RWC 2015

[gingercat02]

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

Hello all. No prizes for guessing who I support for the cup.

DH is British, so supports all Home Nation teams, but we live in Scotland so I guess that's number 1 for him. (He grew up in England, so that's a close second.)

For this match I support Fiji. Alas they're not giving me much to support right now.

There has been an incredible number of penalties. We're about 15 minutes behind, so that's been helpful for fastforwarding to catch up!

Nadolo

OK, I'm behind, but how can he take back an awarded try? What if the conversion had happened?

SCANDAL.

New Rules?

Languid

beautiful kick Nadolo

I feel a lot better now.

Half welsh, so supporting Fiji DH's home nation is playing tomorrow, we may support the other side as he's supporting England far too much for my liking today! Sweet sweet rewenge!

I really hate it when they update the Laws and I'm not aware of it. I should probably have had a quick check so I don't yell at the TV as much as I have been.

Unless they're playing England or USA, I cheer on the other home nation teams, I've never got cheering against other home nation teams.

at half time I realise my real WC priorities are:
Mighty All Blacks
Pacific Island Nations
then my adopted nation England

Cordelia I (and many others) rate d to follow the 'anyone but England' route, it's not mature admittedly....

Err that should say 'tend to' bloody phone

I just think it's a shame, I'd much rather see another home nation team to win, then I would another country's team.

Unless that team was USA, which is not going to happen any time soon!

I know, secretly I support England but last out of all the home nations... I just can't let it go!

Me too Lucky and Cordelia

Thanks, Ego.

That link says they're trialling new laws for the TMO. And though the laws specify that a referee may alter a decision if a touch judge raises a flag for touch or foul play, there's nothing about changing an awarded try. So I guess it could make for interesting discussion, pretty much all rendered moot by the fact that Fiji scored straight away.

Evening all. Just catching up on MN at Half Time. We also celebrated the start of RWC with a curry.

Nice close up on Nadolo. He is an impressive specimen of a man.

I've eaten too much curry...
There's enough left for half the team!
Barritt can sit next to me!

He sure is.

Arg. The curse of the scrum attacks again. I remember when they used to be exciting.

I'm watching. Got tickets to see Scotland v Japan on Wednesday. DH is Scottish and we live in Gloucester so had to go (although tickets were like gold dust!).

Enjoying the match. Had a good discussion here on the try for Fiji being taken away after being given (should have let them have it once ref decided we reckon).

Back to the match...

Ego I agree about rugby crowds.
I've supported NZ at Twickenham surrounded by England fans a few times now and it's always been a wonderful experience. No hassle, good humour, camaraderie.