2019 Rugby World Cup
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Time to change format for TRC, invite Japan and Fiji and just play home-away on alternate years.
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@sparky said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Be interesting to see who they goose to referee the Quarter Finals. My guess is:
Nigel Owens, Wayne Barnes, Jaco Pepper and Ben O'Keefe
Owens, Barnes and they should go with Berry & O’Keefe.
But I reckon the 2 Frenchmen will be there.
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@Billy-Tell said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Reckon we have the tastiest RWC quarters ever.
I was thinking similar.
In that this is only the second ever RWC meeting between NZ and Ireland, first for 24 years( back when Ireland were pretty woeful), first knockout meeting.
I think only second ever RWC meeting between Wales and France. Last one was 2011 semi where 14 man Wales almost got the job done.
That's the rare novelty clashes covered. Now the more familiar or recent:
South Africa and Japan only met once before in RWC, but it was recent. A classic. I think SAF should do this comfortably, but you never know, Japan play smart and accurate.
Australia and England are I think the most common RWC knockout matchup, but they have built up a great tit-for-tat rivalry. Let alone their general non-rugby sporting rivalry.
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@Rapido said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
South Africa and Japan only met once before in RWC, but it was recent. A classic. I think SAF should do this comfortably, but you never know, Japan play smart and accurate.
if Japan can weather the initial onslaught SA always throw, or even score early, it will be game on.
That said, I think SA will eventually over run Japan...although, I thought the win over the Irish was going to be Japans big game and they'd stumble after, so what do I know!
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I think Japan have had their final. I just can't see SAF losing this unless they are down to 13 men. SAF have not forgotten their previous loss to Japan and you can imagine that will also be talked about in the build up. All opinion of course and would love to see Japan take it to them, but Im picking margin of about 14 points
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Pool stages over, time for a knocked out XV? Nah, a Tier 2 XV.
15 Veaino
14 Radradra (christ, I'm leaving out Matushima!)
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12 Botia
11 Fukuoka (missed first few games, but bumps Tuisova from my team)
10 Berchesi
9 Nagare (I also like Uruguay starting 9 and Stephens from Namibia and de Haas from USA)
8 Yato
7 TJ Ioane
6 Himeno
5 Laupepe
4 Lindekar ?
3 Halonuknuka (Woo from Japan close)
2 Horie
1 Yamashita (Mulipola from Samoa was goodNot sure on my 13.
Nakarawa probably the flop of the tournament. Also Georgian pack and their halfbacks.
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Japan in the quarters is awesome, and not just scraping in they did it with style (they're the only unbeaten team aside from Wales
). This was a team that had 145 points piled on them at one stage.So many good matches from the minnows (Samoa aside, WTF happened there).
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@Nepia Us, France & England were all unbeaten too...we just didnt win all our games!
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@taniwharugby said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@Nepia Us, France & England were all unbeaten too...we just didnt win all our games!
I will believe the commentators from the RWC team over some bogan from Northland thank you very much. (TBF, bogan is probably redundant with Northland already in that sentence).
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having looked at the footage of what that Typhoon did, and reading about the deaths and injuries, i feel like a complete dick for any thoughts i had about contingency plans. My absolute bad. Go well with the clean up Japan. And well done on getting anything happening yesterday, it's pretty incredible really.
I wonder how the SRU feel?
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I'm so glad I remained completely calm during the cancellation decisions, I recognised all the many factors at play, comprehended that I had no first hand knowledge about any of them, and I totally resisted any criticisms of those involved and conducted myself in a fair and flawless manner throughout.
Well, that's how I remember it.
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@mariner4life said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
I wonder how the SRU feel?
Someone should ask them; when the plane touches down at home
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Going to be controversial here and suggest at least one quarter final will be determined by a card.
There'll be a ref in the middle like a rabbit in the headlights pleading with the TMO and his linesmen to agree with his decision. They will of course be mute.
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Has this been posted?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12276166
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I’m wondering how well I’ll take it if it’s the ABs that get sawn off.
We have wine /watching events both days and I’m wondering whether I should actually go or not on Saturday.
Most of those people think I’m a relatively mild mannered bloke....
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@antipodean said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
Going to be controversial here and suggest at least one quarter final will be determined by a card.
There'll be a ref in the middle like a rabbit in the headlights pleading with the TMO and his linesmen to agree with his decision. They will of course be mute.
I hope not. But it is entirely possible. They could all take a leaf out of BOK's book last night. He didn't get everything right (had fark all help from his ARs) but he ruled sensibly and didn't decide the game with an ill-advised decision
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@gt12 said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
I’m wondering how well I’ll take it if it’s the ABs that get sawn off.
We have wine /watching events both days and I’m wondering whether I should actually go or not on Saturday.
Most of those people think I’m a relatively mild mannered bloke....
I'll be furious, but not like I was in 2007. Winning back to back has mellowed me somewhat. I still get nervous but I can enjoy the RWC these days. I'm convinced if we do three in a row, the RWC will be ruined.
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@antipodean said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
I'm convinced if we do three in a row, the RWC will be ruined.
yeah I have wondered if this is the best thing for the comp...but I'd prefer we find that us winning has had no detrimental effect on anything than us losing and that having no detrimental effect
