RWC: England v Australia (QF 1)

[Billy Webb]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

This made me laugh re: Ben Skeen (TMO for this game).
https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/comments/dj32hv/would_your_whole_team_be_sent_off_from_ben_skeen/

Holy smokes. That footage is just mad.
The tip-tackle made me wince.

About 5 penalties and at least 3 cards I could count in that clip. And it is just 6 seconds long.

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Billy-Webb The funniest part is that most of the 'atrocities' are committed by the blue team but the red team gets penalised!

[Bones]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

@Billy-Webb The funniest part is that most of the 'atrocities' are committed by the blue team but the red team gets penalised!

They may well be after this weekend...

[Billy Webb]

@Daffy-Jaffy said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

@Billy-Webb The funniest part is that most of the 'atrocities' are committed by the blue team but the red team gets penalised!

It's actually the Boks.
And yes:
3 Red Cards: 2 for the tip tackle, one for the punch by 13.
1 Yellow card: No. 12 for the shoulder charge from the side of the ruck.

Wales get penalized for holding on to the ball (I think).
Probably a yellow for one of the Welsh striking a Bok.

I wonder whether Barnes would have found a way to send just one player off.....

[Daffy Jaffy]

@Billy-Webb oh, I had wondered who they were, with a grainy picture and my PC on the night light setting their Jerseys looked kinda blue/grey .

[antipodean]

Better quality:

[Billy Webb]

@antipodean nice work.
F#ck that was a dirty err.. robustly aggressive Bok team. Our modern opponents get off lightly.

[antipodean]

@Billy-Webb said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

@antipodean nice work.
F#ck that was a dirty Bok team. Our modern opponents get off lightly.

something something Corne Krige something something leadership

[NTA]

@antipodean said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

Better quality:

Wait a second.... isn't the Welsh commentator saying "that's a great tackle" the guy who usually whines the loudest when Wales are hard done by?

Times have changed.

[KiwiMurph]

Eddie Jones getting some good banter going

"You see those hills at the back of us? That's where all the samurais lived. Every time the samurais fought, one lived and one died," Jones said.

"It will be the same on Saturday; someone is going to live and someone is going to die.

"That's the excitement of the tournament. You get the best eight teams, all playing for their lives."

[Machpants]

@KiwiMurph Eddie Jones taking utter crap. Everyt time a Samurai fought one died. Arse. And I really hope we don't have 23 murder/deaths/suicides x4 on the weekend.

He's getting some pathetic hyperbole going

[No Quarter]

@Machpants said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

He's getting some pathetic hyperbole going

Disagree, hyperbole is what RWC knock out games are all about!

[NTA]

Pretty good vid. Much better than some of the shit Rugby Australia have cranked out in recent years

[junior]

@NTA ooh I think I just got a little fired up after watching that - go Wobblies! ABE!

[Billy Webb]

@NTA that's a pretty good piece of work there. If an Aussie can't be fired up for the game after watching that, they're clearly not an Aussie

For the record: I am backing the underdog Aussies in this one. Will take a BIG effort to win it, but I'll be shouting for your lads @NTA

[NTA]

@Billy-Webb ABE

Anyone
But
England

[Chris B.]

@NTA Nice!

Nice music!

It's not "Conquest of Paradise", but then again...what is?

[Catogrande]

@NTA said in RWC: England v Australia (QF 1):

Pretty good vid. Much better than some of the shit Rugby Australia have cranked out in recent years

[voodoo]

I've backed AUS-12, FRA-12, SA+13 @ $28

[Nevorian]

thinking Aus might cause a bit of an "upset" here

Also just realised it is eight years since England have been in the play-offs, lack of experience in knockout Rugby may play a part here