RWC warmup - England v Wales
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Just before England lost the first of their team to the bin I was thinking both teams were as poor as each other, but England have been the better of the two in the last 20 mins.
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@Victor-Meldrew Everyone’s known he is an absolute grub for years, but England kept picking him and indulging him.
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Without the slightest bit of arrogance, I think SA, Oz or the AB's would put 50+ points on these teams today.
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One of the weirdest games I've seen for years.
Think Borthwick will take more out of that than Gatland, but both teams have a heck of a lot of work to do.
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@sparky said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
How can Wales not beat a side with 12 men on the field?
Absolutely dumbfounded
Dumbest shit I’ve seen since Wales thought it would be a good idea to play 7s against Fiji in Nantes
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Farrell has got plenty of previous but also lots of previous that he somehow got off scot-free on. Needs to do some proper bird. Time and time again, he’s shown us who is, at some point you’ve got to believe him. Both of these are going to cleansed in the tourney, just a matter of who and when.
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Have to be a 3 match minimum with his history, surely?
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Didn’t he get a ban reduced once before because ‘past good behaviour’ or something?
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@sparky said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
Didn’t he get a ban reduced once before because ‘past good behaviour’ or something?
That’s it exactly. Previous only counts if it was sanctioned. I guess because if that wasn’t the case it would be bringing the judiciary into question.
God forbid that.
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@KiwiMurph said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
@sparky said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
How can Wales not beat a side with 12 men on the field?
They were also up by 8 at one point when Eng had 12 men
Yeah. I think the score when we were down 3 men was 7-7?
I really don’t know who takes more from that shit show. Gatland or Borthwick. If Wales had have played with England’s physicality, they’d have won that game and if England’ had played with Wales’ ambition they would have won by 20 points. The Welsh guys ran at gaps, our boys ran into contact. Says everything about how we intend to play.
Oh and discipline. Did I mention that before?
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@KiwiMurph said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
If this Georgian ref gets a knockout game.... fuck me dead.....
Why?
Aside from one dubious YC I thought he had a great game
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@taniwharugby said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
Have to be a 3 match minimum with his history, surely?
If it’s not, then World Rugby do not give a fuck about player welfare and we can forget all the changes to the contact area
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
@KiwiMurph said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
If this Georgian ref gets a knockout game.... fuck me dead.....
Why?
Aside from one dubious YC I thought he had a great game
A couple of decisions aside, I felt he communicated very well, followed through with the warnings he gave and pretty much had zero tolerance for infringement, but without any detriment to the game being played.
This is, in principle, what we’ve all been crying out for and now he gets shit for dishing out too many cards?
Bizarre.
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
@taniwharugby said in RWC warmup - England v Wales:
Have to be a 3 match minimum with his history, surely?
If it’s not, then World Rugby do not give a fuck about player welfare and we can forget all the changes to the contact area
Yeah but… Zander Fagerson. Much more dangerous than what Farrell did. Had previous sanction for exactly the same thing and yet…?
