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JM2K6 wrote:
London_Lurker wrote:My 2 year old is in his England top and running up and down the flat shouting “run run run put ball down” with his mini rugby ball.
That's the first half of Johnny May's career

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My 2 year old is in his England top and running up and down the flat shouting “run run run put ball down” with his mini rugby ball.

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London Lurker is describing something that would be closer to a squatter camp in SA. Townships at least have some services and low density housing. East London isn't a big city though, where Mapimpi is from is quite a rural township. Which means it's less visibly awful, but the opportunities are go...

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London Lurker is describing something that would be closer to a squatter camp in SA. Townships at least have some services and low density housing. East London isn't a big city though, where Mapimpi is from is quite a rural township. Which means it's less visibly awful, but the opportunities are go...

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tc27 wrote:Yes bricking it.

As with 2003 will not enjoy the game at all.

2007 was more fun

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Agreed. And a guy like Kolbe still proving all his doubters wrong ;) Kolbe had an armchair ride compared to some of the players I listed. Kolbe's school has produced another Springbok (okay it was Skosan the year before Kolbe was capped), but he started with a WP contract from the get go. What Mapi...

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Winners Adams - top try scorer and put himself about after a rocky start against Fiji. Tomos Williams - couldn't push any harder for the starting berth. Ball - put a difficult couple of years behind him with some strong showings. Carre - the bolter never let us down. Losers Nicky Smith - lost too m...

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https://twitter.com/WelshRugbyUnion/status/1190183785679077376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1190183785679077376&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsport%2Flive%2F2019%2Fnov%2F01%2Fnew-zealand-v-wales-rugby-world-cup-2019-bronze-final-live Lovely froma Japanese fan w...

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Jut when you're starting to not mind the English as much as you used to and thinking some of them are ok, up pops Matt Dawson to remind you his arrogant plum. He's also astonishingly ignorant man for world cup winning player. During the group stages he was on the beeb podcast making lazy comments a...

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ManInTheBar wrote:Wales doing quite well here - have the AB subs disrupted their patterns?

ABs tried to put the hammer down, and play with intensity. But just can't.

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Where is the knock forward? Certainly not from Ioane... the ball is still travelling backwards when it leaves his hands... Nope. It's not a pass so the only consideration is if it goes forward. Not relative to the passer. If it lands (or is caught) closer to the oppo goal line than where it was tou...

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Where is the knock forward? Certainly not from Ioane... the ball is still travelling backwards when it leaves his hands... Nope. It's not a pass so the only consideration is if it goes forward. Not relative to the passer. If it lands (or is caught) closer to the oppo goal line than where it was tou...

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This should be a kick up the arse for Wales to remember how to play heads up rugby, a flavour that has been drilled out of them for a decade by a predictable coach. Please please please go back to "heads up Rugby, play what you see", maybe re-employ Kevin Bowring and find an Arwel Thomas-alike. You...

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It's about a metre forward https://i.imgur.com/J4SyZmN.gif Or a metre backyards when taking into account the players were moving?. Thats not how the law works, its direction from the player. Black taps it forward. It's like the inverse of a pass being legitimately fine because the player passes bac...

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sonic_attack wrote: Bullshit.

The catcher was 3 meters behind him.

So? His hand movement was to tap it forwards, thats the only relevant thing.

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AND-y wrote:How long til the bray-o-meter hits fatal 2003 levels?

Where Wales play a bit of rugby, and then bang on about it endlessly (despite getting knocked out)?

I think the Wales fans are a bit more mature, and less success starved, these days.

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ABs look like they have decided to stop f**king around and play test match rugby for Hansen's last half.

This could get very very ugly for Wales.

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Try.

I'm hoping for a match akin to the 2003 group stage game.

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Plato'sCave wrote:The massive drop off between Wales first and second choice shows how much Gatland is overrated

I have a suspicion that after Gatland leaves your first and second choices will converge to a similar standard... but not in a way you will enjoy.

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Kid A wrote:Wales aren't bothered.

You think Wales have no professional standards, and don't respect the people who have come to watch them play.

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Nice try.

