Hong Kong and Kenya
They usually put 6 forwards and 2 backs on the bench. Most other teams have a 5-3 split.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Well it's trueQuote:
Originally Posted by City123
It's an utter farce
Those points totals equivalents would never happen in football
8 nil , 9 nil ?
It rarely happens
Think it must have been 7-1 because I definitely heard they had seven forward subs.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
You're right. The only forward not subbed was no7. The only back subbed was their scrum half.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Wales doing what’s needed, but Australia are very poor so far.