Rugby World Cup

The Boks look good

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Originally posted by Black_Swan

The Boks look good

Shame. England will take a spanking on Friday, if we play as badly as we did yesterday

so far so good with some excellent games including the top sides. major shock seeing the french lose to the argies tho!

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Originally posted by earlyriser

so far so good with some excellent games including the top sides. major shock seeing the french lose to the argies tho!

It wasn't a shock. Argentina had beaten France in 4 out of their previous 5 meetings. I don't call that much of a shock.

nz favourites every time. every time we choke.

Go AB's! lol.

the argentines arent a bad team

i mean, theyve never really been thrashed like other teams have (from memory, could be wrong)
its just their location and local continent comps arent as good as the rest of the world..

if they had more play with the big teams of the game, theyd be a better force to battle with..

if only they had changed the tri nations to a 4 nations comp with a south american team....that be cool..

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Originally posted by Latino

the argentines arent a bad team

i mean, theyve never really been thrashed like other teams have (from memory, could be wrong)
its just their location and local continent comps arent as good as the rest of the world..

if they had more play with the big teams of the game, theyd be a better force to battle with..

if only they had changed the tri nations to a 4 nations comp with a south american team....that be cool..

would be cool but not a chance aye... the travel for the kiwis and Aussies would be a killer... the weekly travel to and from SA for Our super 12 and national squads already is pretty much a killer, but with what SA did in the tri-nations by sending a 2nd string side our way may have an opening for the Argies... But i reckon NZRU and ARU should help develop the Pacific nations they are right on our doorstep afterall...

But second round coming up hopefully the big three get more of a challenge, otherwise the knock out phase is going to shit...

argentina continued their good form beaten georgia yesterday 33-3!

Italy v Romania, Marseille, USA v Tonga, Montpellier, Japan v Fiji, Toulouse, all today!

go tonga! do do do lets all back tonga, do do do lets tonga cross the floor!

the all blacks are going to make it!!! for sure!!!

no-one should be surprised by the argies - they've been getting better year on year, and most of their players play in french teams. there's even been suggestions that they should join the six nations!

also, is it me or are the 'minnows' playing rally well so far? anyone else surprised by the likes of namibia?

@ sic - yeah i know....sucks, id like to see the wallabies and allblacks play the argies more often, and see our teams play in the SouthAmerican continent....totally different environment!
i mean, the ARU and the NZRU can afford it im sure and we kick the SA out for sending shit teams to our shores..

we should help out the south pacific nations more...and play matches against them more often, but theres alot of things that will not allow them to

@ earlyriser - im backing most of the small teams....except when they play OZ :P

England will be home before the postcards. Still cant decide who will be runner up. Dont think it will be the springboks, just not convinced about them. Wallabies probably. Wales will need a miracle to get through.

The "shit" team S-A sent to your shores nearly embarassed you. And there is no way in hell that Oz wouldn't have done exactly the same thing, in terms of guarding top players in a competition they'd already lost, had they been in the same position. I do think though that the Argies should be included - would be nice if they could be based in S-A for the competition making the travelling more fair to all teams.

I can quite safely say england should not unpack their suitcases as they will be flying home very soon.
That was shocking, no surprise south africa pounded them

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Originally posted by absent

The "shit" team S-A sent to your shores nearly embarassed you.

wrong on both account, they're not on our shores, they're in France....and they did embarrass us.

I didn't watch the game, thank god, but a 36-0 white wash.

defeat was expected, but to not even get on the score sheet....a disgrace!!

to be honest, a thrashing was always on the cards. aside from the front row, they have an inferior lineout, backrow is decidedly average, mike catt clearly is just not capable of leading a side from first-five, farrell a questionable selection at inside centre, and aside from lewsey and robinson, the backline lacks test standard players.

i was quite pleased we beat wales, didnt think it was going to happen before the game started though.....and if we did, i thought it would have been alot tougher than what it was

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Originally posted by Latino

i was quite pleased we beat wales, didnt think it was going to happen before the game started though.....and if we did, i thought it would have been alot tougher than what it was

dont flatter yourselves you werent that good.

I haven't seen a whole lot of rugby, so I was just wondering if rugby was as big as football in Europe? I did see a good bit of Australian rules football back in the day (thats similar to rugby isn't it?), but they don't really show that here any more. I did enjoy watching it though.

some big games this weekend - does anyone see ireland beating argentina to qualify for the quarters?

(oh, and england v australia. had to happen i suppose. i just hope its a good match...)