RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A)
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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.
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@taniwharugby My apologies Sergio I have the utmost respect for you as the player who has lost more tests than anyone, ever (but you are still wrong about the tournament rules).
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Disgraceful. This is providing Samoa with such an advantage
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Go the Manu!
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@Hooroo said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
@jegga said in RWC: Ireland v Samoa (Pool A):
@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.
I’m hoping they don’t play themselves into form and suddenly click in the quarters against us .
Mostly because I don’t want the abs to be knocked out on the quarters and also because I’ve enjoyed being a prick about them getting bukkaked by the Japanese and there’s probably a couple of Irish lurkers dying to get payback.Even if they did regain their form and got mojo back etc etc, the Ab's will still beat them.
I only fear England and SA this world cup and to a much less degree, Australia
I'm curious as to why you fear the Boks? We dealt with them pretty well in the pool match and I'm not sure they've got any more powder than what we have seen over the past couple of years.
(That being said, I appreciate they may still beat us if we both got that far.)
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I'm not ashamed to admit I hope a couple of Irishmen get destroyed by massive Samoan hits
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This is going to be a bloodbath
