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 ....

Well said @Horehound . The anti Scottish bile on Twitter is bad enough. Don't need it here. All of a sudden we've become the bad guys for wanting to play our deciding match which we've pretty much known from the beginning could be the one.

Oddly there was a bit of huffing that it was the weather's fault Ireland lost against Japan. So it evidently is the weather after all (btw is woodman03 Eddie Jones?)

The commentator on the irish/Samoa match (Eir TV) just mentioned the Scotland match is back on, for the moment.

Hi guys! Typhoon is right overhead now - we still have electricity and I'm watching the Ireland - Samoa game
The typhoon will be far away by Sunday evening so pretty sure the game will go ahead tomorrow

Encouraging news all round Tante :)

@TanteRose did you say whereabouts you are? Getting messages about an 5.7 earthquake (Chiba)!!

I'm south of Tokyo/Yokohama on the coast!

Yes we had an earthquake earlier
It wasn't very big - at first, I thought it was the wind shaking the building

Friends were saying that it would be Godzilla appearing next

Still pretty wild outside at the moment but the storm is heading north now

AnOojamaflip
Which commentator blamed the weather for Ireland losing to Japan?
I just thought Japan played better rugby than Ireland in that match.

An RTE one

Well more the humidity (though I suppose that is the weather) making the ball slippy and the players sweaty, and the Japanese players didn't have the same problem. Particularly amused me when he this one time said this whilst the camera was focused on a very sweaty Japanese player.

Saying that the pundit on Eir today fully noted that the loss was due to ireland not moving off the game play despite it being obvious the Japanese had done their homework and knew Ireland's moves. Which is very much it!!

Godzilla Ha! Yes TanteRose, it probably wouldn't be too surprising if he did turn up!!

@TanteRose the evening news said that it doesn't seem to be quite as bad as they were expecting. Glad you're all ok!

Ds is quite excited at the prospect of Godzilla

Namibia v Canada cancelled.

Just saw on Twitter! 😱

Surely a decision soon re Scotland v Japan match

Just announced! Japan-Scotland match going ahead as planned

Wooo hoooooo!!!

Yes!! Just need to win the damn thing now!

Just gonna watch my second team first! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Here for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 :)

Ah this is a bit like Wales of the 90s. Spilling the ball, flat and slow. They need to get their act together.

They're not looking good are they?

It's very frustrating massistar. Not coherent at all. Running a bit better now but handling and infringements are shocking.

Got to hand it to Uruguay though. They're really frustrating them. I suspect major half time arse kicking to take place now.

Absolutely. Uruguay are having a really good game. They beat Fiji so they know they can surprise teams.
Gatland's going to be killing them in the changing room.

Hopefully fitness will help us have a better second half.