Rugby World Cup general discussion
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who is whinging about the unfairness of the draw? There is nothing unfair about it. A tournament where the top 4 seeds are expected to walk in to the semi finals is a bit shit.
The only thing the draw has done is put a lot less emphasis on the NZ France game, and a bit less emphasis on the SA v Ireland game, as there was pretty much no difference between winning and losing in terms of tournament outcomes (because i don't reckon Scotland are anywhere near good enough to win this weekend).
The best part of the draw is that there is a genuine chance for Fiji to make a semi and give us something new.
Our pool we had a great opener, but it meant nothing. The rest of the games have been pointless, with Namibia copping a couple of pastings, and Italy failing to show up
The Ireland v SA gave us a cracking game of footy, but again the result means nothing. South Africa took care of Scotland pretty easily.
Fiji beating Australia was awesome, but that was put in perspective by Wales flogging them. Wales arriving at the tournament a shitshow but actually being competent is almost the story of the Cup. The Wallabies the other side of that story. In fact, this is probably the "story" pool. Wales' turnaround. Fiji qualifying, Australia's shit show. But it's a story about T2 teams so meh
England have walked their pool without showing much of anything except robotic organisation. Impressive from where they were, but hardly providing highlights. Argentina have been a severe disappointment, Samoa even more so. Japan are never more than plucky underdogs.i think we will get an amazing set of finals though. All four QFs should be excellent, and i think the tournament will be remembered very favourably because of it.
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@NTA said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Lack of midweek games is shit.
But the biggest crime is the lack of media sharing allowed by the various governing bodies. Wayne Barnes tries to share a nice moment and shit goes down.
https://x.com/garethreynolds/status/1709519765306237307?s=20
100%, I much prefered previous tournaments but can understand how it was unfair to some minnows, but surely they can do a timetable that reduced the number of days without games.
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@mariner4life Wales and England very similar for me i.e. "Oh if we just play rugby that covers the basics, and work to our strengths, we'll win games."
Profound.
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@NTA said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Seriously, at a time where we need to spread the word, WR wants to pull up the drawbridge
@NTA said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Seriously, at a time where we need to spread the word, WR wants to pull up the drawbridge
Yeah it's so dumb, all the YouTubers who analyse rugby have to use stills or they get DCMA, how to utterly kill interest
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Agree completely. The tournament already loses momentum as a function of basically only playing at the weekends (for understandable physical recovery reasons). To then refuse to allow any posting of footage is myopically moronic. They deleted footage from Wayne Barnes own fucking post last night.
God save us from shit administrators
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@Dodge said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Agree completely. The tournament already loses momentum as a function of basically only playing at the weekends (for understandable physical recovery reasons).
God save us from shit administrators
From Thursday 14 September through to Sunday 08 October we had the following (match days in bold)
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
13 match days in an 18 day period
If that's just the weekend in your world then I want your job
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Boks can be stripped of national flag due to non-compliance
BREAKING NEWS: The Springboks might have to compete under a neutral flag in the quarterfinals of the World Cup and without the opportunity of singing the national anthem due to non-compliance of the latest World Anti-Doping Code (Wada).
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Boks can be stripped of national flag due to non-compliance
BREAKING NEWS: The Springboks might have to compete under a neutral flag in the quarterfinals of the World Cup and without the opportunity of singing the national anthem due to non-compliance of the latest World Anti-Doping Code (Wada).
Scotland go through after all
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@MiketheSnow said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
@Daffy-Jaffy said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Boks can be stripped of national flag due to non-compliance
BREAKING NEWS: The Springboks might have to compete under a neutral flag in the quarterfinals of the World Cup and without the opportunity of singing the national anthem due to non-compliance of the latest World Anti-Doping Code (Wada).
Scotland go through after all
MacSpringboks
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@NTA said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
@mariner4life Wales and England very similar for me i.e. "Oh if we just play rugby that covers the basics, and work to our strengths, we'll win games."
Profound.
They can do exits and gain useful territory through efficient kicking? It's a round of applause from me...
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@Daffy-Jaffy said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Boks can be stripped of national flag due to non-compliance
BREAKING NEWS: The Springboks might have to compete under a neutral flag in the quarterfinals of the World Cup and without the opportunity of singing the national anthem due to non-compliance of the latest World Anti-Doping Code (Wada).
Boks be doping? Nah
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@Dodge said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Fair point, it hasn’t felt like that. Maybe that’s ITV4 as the problem, maybe it’s more that there just aren’t enough competitive games.
I’m an absolute sport addict, who spends too much time reading, thinking and talking about sport. Yet somehow I didn’t know that the AB game was last night, that it was on ITV4, until half time when I noticed the Fern thread blowing up.
I didn’t realise the England vs New Zealand CWC game was happening until the night before.
The publicity around both tournaments in the U.K. is incredibly poor.
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@frugby said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
So the QFs are:
France v South Africa
Ireland v New Zealand
England v Fiji
Wales v Argentina/JapanWhich refs do which game?
O'Keeffe gets the first one me think
Barnes will do All Blacks
Peyper to do England
Gardner to do WalesFiji still have to beat Portugal don't they?
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@voodoo said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
Message to all commentators, you do not need to refer to every teams bench as a “bomb squad”. It’s just a bench, they’re just reserves
As you alluded to in the other thread the Irish commentator ( who thankfully I’ve never heard before ) was so cringeworthy.
I think the worst was when he went on about Duhan Van De Merwe finally getting a chance to free up his massive thighs.
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@chimoaus said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
@frugby said in Rugby World Cup general discussion:
So the QFs are:
France v South Africa
Ireland v New Zealand
England v Fiji
Wales v Argentina/JapanWhich refs do which game?
O'Keeffe gets the first one me think
Barnes will do All Blacks
Peyper to do England
Gardner to do WalesFiji still have to beat Portugal don't they?
They don't need to win. A Bonus point will suffice.
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