[Closed] Rugby world cup

AA, if the Georgian No 18 thought the ball was dropped and loose why did he completely miss it and hit Ashton's arm? Clear at 33s on DezB's clip

Bumpety bump isn't-it-about-time-they-fixed-this-glitch 🙂

Yep. 7-0 already to Italy. Maybe I was wrong!

Anti-England sentiment clouding a_a's judgement I'm afraid.

The Georgian fella is clearly late and had plenty of time to just jump over Ashton. 2 weeks for Lawes' offence was harsh.

That were a lovely try that!

Oh Jeebus...not anything like the game I was hoping for. 😐

looks like a big score for italy

Can't watch this one, sadly. Seems I was very, very wrong about the scoreline. Still, I suppose that's good for Italy!

Italy will give the green machine a stern test!

I hope they do, Darcy. Two reasons....
1 - It'll stiffen Irish sinews for later matches (and/or knacker them out for when they face the Welsh! 😉 )
2 - It's good for world rugby to see the second string nations do well!

😉

Yellow for Italy.
Looks like they're having fun though!

Yay!!

Bad tackle from the Italian too 😐

I'd like to see the Russkis recover from here, Rugby scores are so "sensitive", a small difference in ability leads to enormous differences in scores, which is good but it can hide how well the losers are doing. I feel like the Russians are so nearly there..

Brilliant try, that Russian had all the time in the world!

duckman - Member
Jings Jon; I opened that at work

Apologies. I never ever open clips in work just in case, so forgot about the NSFW bit. 😳

Russia did pretty well considering where they are coming from. 3 tries, a sniff of a bonus point and lots of good experience to take through to the Irish game, where they'll undoubtedly be victorious. 😆

It's the Italian game I'm worried about

Meanwhile, for anybody not too sure about the rulez, Lynx have helpfully put a video on YooToob:

Possible NSFW 🙂

You may well worry, Darcy! Could be a tight one. And if Italy win........

🙂

Ireland v Italy easy win for the Irish (pssst don't mention the last 6N 😉 )

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DD is that you you little curly haired bundle of joy. 😉

Really looking forward to this mornings game where I will mostly be supporting Nippon.

Anyone else thingk the Guiness ad where they are fighting in a muddy field with flags is just pants?

Anyone else [s]thingk the Guiness ad where they are fighting in a muddy field with flags[/s] every single one of the ads being played around the woeful coverage on ITV is just pants?

FTFY. And yes.

The Guinness ad is a bit pants yes.

Meanwhile from twitter:

@rwcbrianmoore

Tip from Mick Cleary to RWC commentators - get this man's proper name fixed in your head well before you broadcast - Romanian Stefan Ciuntu

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5-5

Why, oh why does my schedule mean I can't watch this one! 🙁

This is a great game. CFH vs ITV +2. Punch anyone who moans about the licence fee.

Great game they can't keep going at this pace can they?

Holy sh... That Lynx advert is really quite excellent.
Now, back to the Italy Japan game ...

I picked Tonga by between 7 & 14 points - looking good.
A right harem-scarem match by the look of it!

Or Japan tonga even , only just looked at the screen"

Yellow card, but no penalty? That's a bit odd.. (didn't see what it was for)

I see the chip van is on fire then.

NZ Col I thought that as well. 😯

Wasn't the cracker I thought it was going to be Japan made to many errors and the counter rucking by Tonga was pretty fierce.

I am always the kiss of death when I say I am going to support someone. I apologise to the nation of Japan.

Pigface, don't you support Wales?

I was supporting Japan too..

Morgan Parra at fly half for France against NZ? WTF?

The French seem to have picked a less than full strength side although, with Lievremont at the helm, does anyone know what a full strength side would look like?

A blog I was on pointed out that France winning this game would benefit BOTH sides. The French will be desperate to avoid England who seem to be their bogey team in RWCs and would surely rather play Sco/Arg followed by SA/Aus.

NZ would probably rather have a couple of sterner tests against Eng then Ire/Wales instead of a 40pt walkover followed by a battle hardened Tri-Nations adversary.

(Of course, Scotland may beat England, Ireland lose to Italy and SA lose to Samoa so none of this may happen anyway.)

