Yes, both The Aussies and Welsh looked a bit ordinary and I’m not convinced by England yet, having only played the lowest seeds in the group.
So far, it’s a Kiwi v Saffer final for me
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Yes, both The Aussies and Welsh looked a bit ordinary and I’m not convinced by England yet, having only played the lowest seeds in the group.
Only change there is that I can see the Japs getting through at the expense of Ireland or Scotland, most probably Scotland.
Not ******* at **** all. Generally the games have been very entertaining. OK, so many of the teams are not to the standard of the top 8, but I like my Rugby and how are they going to participate in the growth of the game without including the, so called, lesser teams. Also, as a primarily football fan, Rugby Union is miles more physical/brutal than football, so needs a longer gap between games. I can fully understand, if you don't like Rugby, finding it boring. Then don't watch.Puff Daddy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:28 am This is a ridiculously ****ing drawn out ****ing bore of a ****ing thing , is it not ?
No, wrong on all counts. I actually quite like rugby. My understanding of this Rugby World Cup tournament is, The IRFU want to expand the game to a worldwide audience and in doing so, get more counties and therefore, more people playing the game,I get that, I really do, but to me, seeing one country completely stuff another is not entertainment. As I write this, The Wallabies are making mincemeat of Uruguay. No doubt, at some future date, there will be a levelling out in standards as there has been in football, where even countries like Andorra are no longer, walkovers and this is the very essence of my point, whatever happened in football to achieve that levelling in standards needs to be applied in rugby and in my opinion, quick, for the neutrals to switch on their TV setsDiogenes wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:41 pm Not ******* at **** all. Generally the games have been very entertaining. OK, so many of the teams are not to the standard of the top 8, but I like my Rugby and how are they going to participate in the growth of the game without including the, so called, lesser teams. Also, as a primarily football fan, Rugby Union is miles more physical/brutal than football, so needs a longer gap between games. I can fully understand, if you don't like Rugby, finding it boring. Then don't watch.
You didn't miss a great game tbh.sendô wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2019 11:24 am I thought we were the 11:30 game for some reason.
Arse.
Oh well, BP win and qualified for QF. England at least seem to be building momentum, hopefully we can carry that into the France game, top the group, and put ourselves in a good position for Australia (I assume) in the quarters.
Whilst I agree there are some mismatches during the tournament, its actually very rare that there isn't at least one of the "2nd tier" nations that reach the quarter finals.sendô wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 11:56 am Should make it like the cricket WC and just have teams in it that can actually play Rugby and have half a chance of making the QF.
Even allowing for the Japs coming good, and Argentina being a much better team than a few years back, it's still likely to be England/Scotland/Wales/Ireland/France/Aus/NZ/SA in the QF.