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It's weird. I think winning earns your region an additional qualification slot for next season's competition. Not sure where that leaves Spain, if they pull off the upset.

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Hate the effectively ringfenced World League. Lots of question marks about the 2nd tier. On board with the 24-team cup. The likely additional teams aren't really worse than minnows this year. No bye weeks, and a tighter, more consistent schedule. 4th round of pool games exchanged for round of 16. No...

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Jones will almost certainly play 10 for Leicester, so perhaps best for her to feel her way back into test rugby at centre, and maybe look to expand her role next season.

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A win for the French D. Must have made about 200 tackles.

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That's smooth!

Big finish to come!

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That's dumb as hell

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Big test of the French fitness. So many tackles.

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France just about holding off waves of NZ pressure, and took their opportunities very well. NZ not quite slick enough when it matters. Good match.

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Some lovely French interplay

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Holy shit, what a first phase move, France!

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Great wheels, Boulard

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France giving themselves an extra singalong post haka. Interesting.

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Canada continue to be an impressive outfit, relative to resources.

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Big result for Spain, holding off a late flurry from Fiji.

I thought Fiji would win that, but Spain played a smart game and worked tirelessly.

Some great matches today. Some absolute crackers tomorrow as well, surely.

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Spain putting in a great shift against Fiji so far.

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Akkerman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 7:19 pm Why not go for a female coach, like the soccer team ? Surely the time has come ?

In terms of experience there aren't many options. I think they wanted to play it relatively safe with the home world cup in the sights. Can see it happening in the next cycle.

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John Mitchell is apparently joining up with the Red Roses ahead of tomorrow's match.

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Quins89 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 19, 2023 12:27 pm Teams out for England!

Martin starts at Lock. First start in a semi against South Africa!

That's a big call. England going for an extra bit of beef to start.

He's not quite been able to put his best out for England this year, but what a time to do it if he has a big game.

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NZ/France should be a banger, but I'm really interested in Canada/Wales. Wales have been making good progress, and should push Canada pretty hard. Wouldn't be a big upset if they nicked it.

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Maybe just the camera, but de GOATe looks absolutely massive!

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Red Roses vs Wallaroos Friday, Wellington. 1900 (local), 0700 (UK) https://preview.redd.it/xdvmfjjsnpub1.jpg?width=768&auto=webp&s=a86ff07742524a641d4efda1d66f60f33e14accd A strong, but not full strength England team. Some less experienced players here and there. A first start for Wyrwas. Rowland ba...

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Apparently Cube International director Andy Moss resigned a few days ago.

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Ah shit, that's terrible news. They've been playing well so far in the cup, and things sounded quite positive with the funding deal.

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Take your points in knockout rugby, kids. Rule 1.

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Good fight

Samoa are arguably the team that will benefit most from this series

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This has actually been a decent recovery from Samoa. They looked dead on their feet not long ago.

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Samoa are out of steam. Gonna be a long last quarter.

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How is that not lost forward?

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message #2527204 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 1:30 pm The crowd numbers look pretty disappointing for international competition?

They were hardly going to draw numbers for Samoa vs USA women's rugby in Stellenbosch

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Samoa putting in a great shift so far

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Scotland's lineout and maul is enough to see off the power game of South Africa, 17-31.

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Auckman wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 3:57 pm Saffas destroying the Scotland scrum but they don’t have much else.

They've got Hele!

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Scotland and SA looks keenly contested.

Fiji hammer Colombia 67-13.

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Italy much more clinical than Japan, who'll be pretty disappointed.

Fiji, as expected, look too big and too fast for Colombia.

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I was just throwing together a thread when I saw you'd beat me to it, so I'll just post mine here too. Sad that the World Cup pool stages are done, and still want to overdose on rugby? Well the biggest international women's rugby competition is taking place across 3 locations over the next month, wi...

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Game of the tournament. No question.

I was bigging them up pre-tournament, but that result blows everything out the water.

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Again, this bloody commentator's doing all she can to spoil this potentially great game :thumbdown: The female commentator is great. I'm not in the slightest bit "woke", I'm anti woke. But when I hear people complain about her I only think maybe the wokies have a point. She's bang on. I think the b...

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Kabeya and L.Packer out

Hibbert-Jones and Sing in

Two 9s + MacDonald, like the world cup again.

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Meg Jones not contracted by GB Sevens

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Who's Kelsey Clifford? Does signing for Saracens automatically get you selected (ahem... Carson, Bridger...)? It helps... People often say similar about the men's team and signing for certain clubs. To be fair to her, she's come through Sarries' system and England's pathway. Pretty experienced alre...

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