The main point seems to be - WHAT ARE THE FRENCHIES DOING?

WHAT ARE THE FRENCHIES DOING?

Has anybody ever been able to answer that? Seems a bizarre team selection all the same though - nobody goes out to lose a game but I suspect they'd prefer to be on the Ireland/Wales/England side of the QFs - as you say, that's assuming rather a lot.

I'm saying no more till we've played the Azurri

EDIT: also agree, I have no idea what a "full strength" France side looks like. 😳

Excellent blog here ([url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bendirs/2011/09/chasing_the_all_black_dream.html ]BBC Linky[/url]) on Rotorua High School from Ben Dirs.

DD that helps peep understand how the AB's are so bloody good, they start them in the womb..

Any one but england Toys anyone but england 😉

Pigface - your obvious bias must have been what brought the Japanese down. They probably didn't take your support seriously as your love for them is just a by product of your hatred for us. I imagine that's a killer blow. 😆

I think Japan are my sixth team...I'm struggling to remember now. Wales still at 19. England still at 2.

DD the 20th team?

glitch bump

It's reserved at the moment toys19. I can only see one team sinking that far though 😉

In twitter news:

Why cant the Scots have their bagpipes - just for the record NZ troops went into battle at El Alamien following an Eighth Army piper

Scots can't bring bagpipes into the ground? WTF?

Have the Saffers got their Vuvus or what?

Have the Saffers got their Vuvus or what?

[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/14981651.stm ]

Scotland's sports minister Shona Robison has written to tournament organisers to ask them to allow fans to play bagpipes at matches involving Andy Robinson's side. Musical instruments are on a long list of items banned from stadiums which also includes umbrellas, vuvuzelas and car parts. (The Scotsman)

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Oh hello don...haven't seen you for what? Around three days now? 😛

[s]Oi tink it was dat dey wanted t'play dem after de haka.[/s]

I think it was that they wanted to play them after the haka.

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Racist!

Nearly 4, I thought I'd have an extra one for luck. Do you think I could put it on credit?

Have I told you about my Irish passport? Parents from Dub and Kildare, one grandfather was a Colonel in the Irish Army, t'other was a humans right lawyer (honest in the 1940's) in Dubski. My brother lives in Skerries.

I'm not sure whether you're bullshitting me or not now 😐

England still my second team. I luv Tindall. Ashton = gr8.

From today's South Wales Evening Post:

[i]Felipe Contepomi remains hopeful of being fit for Sunday's vital clash with Scotland.[/i]

So Scotland may well be stuffed then? Would England have beaten Argentina if Contepomi had stayed on?

[i]Keith Earls has warned Russia that Ireland's backs are ready to explode when the two sides clash on Sunday.[/i]

Now that sounds dangerous and possibly a citable offence to me.

Keith Earls has warned Russia that Ireland's backs are ready to explode when the two sides clash on Sunday.

Earls 😆

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Nope tis true. My old man did his training at Trinity, but his last year was at Dublin City Uni as they closed the vets dept at Trinity. As an Oirsih vet in Devon he has had some communication issues with the farmers broad Devski accent.

A farmer once gave my dad a present of some embroidery that said

"half past three"

My wife died of laughter when we are at my uncles place in Naas a couple of years ago and he was flicking through the TV guide and said "Ooh look Naked Gun 33 1/3rd is on later"

Some wags, funniest guys ever, I can tell you, used to like to ask me...Darcy, so you have a tenner, and you spend 6 pounds and sixty seven pence, how much have you got left?

Oh how we laughed.

Well I grew up with it, I think it's still funny!

My old man doesn't find Father Ted funny either. Mrs Doyle was an exact rendition of my Granny.

FT is fab, love it - but it never went down as well in Ireland.

On the morning of my great Aunts Funeral, we were at my Uncles in Naas, my uncle got us up, got grandad up and dressed (fairly done over with parkinsons byt hsi stage), made us all brekfast, waiting for a bit, we are all dressed up for the funeral, uncle brings out tea and cake - we duly dig in. Grandad Pipes up
"What time is dis funeral?"
Uncle "11am"
Grandad looks down at what he is wearing with surprise, looks at watch and its 7:45 am and the church is a ten minute walk.
"Ya f.e.c.king eejit"

My Mrs thought she had been transported to Craggy Island in a dream.

