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Robinson has treated the Georgia and Romania games as the final two warm up games and will have had 11 days to prepare for Argentina. NO excuses now.
This. I doubt there will be a try scored during the game, but it will be intense. They wont beat England, mind you, even if they can't get over their discipline problems (what's going on there?)
Still, enjoyed the games on the weekend. Wales did what they needed to win: Give it to Shane! 8) Gorgodze showing why he is worshipped alongside Trinh Duc and Ouedraougo at Montpellier. Ireland...say no more.
Looking forward to the games in the week and ABs-France next weekend, if the right France show up!
Can't see France pulling another shock win out of the bag... certainly going to be interesting
Eighth favourite is it DD,worrying level of interest in WC there fella!How many teams are in it? 20 is it? Ok; England are now my 20th team,I'm feeling left out of toys list of ungrateful colonials, 😀 actually scratch that, Grandad Duckman would never have approved of me supporting the Japanese, so England 19th favourite. Scotland,Wales,Ireland, Scottish Exiles,going to be enjoying the rest as a neutral
,I'm feeling left out of toys list of ungrateful colonials
Dunno what you are on about, you are vying for the top slot.
Japan is my ninth team. Then Zew Nealand. With the anti everybody theme going on here from the Welsh contingent, they're slipping slowly down my list though.
And yes toys, irony. O'Connell is awesome though not back to his best form. God knows what we'd have done to the Aussies if he was. It was O'Brien, Ferris, Heaslip and Best what did it for us. I think.
O'Connell is awesome though not back to his best form. God knows what we'd have done to the Aussies if he was. It was O'Brien, Ferris, Heaslip and Best what did it for us. I think.
I dunno I was too busy dealing with two kids and watching out of the corner of my eye, I cannot even remember if O'Connell played on sat 😳 . All I can remember is Beales tache and BODs near catch from the rebound, how great would that have been.
Not quite as great as if Kearney had had the legs on O'Connor... but that was never gonna happen 🙂
Not quite as great as if Kearney had had the legs on O'Connor... but that was never gonna happen
Dez, I'm being thick, I didn't understand this? What are you saying? Single syllabubs please..
He means Bowe with the intercept. He was doing well for the first 60-70, then O'Connor just reined him in. I think O'Connell is steadily getting back to his best. Healy is becoming a key player for us, he has somehow managed to add bulk to aid his scrummaging without sacrificing his ball carrying. He is good for a turnover a game these days and he absolutely mangled Cooper at one point as well.
(Twas a (rare) positive moment of threadery, I admit)
You said it would've been great if O'Driscoll had caught the rebound and scored... my follow up meant that if Kearney's break from his own touchline had resulted in him crossing the line and scoring, that would have been a greater moment. But I knew that James O'Connor would catch him. It was still a great moment, but not as great as it could have been.
Comprendé?
That Irish front row was amazing. One thing I don't get is playing the likes of Sheridan at tight with a MUCH shorter hooker. The Irish front row have a grand total of 1cm in height difference between them. Meaning they engage at the same speed and it is much harder for an oppo prop to break one off and work into the hooker. (Sorry, for the backs,split the front row,get your shoulder into the hooker's ribs and lever him away from his ball,disrupting the hooker's ability to strike clean ball)
The way they took the Aussie front row apart was brilliant. They will need a plan b when it comes to Wales mind.I like pretty back play, but I admire the large club approach more than the rapier when it comes to rugby.In fact I could happily watch an eighty min scrum 😳
Ah yes, it was Bowe. I'm sure I said, in chatting about the game this morning, that it was Bowe and my NZ colleague corrected me and said it was Kearney!
Sorry, for the backs, [s]split the front row,get your shoulder into the hooker's ribs and lever him away from his ball,disrupting the hooker's ability to strike clean ball[/s] it's the bit that the real men do while you're at the back worrying about your split ends
FTFY! 😉
Yeah don't worry I was double confused, didn't recognise your mistake in Kearney and read O'Connor as O'Connell.....
But yeah it seemed like Bowe ran out of steam, shame. There was another good run too was that Kearney?
Probably, he had a good game..
was that Kearney?
Yes, nearly got to the line...can't find a clip on YooToob.
Though I did find this: check out Kearnsy's comment just at the end of the clip. of course, nobody cares about RU in Autralia do they. Please let people be beating him over the head with this clip. 😀
They will need a plan b when it comes to Wales mind.
I hope that plan a for both Italy Wales would be to get the ball in phase play again, ASAP. We have struggled to get a solid set-piece over the last year, we just need to retain possession and get the ball back in play.
Ha funny. Although in the Aussies defence, when we beat them at the 1/4 final in the 2007 world cup, I was in Marseille at the game, before the game they were exactly the same as that above, after they were magnanimous in defeat. Had a good few pints with the Aussies in Marseille that saturday night watching France beat NZ cheered them up.
Oh I know on a personal level, they're fine...good as "gold" but if you make comments like that you gotta live or die by them 🙂
Australia are now my 19th team.
Oh I know on a personal level, they're fine...good as "gold" but if you make comments like that you gotta live or die by them
Yeah I agree, but my point was they take it back very very well. When we arrived at our hotel there was a good few Aussies, they told us we might as well go home now, wasting our time etc etc. After they bought us pints and said look who's going home now. Mucho sporting.
Have we done this yet?
"Ok, it's obvious the IRB are unjust. Wales get 7 days [between games], we get 3. Unfair treatment, like slavery, like the holocaust, like apartheid."Give Wales 3 days off and give Samoa a week! We would kill them!
