RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A)
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@mariner4life said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
It's just a little sad that a prosperous nation of 25 million sports lovers
A million of whom support the fucking All Blacks!
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@NTA said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
@mariner4life said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
It's just a little sad that a prosperous nation of 25 million sports lovers
A million of whom support the fucking All Blacks!
not our fault you are a nation that supports winners and ignores losers
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what was this thread about again?
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@mariner4life said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
what was this thread about again?
Apparently Ireland and Samoa are doing something.
Don't worry about it, not relevant to the discussion.
Doesn't Robbie have the 7th best record of all Aussie coaches? Better than Jones, Mckenzie and Cheika.
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@Snowy said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
@mariner4life said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
what was this thread about again?
Apparently Ireland and Samoa are doing something.
Don't worry about it, not relevant to the discussion.
Doesn't Robbie have the 7th best record of all Aussie coaches? Better than Jones, Mckenzie and Cheika.
hard to keep track, there was a point there where they were turning over coaches as quick as turned over Prime Ministers
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@mariner4life Yeah, they were all shit as well.
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Great discussion about Ireland v Samoa
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
Great discussion about Ireland v Samoa
dude, not to go all stargazer, but at least try to stay on topic
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FFS
Another draw to balance out the pool?
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@mariner4life said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
@MiketheSnow said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
Great discussion about Ireland v Samoa
dude, not to go all stargazer, but at least try to stay on topic
Oi, keep me out of it.
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@Machpants said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
FFS
Another draw to balance out the pool?
There's a clip doing the rounds of the Irish players hiding the ball under turf during the Captain's run. I'm sure it'll all be fine.
Nothing to see here.
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@booboo said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
@Derm-McCrum said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
Oh get over yourselves.
The Ireland schtick is becoming wearisome. England, France, New Zealand all get a wave-through to the next stages, and save on wear and tear. It's a plus for them. Having less game time and longer than planned for rest might work against them somewhat but I'm sure it's something they all can handle.
Parisse & Co are rightly raging about the decision but not a lot can be done about it. If Ireland win, and Scotland v Japan gets cancelled then I'd be spitting tacks if I was Townsend. It certainly puts a blemish on the tournament. Hopefully it can go ahead.
Ideally
for the organisers,Samoa would beat Ireland and then it wouldn't matter as much if the other game was cancelled.- Good. You guys have become more unlikable than the English. Stop whinging about us whinging about you whinging.
Yes I remember that clearly. Whinging about whinging about whinging about whinging is the new internet blood sport. But no one dies.
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@mariner4life said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
well, this is all very seemly
Derm what are your hopes for this game? What are you looking for? (except 5 points obviously). More of the exact same, except a bit better?
Because you blokes haven't looked great thus far, and you are off to a quarter against us probably (unless Scotland suddenly turn up) in about a week.
The team has been shit so far. I'm hoping they can be less shit, but I'm not holding my breath. Schmidt has lost his mojo, and the team don't believe in each other any more. Loss of form, poor handling, doughy attack, and leaving Devin Toner at home.
They'll probably lose to Samoa just to cap Schmidt's send-off.
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@Derm-McCrum that would take work, samoa are ordinary.
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@mariner4life said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
@Derm-McCrum that would take work, samoa are ordinary.
So were Georgia in 2007.
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@Derm-McCrum said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
@mariner4life said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
@Derm-McCrum that would take work, samoa are ordinary.
So were Georgia in 2007.
Ouch!
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Parisse:
If New Zealand needed four or five points against us it would not have been cancelled
If NZ needed five points in the last round of the round-robin they wouldn't be the All Blacks.
There simply is no possible way that NZ would ever lose two qualifying matches in the same tournament. We've never even lost one. If we lost matches as often as Italy, complaints about how we are bullying referees, tournament organisers etc simply would not happen. The All Whites, for example, are unlikely to be facing the same accusations.
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@Chester-Draws Certainly take some freak event like 2 typhoon cancellations and an initial loss to SA (in this case) with another team getting to play and win their matches.
So yeah, Parisse is full of shit. It also would have been cancelled regardless of who was playing as those are the tournament rules.
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"Sure, everyone might think that Italy versus New Zealand being cancelled counts for nothing because we'd have lost anyway, but we deserved to be respected as a team," Parisse added.
