Rugby World Cup 2019 aka Squishy McSquish goes into a meltdown thread

justboy68

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Terrible performance from England. Beating New Zealand clearly got to their heads.

Congrats to South Africa, far and away the better side.
 

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How delightful to see Farrell the thug get mugged off by Kolbe.
 

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As someone who doesn't quite understand rugby's intricacies yet, which football match is comparable to this game?
 

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I don't think England have bottled it. SA have just been fantastic.
England were massive favourites pre-match. No one was giving South Africa a sniff. They thought they had the trophy won before the game had even kicked off. As I said earlier, you had the likes of Matt Dawson claiming that England only had to turn up and they will win.
 

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Fair play to SA. Deserved winners.

As an England fan it did feel as if every 50/50 was going SA way and I’m not talking about the ref. Every bounce, catch etc. Gutted we didn’t play like we could have.
 

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I don't think England have bottled it. SA have just been fantastic.
I dunno. After their performance against NZ and in light of them being The Greatest Sporting Nation, I think calling them bottlers is both fair and fun for the purposes of this thread. :lol:
 

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Congrats SA - thoroughly deserved victory. England has a great tournament but seems to have ran out of gas at the wrong time.
 

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Time to cement our status as the best sporting nation currently.
They're burning up inside. Win this and then the Euros and some people will just spontaneously combust.
That's nice.

Like the man said .. not arrogant, just better.
It's coming home mate.
I suppose when you're the best sporting country in the history of the world, you'll always get people trying to pull you down.
Don't worry, when you lose the semi you can ride on the coattails of our success.
He’s going to win the World Cup, almost stopped that Woodward English team, instrumental in getting SA the 2007 World Cup, put Japan on the right path imo. By far the best
Oh dear oh dear. What a pity, never mind.

Only one northern hemisphere team capable of winning anything of any note this year.
 

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All over.

Congratulations @Traub @Santoryo and any others, played far better than us, and far better than expected (by me anyway).

We’ve been fecking awful. Played the Boks at their own game and been second best.

Garces....you’re a cnut, a massive cnut, you’ve always been a cnut, and you’ll always be a cnut
 

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England were massive favourites pre-match. No one was giving South Africa a sniff. They thought they had the trophy won before the game had even kicked off. As I said earlier, you had the likes of Matt Dawson claiming that England only had to turn up and they will win.
Yeah some may have said that, but I’m sure the team didn’t think that.

I feel like it was a lot of the non English saying it will be easy.
 

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Oh dear oh dear. What a pity, never mind.

Only one northern hemisphere team capable of winning anything of any note this year.

imagine loving a sport but never reaching a final of the World Cup in it


just imagine how embarrassing that is.
 

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Well played South Africa. Absolutely overpowered us and deserved the victory. England were never allowed into the game in a significant way.
 

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It goes without saying, this is extra delicious because of all of the "world's greatest sporting nation, imagine the rugby and the cricket in one year" folks who'd written SA off.

But I'm going to say it anyway :)

Fcuking hate his approach to the kick...
 

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What happened is what I feared for England, they didn't play a single physical top team. It's always good to face the likes of Wales, France or Ireland before facing SA because the latter are at an other level in that department.