Sitting here at a terrace cafe in Paris, sipping a nice cold beer, can I just say.....

[b]ALLEZ LES BLEUS![/b] for this weekend?

🙂

Allez Les Plastiques 🙂

Do they have any potatoes in Brizzle?

🙂

Racist. 😛

EDIT: Fifteenundred...a

FT is fab, love it - but it never went down as well in Ireland.

Did you know they aired Allo Allo in both France and Germany?

Flash - what do you actually do? Are you ever at home? You remind me of one of those suitcase-living businessmen in films who don't actually have a home...

Tindall, Cueto & Wilkinson starting against Romania. Could be DULL.

McCaw to be first AB to get to 100 caps against France. Love him or hate him, that is one remarkable achievement.

At home right now, as it happens. With a cold beer. Which is nice.

So, tomorrow...
SA v Namibia? One way traffic, I fear.

Sell lots of stationery in France O'Flashearty?

Beaucoup, mon vieux, beaucoup....! 😉

Meanwhile in twitter news:

@sebchabal
Demain, c'est repos. Voilà qui tombe plutôt bien.

For those wondering - it wasn't the chip van on fire last night it was simply a scrub fire that looked worse than it actually was. So you can sleep easy 😉

Do they have any potatoes in Brizzle?

Nah; blight killed em all.

In other news TJ was seen boarding a plane for NZ with a feather duster...He is going to sneak up on Contemponi and....

Seriously we are screwed if he plays; As soon as he went off Argentina were beaten. Despite any claims otherwise, that was NOT an Argentinian 1xv we beat.

I'm mildly concerned about Sundays game. We've instigated a complete Blueout in the house and are having a mid-afternoon haggis neeps and tatties afternoon tea with belhaven heavy and some nice malts prior to departing to the macs Brewery for further 'refreshments'. We will then head towards the stadium under escort from the massed pipes and drums and have our own piper with us who will be getting into the stadium by hiding his pipes up his kilt. He will then serenade us with do ya think I'm sexxy far too many times before he passes out.

I'm going to get moderately tipsy and enjoy the spectacle. Go Scotland.

Scotland XV for Arg:

Paterson, Evans, De Luca, Morrison, SLamont, Jackson, R Lawson(c), Jacobsen, Ford, Cross, Gray, Hamilton, Strokosch, Brown, Barclay.

Are duckman and TeeJ really that worried about Dr. Phil playing?

EDIT: Oh, and have a good trip duckman. 🙂

Contepomi? Not really.

Slightly perturbed by the selection. I don't think Patterson should be there - he is there as a kicker because of doubts over Jacksons kicking. I'd prefer Lamont. Shame no place for Ansbro as well.

Still - a strong and most importantly a mobile pack, a half back pair who can pass, a decent mix of power and speed in the backs.

Game plan must be to move the ball around the park to keep it away from the Pumas pack and to play a territorial game. Turnovers will be key as ever

Stupidly, I have a long meeting scheduled right over the match this morning!

Unlikely to miss much, though....!

Got talking to an Aussie while waiting for my train last night. He was genuinely concerned about playing the US. As in, he really seemed to think there was a chance of an upset. 😕

As in, he really seemed to think there was a chance of an upset.

See what happens when an Aussie tries to do "modesty"? 🙂

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I will be starting a 151km 1900m climbing Sportive in Bristol just as Scotland are kicking off. Jesus, the things I let myself get talked into without checking calenders first.

At least I'll get to see the Ireland Ruskis game - D'Arcy, O'Connell and Bowe all doubtful for that one. Nothing to worry about...of course 😕

Nothing to worry about...of course

See what happens when a [s]Bristolian[/s] Irishman tries to do "modesty"?

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Hence the 😕 you eejit O'Flashearty 😛

Idiotist! 😉

I know what you mean about things getting stuck in the calender (sic). I've managed to get myself in totally the wrong time zone for most of the group stages!