He's going to be Director of Rugby at a club in Japan.
Rugby World Cup 2019 aka Squishy McSquish goes into a meltdown thread
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He's going to be Director of Rugby at a club in Japan.
Seen this stat around Twitter:
Total number of registered senior mens rugby players per country according to World Rugby. RWC quarters;
England- 131,399
France- 124,079
South Africa- 113,174
Japan- 48,470
Australia- 39,380
New Zealand- 27,726
Ireland- 25,440
Wales- 22,408
Total number of registered senior mens rugby players per country according to World Rugby. RWC quarters;
England- 131,399
France- 124,079
South Africa- 113,174
Japan- 48,470
Australia- 39,380
New Zealand- 27,726
Ireland- 25,440
Wales- 22,408
Brave call. Will be interesting to see how he does there against Tuilagi.
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George Ford on the bench. So a surprise in both line ups by the sounds.
Edit - Petaia is indeed playing. Huge call from Cheika.
Edit - Petaia is indeed playing. Huge call from Cheika.
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He really does love himself.
He's nowhere near the level of Barnes.
Rob Kearney in for Ireland. Hmmmmmmm.
Saying that, he's delivered massively in recent times when his place was under threat.
Saying that, he's delivered massively in recent times when his place was under threat.
Predictions for the weekend:
England vs Australia: Easy England win. No problems for them in this one
Ireland VS New Zealand: Going with a New Zealand win, but i think it's going to be a close one.
Wales vs France: Wales win, just.
Japan vs South Africa....feck it, going with a Japan win! (mostly because that's what i want to happen)
England vs Australia: Easy England win. No problems for them in this one
Ireland VS New Zealand: Going with a New Zealand win, but i think it's going to be a close one.
Wales vs France: Wales win, just.
Japan vs South Africa....feck it, going with a Japan win! (mostly because that's what i want to happen)
Japan clearly needs to join either the 6 Nations or the Rugby Championship. it would be nice to have them in the 6 Nations, although probably makes more sense to join the Championship.
That team isn't filling me with hope, no Farrell and Kearney starting, what are we gonna do when henshaw gets injured
I was saying that earlier - I would have put Farrell on the bench instead of McGrath. Odds are that Murray will play 80 minutes anyway and if he does get injured, you could slip Carberry or Ringrose in there without losing too much considering McGrath's recent form.
Full strength for Wales. Should be no excuses Sunday.
Wales: L Williams; North, Jonathan Davies, Parkes, Adams; Biggar, G Davies; Wyn Jones, Owens, Francis, Ball, Alun Wyn Jones (capt), Wainwright, Navidi, Tipuric.
Replacements: E Dee, Carre, D Lewis, Beard, Moriarty, T Williams, Patchell, Watkin.
France: Medard; Penaud, Vakatawa, Fickou, Huget; Ntamack, Dupont; Poirot, Guirado (capt), Slimani, Le Roux, Vahaamahina, Lauret, Ollivon, Alldritt.
Replacements: Chat, Baille, Setiano, Gabrillagues, Picamoles, Serin, Lopez, Rattez.
Wales: L Williams; North, Jonathan Davies, Parkes, Adams; Biggar, G Davies; Wyn Jones, Owens, Francis, Ball, Alun Wyn Jones (capt), Wainwright, Navidi, Tipuric.
Replacements: E Dee, Carre, D Lewis, Beard, Moriarty, T Williams, Patchell, Watkin.
France: Medard; Penaud, Vakatawa, Fickou, Huget; Ntamack, Dupont; Poirot, Guirado (capt), Slimani, Le Roux, Vahaamahina, Lauret, Ollivon, Alldritt.
Replacements: Chat, Baille, Setiano, Gabrillagues, Picamoles, Serin, Lopez, Rattez.
Henshaw/Ringrose is probably our best centre pairing
Joe's going with his tried and trusted which is to be expected really. L'Armour
I know the All Blacks are nailed on favourites and I don't think we'll have enough to win but you'd have to think Joe has something up his sleeve, given this could well be his last game in charge.
EDIT: The team I saw incorrectly had Farrell on the bench instead of Mc Grath
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Looking forward to the quarters this weekend.
England vs Australia - Going for an England win
New Zealand vs Ireland - All Blacks to win
Wales vs France - You could flip a coin with this one. Either side could win it. I didn’t see Wales’ game last week against Uruguay, in fact didn’t see any of the Sunday matches other than Scotland’s disappointing defeat to Japan. Heard Uruguay gave them a decent game. France always are the dark horses in RWC’s and I’m predicting them to narrowly nick it.
Japan vs South Africa - Would love Japan to repeat a 2nd miracle of Brighton again. Been an absolute joy to watch and my favourite team of the tournament so far. You’d expect South Africa to win but I’m not going to write this Japanese team off. Head says South Africa win but heart says Japan to shock the world again. It’s set up to be a fantastic match and the one I’m most looking forward to watching!
England vs Australia - Going for an England win
New Zealand vs Ireland - All Blacks to win
Wales vs France - You could flip a coin with this one. Either side could win it. I didn’t see Wales’ game last week against Uruguay, in fact didn’t see any of the Sunday matches other than Scotland’s disappointing defeat to Japan. Heard Uruguay gave them a decent game. France always are the dark horses in RWC’s and I’m predicting them to narrowly nick it.
Japan vs South Africa - Would love Japan to repeat a 2nd miracle of Brighton again. Been an absolute joy to watch and my favourite team of the tournament so far. You’d expect South Africa to win but I’m not going to write this Japanese team off. Head says South Africa win but heart says Japan to shock the world again. It’s set up to be a fantastic match and the one I’m most looking forward to watching!
Henshaw/Ringrose is probably our best centre pairingand Farrell is on the bench
Joe's going with his tried and trusted which is to be expected really. L'Armourand Farrellwill come off the bench. Earls and Stockdale haven't been great so far, so hopefully they can deliver.
I know the All Blacks are nailed on favourites and I don't think we'll have enough to win but you'd have to think Joe has something up his sleeve, given this could well be his last game in charge.
EDIT: The team I saw incorrectly had Farrell on the bench instead of Mc Grath
Think that might have been my fault - I was just suggesting what I would've done!
Too nervous to post predictions. I don't want to tempt fate in any direction
Don't like the way everyone is predicting an England win and writing off Australia.
No man it was on one of the websites reporting on the press conference
God, I hate the Guardian's live sports coverage:
The Ozzies have started well.
Yeah - they look up for it. Not surprising. England will get going soon.
TRY
Australia have been the better team for the first 15mins but that was a good try.
It's so ridiculously distracting how ITV replays have the sound of the replay too rather than live sound.
TRY HARDER
Get owned.
Yes but last 5 min all England and making it count
That was such a clever kick. But that was an awful offload to start it off.
Good conversion too. Big leap when it had looked like Australia were going to steamroll them.
Let’s go!
England finally turning it on at the business end of the tournament. Prayers for an Ireland miracle later tonight.
Good match this. Australia fighting back
What happens if this game ends up equal scores after extra time? Penalty shoot out?
Australia weirdly porous at the back.
Australia are playing like absolute dumb-asses, they are going to be destroyed by australian medias.
Why is Farrell so fidgety taking kicks? I'd never trust him to kick under pressure
He looks like a repeating one second gif.
https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/tournament-rules
Kicking shootout! So unlikely though in Rugby getting to that.
Very unlikely but it's:
Two 10 min halves.
If still drawn the it's 10 mins of sudden death (first score wins)
If still drawn then it's a kicking comp.