The World of Rugby Thread

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Originally Posted by The Merse

No, I didn't want him turning out for Scotland. Rather would see him play for Fiji.

Not a fan of 'project players'. Now Nel and Strauss are in the dark blue, I'll support them and even trot out the McNel/Jock McStrauss stuff, but they oughtn't be there.

Junior Bulamakau will likely be capped - correctly. Been here since he was 10 as his dad was in the army and has a weird Weegee-Fiji mix of an accent, that'll do. Even Visser was ok - there's no real Dutch test standard team to speak of, whilst the likes of Big Jim are the kind of English you want - like me, Midlands schooled from a Scots/Irish heavy area, first generation to be down here, plenty of pics in Scotland tops as a kid shared in a programme... But the likes of Henry Pyrgos probably oughtn't... It's too complex to govern as really it's a question of whether the lad identifies with the nation, and that's hard to qualify.

Anyway, Naiyarovoro shouldn't play for Australia or Scotland really. He probably will be international standard though - watched about 10 games of his last year and the man can finish like a bulldozer.

Cheika was a cunt for getting involved and trying to unsettle him before he'd arrived, not for capping him so much.

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The ARU and the Waratahs have played a part in this as well which is shit because he'll probably never play for the Wobs again with this current batch of young wingers coming through at the moment.

From the outside looking in it does look like a cynical cap and scrap to prevent him from being available for Scotland.

I remember England playing the Dutch team in a World Cup qualifier (post professionalism). That was a great idea. Think it was a two legger and ended 100-0 in both.

Wiki says it was a three team qualifying group between us, Italy and Holland, with two to qualify. What a genius idea that was.

Glasgow get a bonus point victory, Naiyarovoro debuts, Dunbar makes his comeback and Edinburgh beat Ulster.

Now Johnny Gray and Ross Ford have their bans rescinded on appeal and so are free to play tomorrow.

The gods are smiling on us. Feel good about tomorrow.

Fuck off, Wales.

Jesus, that was a match. Cuthbert continues to be a huge weakness for them. His positioning and decision making has always been poor, and somewhat made up for by John Davies and Leigh Halfpenny, but he was horrendously exposed at times today and his handling was incredibly poor. They missed Webb's sniping today more than at any other time in the WC so far as well.

Du Preez. :rasta:

The number of try scorers in that SA team is ridiculous. The new generation continue the trend. Threats all over the place, with the ability to affect the flow of a match when they're at a big deficit in terms of possession and territory (not referring to todays game obviously), it creates a frightening prospect.

Still some deficiencies there mind you - if you move ball around quick enough and deny the disruptors and trufflers you've got a chance.

The white players should really sit the haka out.

That defence fucking hell France.

Smashing performance by the AB's. The passing of the All Blacks we epics, quick hands and quick feet, well played.

I see the Welsh shit the bed just for a change. Game raising wankers.

The French rolled over quicker than May 1940 etc.

Ireland are looking shaky here.

This is superb. I do like Argentina. I'd been impressed by what I'd seen of Ireland up to now though.

Argentina look like scoring a try every time they have it.

As is usually the case, I'd like to say fuck Argentina but it would be pretty awesome if they put the Micks out.

The Facebook reaction on this is hilarious.

Argentina :cool:

Seven more points will see Argentina safe. Not convinced they'll get it though.

If this happens then in all likelihood it'll be an all Southern Hemisphere World Cup from here on in.

That was grim.

If I'd known that was going to happen I'd have went out for the lols.

The Argies are still filth, but lol. Why do the Micks/Welsh even turn up for these?

To be fair, we're missing Sexton, O'Connell, O'Brien, O'Mahony, Payne and Bowe went off injured in the first twenty minutes too. Earls is never a replacement for O'Driscoll either.

We simply don't have the depth to cope with injuries. Madigan, Henry, Earls etc. are alright - not spectacular. I'm not sure what Dave Kearney really does either.

Very disappointing, overall.

Wales chucked it away at the death and France got humped by nearly 50 points yesterday, this might be the second best WC yet. :drool:

What a useless cunt. 50-13.

Scotlol.

Best first half of rugby I've seen from Scotland in a decade. The defeat is going to fucking smart a bit.

Come on, Scotland. Stop pissing about.

What?

Money has swapped hands here.

Penalty not a yellow card.

Hard luck Scotland.

Yep, ref threw the game. Give the cunt a clap.

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Originally Posted by Queenslander

Penalty not a yellow card.

Hard luck Scotland.

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Lol, his hand was already there.

It's not rugby league you have to make an attempt to catch the ball.

The TMO had no business calling that back though.

This could be a pretty interesting final twenty minutes. Nice try for Scotland.

Scotland just aren't very good at stopping tries.

"Nice try" probably covers it from here, just not in the sense you'd want in rugby.

Fucking hell.

Well played Scotland. :(

Scotland are going to Scotland it again.

Australia are outrageously sloppy. Doubt anybody would have predicted Scotland leading with five minutes to go.

Fuck me fair play to the Scots here. A Scotland/Argentina semi would be lovely.

This is great, smashing stuff from the jocks.

Lol at NH rugger though if Scotland are our most accomplished representatives, when was the last time you could say that?

What we need now is some outrageous reffing to get the Aussie bile up. :drool:

Silly fuckers.

Ah well.

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Originally Posted by Waffdon

Scotland are going to Scotland it again.

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It was never going to be any other way.

We didn't deserve to win that game.

Amazing

I know nothing about rugby, don't even know the rules, but that was disgustingly inevitable, no?

What did they do to give the penalty away?