Absolutely get fucked to France for inflicting late start times on everywhere else in the world. 3am is bullshit.

Monye needs to calm down a little. Yeah Ford is a good player mate, but all he's done is throw a pass against a dog tired defence from the worst team at the RWC.

@Bones Looking forward to the "Jase" Ryan press conference!

@pakman crusaders game right? 😊

With heartfelt apologies to all Georgian and Portuguese who may read this… I really thought it was a fair result... But obviously any draw blows chunks

yes, classy.

Are there really no better wings in Tonga (NZ, Oz) than Kata?

Well, I guess on the wing he doesn't have to pass ...

Samoa had the players to easily win that and should have. They seem to be incredibly poorly coached and not at all in unison.

Dewi Lake? What a great name!

@Kiwiwomble Clear penalty. You can't have more than 15 players in the playing area during play.

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@cgrant said in RWC Week 2: England v Japan:

A win is a win but it was more a poor performance from the Japanese than a great English one. The game against Samoa should be interesting.

Undoubtedly. We’ve been lucky two games in a row now. I’d hope that we have learned some lessons around keeping the ball in hand and in particular not kicking away possession in an attacking position. I am not holding my breath.

@taniwharugby said in RWC Week 2: Springboks v Romania:

Interesting seeing the differing mind set of fans (via Social Media at least)

Bok fans praising the win over Romania, congratulating the team: NZ beat Namibia, fans saying it was only Namibia, we were shit, we didnt win by enough.

Bok passing grade was to end Romania game with a better points difference than Ireland v Romania.

Scratch team did that apparently without serious injuries. So we’re satisfied.

Robert Kitson in the Observer today:
“It was against the run of play, then, when the ball was moved wide right to Rees-Zammit who chipped ahead and regathered smoothly to put Wales on the board after nine minutes. The winger cheekily marked the moment with a Cristiano Ronaldo-style celebration which, predictably, did not go down terribly well with everyone present.”

Their cynicism is battle-earned. I admire it. Even, maybe especially, at scrums.

I just want other teams to get a fair chance to fuck their scrum up.

[edit especially the boks next week but also France in the QFs.]

This game made to look bad by a poor tmo who seemed to be desperate to take centre stage. Fernandez and Dittus looked good for Chile but Samoa just too sharp.

@antipodean

Ah! I got the wrong end of the stick. I thought you were against it in principle but you just hate Squidge.

As you were then. 😀

Eventually got through the replay. Had about 8 goes at it over the week.

Upshot is I'm not completely pissed off at Carley.

I do think his errors favoured Wales, but don't think it was Paddy O'Brien / Wayne Barnes level fuck ups.

But they were fuck ups, and influenced the result.

Still struggling with his cards or lack thereof, and Quick Draw McGraw on the Fiji one. If it was worth a tallow it was worth a PT.

Couldn't find @MiketheSnow's knock on in that scrum that was penalised.

Upshot is I think Fiji can feel aggrieved.

@MiketheSnow
https://thesilverfern.com/post/751-thrilling-to-start-week-two-fra-v-uru/

I decided to re-watch this game to have a closer look at the lineouts. As per previous comments about not using Vaa'i as a lineout target, he was used as a lifter with one of the locks to lift the other lock. Examples being the first lineout of the game, and the lineout after Mo'unga made the try-saving tackle on Penaud. That pod worked well because of the extra height of the lifters. What was of more concern was how little the ABs challenged the French lineout. On one of the few occasions we did, the French lost the ball.

Christie wasn't the only ginga who had a shocker. Newell made de Groot look co-ordinated trying to roll away from a tackle. Zero impact.

Beauden actually played well for 60 mins until he and Mo'unga thought that the best option when chasing the game was to kick the ball away.