Wales are going to get thrashed. Too many injuries, and Wales rely too much on 1000% intensity, which won't be there today.

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God, I can tell England are in a WC final. My football mad Italian barber (semi was probably the only game of rugby he's watched in a decade) was waxing lyrical about the tactics England should employ and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the teams. Work colleagues I've never heard mention t...

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I think this is the most neutral support we've ever had before...

Not sure I'm comfortable. Its weird.

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Zakar wrote:The answer to a question that nobody asked.

Unless the question was how can we have the 7s circuit indoors for the after work crowd.

It’s actually fine. It’s the rugby we all play with our mates if you’re not playing properly. I see this going alright.

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I think having a rugby code that works indoors could be a decent selling point, simply as a sport trying to create a spectacle. It’s got a NBA vibe. It’s alright entertainment imo. The idea that this will improve participation is an utter joke. If you’re an inner city school without easy access to p...

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I'm in my 50s - progressive used to be a good thing - now it is a mantra for left wing lunatics to use as a shield of credibilty. How on earth did we allow the economic illiterates of the left to hijack this word? Because the right got bored of economic literacy, and basically economics in general,...

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I saw on BT sport the UK premiership had something like 78 players in the world cup. Impressive The Pro14 and SuperRugby both provided 118 of the 620 registered players, the Top 14 78 and Premiership 74. Why even bother making that comparison? The English premiership gives a day-to-day living for t...

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can England maintain the level of excellence they have risen to and carry on the way we have traditionally expected from NZ This is never a realistic aim or expectation for England. They don't have the structure to do this. The best they can hope for is to get their timing just right, which it seem...

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Watched the AB-England semi again. The first half was the highest quality of rugby I can remember seeing, especially the electric first 20 minutes. Both sides attack well, defend well. I was particularly struck by the quality of the breakdown work by both sides. Both sides were very good at backing ...

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He was pretty good at wing in attack, but I wouldn't say amazingly better than FB. Slashing counter-attack against France in the 6Ns for our first try, that lovely try he scored against Australia in the last AIs... quite a few nice bits of individual attacking play from FB spring to mind. That migh...

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sockwithaticket wrote:While true, it's not particularly relevant to Jake over-hyping Daly's contribution to this particular try.

True, but Jake over-hypes everything so I basically ignored that in favour of chatting more generally about Daly as an attacking force from FB.

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I mean let's be clear here: Mo'unga rushes out of the line at Daly, who does really well to beat him, tries to accelerate away and gets scragged by Bridge, but manages to get the offload away to Watson. Watson then outpaces Goodhue, bumps through Beauden (evading Taylor at the same time), and then ...

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I mean let's be clear here: Mo'unga rushes out of the line at Daly, who does really well to beat him, tries to accelerate away and gets scragged by Bridge, but manages to get the offload away to Watson. Watson then outpaces Goodhue, bumps through Beauden (evading Taylor at the same time), and then ...

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le chat wrote:Imagine if we won the world cup beating AUS, NZ and RSA on the way.

And Argentina. Thats all the semi-finalists from last time.

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Did I hear fields of athenry?

If that’s Ireland fans with tickets thanks a lot guys (Seemed to happen during good England play).

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The pricks are going to know are f**king names by the end of this.

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It was fun alright. I suppose the Ashton era looks shit retrospectively now, but compared to the sheer unlovely grimness of the Dimwit years it was like a ray of sunshine. Anyone who couldn't derive hours of pleasure from playing "Guess who will be in the wrong positions this week" is dead inside. ...

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It was fun alright. I suppose the Ashton era looks shit retrospectively now, but compared to the sheer unlovely grimness of the Dimwit years it was like a ray of sunshine. Anyone who couldn't derive hours of pleasure from playing "Guess who will be in the wrong positions this week" is dead inside. ...

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It was fun alright. I suppose the Ashton era looks shit retrospectively now, but compared to the sheer unlovely grimness of the Dimwit years it was like a ray of sunshine. Anyone who couldn't derive hours of pleasure from playing "Guess who will be in the wrong positions this week" is dead inside. ...

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The 76-0 game against Australia in '98 really put a rocket up England.

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