RWC 2015

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

Scotland has that for next game.

I'm very pleased for Scotland. We've been pish for so long, it's nice to be scoring tires. Hope we can keep it up.

Doh! I was avoiding news websites & Twitter to try to avoid the score. And MN tells me what happened....

serves me right for logging on at work

D'oh!!

It's very hard to avoid results in this day and age isn't it. Blooming technology not like the good old 'look away now' days!!!

You don't know the result though or even the margin!!'

I may possibly too be in work and followed the match on the app

DH came home & started talking about the day's results. He thought I'd have heard. I hadn't. We are watching France v Romania now.

Just got home from watching Scotland v Japan (DH Scottish). Bloody marvelous game. Closer than the score shows really, particularly in the first half.

And on another note - I bloody love a Scot in a kilt and Gloucester was heaving with them today. My face was like this > all day

That must be a special Double Gloucester Cheesy Grin then. All of the second tier teams have put up a presentable show so far. I'm glad they're not losing 100-0.

What is with Romain Poite and World Cups? I usually like him during the 6 Nations. Can't believe how much time he wasted.

Great performance from Namibia. Cheered so loudly when they got a try!

I was very pleased that Nehe had a good match. Quieter from the ABs than expected, perhaps.

That was a pretty dull match really, wasn't it? I mean Milner-Scudder's tries were nice, and so was Barrett's, but the 2nd half was dreadful.

I think the entire stadium cheered when Namibia got that try - Kiwis included

The refs are so afraid of getting things wrong they're checking every little thing. And personally, I think the TMO should only do what they're asked instead of taking it upon themselves to look further back.

DH said he had heard that no-one yet knows who is going to referee the final - and that this might explain the refs being so afraid to make a mistake.

There was one stage last night when the touch judge was literally beside the player who scored the try, but the ref didn't even seem to ask him at all, straight up to the TMO.

I have to say, when the TMO is used right, it's great, but the way it's being used at the moment is enough to discourage other sports from taking it on.

(I did like the moment last night where to TMO broke in to tell the ref to have a chat with one of the Namibian players: "I can't do anything about IT now but you need to have a little chat with him". Made them sound like naughty schoolboys)

I've been awake since 5am and I've got nearly 14 hours more of this tension!

The England V Wales fixture is always nerve wracking, but this one takes it to a whole new level.

Can anyone explain what the Guscott means by "route one DNA"?

BBC guff from Jeremy Guscott

Grouchy I just read that article and it makes no sense to me either. I suppose it's a reference to the fact that Barritt and Burgess are not play makers, they play the traditional first choice English style. But I could be barking up completely the wrong tree there.

I think it means england will be going for power and brute force rather than creativity. Get the forwards to win territory and pick up points like that rather than run and pass. It's a pity if that's the case. But if england can win I don't mind how they do it.

Same thing with Wales, all they need to do is win, the way it's done is in the hands of the gods

Ah, I see. Thank you. I hope both sides can be more interesting than that.

Mostly, though, I hope the referee is hardly noticeable.

I want entertaining too - I hope we all do. Here's to a Game !

Love the fact that Marler can get mushed by Jamie Roberts & Mike Brown can get angry, but they'll be team mates in a few weeks.

Mike Brown looks like a guy that gets angry quite easily.

Perhaps it's his pheromones! He gets very focused.

I love when there are fights in rugby.

We met Maggie Alphonsi on Thursday evening. She spent 5 minutes chatting to me & DD at the Legends game. I expected her to be much taller, but she was tiny. Fantastic role model for teenage girls.

Ha. Yes that'd have been funny, he should have pointed at the big screen then waved at it and not at the camera

I missed the royals. Are they splitting their loyalty with Harry cheering England & William Wales?