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johnuknow

As an irishman, I find myself supporting England.

No eddy Jones. No pompous English media. If they win, I'm buying an all black shirt though.

johnuknow

Mr Mike wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:20 pm
mrbrownstone wrote: ↑Sat Oct 21, 2023 3:14 pm Who would play Ian Foster?
Brendan Gleeson would have the gravitas to carry it.

Yes and obviously his son Domhall could play token ginge....a bit part I know.

johnuknow

I'm sure it's been mentioned but God that game was shit

johnuknow

Some will see it as a tragedy that SA beat the beautiful French contribution to our game. But hey, Bin was being a good ref for just letting both sides get on with the game and if the price of that is the boks laying all over the rucks and the TMO ignoring the obvious foul play by Kwagga Smith, than...

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Why would they choose. Surely a terrorist unit just blends in?

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England are under no pressure and maybe today's game leaves a mark on SA. I have a weird feeling about this.

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From am atmosphere pov, maybe a little. Should be easy to get tickets. I'd have liked to see a new winner but cest la vie and let's hope for some good games

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I haven’t poster in years. I enjoyed the game. Almost had a heart attack. As a South African supporter, I was ready to be resigned to defeat at many points during the game. The French looked very good when they had the ball, which felt like almost always. I still don’t feel that that confident abou...

johnuknow

From my standpoint, it was always Hobsons choice.
Having seen how things played out, I feel no differently.

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I'd be far more critical of throwing floating passes into the central channels.

Did they not see SA vs Scotland?

Great game yes, but the time spent on scrums was painful

johnuknow

I did think France choked a bit.

johnuknow

I think we have seem the best collection of quarter final games ever.

Expect to pay for it next week

johnuknow

As a neutral, I think France have reason to be annoyed with the ref at the end.

SA are very gutsy and smart. Great game

johnuknow

It's not far off red but I think they might find a reason to leave him off. He was trying to dip I suppose but Antonio was straight and in the opening rounds, a certain red

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Clearly a memo going round RTE to not put off the audience for next week. They make Argentina sound like a real danger to the all blacks

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Toro wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 1:15 pm Everyone has their own definition anyway. Ireland's choke is now a bit like NZ's was, and becomes accumulative.

To be fair, irelands previous chokes were whole tournament and could be spotted well before the coup de grace.

Predicted they would show up here and they did.

johnuknow

It's the job of your opponent to make you choke

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rugga. wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 4:51 am
BlueThunder wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 4:49 am Worse thing to happen to Ireland was winning that series in New Zealand.
100%.

Nah, that was a great achievement for us. I'd take it everyday over a world cup semifinal.

Not a world cup final though

johnuknow

We were shit in 2015

johnuknow

Yes, and as much as I'd like ireland to get to the semifinal, my main desire was to win the contest. it doesn't make much difference if another team gets a weak entry further into the contest. If England or Argentina get their backsides handed to them next weekend, then getting that far isn't going ...

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iarmhiman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:43 pm It's a choke.

We're going to take this on the chin.

Future is bright though. Pigdogs and Welshies have another few years of us kicking their arses.

Low level choke. Much less than some previous efforts

johnuknow

I think you'll find that one has ro raise one's voice in that environment. Quite loud out there.

Again, welcome to the game.

johnuknow

I find it interesting that Porter gave up three scrum penalties with no yellow card. He was trying to wheel the scrum all night. And lying all over rucks and moving constantly in front of penalty kickers. Shit lid and scare stickers too. Not to mention him and Sexton yelling at the ref all game. Si...

johnuknow

England will beat Fiji all day and twice on Sundays (so twice)

France remain the team to beat

johnuknow

You can do better. Lazy man

johnuknow

Well, when even my wife is invested in the match, you know it's a cracker. To beat the number one side in the world while playing for 20 minutes with 14 men, what an achievement. Ireland, i wish this had been the final, because your side deserved to go further in to the competition than to dip out ...

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fishooks15 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:04 pm Well done Kiwis.

That hurts more than all the others I think.

If we had won it we would have won it with our backs to the wall.

Savea is on another planet

Because of Barrett holding us up over the line, perhaps

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Well done NZ, really good stuff. Im proud enough that we have a team that can compete with you at least.

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New Zealand cetainly got the ruck right this time around. Very Joe Schmidt like. Deserved winners.

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For fucks sake. What a joke. Deliberate knock on following a linebreak, it's textbook yellow. Was.it really "deliberate" though? Or was it a reflex action? Honestly I am neutral. I like both teams and wish both teams could win. They both deserve to. But that is just the stupidest law as an impartia...

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Better off going out today. Next week could be massacre if they can field a team

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Frodder wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 3:50 pm I just hope we can keep it respectable

You might win but it'll never be respectable

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freddie111 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:55 pm
johnuknow wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:17 pm
LandOTurk wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:17 am

"you E__lish c__t" to be exact.
"No one ever spoke to me on a rugby pitch like Johnny Sexton did" Jamie Roberts (I assume he means tenderly)
Was he referring to the Lions tour?

Yup, grand off the pitch though.

johnuknow

LandOTurk wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:17 am
Auckman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:13 am Dan Biggar approves and would’ve added “you c—t”
"you E__lish c__t" to be exact.

"No one ever spoke to me on a rugby pitch like Johnny Sexton did" Jamie Roberts (I assume he means tenderly)

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jambanja wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:54 pm
happytramp wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:40 pm We all want hamas and their enablers to be punished... I just can't help but feel this isn't the right way to do it ... F#ck me if I know what is though.
Your input is, of course, greatly appreciated.

And as inciteful as anyone else's here.

johnuknow

It's official, South Africa no longer believe in the plan.

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Grandpa wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:40 am
CM11 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 11:21 am Very hard to get any spite going between these two sides!
You got to stop this.. we're ending up almost family!

The NZ media are giving it a good go I believe....or maybe that's the Irish media.

johnuknow

Exactly why do NZ fans not believe in this team that won the Rugby championship... even with a win over SA? Its bizarre. Your doing finr Cause they got pantsed by SA prior to the RWC, lost in pool play for the first time ever and are playing a team that's had the wood on them for the past few years...

johnuknow

Exactly why do NZ fans not believe in this team that won the Rugby championship... even with a win over SA? Its bizarre. Your doing finr

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France...hometeam, plenty of physicality to deal with the springboks. Ultimate winners. New Zealand....they might be quite good and they will empty themselves here. Beaten finalists. England...Fiji are not great. In fact, I think they are overrated. Argentina....hardest one to call but might be grow...

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