[Closed] Rugby world cup

Regarding the above point of how the tackle is ridden, do you really think Clerc chose to flip upside down and land on his head/back (depending on if you are AA)? How the tackle is made defines how or if it can be ridden safely.

Ever played the game? Ever taught how to take a hit?
It also helps that Radike is much bigger and heavier, how the tackle is made is not the only thing that defines the outcomes. (in these cases, obviously high tackles cannot be ridden)

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Eye gouging has as much place in rugby as dropping your knee on to someone's head, or leading in to a tackle with your fist. This sort of thing should be cited and looked in to properly.....

Blimp?

bumpyglitchy****ybump

Jesus Christ!

Glitchetyfukkery

Glitchy****nutbumpthingypainintheass

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when does the window for citing close? I think the citing comission shut up shop after the 1/4 finals.

Jeez, nine posts to move the thread on 🙄

O'Flashearty, I can see what you're doing there btw.

Yes I have played. But answering a question with a question doesn't help anyone does it?

But unless he has his hands on the World Cup now, he shouldn't be on the list either according to doof_doof, and anyway it's just a readers' choice and as we can see here people will vote with their hearts and not with their heads and spout the usual rubbish.

err...I didn't say that. I was implying that if Wales did indeed have 7 of the best players in the tournament then they should/would have done better than 4th place.

A brilliant player is not defined by holding the RWC, nice leap you've made there. But a team with 7(!) of the 15 best players at the RWC would not have lost 3 times and failed to make the final, and they lost to a team who have no players in that list, and another who have only one.

I agree with this.

After the Rougerie on McCaw eye-gouge, the All Blacks shook no French hands and wouldn't swap shirts after the match.

[i]New Zealand and French players didn't embrace at the end of the game, and why there was little or no mention about the French team in the speeches after the final[/i]
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After the McCaw on Parra punch and knee drop, the French shook no New Zealand hands and wouldn't swap shirts after the match.

Perspective. It's an interesting thing, isn't it?

Annoys the hell out of me, as he's such a good player.

What have I missed? Another 15 videos from A_A?

[i]After the McCaw on Parra knee, the French shook no New Zealand hands and wouldn't swap shirts after the match.[/i]

Did you watch that in normal speed, or just the slo-mo?
(rhetorical question)

Both.

Why on earth would McCaw swap his RWC winning shirt?? It's the only one he'll ever have from this event,the pinnacle of his career.

Because he has 2, one from each half?

What have I missed? Another 15 videos from A_A?

as we know reading isnt a strong point of yours would you like me to draw you a picture?

as we know reading isnt a strong point of yours would you like me to draw you a picture?

Funny that. I spend all day reading intelligent things. Not much you say falls into that category, so i don't see the need to bother.

You could post some more videos of tackles that weren't red cards if it makes you feel any better?

But a team with 7(!) of the 15 best players at the RWC would not have lost 3 times and failed to make the final,

Unless their place kicker was not one of those seven 🙂

Unless their place kicker was not one of those seven

😆 Ouch, but still 😆

Even a slight improvement in kicking - just one extra kick, which is not an outrageous expectation - would have seen us in the final. So I think the 7 best players idea can't be discounted on the basis of final position.

And another successful kick against SA would have seen another win...... Hang on! 😛

I think the 7 best players idea can be discounted on the basis of

Warburton who got red carded in the biggest game of his life

Did he? You know, I don't think anyone was aware of that - you should have made more of it at the time as we all must have missed it! 🙄

Guys, this has gone far enough now I tink.

Zokes are you this obsessed with everything in life, you came on this thread to start with seemingly spoiling for a fight and you are still banging the same drum, do you need a hug?

Darcy, +1.

In other news, the Ayatollah has announced his retirement.
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After the McCaw on Parra punch and knee drop, the French shook no New Zealand hands and wouldn't swap shirts after the match.

Don't know why. McCaw did them a favour as Lievremont was forced to take him off shortly afterwards and bring on the scrum half who has created more for them every time he has come off the bench.
OK, Trinh Duc's kicking is pish, but there are alternatives for that, but not the instinct that he has ball in hand.
As the French say "Il pue le rugby" (he stinks of rugby).

Have we done the French getting fined by the IRB for standing up to the Haka yet?
Apparently there is a 10metre exclusion zone, which they breached.

Ridiculous,imo.

Ridiculous,imo.

Quite. It's a confrontational war dance. It seems a bit silly to be getting upset about someone confronting it!

deadlydarcy - Member
Guys, this has gone far enough now I tink.

I don't see what your ethnic background has got to do with any of this? 🙂

Quite. It's a confrontational war dance. It seems a bit silly to be getting upset about someone confronting it!

Agreed. IMO, the opposition should be able to do whatever they want during the various hakas/dances before games. Saunter off and warm up in their own 22, perhaps. Stride up face to face with the opposition. Whatever.

McCaw did them a favour as Lievremont was forced to take him off shortly afterwards

Indeed Para is shite at 10 and Tranny Duc pretty good.

Saunter off and warm up in their own 22, perhaps

That would be my favourite to see. Imagine the indignation! NZ would implode I think.

Who could ever forget Norm Hewitt and Richard Cockerill and their Haka shenanigans. Resulted in the vile Leicester coach being knocked out out side a night club 😆

Saunter off and warm up in their own 22, perhaps

Campese used to do it all the time, there was also a game where the All Blacks chased the opposition into there own 22 to do the Haka right in front of the, cant remeber who it was now.

