Against South Africa and New Zealand sure. If Wales manage to beat you this will go down as the best Rugby World cup of all time!Originally Posted by Disco
Wales are on a 4 game winning streak against the Springbok.
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Last edited by Queenslander; 26-10-2019 at 11:55 AM.
Wales winning any sport's World Cup would essentially delegitimise the sport in question. There's a reason we don't let them have their own team in cricket.
If you absorb Wales into English Rugby we get to officially keep every child born in PNG and Fiji.
Deal, but only if Bottom Ireland have to take Top Ireland and Scotland.
This is easy. What other borders can we fix?
If you're going to do it you'd have to merge Wales with the Scotch, the bitterness would be off the scale but it's the only way it would work.
Would any Jocks get a game? The bitterness might become internalised if not, and then what's the point of them playing?
Hogg at least.
How do we see the rest of this going? Saffers look to have the line speed and kicking game to frustrate Wales but if they misjudge it the Welsh could cause them real problems in the open.
Springboks are combination of stupidity and cowardice. Wales can win this if they can hold their defence together.
Should have kept my bloody mouth shut.
You beauty!
Not a chance that this Boks team beats England.
Putting in one of our best ever performances to beat the All Blacks only to lose the final would be a very English sporting thing to do.
Not many brain cells present in that Bokke backline.
Do Sith Afreeka do a stupid dance before the game that we can lol smugly at?
We'll probably try actually tackling their 12 for a start.
Underhill and Curry should do a better job shutting down 9-10-12
We'd better have our open top victory parade booked round the entire British Isles.
Including top and bottom Ireland?
Don’t make us break out the big sticks and pitchforks again. You know what happened the last time.
The fields went untended and you all starved to death?
No we ran you out a good while after the genocide attempt. Probably was a good trigger for what was to come though.
Christ, bit deep this for a rugby thread.
Eddie Jones trolling the SEETHING Welsh.
Yes, I enjoyed that.
My dad mentioned England once having played the Netherlands and humped them to the tune of 110 points. having read a bit about that and ended up looking at some other stuff and have come to the conclusion that Jonny May is pretty underrated. Five tries away from being (distant) second on our try scorers list behind Rory Underwood and when I looked at Guscott who's above him Guscott piled on over half of his tries on some properly shit teams like the Dutch, Romania, USA, etc. And yet no waxing lyrical about May, even though this excellent picture of him exists:
I suppose we don't really revere that sort of try scorer, much preferring reliable kickers and big lads steamrollering over the line as part of crushing forward play.
I could not have more bogan hatred for Warren Gatland.Eddie Jones trolling the SEETHING Welsh.
Try scoring wings were the big stars in the amateur era. Campese, Evans, Lomu, Underwood were the big names when I first encountered rugby. Full backs too, Blanco and Gavin Hastings etc. Now it seems to be about rummaging back rowers and chunky 12s.
Didn't May start a bit earlier than most? I'm sure he was one of Lancasters new bods at the last world cup.
Came in to see how ya'lls Rugby thing was going and they're talking about genocide, lawd have mercy.
But enough about Scotland.
The Irish had an even bigger famine a century before but they've forgotten it because they can't blame us.
Something a century before was still you cunts. And something a century before, and another, etc...
The Georgians of course famous for controlling the weather.
In more fun news, the final is also for the Raeburn Shield (rugger buggers lineal championship) which I had never heard of until today, mainly because it doesn't really exist. Its history is predictably tedious but it does throw up Romania beating the Scotch in 1984.
That's fucking bullshit. Far too much respect shown to that glorified flashmob.
Wait? Is that a rule specifically for the haka? Fuck off. I mean that. Fuck right off.
You aren't supposed to cross the half way line, that's all it is. I think the AB's have even paid these for other teams before.
That's much more reasonable.
Worth every penny. Or pence. Whatever it is.
Don't they welcome this shit anyway? They know fine we'll they're doing it to try and put the wind up people and nobody gives a shit and it gets stared down. Or smirked at in Farrell's case.
I remember when the internet first started getting really intricate and the Haka was like this cool novelty thing but I tell you what man nowadays I wish they'd just fuck off and get on with it.
You can't cross the halfway line because the French took the piss in 2007. Which was brilliant.
They won that against the odds too
Teams should just do what Campese did. Ignore it completely and continue to warm and throw the ball about.
I've pondered that myself before, that maybe utter disinterest is the way forward.
England did it. New Zealand don't mind it.
World Rugby conclusion is to hand out a fine.
Do they do it during the scheduled warm up time or is there like a whole extra 2-3 minutes tacked onto that for the Presentation of The Haka™
They do it after the anthems so I guess it extends the pre-kickoff routine by a minute or two.
Probably the best way to deal with the Haka would be to just crack on with match preparations and ignore them. The seethe would be beautiful.
Huddle up.
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