Rugby world cup

Good point maxray. Sorry

Fair enough maxray.

Glitchy glitchy

I’m not going to stand back and let the likes of TJ and AA publicly berate England, I’ll be here to keep them in check always.

Toys – let go man. You need to be able to accept criticism.

and so it goes on and on and on and on

You need to be able to accept criticism.

OH the ironing..

I wont let it go. You keep trotting out the anti england tripe, you’ll find me here batting it back.

gethin has pretty much been injured all this season and was most of last season, so your comment is pretty fatuous and saying that Healy will take care of him is pretty daft as both are looseheads. gethin will also struggle to make the starting 15 anyway.

AA I was only stating the fact that he is not in the form he was in 2009 on Lions tour etc. I know that Healy is a loosehead and I didn’t say he would take care of Gethin! I’ve played long enough in the front row to understand this 😀

Get a room you two. If you two work I suggest you do that otherwise you will have bigger problems than bickering about who said what to whom.

No toys – you think I am because you are as one eyed as you accuse me of.

with that I’ll drop it

You’re missing the point Toys19.

If you’re English you don’t need to descend to this level of disagreement. You rise above it. 🙂

Anyway, as someone (maxray) very correctly pointed out, back to the rugger.

namastebuzz. OK.

AA publicly berate England

FFS all I’ve done is point out facts and highlight stories about the world cup, its not my fault the people acting like **** all appear to be english… well there was that Samoan, but I mentioned him too.

Good stuff. 😀

Anyway, I see France have decided to stick with Parra at fly half for the England game. Personally, I’m delighted.

Unfortunately, Lieveremont has had a sudden flash of common sense and restored Harinordoquy to No.8. When you look at the French from 1-15 they have some decent players. It’s astonishing that they can be so much less than a sum of their parts.

As a seasoned observer of les Bleus I still fear they could muster a “try from the end of the world” type performance.

Mind you, the recent capitulations to Italy, Tonga and, worst of all, the 59-16 thrashing by the Aussies (after leading 16-13 at the start of the 2nd half) may indicate a different outcome.

As I said before, surely France can’t be that bad all tournament! Can they?

surely France can’t be that bad all tournament! Can they?

Well they could (hopefully). That’s the beauty of the French though because you never know….

They might get stuffed on Saturday and then come back next year and win the Grand Slam.

Sorry for another French video but just to remind us how good they can be:

PS
I love the try from the RWC semi ’87 when there are bodies prostrate all over the pitch before Blanco gets in at the corner.

You said this.. no you said this.. well you are this.. it’s like fekkin kids.

Well said that man. There’s a slightly surreal feel to a bunch of English people arguing amongst themselves about whether or not they’re a bunch of cocks!

Can’t see England having problems against the French side, unless Le Bleu get their heads together and play some quality rugby. Parra at no.10 is a strange selection in a critical position – perhaps Lievremont has an urgent appointment back in Paris next week he doesn’t want to miss.

There’s a slightly surreal feel to a bunch of English people arguing amongst themselves about whether or not they’re a bunch of cocks!

We ARE a bunch of cocks! That’s what’s so great about being English! 😆

Anyway, shut up and watch the videos of the Frogs at their best.

Anyway, shut up and watch the videos of the Frogs at their best.

😆

CaptainFlashheart – Member
As I said before, surely France can’t be that bad all tournament! Can they?

Of course we can! That’s our right!

Just as it’s also our right that if we fancy it (maybe half way through a match) we’ll come out and rip any team in the world to shreds. We’re still working out whether we fancy playing like that at any point at this WC or if we simply prefer to fight amongst ourselves (cf Football WC) instead.

I’m reckoning that our masterplan has learnt the lessons of previous WCs – we keep beating NZ but not in the final. We’ve now set it up nicely to meet them in the final and pull their pants down in their own country 😉

Maybe.

If France beat New Zealand in the final, there would be plane loads of NZ secret service heading to French ports.

🙂

I think for the New Zealand Secret Service, “plane loads” is overstating it a bit. Maybe one plane. A small one. Perhaps a chopper ?

The entire NZ Secret Service in action

France are in my top five.

Is the fighting finished?

who said there was fighting going on?
wanna make something of it?

This article got me thinking, what would be your world cup best 15?

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/rugby/world-cup/rugby-world-cup-dream-team-the-best-xv-ever-16047546.html?ino=1

1. Os du Randt
2. Woody
3. Euan Murray
4. John Eales
5. Ian Jones
6. Jerry Collins
7. Michael Jones
8. Zinny
9. Joost
10. Jonny W
11. Jonah Lomu
12. Scott Gibbs
13. BOD
14. Campo
15. Blanco

Jonny wilko rather than Dan Carter?

The Torygraph made this selection:

Loosehead prop: Jason Leonard

Hooker: Sean Fitzpatrick

Tighthead prop: Richard Loe

Second row front jumper: Martin Johnson

Second row middle jumper: John Eales (captain)

Blindside flanker: Ruben Kruger

Openside flanker: Michael Jones

Number 8: Wayne Shelford

Scrum-half: Joost van der Westhuizen

Fly-half: Michael Lynagh

Left-wing: David Campese

Inside centre: Tim Horan

Outside centre: Brian O’Driscoll

Right-wing: Jason Robinson

Full-back: Serge Blanco

I’d go with most of that except Lomu in on one of the wings and Wilkinson at fly half.

Jonny wilko rather than Dan Carter?

It’s based on performances purely in RWCs.

Then there shouldn’t be any green machine players in there

There’s a good chance of both Eng/France and Wales/Ireland being amazing games…

The good French side turn up in the game England decide to actually string more than 3 phases of play together, a confident Welsh side putting immense pressure on the Irish…

OR

the woeful french and error strewn English teams will try their best to let the other win and the welsh and Irish will play a really cagey game desperate not to lose.

I hope its the former, would make a great weekends rugby!

Then there shouldn’t be any green machine players in there

You’re right. We’ll put Jeremy Guscott in there instead. 😉

Yeah if it were based purely on RWC performance then there probably would be a few different selections, but sure a wee bit of sentimentality does no harm.

I think you really must have Lomu in any selection, his impact was huge in every sense.

Jonny instead of Dan? yes, I think that Joost, Jonny and Scotty Gibbs would be great in defence and then BOD, Campo and Blanco could be creative outside them

But with wilko there they would get the ball static behind the gain line every time 😈

Yeah but Gibbs will get over the gain line and free up space for the outside backs

You don’t see NZ doing this do you?

Arrogance you say? Like wanting to take the RWC down to just the top tier nations, explicitly including the Argies, last time’s semi-finalists?

Nah, not at all….

[EDIT] *excluding [/EDIT]

Area the size of Wales at risk of over-excitement about George North

An area approximately the size of Wales is reported to be genuinely at risk from some sort of explosion due to growing excitement over how good George North is. The thresholds of human capability for keeping a lid on such things are being sorely tested, as the Norfolk-Anglesey hybrid continues to process opposition defences like some sort of divine threshing machine.

The UN have already declared that containment is no longer the strategy and have moved on to planning for rebuilding society in the resulting crater.

From the often marvellous http://gwladrugby.com/

Brilliant CFH!

Roughly comparable with the alternative SI unit of “an area the size of Tasmania”, I assume?