RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia
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@Catogrande said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Agreed. I’ve plumped for Aus by one score based purely on the feeling that they have to click at least once. But form is clearly with Wales.
The fact that the way Wales have been playing can be described as anything remotely approximating "form" is a damning indictment of the Wallabies
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@MajorRage said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@mariner4life said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
I don't necessarily think Wales are better, just they have more clarity of purpose, and that should be enough to beat this Australian team who are all over the shop
Which almost guarantees the Wallabies by 15
I was going to write exactly this as I feel pretty much so identical.
All signs point to Wales.
Which is why Oz will win.
You and @mariner4life are on the reverse-reverse curse pretty hard.
Fucking Queenslanders....
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@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Wales by 9+ scoring 4 tries in a barn burner
Oz get 2 losing BP
Eh? How do Oz lose by 9+ and get 2BP?
Oops
1BP
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Wales by 9+ scoring 4 tries in a barn burner
Oz get 2 losing BP
Eh? How do Oz lose by 9+ and get 2BP?
Oops
1BP
Welsh wizardry
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@Machpants said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Wales by 9+ scoring 4 tries in a barn burner
Oz get 2 losing BP
Eh? How do Oz lose by 9+ and get 2BP?
Oops
1BP
Welsh wizardry
Dumbshitaramus
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Wales by 9+ scoring 4 tries in a barn burner
Oz get 2 losing BP
Can see this being a horrible dour game of "don't lose" footy.
Neither team scores 20.
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Typically I would back Oz as they've been jammy bastards, but this is as bad a Wallaby squad as I've ever seen. To think that the available players are magically going to stop doing dumb shit now beggars belief.
The only reason this is a coin toss is how bad Wales are.
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@antipodean said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Typically I would back Oz as they've been jammy bastards, but this is as bad a Wallaby squad as I've ever seen. To think that the available players are magically going to stop doing dumb shit now beggars belief.
The only reason this is a coin toss is how bad Wales are.
Will remember this for future reference
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@booboo said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Wales by 9+ scoring 4 tries in a barn burner
Oz get 2 losing BP
Can see this being a horrible dour game of "don't lose" footy.
Neither team scores 20.
Depends on points
The possible outcomes if both Wales and Australia score 5 point wins vs the minnows and Fiji score two 5 point wins vs minnows
This is how it might pan out.
Australia Win without a bonus point = 15 Points (Qualify #2)
Wales lose without any bonus points = 15 Points (OZ go through as they beat Wales.)
Fiji go through on 16 Points (Qualify #1)Australia Win with a bonus point = 16 Points
Wales lose with a bonus point = 16 Points
Fiji have 16 Points
(I don't know how they work this out, is it the team with the biggest PD qualify #1 then whoever won between PD 2 & 3?)Australia Win without a bonus point = 15 Points
Wales lose with a bonus point = 16 Points (Qualify #1 as beat Fiji)
Fiji have 16 Points (Qualify #2)Australia Win with a bonus point = 16 Points
Wales lose with 2 bonus points = 17 Points (Wales go through #1)
Fiji have 16 Points (Fiji go through as they beat OZ #2)Australia lose = Exit stage left
Wales win = Go through #1
Fiji = Qualify #2I think that is right but happy to be corrected.
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Someone on Gwlad pointed out that there is a potential scenario where, if it looks like Fiji, Aus & Wales are all going to be tied, then it is Wales' best interests for them to let Aus score as many points as possible. That would mean Aus win the group, and second place would come down to head-to-head result between Fiji & Wales
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@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Someone on Gwlad pointed out that there is a potential scenario where, if it looks like Fiji, Aus & Wales are all going to be tied, then it is Wales' best interests for them to let Aus score as many points as possible. That would mean Aus win the group, and second place would come down to head-to-head result between Fiji & Wales
Except it’s not the last match
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Any team that tries to game the system could easily come unstuck
A 15-man Georgia could definitely beat a 14-man Wales or Fiji
And the way the tackles are coming in and the cards being dished out, that scenario is very realistic
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
@GibbonRib said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
Someone on Gwlad pointed out that there is a potential scenario where, if it looks like Fiji, Aus & Wales are all going to be tied, then it is Wales' best interests for them to let Aus score as many points as possible. That would mean Aus win the group, and second place would come down to head-to-head result between Fiji & Wales
Except it’s not the last match
Hey, I didn't say that it would happen, just that it could.
But yeah, it won't.
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So I read McLennan is absolving himself of blame here by saying that this loss was "20 years in the making". He even goes as far as saying neither Eddie, nor the players are at fault - it's everyone that has come before this glorious group of saviours.
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FFS McLennan what a complete tool.
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@antipodean said in RWC Week 3: Wales v Australia:
So I read McLennan is absolving himself of blame here by saying that this loss was "20 years in the making". He even goes as far as saying neither Eddie, nor the players are at fault - it's everyone that has come before this glorious group of saviours.
Look, he isn't wrong in that the systems are fucked, and have been since the turn of the century.
I've been saying it for years.
The fact that McLennan bignoted himself by fucking Rennie (and Marinos in the process) says all you need to know about the fluffybunny.
Another who isn't very popular around the tables of a rugby piston wristed gibbon lunch.
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