[Closed] Rugby world cup

Oh dear.

ABs looking awesome thrice.

Good to us choking again, ah maybe not. My super15 referee watching companion said it wasn't a tackle in the air so there.

Nice idea, poor execution. 🙁

Ha caught trying their typical forward passes. Cheating barstewards

10 mins in bin no 6

nope. Kiwis get away with it again 🙁

And the Oscar goes to.... 🙄

Ah got away with it again

Hardly a bin offence. Let's not overreact here.

Hollywood from France.

My respect for Super 15 is even lower if the ref thinks that wasn't tackled in the air.b

It's not tiddlywinks boys.

The irony of the forward pass comment is not lost on me...

Brian Moore's twitter feed is quite funny. Whinging about the ref.

Has the ref lost his cards?

Card for what TeeJ?

Well we certainly seem to be stringing a fewnthings together. Or as others would have you believe - making all our forward passes stick, tackling in the air and generally cheating. 😕

The only offence worth a card so far was the tackle in the air.

Tsk. Thought maybe a penalty but definitely not a card. Let's not overreact here.

Just watched it again - Jane was looking at the ball and committed. Watch it with your other eye perhaps flash ?

NZCol - Member
making all our forward passes stick, tackling in the air and generally cheating

Well at least you admit it. 😀

An early try by France at the start of the next half might just get this game back on track, otherwise i may as well go out and cut the grass.

Oh the ace of spade advert, brill.

Forward off load there.....

Certainly was

Do NZ pay the refs off?

France are looking shite.

My second team may well beat them at this rate. 🙂

Who's the second team today, dd?

Elbow to the face must be a card surely?

Could easily have been 3 cards, cynical block after the kick thru, tackle in the air, elbow to the face

What the f*** is a hooker doing in the back line. FFS

Jesus what a bunch of haters you lt are.
I'm looking forward to the Scotland game tomorrow. Do they cheat to in your opinion ?

Thing is NZ don't [i]need[/i] the ref's help, France are handing it to them on a plate.

Not that anyone should be responding to steve's nonsense anyway tbh.

Can't agree TJ - the kick ahead and 'elbow' both look more like overreactions to contact by the French. don't like the idea of football style theatrics entering rugby, so delighted to see them ignored by the ref.

Bloody annoyed by the French - I was looking for this to be the game of the tournament so far, but Le Bleu are woeful at the moment.

Scotland? Watch for the special scottish offside line. We have a special one thats a metre further forward that even the NZ one. Very good at looking innocent tho so get away with it.

TeeJ come on man, stop overreacting. NZ are in awesome form today. France committing some really basic errors. Terrible in contact.

Second team still England dondon. 🙂

Come off it - even if its an overreaction an elbow to the face must be a card.

NZ do look awesome for sure. I just hate to see foul play and elbowing must not be allowed

Lolz. NZ take the scrum. 😀

Great pass from carter, this is 100mph stuff, they must be knackered.

Was it the face that actually made contact, or somewhere in the neck region? Either way, it wasn't sufficient to drop the guy.

TeeJ it WASN'T A ****ING ELBOW.

TJ, it's like when you take a man out with a double team spear tackle. Doesn't count if NZ do it.

Jesus what a bunch of haters you lt are

Not me - I always like to think of the All Blacks as the team Scotland could have been if we hadn't shipped everyone off to the colonies for sheepshagging.

The current AB performance rather puts England's dismantling of Romania into some sort of perspective though.

Yay!!!!

Come on France. Do it again.

At last

Lievremont not impressed with that dive!

Did he touch that down?

Second team still England dondon.

England IS his home country, Don!

🙂

It's perfectly acceptable don. As demonstrated by Les Plastiques ici.

Shocking number of handling errors by France.

Oh goody... My second team is.....

deadlydarcy - Member

TeeJ it WASN'T A **** ELBOW.

touch judge said it was did he not?

I can only hope the sad selection of rugby watchers on here are not a true representation of the English psyche as a whole.If so i feel sorry for the country.Bitter,envious,isolated and unlikeable is the only way to describe the poor sports on here.

Tv replays showed that the TJ was wrong though. Roland realised he was.

don, I always think it's good to have a "pet" second team from the second tier. Mine's England.

O'Flashearty, what are you saying then? That we should support the country in which we live?

Coasting, are you perhaps misinterpreting the banter perchance?

Jesus what a bunch of haters you lt are.

+1. I don't really like looking at this thread, bit negative. 😥

Talk about feeding the scrum.

Not sure why, but I have a soft spot for these guys.
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Could even see myself living there. 😀

Tv replays showed that the TJ was wrong though

Nah, just kidding, Darcy! 🙂

vinneyeh, join in then. Neutralise the haterz. You have to do it from the inside. 🙂

Better stuff from France.

Lots of hobbling NZ players. Victory at a price?

Yay. Shouldn't really stand though.

France will be a real handful should England meet them. Kiwi's looking incredible though.

Aye, odd. Was time back on?

And la de da.

Bizarre French try- he had called time off and hadn't even finished talking to the players. Odd.

Well not really the game i was hoping to watch.

Great play from the AB, who are going to stop them from lifting the trophy?

Not sure how far France will be able to go.

shocking descion at the start not to card the winger who took Traile out in the air maybe we would have seen a game then. Surely if he didnt card him it should have been a pen try too. Awful referring.

NZ look so much better than any other team I have seen. Stealing ball, dynamic and quick, support runners and no weakness that is obvious.

France have hardly made a break or beaten a man all game despite some good interplay in the backs.

could these two be the finalists?

Para was no threat at 10, the entire NZ defence just drifted off him and lined up Rougerie et al.

Jesus what a bunch of haters you lt are.

I see no NZ haters here. I just hate to see foul play being allowed. YOu feel hard done by you should be a England fan - now they get some stick including NZ crowd that is supporting anyone but england

NZ are clearly the best team in the tourney

All Blacks will be more AWESOMER if they can get the back row passing sorted.
The French just had a look of "What just happened?" at the end there.

To be fair the NZ could have had 3 players carded, the winger as said above, Kaino which was cynical and sonny bill almost took Tranny Ducks head off with what looked like a swinging arm. (even if it was a perfectly formed bulging tatooed arm 😆

TJ have you ever played rugby

his opinion is based on evidence only
and wikipedia

A little bit many many years ago. I played for Cartha Cathcart. Played as a centre in a full adult team at 16

is Ashton looking for sponsorship?

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Just watched it again - Jane was looking at the ball and committed. Watch it with your other eye perhaps flash ?

I think its you that need to open the other eye, Jane realised he had been beaten to the ball and so tackled the man in the air. A card on two levels, 1. cynical foul play in the red zone and 2. Dangerous play.

I have seen welsh players carded for less and seen them carded for play like Kaino's which was a cynical elbow to stop the player coming through. All blacks always seem to get away with it though.

All three incidents could have been cards - another day another ref. None really cast iron perhpas apart fro teh tackle in teh air.

I am sure clips will be up on youtube

TJ dont waste your breath justifying what you say.

All blacks will struggle against the likes of SA if they cannot find a fit number 8.