THE RUGBY WORLD CUP THREAD

Quite looking forward to this.

Cmon Ireland.

A big hubub among the greater London rugby hard working families today on radio 4, with resonance to our own beloved rugger man Jimmy, and his love of hard working families shown by his ever growing hard working family enclosure.

Apparently these heroic hard working families want to take their hard working babes in arms to the rugger world cup, or as sven used to say, WORLD cup. A perfect selfie for the better off hard work families to show their undying love for The game and a memorable keepsake for these hard working babes when he/she/it grows up hopefully.
The official rugby ticket louts have decided that babes should have their own seats and pay for them. The hard working families are not happy, and say a papoose should be enough. Some others say they deserve a free seat for the babe, who is likely to be so hard working, with a family of their own. Oh, and one for the nanny.

I think they all deserve eachother. A two horse race where I care not who screws whom.

I've seen Fiji play before against Devon and Cornwall at the County ground, not a lot of people know that! Come on you Red Rose boys!

sufferedsince 68 wrote:

I've seen Fiji play before against Devon and Cornwall at the County ground, not a lot of people know that! Come on you Red Rose boys!

1970, I was there, 14 years old, they beat us 17-3 iirc, most of the team was drawn from the Chiefs.

The current Fiji team are a tad weak in the set piece but have a lot of fire power in all phases of broken play, if we make a poor start and they get their noses in front we could be in big trouble.

I Cant see any other team winning the world cup except the All Blacks. They are too good. As for England i hope they do it but i cant see it sadly.

No idea who are the big teams this time around, bar the obvious All Blacks, given my TV poverty. Our father saw them in Exeter with his brother in the 60/70s. A big rugby history in our family. We were banished to shopping with our mothers that day. Not best pleased. Never known such crowds in the Cowick st area. They returned a bit tipsy, especially our Uncle.
The touts and louts are having  a field day I see today. God bless the Olympics and global sport eatathons/hotelathons.

Angry wrote:

I Cant see any other team winning the world cup except the All Blacks. They are too good. As for England i hope they do it but i cant see it sadly.

Nah, the Brazil of rugby, too easy to say I told you so, I bet you a pound against a handy piece of computer code that someone else wins it this year. Why not us? If we hit the ground running we may get carried away, if we stutter and start and scrape through the group then the semis may be out of reach, momentum is what we need.
Roar.

What a load of wank that opening ceremony was, as all of them are.

Just set up the TV.
Wilko trying to wear a beard. I've seen 12 year olds with better efforts.
Someone in between the Windsor boys not singing their mum's anthem. To the tower with him.

First half lasted 51 mins instead of 40 due to TV evidence etc, a football half by same formula would
last an hour blimey?

Elias wrote:

First half lasted 51 mins instead of 40 due to TV evidence etc, a football half by same formula would
last an hour blimey?

The stopping every five minutes for tv evidence is Bollocks, leave the decisions to the Ref.

Like watching paint dry up at HHP.Switched it off to do something useful.
Formuleic athlete stuff from regimented hour glass fatties.  Not pretty, not worth watching.

Second half not to bad.

Sir John Hawkins wrote:

Like watching paint dry up at HHP.Switched it off to do something useful.
Formuleic athlete stuff from regimented hour glass fatties.  Not pretty, not worth watching.

Come down the Rec on sunday morning and try and keep up with the kids. The game has totally changed since I and possibly you played.

SJH = GG + 15 years I reckon.

Whatever the exactitude is SJH is definintely older than GG by about a schlep.

Don't care what I have on Anyone on here.


I train youth Rugby and its there is NO scope for fat lads to have a breather anymore.

Argyle could take sessions at Brickfields if Adams is serious about being fittest team in league.

Wasn't pretty but job done, onwards and upwards. Telly reffing was shite and never mind the importance of the result we mustn't forget the importance of a spectator sport being pleasing to watch, that was feckin annoying. When the ref gave the fujian try then disallowed it ten minutes later was a feckin joke, ref gives a try, it's a try, move on.

Japan just beat the South Africans!!!

unbelievable result for Japan.

Amazing result and a great match

i'm going to have to watch the game in full on itv player in a mo only caught the last 10mins

Japan were excellent. South Africa made a lot of mistakes but it was a genuine match.

Japan were fantastic, total commitment deserved the win, a really great game.

french looking ominous

All Blacks look the team to beat, hardfought win over another very good team in Argentina, seen some great Rugby this weekend.