Summer rugby thread

Oh dyry mw

So repeated scrums go down not a pen but as soon as maul goes down its a pen. Its a **** joke, complete and utter mess of a joke.

Unlucky Wales much better second half. Deserved to win

Come on England beat the ****!

This is a milestone indeed. A_a’s hatred of another team is greater than his hatred of England!
I wonder how long it will last!
Unlucky Wales and Ireland both do close. Well done Scotland for the win.

Anyone want to lend me a skygo password? I just bought a sky top up tv box from argos expecting it to come with a card so I could watch the england game this afternoon.
After 40 mins on hold to topuptv apparently a card takes 5-7 working days to come. BOO HOO.

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anagallis_arvensis – Member
So repeated scrums go down not a pen but as soon as maul goes down its a pen. Its a **** joke, complete and utter mess of a joke

^^This^^

The reffing of the scrums was farcical. Utterly farcical.

That said, we really let ourselves down with the mess that was the line out. Very, very poor.

Do the welsh ever get beaten without it being the refs fault? :wink:( sorry chaps)

Nice win for Scotland, unlucky Wales and Ireland by the sound of it – heartbreaking to get beaten like that.

England? Are you Scotland in disguise?

Oh – and Sir Tim McVisser is god

Pay, glad I’m watching on a crappy internet feed. Eng are rubbish.

That has to be a try! Or even a penalty try for that high tackle.

C’mon, TMO. Do the right thing.

They’re rubbish, but they’re showing some heart!

DezB – Member

They’re rubbish, but they’re showing some heart!

About right

Why take Youngs off?

Good fight back

Lies damn lies and statistics – just seen the stats for the welsh game – according to that they were mullerd so did very well to get close. only 1/3 possession and territory

http://www.espnscrum.com/wales-tour-2012/rugby/match/155534.html

Ireland similarly

England? the missed tackles cost them – 18 of them – 4 to Robshaw plus he conceded 3 pens ( and should have had a card)

Worst eng performance for a long time. Dreadful. Youngs exposed as too slow, no strength in the pack.
Corbs was ace when he came on but other than that, we have a poor 6, 9, 4 & 5.
Can’t even blame the centres as the pack/9 gave them no ball, actually Ashton, Manu and foden had good games.
Good point on the tackling TJ, did they forget to take the bags with them?
Having said that I don’t believe robshaw deserved a card and had a net positive contribution to the effort.

Takes a special kind of team to beat the Aussies in the SH.

Special indeed. What’s your opinion on Robinson now TJ?

deadlydarcy – Member

Takes a special kind of team to beat the Aussies in the SH.

Scotland? *ducks and hides*

I meant a competitive Aussie team TeeJ.

Wrecker – was it not robshaw who took the SH out 5 m from the line at a ruck – from an offside position?

wrecker – Member

Special indeed. What’s your opinion on Robinson now TJ?

Unchanged – he needs to be sacked. He should never have been appointed, he should have been sacked after the world cup, he should have been sacked after the 6 nations, he should be sacked now.

deadlydarcy – Member

I meant a competitive Aussie team TeeJ.

🙄

Englands performance over here is NOT making my life in SA easy!

This is a milestone indeed. A_a’s hatred of another team is greater than his hatred of England!
I wonder how long it will last!

lets be clear, its the ref i hate.

Stand by the view that wales are the villege idiots of world rugby though. That aus team is there for the taking. They offered nothing in attack for massive parts of the game only one nicely worked try to show for all that ball. Stupid mistake compounded by a crap lineout and topped off by an idiot in charge of the scrum were needed to stop them winning despite themselves. I suppose they got lucky out in ireland this season and the tables were turned today.

Wales blew that – whoever had i think 16 on his back to give away that penalty in the aussie half should be on kit bag duty for a long time.

Dean Ryan seemed to be suggesting at half time that England were backing out of the physical challenge.

Nothing wrong with it if the ref didn’t see it TJ.
The ref gives what he gives. No point whinging really.

Ref gave the pen. Just not the card – even the English commentators sid it should be a card – but it wasn’t.

Juwt sayin like that Robshaws performance was not great. Anothe day another ref he would have been in the bin as well as missing tackles adn giving pens

Not whinging at all – just passing comment.

Not whinging? How Heineken. 🙂

Stand by the view that wales are the village idiots of world rugby though.

If thats true, then we are the nanny goat that the idiot has been feeding cider..

Mucho pissadointed with eng.

Whereas its another good day to be a Scotland fan 🙂

allow us a little glee / smugness – there has not been much around recently.

The problem with England is there is nothing “special” in it. There isn’t a van de wuisthaasen, an conrad smith, a Richie Macaw, or dare I say it, a Martin Johnson.

Its just an average team playing average rugby. Granted its international level, but if this is an example of the finest English Rugby we’ve got to worry. A team of average players not rising to the occasion won’t win us a world cup.

I can’t help thinking that Lancaster is copying Woodwards model – pick 30-40 players so form players can be rotated who can play together for 4 years, sure they’ll lose some at first but familiarity and a plan will make them “great”. I don’t think the centres start in the same league as Greenwood and Tindall where then, or the forwards (front 3 not included) anywhere near the 2003 team at any point in thier reign.

Too average and a forlorn strategy IMO.

Will you be smug after the Samoa game though?

Hope so – This is a decent team building here for Scotland – and building a team ethos as well that takes us back to the greater than the sum of the parts of a few years ago. Along with some very exciting young players.

If only Robinson had selected this lineup in the 6N ( bar Visser) This team is so much better than the one who played England – and will only get better. This is the bulk of the Scotland players for the next WC.

Can we have Gethin tho? – I am sure he has a Scots Granny. Please? Wouldn’t mind Jonathon Davis as well

Wow just checked out the Beeb, and Scotland had a great win against Fiji. Happy days.

How did the other home nations get on?

Can we have Gethin tho? – I am sure he has a Scots Granny. Please? Wouldn’t mind Jonathon Davis as well

No. And you can’t have a Shingler, either. 😉

Oh, it was FIJI that Scotland beat was it? Wow. Fiji, that renowned 15 a-side nation 😆

Youngs exposed as too slow

Couldn’t agree more and for the ball to go straight through the scrum and out the other side again well 🙄

Rotter CFH 🙁

Argentina / france stream Lookout for popups and stuff ( close buttons are well hidden) – good medicine advised but i watch ’em all the time without issues

http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/56788/1/argentina-vs-france-live-stream-online.html

DezB – Member

Oh, it was FIJI that Scotland beat was it? Wow. Fiji, that renowned 15 a-side nation

that were ranked above Scotland until Scotland beat Aus, that have beaten other top teams such as Wales in the 2007 world cup as well as giving Scotland a cuffing last time they were there

Edit – not above scotland in the rankings I don’t think – confusion

I’m just glad we won our series against England…

🙂

Argentina beat France 🙂 Breakaway try 3 mins from the end 23 : 20