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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    Right, well, where TF has that been all year...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    South Africa have gone for a 7-1 split on their bench against Ireland.
    Would be fun to see a couple of their key backs hobble off and have some forwards trying to play in the backs.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    France played some sublime rugby last night, hammering Namibia.
    However, at 52-0 at half time they left Dupont on, and he was on the wrong end of a head on head about 10 minutes later.
    BBC now reporting a suspected fractured jaw or cheek, either of which could be tournament ending for him.
    Poor management decision to send him out for the second half which might have badly damaged their WC chances.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    Poor management decision to play key players in games like that to start with. Even more so with the risk of a player getting a red card as well as the risk of injury.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,589
    I really hope DuPont isn't out for the rest of RWC - it would be a terrible shame for the tournament
    Wilier Izoard XP
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,589
    Just heard confirmation that DuPont has a facial fracture . . . it is yet to be confirmed whether he will continue in the tournament
    Wilier Izoard XP
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    Only just switched on the Georgia v Portugal match. Looks like a good close game. I’m guessing two very different styles of play with Georgia being forward oriented and Portugal with all the pace and skill out wide?
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,152
    Just saw last 10 minutes. Looked a good game. I don’t feel so bad about Wales struggling against Portugal now, they play nice rugby
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    Draws are always such an unsatisfactory result in rugby. Both teams looked gutted and both had a chance to win it in the final minute.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    Sweepstake.

    When does Owen get sent off again?

    I'm going 24th minute

    😁
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    Dammit...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    Lots of huff and puff for 20 minutes, but Chile now really struggling.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,734
    Pross said:

    Draws are always such an unsatisfactory result in rugby. Both teams looked gutted and both had a chance to win it in the final minute.

    Still, it casts Wales’s win last week in a slightly better light.
    Portugal as certainly no Chile.
    Watching England chalk up a cricket score is not much use to either side.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • MidlandsGrimpeur2
    MidlandsGrimpeur2 Posts: 2,167
    Irish hooker having a bit of a mare at the moment.

    To be fair though, watching both these sides, the power and precision is a mile above England. We would likely get smashed by either of them.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    MidlandsGrimpeur2 said:

    Irish hooker having a bit of a mare at the moment.

    To be fair though, watching both these sides, the power and precision is a mile above England. We would likely get smashed by either of them.

    Might help if ref enforced the gap at the lineout, though Ireland seem to have adjusted.
  • MidlandsGrimpeur2
    MidlandsGrimpeur2 Posts: 2,167
    Yes, they seem to have sorted it. Lovely try there.

    Ben O'Keefe hasn't shut up. I am all for clear instruction from refs but it feels like he is auditioning for the final.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    Massive forward pass for that Saffa try.
    Passed well behind 5m line, taken well in front.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,582
    S.A. could blow this by being over ambitious with the kicking.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    Since Ireland got smashed in that scrum about 15 minutes ago they just keep delaying the put in and SA get penalised for pushing early.

    Been very messy since I started watching.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,582
    edited September 2023
    pblakeney said:

    S.A. could blow this by being over ambitious with the kicking.

    They did. Faf will be kicking himself, if he doesn't miss. 🤣
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    WTF, the SA player had the ball in his hand and the ref says the ball hasn’t come out and blows up.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    Two sides I don’t like but the atmosphere was something else.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    Incredible game and a huge win for Ireland.
    Ref missed loads, which seemed to favour the Saffas.
    Shame the Saffa 7-1 bench didn't badly bite them.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    Wowsers Ireland...

    I believe
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,470

    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    How did he not score then? Did all the hard, just had to dive on top of the ball and let his momentum take it over the line.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,738
    Scotland efficiently, if not very entertainingly, dispatching Tonga.

    Shame it's not really going to make any difference
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    Been a bit too scrappy all round, but boy does Finn Russell's passing game create space.

    Just wish someone would shut Scott Hastings up, he's woeful as a co-commentator and so, so biased.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,623
    That'll be upgraded to red for the Tongan 8
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,678
    Biggar’s injury has done Wales a favour, Anscombe playing very well.

    It hasn’t been pretty rugby but nice to see Wales being ruthless when the chances come.

    Barnes seems to be enjoying himself, never heard him have so much bants with the players.

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