RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?
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@Tim said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
Can't be South Africa - they have as many wins as us.
you might have just made the only post on here everyone will agree with.....boring
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
@Crucial said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
and England.
No problem with England as far as the genuine rugby supporters are concerned. Actually be happy for them
It's the inevitable fair-weather "fans" and triumphalist "This is the Greatest Rugby Team Ever" media which makes it a no-no for me.
Most of us find that stuff as nauseating as you do.
France deserve a win and yeah all the Frogs I’ve ever met through rugby have been good blokes.
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@Catogrande said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
Most of us find that stuff as nauseating as you do.
Yep. It's frustrating to have to continuously explain basic stuff to normally intelligent people. I bet the players find it equally nauseating as well.
Think France will win the thing and wouldn't have a problem with that.
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
Wales v NZ Final
Wales to win for the first time in 70 years
The stuff of dreams
And delusion
..delusion being NZ in the final (as seen from this moment in time)...but in 2023 the learning afterburners will kick in..
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@BartMan said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
Not Australia!
Or England.
France will win it anyway methinks.
We won't at any rate!
I think I recall Stephen Jones asking that the 2007 RWC be called off because it was such a foregone conclusion.
I wish they had.
We won't be favourites under Fozzie, but I'm far from thinking it's a lost cause.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
Think France will win the thing and wouldn't have a problem with that.
France didn't start the tournament too well the last time they hosted it. Of course, that didn't do us any favours either!
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@Bovidae can hardly believe forgiving you all are. France ignominiously dumped you out of two RWCs. If my sins roll me down the Karmic wheel to AB supporter, you best believe I’d never want their sardonic, gauloise stained fingers anywhere near Bill. Scraping past them at home with an amateur angler at 10 wouldn’t nearly quench my thirst for revenge.
Give yourselves a blindside Shelford King hit to the chops, sew your sacks back up and fuck the bid rigging, ref riding, jammy snail botherers.
The Irish can also get to fuck. Uppity beggar thy neighbour Eurowindfall fuckers, they overrate their rugby players almost as much as their poets. If there’s one thing the miserable Scots might be good for its scuttling Irish hopes in the pool.
England? Fuck off. England coached by Eddie Jones? Fail to advance from the pool because of Japan’s superior discipline record seems fitting.
Welshman are awesome, but they should brag more about their poets and less about their rugby team. They can all take a nice long drink of warm Brains-rattled-by-Wiese-securing-his-lineouts-Ale.
Samoa need to pay for what they did to Chester Williams in 95. No amount of crushing Hougard in 2003 makes up for it.
Japan have had their rugby miracle. They’re welcome. You all are. But the greedy fuckers can fuck off.
A lot to admire about Argentinian rugby. Give the scrum its rightful pride of place. Hard forwards combining with skilful backs all playing with passion and an innate sense of space and timing. Who gives a shit? They’re not the boks so they can lose in the quarters 0-3 and scurry back to their polo and fincas.
In a just world the Aussies’ union is dissolved by order of the International Criminal Court for failing to deliver Nic White’s moustache up to account for his shit playacting. And for inflicting Bill Young on international scrums. But I’d settle for them never winning another World Cup.
So, if the course of history doesn’t bend to Justice next year, then the least awful alternative is the ABs. The titanic struggle for Rugby’s soul demands a Nemesis ominously powerful, snaking trophies by occult practices too awful to contemplate. Then give us a test series in 2024 to avenge 96. Doesn’t seem like much to ask, really.
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My pick would be France simply for their style of rugby, I prefer watching them then just about any other nation. It would be also good for another nation to win for once. I look forward to the competition and strangely this one I almost feel like a nuetral as I can't see us winning it.
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It really is about time they win it. Although I think they have had a big hand in creating world rugby as it currently is.
Ireland would be a great story but I do find their fans holier than though attitude towards us a little grating.
SA - no thanks.
England - Nah….I live in London and post 2003 was bad enough (as was post 2019 semi)
Argies- that would be pretty cool actually
Wales - as long as they don’t beat us in the process.
We ain’t winning this RWC that’s for sure.
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@Smuts said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
@Bovidae can hardly believe forgiving you all are. France ignominiously dumped you out of two RWCs. If my sins roll me down the Karmic wheel to AB supporter, you best believe I’d never want their sardonic, gauloise stained fingers anywhere near Bill. Scraping past them at home with an amateur angler at 10 wouldn’t nearly quench my thirst for revenge.
Give yourselves a blindside Shelford King hit to the chops, sew your sacks back up and fuck the bid rigging, ref riding, jammy snail botherers.
The Irish can also get to fuck. Uppity beggar thy neighbour Eurowindfall fuckers, they overrate their rugby players almost as much as their poets. If there’s one thing the miserable Scots might be good for its scuttling Irish hopes in the pool.
England? Fuck off. England coached by Eddie Jones? Fail to advance from the pool because of Japan’s superior discipline record seems fitting.
