Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host
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Out of nowhere! Great try France.
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That was nice
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@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
Out of nowhere! Great try France.
Out of sume possession in England half!
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@kiwiinmelb said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
That was nice
Gorgeous line by the wing. It doesn't get much better than that.
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@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
They are a really really boring team. But it works.
France keep taking them on up the middle and playing into their strengths. Fiji showed that if you run hard at the fringes or one and a half out you will make ground and their big forwards don’t look as flash
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@Bones said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@kiwiinmelb said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
That was nice
Gorgeous line by the wing. It doesn't get much better than that.
She’s the looker of the team as well. Nice shorts
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I think that try involved the first offloads all game
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@Crucial said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
They are a really really boring team. But it works.
France keep taking them on up the middle and playing into their strengths. Fiji showed that if you run hard at the fringes or one and a half out you will make ground and their big forwards don’t look as flash
Yup good for the ferns
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@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@Crucial said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
They are a really really boring team. But it works.
France keep taking them on up the middle and playing into their strengths. Fiji showed that if you run hard at the fringes or one and a half out you will make ground and their big forwards don’t look as flash
Yup good for the ferns
I’m sure smithy has a plan
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No wonder England don’t offload 😁
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@Crucial said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
No wonder England don’t offload 😁
Yeah that was their first lol.
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Jezz the Pom prop with the short hair is a big unit
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Basic errors, France have lost this rather than England winning. Those last 2 knock on's are under no pressure and just brain fades by panicking players.
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@kiwiinmelb said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
Jezz the Pom prop with the short hair is a big unit
Yeah botterman...
But I'm feeling the stirrings of hope watching this game
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@kiwiinmelb said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
Jezz the Pom prop with the short hair is a big unit
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France very good over the ball. Just handling errors letting them down
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Why the fuck are France kicking it with 4 to go
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And now France decide to play forceback instead of using all the space they're being given by a tiring defence that's sitting in their own half.
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@Machpants Like England - run out of ideas?
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@Machpants said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
Why the fuck are France kicking it with 4 to go
The same reason they've been playing dumb rugby for the preceding 76 mins?
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@Jailbreak7 said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@Machpants Like England - run out of ideas?
They seemed to never have any in the first place
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Both teams have strong organised forwards but I can see why Smith wants us to play a game they aren’t used to facing
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Super talented and well drilled French players, but not a great or smart team. Bodes well for our chances.
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Up the jumper time now
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England don't look all that good tbh.
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@Jailbreak7 said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
Up the jumper time now
They started that 80 minutes ago
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@Bones Think so too. BFs going to have to be at their best to beat England though
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Rush a panicked kick out while on attack 15 out to finish the game.
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@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
England don't look all that good tbh.
Big physical side but skills are nothing to write home about
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@Jailbreak7 said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@Bones Think so too. BFs going to have to be at their best to beat England though
I think we have a scrum to equal them and our maul defence has had a lot of work.
Just shear effort will go a long way as well. They run out of ideas quickly -
@kiwiinmelb very well drilled but lack vision and need to be put under pressure to get them away from their natural attritional game and control.
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@kiwiinmelb said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
England don't look all that good tbh.
Big physical side but skills are nothing to write home about
This says everything about their skill level and approach to the game.
Imagine dominating like that and only winning by six points.
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@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@kiwiinmelb said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
England don't look all that good tbh.
Big physical side but skills are nothing to write home about
This says everything about their skill level and approach to the game.
Imagine dominating like that and only winning by six points.
Average of two and a bit metres per carry.
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@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@kiwiinmelb said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
England don't look all that good tbh.
Big physical side but skills are nothing to write home about
This says everything about their skill level and approach to the game.
Imagine dominating like that and only winning by six points.
Didn't we do something similar in 2011 in the men's final? Or do I have it the wrong way around.
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Yep heard comms say that England had 64% possession and 70% territory.
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@Bones said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@kiwiinmelb said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
@antipodean said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
England don't look all that good tbh.
Big physical side but skills are nothing to write home about
This says everything about their skill level and approach to the game.
Imagine dominating like that and only winning by six points.
Didn't we do something similar in 2011 in the men's final? Or do I have it the wrong way around.
I doubt it. We won 87 - 0. I remember the score because it reflected the first time we won in 1987.
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@antipodean oh yeah that's right and we only used 4 subs, so 19 players.
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@Bones said in Womens RWC 2021 -NZ to host:
Ref seems to be really good
I managed to watch the first half before leaving the house.
She wasn't the worst.
Maybe better than some of the stuff served up last week, but again stuck her arm out for advantage to us, then just stopped a few metres later with no explanation for either. Nearly every maul to that point was offside. Failed to ping either team for not-straight lineouts - challenging conditions, yes, but then don't throw to 6 if it is windy?
We were our own worst enemies in that first half tho - the discipline of this Wallaroos team isn't even amateur level. It is terrible and Wales will put them to the sword.
The starting half Batibasaga is doing my head in - steppy-steppy-passy all backwards like latter-years Gregan. Absolutely kills our momentum, and when she was trapped elsewhere and someone filled in it was far superior.
Why they're trying to run wide patterns with that sort of service is beyond me. She's shown she can pass to her left without stepping occasionally, but it is the major reason we can't get anything going.
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@NTA yeah I was probably thinking relatively really good. Advantage calls all over the show, from whistling before a knock on is complete to like you say calling a penalty advantage over just because Aus passed it all the way to the other side of the field.
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Well I will say watched France/England game last night, and it was another level to any other women's game I have seen. By geez a couple of scarye good teams, and England at times looked like they played a brand of rugby that could fit in a lot of men's comps. Bloody good watch.
Saw most of Aus/Scotland game earlier and although ok, never looked that good to me, really struggling with some basics.
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