Errr, that was the question I asked! 🙄

I believe it was something to do with votes, as mentioned above.

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Okay…

Does it really matter though? England v Wales was at Twickenham, so England were home, even if Wales played all of their pool matches in Twickenham they might as well be ‘home’ it’s not the building that makes it a home venue, it’s the fans – 3 million Welsh people live a few hours drive from Twickenham v maybe a few thousand touring Aussies and a handful (relatively) of Fijians and Uruguayans.

I really don’t understand why there seems to be this pre determined idea that England should get through the ‘pool of death’ with Australia and that Wales are somehow lucky, or the ref was unfair, or even it’s unfair that a neighbouring country hosts a few pool matches despite it being a feature of every RWC held in the Northern Hemisphere – apparently beating a nation who sits higher on the world rankings is just a formality.

3 million Welsh people live a few hours drive from Twickenham v maybe a few thousand touring Aussies

I take it you’ve never ordered a drink in London then?

No I haven’t had cause to visit Mordor since 2007 and have no plans to do so again.

I’m pretty anti-city, I live 3 miles from Cardiff City Centre, I’m told it’s a shopping and sophisticated eating Nirvana and almost perfect for a bit of binge drinking and vomiting late at night.

I haven’t been there in 3 years, it was 2 before that.

Has this be done?

Those visits were to watch rugby, presumably? 2 games in five years isn’t much though.. 😛

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I don’t think it was underhand, from memory it was just a deal which was done and was broadly reported. In exchange for their vote, wales would get to host some games. There are LOADS of stadia in England which could have hosted games, as the longlist showed.

Actually Cips has a point. None of the talented English players can get in the team either

Just wondering why you live in a city when you’re so anti-city?

Ah I’m with you, whilst I live in Cardiff, I don’t live in the City. I live right on the edge of Cardiff on the border with Caerphilly it’s all fields and hills where I live. I’m from a little village called Wenvoe originally which is also technically Cardiff, but it’s pretty rural, I moved here because my Wife is from here and stay here for the kids school.

There’s no reason for me to going into ‘town’ as we locals call it, I hate big crowds and noise so I don’t unless I absolutely have to for work or the like.

I suspect it may be easier to find somewhere to watch the England v Australia game in Vegas! It’s a midday kick off time here as well, so I can have a beer or two! 🙂

I thought only Y Gat played silly mind games, but it looks like Australia and England are having fun doing the same! That hatchet job on Marler’s angles was a prime example. Every prop has tactics, and yes his a aren’t straight but is it really that much worse than anyone else’s?

The station was great value tonight. Packs of scots, packs of saffers and packs of geordie football fans all giving each other a bit of friendly poke without anyone seeming to understand a word of what any of the others were saying.

The bloke directing the south africans to their hotels had the thickest county durham accent I’ve ever heard, I swear they walked off more confused than before they spoke to him.

What’s the quickest a bonus point has been secured in an international rugby match? Tonight was 21:30ish.

Jon, is that really happening?

Worse than chuffing vuvuzelas!

Watching some of the southern hemisphere club rugby, Carter’s star has been on the wane for a while now.

Not even bothering to check for obstruction in midfield?

Carter hasn’t been himself since the Achilles problems and hasn’t had thaaaat much game time over the past few years with the hamstring issues and so on. It took NZ long enough but now you feel they don’t miss him at all (not just this iffy game)

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