| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread 22:00 - Aug 16 with 50360 views | KeithHaynes |
Our very own RWC thread.
Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England will join 16 other nations as they compete for the ultimate prize in rugby – the Webb Ellis Cup – which was last won by the Springboks in 2019. The opening match of Rugby World Cup 2023 will see hosts France face three-time winners New Zealand on Friday 8th September. The final will take place seven weeks later on Saturday 28th October.
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 18:16 - Aug 21 with 1723 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 16:46 - Aug 21 by jack247 |
We’ve got a nice draw. Try being Scotland or Italy. Plus if we get through the group, we miss out NZ, SA, Ireland and France. |
I'm a bit concerned about Fiji, Georgia and Australia! |  |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 18:19 - Aug 21 with 1721 views | onehunglow |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 18:16 - Aug 21 by JACKMANANDBOY |
I'm a bit concerned about Fiji, Georgia and Australia! |
I’m a bit concerned . |  |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 18:26 - Aug 21 with 1708 views | jack247 |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 18:16 - Aug 21 by JACKMANANDBOY |
I'm a bit concerned about Fiji, Georgia and Australia! |
Fair, but we’d be favourites against two of those and will more than likely escape the group.
If we were in with Ireland and South Africa or France and New Zealand I’d be more concerned! | | | |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 22:22 - Aug 21 with 1652 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 18:26 - Aug 21 by jack247 |
Fair, but we’d be favourites against two of those and will more than likely escape the group.
If we were in with Ireland and South Africa or France and New Zealand I’d be more concerned! |
I'd be behind the sofa. | |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 23:04 - Aug 21 with 1628 views | onehunglow |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 22:22 - Aug 21 by JACKMANANDBOY |
I'd be behind the sofa. |
You have a sofa
Ye Gods | |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:46 - Aug 23 with 1465 views | union_jack |
The biggest question here is what the hell were the Disciplinary Committee thinking??? |  |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:50 - Aug 23 with 1452 views | trampie |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:46 - Aug 23 by union_jack |
The biggest question here is what the hell were the Disciplinary Committee thinking??? |
Australians and English init butt, common bond init, those two crowds way too pally.
Rugby needed Argies or French or Tongans or the like sitting in judgement. |  |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 18:31 - Aug 23 with 1423 views | shingle |
Am currently making a massive tv schedule chart with all the dates and ko times for my 88 year old Rugby mad grandfather which will go up on the wall next to the TV in his nursing home, he thinks he runs the place and the old ladies there do not know about it yet so i guess it is just a matter of time until it all kicks off excuse the pun. | | | |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 22:02 - Aug 23 with 1394 views | union_jack |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:50 - Aug 23 by trampie |
Australians and English init butt, common bond init, those two crowds way too pally.
Rugby needed Argies or French or Tongans or the like sitting in judgement. |
Oh yes, absolutely. I don’t think a camaraderie to rival England and Australia in sport exists anywhere!!
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 08:35 - Aug 24 with 1345 views | Fireboy2 |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 22:02 - Aug 23 by union_jack |
Oh yes, absolutely. I don’t think a camaraderie to rival England and Australia in sport exists anywhere!!
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We are talking about union now UJ, all the unions p!ss in the same pot. |  | | |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:32 - Aug 24 with 1336 views | union_jack |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 08:35 - Aug 24 by Fireboy2 |
We are talking about union now UJ, all the unions p!ss in the same pot. |
I still can’t contemplate any Australian panel, regardless of sport or code wanting to favour England especially when the evidence is so damn obvious! | |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 14:58 - Aug 24 with 1285 views | Fireboy2 |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:32 - Aug 24 by union_jack |
I still can’t contemplate any Australian panel, regardless of sport or code wanting to favour England especially when the evidence is so damn obvious! |
I can for the reason I stated, they all p!ss in the same pot.
I will scratch your back and you scratch mine. | | | |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 15:07 - Aug 24 with 1282 views | onehunglow |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 14:58 - Aug 24 by Fireboy2 |
I can for the reason I stated, they all p!ss in the same pot.
I will scratch your back and you scratch mine. |
We don’t know the mindset of that panel but the “ punishment” was concerning .
It was also rather perverse if we are looking to make game safer | |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 19:07 - Aug 24 with 1240 views | Gwyn737 |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 14:58 - Aug 24 by Fireboy2 |
I can for the reason I stated, they all p!ss in the same pot.
I will scratch your back and you scratch mine. |
Agreed.
