[Poll] Who would you prefer to win?
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Given we beat the Boks I'd like them to win so we can claim a moral victory as the team that beat the World Champions.
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@Toddy said in RWC Final: England v Springboks:
This will be my first time backing the Poms. Would be a bit sh.t that a team that couldn't win all their pool games went on to win the whole thing. England are playing the more enjoyable rugby too imo
I'm on that bandwagon too. They beat us, it was a good performance, why not say the eventual winners were the reason we didn't make the final?
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I honestly dont mind who wins...SA win good for SH rugby to continue as World Champs, but they then equal us on 3
England win, good for one of the largest market and NH rugby, only 2 wins, maybe English teams will stop poaching our players cos thiers is betterer
but the crowing from some of the less desirable sections of UK media will be terrible 
But the main thing about this, surely a winner that isnt NZ, is good for world rugby, right....
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@antipodean said in RWC Final: England v Springboks:
why not say the eventual winners were the reason we didn't make the final?
As mentioned above - I would prefer to say that we beat the winners.
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I'm really torn. I'm British descent, have British citizenship, and Mum is as English as they come, so I really should be supporting the English.
But, fuck England. Also we beat the Boks so if they get up it's less clear who the best team is...
I'll have to mull over this for a few days.
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@Snowy said in [Poll] Who would you prefer to win?:
@antipodean said in RWC Final: England v Springboks:
why not say the eventual winners were the reason we didn't make the final?
As mentioned above - I would prefer to say that we beat the winners.
Which would mean we lost to the losers.
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I like Eddie. This English team is really fucking good. England are, right now, playing the better brand of rugby. If England win we are still the only nation with 3 cups
So England.
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@antipodean said in [Poll] Who would you prefer to win?:
@Toddy said in RWC Final: England v Springboks:
This will be my first time backing the Poms. Would be a bit sh.t that a team that couldn't win all their pool games went on to win the whole thing. England are playing the more enjoyable rugby too imo
I'm on that bandwagon too. They beat us, it was a good performance, why not say the eventual winners were the reason we didn't make the final?
Because it means the Wallabies are in the same bucket, but therefore take a higher moral ground based on score ratio of 40:16 being better than 19:7 - suck on that!
I'm going Boks. At least they will take the victory with a modicum of humility as well as pride. They're also TRC champs which counts for a bit from my pov.
Poms haven't won the 6N for 2 years, largely down to their inability to beat Scotland. They're playing well now, but a lot of the criticism here about RWC is nations aligning their performances to it. So I expect everyone to tow the line.
Plus Maro Itoje - who may be a nice young man for all I know but carries on like a plonker on the paddock - as a World Champion? Give me strength...
EDIT: and Owen Feral as @photo-fox says below.
There are some decent blokes in that Pommy team I've no doubt, but just consider how many knighthoods might get awarded if they get up, to guys who were out on their arse at pool stage in 2015.
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In the semi England played like the All Blacks and the All Blacks played like England...if the Boks play like the Boks and England play like they normally do the Boks will win the 2019 RWC.
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@NTA said in [Poll] Who would you prefer to win?:
Because it means the Wallabies are in the same bucket, but therefore take a higher moral ground based on score ratio of 40:16 being better than 19:7 - suck on that!
You only get to have an opinion if you make it to the semi-final stage.
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@antipodean said in [Poll] Who would you prefer to win?:
@NTA said in [Poll] Who would you prefer to win?:
Because it means the Wallabies are in the same bucket, but therefore take a higher moral ground based on score ratio of 40:16 being better than 19:7 - suck on that!
You only get to have an opinion if you make it to the semi-final stage.
Totally agree.