Welshman are awesome, but they should brag more about their poets and less about their rugby team. They can all take a nice long drink of warm Brains-rattled-by-Wiese-securing-his-lineouts-Ale.
Samoa need to pay for what they did to Chester Williams in 95. No amount of crushing Hougard in 2003 makes up for it.
Japan have had their rugby miracle. They’re welcome. You all are. But the greedy fuckers can fuck off.
A lot to admire about Argentinian rugby. Give the scrum its rightful pride of place. Hard forwards combining with skilful backs all playing with passion and an innate sense of space and timing. Who gives a shit? They’re not the boks so they can lose in the quarters 0-3 and scurry back to their polo and fincas.
In a just world the Aussies’ union is dissolved by order of the International Criminal Court for failing to deliver Nic White’s moustache up to account for his shit playacting. And for inflicting Bill Young on international scrums. But I’d settle for them never winning another World Cup.
So, if the course of history doesn’t bend to Justice next year, then the least awful alternative is the ABs. The titanic struggle for Rugby’s soul demands a Nemesis ominously powerful, snaking trophies by occult practices too awful to contemplate. Then give us a test series in 2024 to avenge 96. Doesn’t seem like much to ask, really.
That was an awesome rant.
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@Smuts said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
@Bovidae can hardly believe forgiving you all are. France ignominiously dumped you out of two RWCs. If my sins roll me down the Karmic wheel to AB supporter, you best believe I’d never want their sardonic, gauloise stained fingers anywhere near Bill. Scraping past them at home with an amateur angler at 10 wouldn’t nearly quench my thirst for revenge.
Give yourselves a blindside Shelford King hit to the chops, sew your sacks back up and fuck the bid rigging, ref riding, jammy snail botherers.
The Irish can also get to fuck. Uppity beggar thy neighbour Eurowindfall fuckers, they overrate their rugby players almost as much as their poets. If there’s one thing the miserable Scots might be good for its scuttling Irish hopes in the pool.
England? Fuck off. England coached by Eddie Jones? Fail to advance from the pool because of Japan’s superior discipline record seems fitting.
Welshman are awesome, but they should brag more about their poets and less about their rugby team. They can all take a nice long drink of warm Brains-rattled-by-Wiese-securing-his-lineouts-Ale.
Samoa need to pay for what they did to Chester Williams in 95. No amount of crushing Hougard in 2003 makes up for it.
Japan have had their rugby miracle. They’re welcome. You all are. But the greedy fuckers can fuck off.
A lot to admire about Argentinian rugby. Give the scrum its rightful pride of place. Hard forwards combining with skilful backs all playing with passion and an innate sense of space and timing. Who gives a shit? They’re not the boks so they can lose in the quarters 0-3 and scurry back to their polo and fincas.
In a just world the Aussies’ union is dissolved by order of the International Criminal Court for failing to deliver Nic White’s moustache up to account for his shit playacting. And for inflicting Bill Young on international scrums. But I’d settle for them never winning another World Cup.
So, if the course of history doesn’t bend to Justice next year, then the least awful alternative is the ABs. The titanic struggle for Rugby’s soul demands a Nemesis ominously powerful, snaking trophies by occult practices too awful to contemplate. Then give us a test series in 2024 to avenge 96. Doesn’t seem like much to ask, really.
what this bastard said
if we lose i won't watch another minute
fuck everyone else. they are fluffybunnies
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@Nevorian said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
Let’s get it over and done with then and have the Froggies win, they have been trying so hard for so long and it would really upset the Poms*
Au contraire mon ami. We generally like and respect French rugby. They are rarely chippy about Les Rosbifs, magnanimous when they win and a Gallic shrug coupled with a cry of “Merde” when they lose and then either way it’s straight on the piss.
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@Catogrande said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
@Nevorian said in RWC - if the ABs lose, which champs wouldn’t be too bad?:
Let’s get it over and done with then and have the Froggies win, they have been trying so hard for so long and it would really upset the Poms*
Au contraire mon ami. We generally like and respect French rugby. They are rarely chippy about Les Rosbifs, magnanimous when they win and a Gallic shrug coupled with a cry of “Merde” when they lose and then either way it’s straight on the piss.
They save their best attitude and fun for Murrayfield though, apparently. Nothing else like it, apparently.
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@Chris-B true, you 'just' have to have 3 good tests in a row, and hope you hit the favourites on a bad day.
At the moment though, two good halves in a row, let alone 3 tests are beyond us. Trending upwards, but still a long way off.
In saying that, the team that beats us in quarter or semi-final usually loses their next match, it will be up to them to control that emotion and go on to win the cup.
But that's down the track, we have to try and win a bledisloe cup with Sotutu and Ioane in a starting loose trio first. That's scary...
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Springbokke only win it every 12 years. With RasNaber it seems they like to break hoodoos. So don't be surprise.
We have a new rival in Ireland. They wear green jerseys, so it will be great if we can keep it in the URC family. Wales, Scots and Italy.
All Blacks will also be OK. Will restore our Boland towns blackness which died nowadays.