I see this more as a tier 1 vs tier 2 thing. | | | |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 20:23 - Aug 24 with 1218 views | Togg |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 18:31 - Aug 23 by shingle |
Am currently making a massive tv schedule chart with all the dates and ko times for my 88 year old Rugby mad grandfather which will go up on the wall next to the TV in his nursing home, he thinks he runs the place and the old ladies there do not know about it yet so i guess it is just a matter of time until it all kicks off excuse the pun. |
Good luck to your Grand Dad. Hope he watches all the games and has a bloody good world cup!! [Post edited 24 Aug 2023 20:25]
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 20:26 - Aug 24 with 1214 views | Togg |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:32 - Aug 24 by union_jack |
I still can’t contemplate any Australian panel, regardless of sport or code wanting to favour England especially when the evidence is so damn obvious! |
The Aussies do not like the whinging Poms and Vise Versa [Post edited 24 Aug 2023 20:28]
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 08:35 - Aug 26 with 1108 views | Togg |
South Africa made a big statement. | | | |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:20 - Aug 26 with 1101 views | onehunglow |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 08:35 - Aug 26 by Togg |
South Africa made a big statement. |
Morning Sir.
Bit of a smack in the eye for the All Blicks.
I’m still working out how Du Toit and Barrett won’t miss the start of the RWC
Biggest thing for me is seeing the Bokke running their backs after pummelling their opponents.
It’s a big country though and now the shameful and quite ludicrous exclusion on non white people playing the game alongside nativeAfrikaners and whites is over we are seeing the huge potential of this nation .
How utterly dumb was Apartheid . I’m hoping Verwoerd ,Vorster ,Botha and chums arecrotting somewhere in the dust bowl in the sky | |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:46 - Aug 26 with 1087 views | max936 |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 08:35 - Aug 26 by Togg |
South Africa made a big statement. |
Massive statement, although the Ref helped them, carded both Scott Barratt and Captain Sam Cane carded in quick succession, yet he allowed the Saffies to get away with a multiple series of consecutive penalties later in that first half and only carded Du toit after a deliberate short arm to the head of Sam Cane that should have been a red card IMO |  |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:48 - Aug 26 with 1086 views | jack247 |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 08:35 - Aug 26 by Togg |
South Africa made a big statement. |
Does this put a bit of context on our B team being spanked by SA? | | | |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 11:05 - Aug 26 with 1081 views | onehunglow |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:48 - Aug 26 by jack247 |
Does this put a bit of context on our B team being spanked by SA? |
Yes and no.
We gifted them several tries but #owed we can’t attack effectively when it’s on.
I was quite shocked at the indiscipline of the ABs but they will be hurting and the next opponent will pay.
It’s a dark day in Dunedin today | |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 11:28 - Aug 26 with 1079 views | jack247 |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 11:05 - Aug 26 by onehunglow |
Yes and no.
We gifted them several tries but #owed we can’t attack effectively when it’s on.
I was quite shocked at the indiscipline of the ABs but they will be hurting and the next opponent will pay.
It’s a dark day in Dunedin today |
That’s a fair answer.
I don’t claim to be a rugby expert, but I’m quietly confident we can go deep in this tournament. We do have a couple of X factor backs who can create chances out of nothing, although I agree, we’re not great constructing attacks as a unit.
Second in the group and it’s an arm wrestle with England or Argentina. Both are beatable.
The backlash is against France! | | | |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 11:40 - Aug 26 with 1076 views | onehunglow |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 11:28 - Aug 26 by jack247 |
That’s a fair answer.
I don’t claim to be a rugby expert, but I’m quietly confident we can go deep in this tournament. We do have a couple of X factor backs who can create chances out of nothing, although I agree, we’re not great constructing attacks as a unit.
Second in the group and it’s an arm wrestle with England or Argentina. Both are beatable.
The backlash is against France! |
Morning Sir
Fact is,we don’t know. It’s sport,it’s exciting,it adds a little light or levity to sometimes life’s more prosaic moments .
Wales could surprise big time; they could be smashed asunder if they don’t do the basics .
Scotland will be the danger team to the big guns.
England ,unless they wise up,will be laughingly humiliated . I hope so as I hate the RFU with a passion .
As regards SA ,it would be nice to see black and white Bokke standing next to each other .
Watching the number of White Bokke at Twickers makes you wonder if any are left in SA .
I only just learned they changed the name of Port Elizabeth to Gquberha,though I bet cruise holidays will still refer to it as it’s former name or P.E. . | |
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| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 11:54 - Aug 26 with 1070 views | max936 |
| The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 11:05 - Aug 26 by onehunglow |
Yes and no.
We gifted them several tries but #owed we can’t attack effectively when it’s on.
I was quite shocked at the indiscipline of the ABs but they will be hurting and the next opponent will pay.
It’s a dark day in Dunedin today |
Game was like a game between men against boys, Saffies attacked from the first whistle smashing the AB's backwards time and time again, this Saffies team is massive in pace and stature, nailed on to win the World Cup in the form they're in at the moment, for me! | |
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