Resulted in the vile Leicester coach being knocked out out side a night club

Remember Wales's response in 2008, just staring back at them and not moving when it finished ?
And Graham Henry's reaction ?

The Haka is a war dance. If you're going to stand there like that then in the past people would have charged, but it's a rugby match and you can't do that.
People back home will have been hurt by what they decided to do. [b]Standing in the way like they did is asking for a fight.[/b]

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FumpetyBuck!

dumbbumpy****erypokery

4600....it's getting worse! 🙂

hello?

Dont upset the Moari elders people...

"he threw some grass, he threw some grass, spear him now"

"OK" says Kevin and Tana

Wrecker go look it up.

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Saunter off and warm up in their own 22, perhaps

exactly what campese and others used to do and IMO the best response

Wrecker go look it up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/15442570.stm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 😥

Agreed I cant find any version of him being knocked out but I am pretty sure I read it some where. Maybe it is a bit of folklore.

Colin Jones was meant to have flattened one of the Moriarty brothers in Swansea over something as well.

Love a bit of gossip. I heard a rumour that Calzhagi banged out Powell in Cardiff once. It's highly likely to be bollocks though.

It would be hard to tell if Powell had just been knocked out.

It would be hard to tell if Powell had just been knocked out.

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Powell certainly got the shit kicked out of him by some football fans a while back.

namastebuzz - Member
It's been a great thread.

Probably time to lock it eh?

Move on to the next 6N where:

IS there no rugby between now and then? 😉

wrecker - Member
Love a bit of gossip. I heard a rumour that Calzhagi banged out Powell in Cardiff once. It's highly likely to be bollocks though.

I think that this is probably referring to Mike Phillips in Chip Alley, Cardiff, banging on about how he could beat Calzaghe in the ring, not realising that the old guy behind him was the boxer's father. Result, Phillips knocked down by an old man...

Gossip, of course, but pretty believable. (And it may have been Maccarinelli not Calzaghe. And it may never have happened. :?:)

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IS there no rugby between now and then?

🙂

Hydrogen Cup starts in a couple of weeks. Woo!

My boys are in a fairly tough group - Castres, Northampton with Scarlets. We haven't had an "easy" side in bloody ages! A great competition that flanks either side of the 6N. Who knows, a Welsh or Scottish side might make the QFs which would be a remarkable success. Can Wales step up and send a team through to the knock out stages? After all, they're the fourth best side in the world at the moment. Some (roughly as many people that inhabit a country the size of Wales) even reckon they may be at least the second best in the world, and but for a few missed kicks and a Irish refereeing conspiracy are possibly the best.

I physically touched Beaver and the William Web Ellis Trophy today. Quite exciting.

I physically touched Beaver

congratulations. i naturally assumed that you rugger types had no interest.

So according to L'equipe Dusautoir was the best 7 in the tournament, despite being a 6 and the French playing Bonnaire at 7 all tournament.
L'equipe shoe-horning in their main man, whilst accepting that Kaino had a stormer and had to be the top number 6.

After all, they're the fourth best side in the world at the moment

Not according to the IRB there not.
Cant see any of the Welsh teams doing well TBH, Scarlets have no front five, Ospreys have lost Phillips, Hook, Byrne and Adam Jones is broken those are huge boots to fill, they also as usual have an extremely tough draw. Blues have a decent team if they all stay fit but they lack a decent 10, cant see Henson filling that hole mind you: 9. Rees/Willimas 10. Henson, 11 James, 12 Roberts, 13 Laulala, 14 1/2p, 15 Blair looks good on paper 😆

So according to L'equipe Dusautoir was the best 7 in the tournament, despite being a 6 and the French playing Bonnaire at 7 all tournament.

French eh!! Next we'll have Burger as the best 7!!

Blues have a decent team if they all stay fit but they lack a decent 10,

No, he's shit, Ceri Sweeney is better and he's shit

Could someone who knows about these things explain how wales have dropped 2 places in the ranking while ireland have gone up one? guess its because they beat the aussies?

So according to L'equipe Dusautoir was the best 7 in the tournament, despite being a 6 and the French playing Bonnaire at 7 all tournament

The French don't really differentiate between 6 and 7. They often just go for two balanced flankers. The way he plays Dusautoir is hardly out of place on the openside.

Powell certainly got the shit kicked out of him by some football fans a while back.

ACTUALLY...

from a reliable source i might add.

footie fans kept on at him, he was calm and collected, and decided to leave the pub. on the way out they shouted severe abuse, he took about 3 guys out then one lad smashed a bar stool over his head.

top bloke but dull as a box of frogs

Yes, doesnt that count as having the shit kicked out of him? There was video footage around at the time, not sure about having taken out three first, the video doesnt show that, just shows him being decked then smacked with a bar stool whilst he was on the floor as I recall. Seem to remeber some Wasp england player was with him at the time too.

Yes, England players do seem to want to bring a Football sensitivity to the game.

Although having said that, quite a few of the Hurricanes players have I believe seen the inside of the Police cells of a weekend.

Yes, England players do seem to want to bring a Football sensitivity to the game.

What a stupid statement.

Sorry was trying to avoid calling them a bunch of ignorant thugs, but of course my mistake, that is the fans not the players. Will be less diplomatic next time (just when you though this thread was dead).

Why would Andy Powell want to play for England? 😕

I've got it, you're a stupid comment bot. Shame your mum didn't teach you any manners.

Seem to remeber some Wasp england player was with him at the time too.

Andy Powell is better than Nick Eater