Yet another reason to keep sportsfolk off ****tter!
Hoooosedat?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/14968400.stm
Yet another reason to keep sportsfolk off ****tter!
/sigh
Sorry, forgot the linkification
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/14968400.stm <
He has a point though. 🙂
Blatant discrimination IMO. Wales falling further down my teams list. Definitely mid-teens now. 😐
I've been loving twitter for following rugby players. Saves me listening to the managers, especially Gatling.
He does indeed have a point. Matches should be about the game, not the TV audience (Even though I want to be able to watch the bigger games, of course!). As it is, the "lesser" nations get the short straw in terms of time.
Not sure it's quite up there with the Holocaust, mind you! 🙂
And in twitter news:
The green machine are White water rafting today. NZ government has asked that the forwards don't turn up as the river may be afraid to turn white. Also Tommy Bowe is having a 100m race with Mike Ross. Adam Jones has been invited to watch.
deadlydarcy - Member
And in twitter news:The green machine are White water rafting today. NZ government has asked that the forwards don't turn up as the river may be afraid to turn white. Also Tommy Bowe is having a 100m race with Mike Ross. Adam Jones has been invited to watch.
Latest news,
Having lost 100m race to Adam Jones, Mike Tindall is seen drunkenly proposing to a good looking dwarf. James Haskell meanwhile calls his team 'a bag of dicks' and heads towards the airport in a huff.
CaptainFlashheart - Member
He does indeed have a point. Matches should be about the game, not the TV audience (Even though I want to be able to watch the bigger games, of course!). As it is, the "lesser" nations get the short straw in terms of time.
Hey, the players are getting the easy end of it.
I'm feeling jetlagged after just two weekends of getting up at random times of the night. I'm not sure that I can carry on.
My alcohol consumption has sunk to a record low because my body is so confused about where it is. Is it acceptable to get up at 4am and start drinkling, counting it as the night before? Probably not.
Give me 24hr solo bike races any time.
Having lost 100m race to Adam Jones, Mike Tindall is seen drunkenly proposing to a good looking dwarf. James Haskell meanwhile calls his team 'a bag of dicks' and heads towards the airport in a huff.
Much lollage!
Not sure it's quite up there with the Holocaust, mind you!
I'll let you know; I am off to Berlin and Poland with 38 schoolkids just as the knockouts start...What was I thinking? Mind you not as bad as whoever's wife is due on the day of the final!
Mind you not as bad as whoever's wife is due on the day of the final!
Zara?
Not a worry anyway...
So just quickly to go back to rugby...
When Ashton scored his second try a Georgian slid in after he had the ball down and looked to cause a hyperextension to his left elbow and he certainly looked extremely uncomfortable when shaking hands at the end. How does the STW rugby mind see it in the light of Lawes getting 2 weeks? IMO they are pretty similar events in that they are dangerous and without purpose, but ultimately not intended to cause serious injury. Is it worth another 2 weeks, will he get off lightly as a player from a minor nation that don't have the depth to replace him, or will it just be ignored?
He will be cited,if we are anything to go by. We are taught to look for what happens after the ball goes dead. One of these is a late hit,as above, another example is the prop who accidently stamps on a collapsed oppo. If he has not been done by now, then England will have to mention it to get citing comm to look.
I'm trying to feel a shred of sympathy for him, but I can't 😐
He is in my second team though.
I'm glad that's been mentioned Tim, cos that was so much worse than what Lawes did - Ashton had scored the try and was already getting up when the Georgian jumped on his arm.
Incidents during try-scoring really piss me off and that was one of the worst I've seen.. there was no point in it other than to cause injury.
Player should be banned from the rest of the tournament. (no great loss, I know)
Hasn't really been mentioned in the press from what I have seen, apart from a quick "ashton injured his elbow scoring his second try". Can't find any pics or vid so only going on what I saw at the time but it is someone who is not even in the shot in this pic that landed on him
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so there wasn't much doubt of him getting it down so it seemed pretty cynical. Even if you don't like him it is a poor way to get injured
Also haven't seen if there is any news on how bad it is?
Sad to see Fourie out till next year as had hoped that he might get a flight over to replace Sheridan so there actually was a No7 in the squad too.
"Give Wales 3 days off and give Samoa a week! We would kill them!
Or, how about we have the WC at the end of our season when we're all on form and match fit, and YOU can do it after a summer off?
In twitter news:
@chrisashton1
thank you for all the messages. really appreciated. good to win and happy to get a try at last. my arm is all good 2.
Japan seems to hate whales. 😐
TimP - Member
Can't find any pics or vid so only going on what I saw at the time but it is someone who is not even in the shot in this pic that landed on him
I seem to remember in the mists of fatigue that I rewound this to see what happened. The Georgian was coming in to prevent a try, not to cause injury. It wasn't overly late, just poorly timed, but could be seen to be a penalty if you see what I mean. If the Georgian was to be cited then a player would be cited almost every time a try was scored.
so there wasn't much doubt of him getting it down so it seemed pretty cynical.
Hmm, I'd say that it would be a pretty poor player who allowed a player to ground the ball just because it seemed a dead cert.
I'm not condoning foul play against anyone, England or not. 😆 I just think this was badly timed rather than cynical. Having said that I'm happy to be shown to be wrong if anyone has a clip of it so I can see it in a less befuddled state.
There is a picture of Dillydayglo punching Jonah Lomu after he had scored another try to defeat england.