Rugby World Cup 2019

[minmooch]

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 ....

England need to pull these out the bag:
Scrum
Not dropping the ball
Not giving penalties
Speed up

Statistics suggest they have lost. (No team has ever come from being behind at half time in a final.)

It's looking like we ran SA closer Come on England and prove me wrong!

All it takes is one break for a try and the whole game changes. Lots of rugby left to play. Not that I think England can do it, the way they're playing now, but things can change very quickly.

SA defence is v good though. But yes, they're within a score.

Momentum shifting now from that one good scrum.

Before he left for work, the husband prophesied South African will bore England into a loss (or some such phrasing).

Think I should have listened and just gone to bed

Think the score would be different if we had another ref tbh

Lots of rugby left to play. Not that I think England can do it, the way they're playing now, but things can change very quickly

That’s the problem as you’ve said, England aren’t playing any sort of cohesive rugby.

I reckon it's going to be won and lost by a penalty in the last 3 mins. Again.

This really is exceptionally dull.

Daly's having a day to forget.

It is.

What a shame.

Oh I don't know MrsJosh. I wonder if SA will score a try in the last 10.

The passing on both sides has been poor.

About bloody time!

That's the Cup.

Ofgs

That’s the game. Congratulations South Africa, the better team won on the day.

What about the two forward passes?
Bloody hell

They weren't forward, their hands went back. The camera angle wasn't good. It was swinging around from the centre.

The blame starts already

They weren’t forward, it was the right decision

First was fine. Second was flat.

Nothing wrong with those passes at all. They even checked it on TMO.

Oh ok
Still think the ref is biased

Let’s not do the whole “ref’s fault”.

England have lost this themselves. Absolute atrocious tactics and rugby.