RWC 2015

[gingercat02]

Anyone up for a World Cup thread? I'm Irish living in England but Green all the way

Ohh I have been looking forward to this - rugby is one of my favourite sports.

The weather looks atrocious at Twickenham tonight!

Ha ha MrsTrent our curry is on the way too but the wine is red and in the glass

Must be so amazing to be there.
Fiji going to do their challenge - drowned out by Swing Low!

I'm about 10 miles from Twick - dry here.

Posted too soon - whoever is singing those snippets of World In Union before the ad breaks is appalling - 6 weeks of listening to her off key sliding around the notes - urgh.

And AIBU to think that the crowd should have stopped singing whilst Fiji did the Cibi?

There was a debate a while ago about singing during the NZ haka. Apparently the kiwis saw if as appropriate as it's a show of strength and the singing is contesting that.
Or something like that.

Well - the Twickenham crowd are definitely winning the singing!

It's rather geeky, but one of the reasons I enjoy the rugby World Cup is because I love national anthems - I get the words up and try to join in. Some of them are really stirring, or tear jerking, and others sound like they were written by Gilbert and Sullivan (Italy, I am looking at you), and Argentina's national anthem has the longest introduction I have ever come across for a song, so they only get the full thing when playing at home - otherwise they get a very abbreviated version.

It's Paloma Faith singing it.

I'm usually a fan of hers, but her voice does not suit WIU.

I've been to a few matches in Stadio Olympico. The Italian anthem is AMAZING in real life. The Italian fans are great!

I didn't mean to imply I don't like the Italian anthem - on the contrary, I agree, it is great. Sorry.

Oh sorry I may have misinterpreted, it is a bit 'theatrical' I agree!!

But sung with gusto with a plume of smoke being blown in your face, it sounds just right!!

Good start by England.

I've found my people! Following England all the way here My dad is the one who got me into rugby and I've not watched for years - all the greats I remember are now the pundits!

#shouldertoshoulder. Come on Fiji.

Ffs how many times are they going to blow up this much? Too many laws now, just get on with it!

I like this yellow card 10 minute sin bin. Football could learn something from this.

TRY!!! Nice!

Try!

One of the mysteries of the world to me is how rugby players can walk the next day? it's so physical

shame he missed the conversion

That's a shame. He was so fast! !

Ego

I would quite like to marry Nandolo.