Obelix comment on Scotland having few working class players is hilarious.

Even at clubs that were fps most players didn’t attend those schools.

Cripes, there’s hardly a paragraph in some of the stories from that site that doesn’t try and troll. I thought that some of the NZ Herald stuff was laughable enough. Is all NZ sports journalism written by people handpicked from their comments on YouTube videos?

Middle of the road trolling. The two man spear tackle on BOD remains NZ rugby’s darkest hour and will I suspect do so for some time, surprised they mention the Lions tour

‘kin painful and my guess would be the end of his involvement in the RWC, I recall he was retiring from internationals too to go to Toulon, he got a fantastic reception whilst giving a wave from the “trolley” but not the way I’d have wa ted to see him bow out

Just seen that DD. Terrible news, he was great yesterday. Hendo to 6 and Ryan to 5? or Murphy to 6?

Indeed @dd, Ireland will be hoping any ban for SOB is a short one or that he gets away with a telling off – has he been officially cited ?

Agreed game was won easily in the end but for a while in the second half a French revival looked very possible. Dare I say it the dropped pass in first half kept the game a lot closer than it should have been.

Yes, true enough, it was in the balance till around 60 mins. Poor Keet and his dropped pass – of course, there was no certainty that he’d have scored a try. It was the French (full back I think?) closing on him that probably distracted him. At least he doesn’t have to sleep having nightmares about it anyway. 🙂

Fps is Former pupils. Quite a few clubs in Scotland started as continuations of school sides.

Looking forward to the quarters. Being Scottish I will optimistic that we may pull off an upset until about 10 minutes in, when I shall become upset about our inability to play rugby for the first 40 minutes, briefly excited about a second half comeback then depressed about how it all falls apart again.

After I will be happy we made the quarters and that we have some backs who can run with the ball at last.

SA will steamroller the Welsh who will come close but never really look like winning it.

The Argies could turn the Irish over as losing POC, POM and SOB will hurt em

Quite fancy the French to give the All Blacks a scare but as neither have played at well I see NZ going through.

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I couldn’t have put it better.

Its is, actually quite hard to deny any of that ^^.

Sad for Irelands injury’s especially PoC legend that he is, they really do look like they could march on, and just need to up there game a little to do so.

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Hard to disagree with too much of that article!

So do I, however with your previous prediction of them (and I paraphrase) “choking like they always do” not being possibly more incorrect, and me being wrong again due to my eternal inferiority complex wrt France, maybe I should feel a little more confident.

I’d rather be facing Argentina with a broken squad than NZ with a full one. 🙂 Much as the 110 year record has to come to an end sometime, it probably wasn’t going to be this weekend. 🙂 And the green machine needs some adversity for the Argentina game – favourites does not sit comfortably.

So, who will make the SF’s?

Ireland, NZ, Aus, SA.

Aus SA final.

Aus champions.

Could be two citings from that Argentina Namibia clip alone couldn’t there? (or are citings for potential reds only?) There’s a tip tackle and no attempt to use anything other than the shoulder from the other lad. Way to go – beat up on the Namibians. 😐

The Bosch tip tackle is interesting. He does seem to try to control putting the player down but lose his own balance. Certainly more so than kp Petersen in the Scotland game. Where there was no citing.

The bumfinger comment earlier was that there were rumours doing the rounds that Pape had popped a digit up the bum, hence the open handed punch.

But, it appears that it was just a punch.

Gray & Ford – given the Somoan’s head is already lower than his hips when they get there and it’s not technically a tackle as it’s clearing out at a ruck, do the rules on tip tackling apply? It’s not like they picked him up, spun him round and dropped him on his head; his head was pretty much already on the ground.
Notwithstanding that what actually happened didn’t look good for the Samon’s neck, the ref (who had a clear view) blew for holding on. Given the Scot on the ground was holding on and the Samoan will also have been holding on, Ford and J Gray (I think it was R Gray on the deck) were always going to tip him if they tried to move him in any way.
At some point they have to let forwards get on with it in the close quarters. Blow up for safety sure, and penalise the man on the deck for holding on absolutely, but the other three are just rucking – albeit robustly.

Pape…last laugh? Meaningless. Anyway, is he ok? He went down awfully hard, poor fella. Never seen anyone go down that hard from a slap in the chest. Must have been a lucky shot, eh?

My guess is a 1 week ban for SOB – entry level x 0.5 for previous good record. Any more than that and they’re a bit **** – but let’s get past Argentina first.