Holy crap, the scots should be absolutely petrified!!!!!

Even if they didn’t win – they will be know for not taking the penalty option.

But they did win! KFC Bargain Buckets all round!

I expect Scotland to comfortably beat Japan. A 4 day turnaround, plus there is NO chance Scotland will now be as complacent as the boks.

Chances are SA will still top the group if they beat Scotland, which is certainly now in the balance. This game today as made this WC already for me.

Very good CFH. 😀

On my way back from the match now. That was unbelievable! Turned up expecting a drubbing, witnessed sporting history. The atmosphere was electric, Springbok fans were really sporting in defeat too, great event!

as expected.

hmm. there was a lot more quality in that SA side than the scots can muster. I expect it’ll be anything but comfortable.

Well, we had a grand day at Kingsholm yesterday – really enjoyed watching the Georgians and Tongans go at one another. Some of those Georgians are big lads! 😯

We were stood just outside the Shed – couldn’t quite believe we were bathed in sunshine for the whole game. 🙂 Saw that nicely worked Tongan try in our corner that Nige disallowed which was rough on the Tongans we thought.

Down to the Fanzone for the first half of Canada – Ireland and then to the pub for a bite and a few pints for the second half. The atmosphere round the ground, Fanzone and pubs was grand – helped by the autumn sunshine no doubt.

A throughly enjoyable day out. 😀

Wrecker, there is a lot of quality, but the boks have been in turmoil for a few months, and badly out of form. Eddy Jones also knows their setup intimately and devised a game plan to counter their lumbering giants.

There’s not a lot between all of the other teams in group B, so it will be really interesting as a neutral, but I still expect Scotland to qualify, and probably SA too.

Indeed – ads in between the anthems and kickoff FFS! No idea about the monkey,

I hope Junior AA enjoy it – we’ve just started KJ01’s second season last week, and they’ve start pad work (mauls) and now all passes must be backward, whereas last year was throwing and catching, running then mini games of tag. Its starting to looking a bit more real!

Apparently it’s so that my boys can try to be the first to shout ‘Sam/Joe get off the pitch’ at each other every time it appears.

Good to see the proper Haka back.

Glad we seem to have skimmed over the Wales game as it wasn’t great 😳 Pretty much as expected from a makeshift team (Wales not Uruguay!). Of the players on for any decent length of time, only Davies looked sharp. The team selection seemed to be about avoiding injury to the key players and they still seemed to pick them up! It can’t be long before Hook, Phillips and Jones re-unite 😆

from how cuthbert played today, morgan is the least of the problems!
That Uruguayan open side looked like a 45 year old prop! Turns out he’s an IT consultant……….I’d better watch what I say, he might be a STW member!

Well that was a pretty fantastic first weekend of the world cup, good opening ceremony with a nod to the history albeit inaccurate, lots of good games, brilliant crowds (both size and atmosphere) and a big upset – roll on next week.

Would appreciate a proper STWRefOpinion but isn’t a deliberate trip a straight red?

It would appear not!

http://laws.worldrugby.org/?highlight=Trip&law=10.4

Seems a yellow was above the norm. Bravo, Barnes!

A lot of cynical play from the all blacks, they do t like it when it doesn’t go there way. McCaw sent for ‘ I can barely believe it.

Massive respect for Barnes, great referring today.