Rugby World Cup 2019

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Can't see a thread on this ....

Any rugby lovers here? Not many of my girlfriends share my love of rugby.

France/Argentina - cracking close match.

Japan/Russia - glad the home team won.

Australia/Fiji fantastic first half.

And now the All Blacks v Springboks - can't wait ....

Real poor form from Wales, they really haven’t played as a team have they.

The second half is much more interesting than watching paint dry

I’ll give you the last 15. This has been everything I find tedious about Union.

:(

Wales were awful.

Finished as it started really. Wales were never going to win.

At least DH and I won't need a divorce next week now. Every cloud has a silver lining etc.

We played their kicking game. Wrong tactic. We needed possession and to push it out rather than getting bogged down in the centre.

Did that interviewer just call AWJ Ken?

Yea!

And you're right about the kicking game.
We got our tactics wrong. Tried to beat SA at their own game instead of playing ours.

Gats is right. We are a tiny nation and we're good. Not good enough today but we deserved to be in the semi finals.

Gutted for the team but we let SA play their game instead of playing ours. I really don’t like the kicking game, it’s so boring, thought HP had a cracking game he seemed to be all over the field. Before that last penalty was scored we started playing rugby then it all went to pot.

Wales would have been good enough if the coach had got his tactics right. That makes it even more disappointing!

South Africa weren’t particularly good.

Who got MotM? Had my head in my hands by that point but Halfpenny had to be in contention. Although I think LW would have run it back at them more.

Who got MotM?

Handre Pollard

Thanks Jacques

Feel sorry for Wales, but I hate Gotland. Glad his last match was poor!

Gatland!!

Glad his last match was poor!

It isn’t his last match. Whatever the result today he was always going to have one more!

@MrsJoshNavidi same here! Am disappointed but also slightly relieved 😅

Why do you hate Gatland? @ExecutiveFiat?

Not a great match to watch. Bad luck Wales though.

That's really odd Executive Fiat that you hate Gatland, he spoke very highly of you last time I saw him
I'm guessing that it's to do with his coaching of the Lions

It occurs to me that if England win on Saturday, they will have beaten the big 3 Southern Hemisphere sides to do it.
If we'd won today then there would be room for SA to gripe that they could have beaten England. If we'd won and beaten England on Saturday NZ could have said they'd have beaten us given the chance.
If SA, win NZ can rightly say they thrashed them in the pool stages.

I know I'm rambling but I'm making myself feel better about supporting England on Saturday

This is true @AlunWynsKnee

Also no pressure on Wales, but this is a chance to prevent NZ not getting placed anywhere in the top 3!

Roll on Friday when we can see this happen!!