2019 Rugby World Cup
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@Mokey Scots will be delighted their threats were heeded! 🙄
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and, gotta acknowledge. At least eighteen Japanese people killed. Thirteen missing. Many people's homes flooded, or worse. etc
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@jegga said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
My mother in law just asked me why the other countries are in the news blaming us for ruining the world cup?
Because we make typhoons.
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@antipodean started on Cyclones as practice for this moment, wait til they hold the RWC in the US...Tornadoes
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@taniwharugby said in 2019 Rugby World Cup:
@antipodean started on Cyclones as practice for this moment, wait til they hold the RWC in the US...Tornadoes
And mass school shootings...
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Reckon we have the tastiest RWC quarters ever.
If I’m being picky I think England might account for Australia easily enough.
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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).
