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Gwenno

Group of death produces another classic This has been the most entertaining and closest group in WC history. Never before have we had 5 teams with such close results. The only blow out result was, amusingly enough, Wales demolishing Australia. Yet Wales didn't get a BP for that. Because winning was...

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The end to that game was very like how Italy defeated Wales in Cardiff last year. A small Corinthian part of my spirit was warmed by that result, even though we lost.

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henry wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 10:15 pm
Frodder wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 10:13 pm Beating Portugal with a BP with our reserve team suddenly doesn't look that bad
Or does just about scraping past Fiji make us look a lot worse?

Winning by 18 - it shows the danger of switching off - it happened against Georgia too.

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Thing is I still love Fiji but they were naive, or got rattled, not sure what is, but they are flakey, in a Welsh way

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Portugal must be pretty fit!

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TheFrog wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:57 pm
korben_dallas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:54 pm
Frog Flair wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:53 pm That win is for Raguebi. He would have loved to see that.
Wait is he dead??
Sadly yes.

To Raguebi

I will raise a glass of Dão in memory.

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Well well

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Tadjer still upright and erect

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Fiji are frightened of red

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Another!

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I love this game. One team is running it from everywhere and the other one is depending on the set piece dominance and hoping to win penalties. Trouble is Portugal as a team running it from everywhere.

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I want Portugal to win, but I also want Australians to go out so Fiji can get four tries and still lose then that’s fine.

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Portugal drew with Georgia, Georgia pushed Fiji the whole 80, maybe an equally close result tonight?

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How are we feeling about Argentina? Looked a bit tasty and dangerous today. Generating some confidence and momentum ahead of next week? Their backline was much better today. It's a 50:50 call We'll be under the cosh for large parts of the game I'd imagine. Hopefully we can hang tough and throw enou...

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S4C does better coverage, even if just to avoid Alfie.

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Me siento mal

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Da iawn diolch wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 10:57 pm
BecomingtheMoon wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 7:57 pm To be fair, we usually have 7 or 8 frontlines out of the tournament at this stage. Doing well on the injury front I'd say
If only Tomos could get injured, so we could call up ... checks notes ... Dwayne Peel.

I now realise that Tomos only looked good when Pivac made Gareth Davies look bad.

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Has Porter got an insulin pump? What is the rectangular box on the left side of his abdomen?

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I love Scotland, but…….ymlaen Iwerddon!

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Spirit of 2015 bois! We knocked England out of their World Cup with sticking plaster and magic sponge.

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Another team we didn’t beat, just scored more points than them.

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When you win as much opponent’s lineout as we did why didn’t we kick for touch more?

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C’mon Sam Costelow!

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This is why people hate scrum halves.

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https://youtu.be/Ab3qMJDVvhk?si=RHRH1JNI20go4DHA
A point well made.

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Makes you wonder what tîm Gatland would have put out if Georgia had beaten Fiji at the end - a weaker one because no one could catch us, or a stronger one because of the greater threat?

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No doubt if I’m wrong, I’ll be told, but aren’t the tier 1 teams in the groups decided far in the past, based on WR position at the time? The fact that since then, some teams have risen high, eg Ireland and France, while others have fallen, eg Wales and Oz, couldn’t have been predicted, and so if we...

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Thr amount of likrly latin derived words in Welsh is interesting.

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I’m 4% Neanderthal

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bessantj wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 1:15 pm Instead of the offending team losing a player the opposition gain a player 15v16.

If that player is the ref!

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Argentina or Japan then ?? Not really fussed on either, I'm not sure its going to matter much both seem to have critical issues we can target Yeah. Can beat both and lose to both. Suppose you’d prefer Argentina on form and Japan on world ranking. But Christ, not a lot between them to my untrained e...

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¡Vamos Pumas!
Ymlaen Patagonia!

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My main take from that is that the throw was not straight = scrum to Ireland, and victory to Ireland anyway, so forget everything else.

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Are the laws re water only usually adhered to by teams, or universally broken and ignored, like not taking a penalty kick for touch from the mark?

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We’ll see more ball carriers head butting shoulders.

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I had a great time in Bordeaux with some Irish lads after our Fiji match

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bessantj wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:51 pm
Jeff the Bear wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:38 pm
Gwenno wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:28 pm
https://youtu.be/ixwLbpK8pFE?si=fxHujiei09Krdg03
Is this it?
No, there was another one after this. They get Tim Hora on and talk Australia for a solid 16 minutes as if there wasn't another team on the field.
Is this it?

Tell me again, who were Australia playing?

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Here it is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=paedRKCshVY Dry your eyes, lads. That's nothing, if you can (I don't know if it's geo locked), watch this: https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby-world-cup-2023/300968847/the-breakdown-episode-on-tuesday-september-26 This is the Scrum V equivilant show in NZ. Th...

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It used to be said, perhaps when we were cockier than we should have been in the 70s, that other teams never beat Wales, they just score more points than them. Well, it definitely seems as the reverse now applies: We only beat Fiji through luck and a bent ref. We should have beaten Portugal by much ...

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