RWC: Fiji v Australia (Pool D)

[kiwiinmelb]

And their ball security looks more like Fiji than Fiji does

[Bones]

Those Fijian outside backs are brutal eh. Tuisova etc are just so hard to put down.

[NTA]

Box kick from White was Genia-esque

[Kirwan]

Good start from Fiji. Nice field kicking too

[ACT Crusader]

Volavola looks a bit bigger and not like a 15 yo kid anymore.

[Kirwan]

Fuck, what a tackle.

[kiwiinmelb]

Be interesting to see how long Fiji can stay this accurate

[Bones]

That worked out worse for oz than if the ridiculously not straight lineout had been called.

[Kirwan]

@kiwiinmelb probably 30mins?

[rustycruiser]

@rotated said in RWC: Fiji v Australia (Pool D):

@rustycruiser said in RWC: Fiji v Australia (Pool D):

Evening all. Can actually watch this one live as it is at a semi decent hour (almost 1AM on EC of States)

Normally yes. But Pretty shit hour if you have a 5:30am EST appointment however.

Got 3 alarms set. But there is a strong chance I sleep through them. Not as young as I used to be when I would get up at 3.30AM for the Bok games in Kiwiland

[Kirwan]

Holy shit, Fiji are on fire

[rotated]

@hydro11 said in RWC: Fiji v Australia (Pool D):

Well they can't use Sky commentators.

TJ and a few other Sky guys were a host broadcaster last RWC despite Nisbo being on the Sky comms for AB games.

Not that There should be Sky comms on the game - just surprised to hear Sean Maloney commentating an Aussie game on the official World Rugby feed the same way I would be hearing the Alternative Collective Collective or Twelfth Man doing an ICC World Cup game.

[ACT Crusader]

Fiji have some big units all across the park. So the back end of the game will be most telling.

[jegga]

Fiji up 8-0 over that other team

[Kirwan]

A lot of knock ons and forward passes seem to be called play on so far

[ACT Crusader]

Is anyone else put off by the yellow stripes on the Wallabies shorts?

[Nepia]

@ACT-Crusader said in RWC: Fiji v Australia (Pool D):

Is anyone else put off by the yellow stripes on the Wallabies shorts?

I'm put off by the entire Aussie strip.

[Kirwan]

@ACT-Crusader said in RWC: Fiji v Australia (Pool D):

Is anyone else put off by the yellow stripes on the Wallabies shorts?

The jersey is an awful shade of yellow too.

[Bones]

@Kirwan yeah a couple of blatant forward passes ignored in that aussie movement. O'Keeffe a bit overwhelmed? Not getting much help from the far side touchie.

[Nepia]

Fiji are all good, they're playing in the Magpies alternate strip for when they play Auckland.