RWC 2015

[gingercat02]

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

Me too. Times like this you miss the craic [sad auld emotion]

Oh Ego, thank you. You've taken me back! I was at that very match to see Jonah unleash his magic. We'd flown down to Cape Town from Durban for the day and couldn't believe the euphoria - or what we were seeing. 20 years! And now DD is off to watch Wales/Fiji in a couple of weeks. She's hoping that George North can do a Jonah in Twickers too. Good luck to everyone and their teams!

Well that was hardly a glittering showpiece to start the thing off.

England were poor and helped by a ref who refused to pull them up on ruck infringements, a knock on which should have disallowed one try and as for that eventually disallowed Fiji try...I have watched an awful lot of rugby over the past 38 years or so and I have never seen that happen. It just shouldn't and was cowardly refereeing.
All that aside, England were never going to lose that match, but a bonus point flatters them I think.
As a Welsh supporter I'm a bit less worried about England and a bit more worried about Fiji. But we need referees with the balls to actually referee England (and Ireland and New Zealand for that matter).

The try reversal was really confusing. I'd never seen it before either, but I only tend to watch big games.

It's TV3 commentary. You're not missing much!!

I have an empty house and Guinness. Anyone with me?

No Guinness but a cup of tea watching the game. Looking forward to watching Ireland even though i am Wales supporter.

Cup if tea here.

Have to confess to being slightly visual confused and have to remind myself (as a frequency far to frequent to confess) that it's not Wales v Ireland in the Six Nations!!!

It's a bit weird, Ireland are starting to pick the pace up a bit. I was worried in the first 10 mins they were taking Canada for granted

I got similarly confused yesterday with England in red! Looking forward to a good game. Can't help but wonder how the Canadian players cope with the big bushy beards, surely it's pulled and tweaked constantly..

Supporting Canada today, so come on you Canucks, get some points on the board at least!

Why is the roof closed. Is the weather bad in Cardiff? It's lovely here.

Ginger - got a friend at the game, she said the weather was fine, but that was a little bit earlier.

DP and DS1 at Twickenham tonight for France v Italy.

What is that england kit ??? looked like nasty wipe clean plastic fabric on front and awful odd shade of maroon shorts....why are they not in white ????
what colour is wales going to play in then ????
I have dual nationality ...english and australian and have drawn fiji in office sweepstake..its very confusing , esp as my DF and DD support wales.
My dd's build a bear has had lit made by my DM for all the teams and is having multi changes today..poor teddy !

had heard all matches roof will be shut at cardiff :(((

That's nuts about the roof, must be for fairness England were in their away strip last night theredjellybean I think it's politeness as the host team. I presume Wales will be in red as usual.

Oh really redjellybean - that's disappointing.

Your post about dual nationality makes me think of one of my friends, who is English born with an English father, but her mum is Fijian. She isn't a dual national, as Fiji doesn't allow dual citizenship, but she still has an emotional attachment to Fiji. She felt very conflicted last night!

thankyou...i rarely get to watch as work weekends and follow either radio commentry or telegraph txt feed...its bloody dreadful strip....i had red visions of wales and england all red everywhere...aghhhh....but then i had been on the red wine so it was all getting a bit silly ...

for all those struggling with dual nationality or similar ...here is red's thinking:

1. support england above all others...so if england playing australia support england
2. if australia playing anyone else ...support australia
3. support fiji as sweepstake team if not playing above two
4. support anyone who is playing wales...

easy....( i have english rugby supporters inbred instinct to hate the welsh)

my dd who also has dual nationality either swaps jerseys and support at half time, or will support whichever out of england/australia or wales is winning if they are playing each other ...fickle child !
her teddy gets kitted out depending on how she is feeling on the day !

What the heck did O'Connell do to get sin binned?

My system is...

1. Support England first and foremost, above all other teams.
2. Support USA in all their games
3. Support Canada in all their games (as paternal grandmother is Canadian).
4. Support other home nation teams if they're not playing any of the above.
5. Cheer on whoever is playing Argentina.

cordelia - just out of polite interest ( old fashioned nosiness) what have you got against argentina ?

It's to do with an ex-boyfriend.

No idea Moln I was bringing the washing in and missed the restart
Glad everyone else has a "system" Mine is Ireland always, then Scotland then Wales. Not fussed after that generally support who ever is playing England