RWC Week 2: Springboks v Romania

[Smuts]

@MN5 said in RWC Week 2: Springboks v Romania:

@Machpants said in RWC Week 2: Springboks v Romania:

@booboo said in RWC Week 2: Springboks v Romania:

Bummer for Malcolm.

But every team has to deal with injuries.

That's pretty callous. Its sucks for him and it sucks for us all when one of the players who most people would put in a world 23 doesn't play

Pftttt. I’m sure there’s not much sympathy on SA message boards about Jordie, Shannon, Sam and Tyrell.

Haven’t suffered tournament ending, career impacting injuries though.

@booboo’s right though: reality of the tournament for each team.

Cursing Fourie’s jobs for boys squad selection again. Means we can’t bring Pollie in because we’ve got to call up a real hooker.

[OomPB]

Fourie will be a success in 2. They can call up Pollard but then Libbok has been great so far.

[DaGrubster]

@OomPB

If you only have 2 hookers and 1 gets injured at the captains run (like Cane did for the ABs)

Who becomes your bench hooker then?

[Smuts]

Reports are that van staden is registered as a reserve hooker

[Machpants]

@booboo said in RWC Week 2: Springboks v Romania:

@Machpants said in RWC Week 2: Springboks v Romania:

That's pretty callous

Really? How?

Maybe I misinterpreted it but it came across like:

Sorry your Mum died

But, hey, everyone dies

Not of that level, obviously, but it seemed dismissive - maybe just how it reads on a thread

[MiketheSnow]

First ton of the tournament coming up

[stodders]

Romania lost 56-6 to Georgia in August. Just to give some context. Weakest team at the RWC IMO

[stodders]

South Africa pinged in the maul. #lottery

[MiketheSnow]

That is fucking bullshit

YC possibly RC

[stodders]

Erm…Kleyn very lucky there. Shoulder definitely connected with Romania attacker’s head. No drop in height either. Why no TMO?

[stodders]

@MiketheSnow it is becoming a joke Mike. How difficult is it really? Even the TV comms spotted it!

[stodders]

Hahaha. Romania penalised for flopping. Obviously aren’t do it properly.

[The Irishman]

@stodders said in RWC Week 2: Springboks v Romania:

Romania lost 56-6 to Georgia in August. Just to give some context. Weakest team at the RWC IMO

Surely Namibia or Chile are equal, if not, even worse?

[Steve]

Moodie does what every Irish dummy runner does for the last 4 years.

[stodders]

@The-Irishman just my opinion. Until Tier 2 teams play against each other in the World Cup, we won’t know. Would be good to have a plate competition to allow them more games.

[stodders]

@The-Irishman I will say, Chile look a lot better on attack. Not sure where Namibia sit these days. Will know more after they play Uruguay.

[nostrildamus]

@stodders said in RWC Week 2: Springboks v Romania:

@The-Irishman just my opinion. Until Tier 2 teams play against each other in the World Cup, we won’t know. Would be good to have a plate competition to allow them more games.

Maybe there should be an earlier Tier 2 comp, and the winner chosen from the "Minnow A Minnow" final (forgive the butchered Spanish).

[Jailbreak7]

Yep. These one way contests dont do rugby any favors. People will be switching off.

[stodders]

@nostrildamus there is something like that (Final Qualification Tournament) to settle the final qualifying spots. Tonga and Tonga qualified in front of USA, Hing Kong and Kenya

[stodders]

Canan “the butcher” Moodie 😂