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Offline lovejoy

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #240 on: October 01, 2015, 10:08:35 PM »
I'd say it 50:50.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #241 on: October 02, 2015, 12:37:27 AM »
Good display Fiji. The Welsh failure to get a bonus points makes it very simple. Lose on Saturday and we're out, win and we're probably about 99% certain of going through.

It's a pipe dream. England have absolutely no chance of beating the Aussies. Zero.

Reallly? All of the bookmakers have us as slight favourites for the match. You're going to make an absolute fortune on Saturday night

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #242 on: October 02, 2015, 07:13:57 AM »
It's a shame Fiji's two key players are out today, it would be great if they could beat Wales. Other than England's performance at the weekend it also annoys me that Wales are being lauded. They only won, because we completely lost our gameplan.

They crossed the gain line once all evening, scored a try and kicked the penalties we presented them with, somehow that made them number 2 in the world.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #243 on: October 02, 2015, 07:15:59 AM »
Good display Fiji. The Welsh failure to get a bonus points makes it very simple. Lose on Saturday and we're out, win and we're probably about 99% certain of going through.

It's a pipe dream. England have absolutely no chance of beating the Aussies. Zero.

What a load of bollocks.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #244 on: October 02, 2015, 08:42:34 AM »
Good display Fiji. The Welsh failure to get a bonus points makes it very simple. Lose on Saturday and we're out, win and we're probably about 99% certain of going through.

It's a pipe dream. England have absolutely no chance of beating the Aussies. Zero.

Reallly? All of the bookmakers have us as slight favourites for the match. You're going to make an absolute fortune on Saturday night

It's utter nonsense. Don't get me wrong I think it's a very close call, but to say England have no chance is wrong. It's very important the forwards turn up and dominate the set piece.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #245 on: October 02, 2015, 08:51:12 AM »
Good display Fiji. The Welsh failure to get a bonus points makes it very simple. Lose on Saturday and we're out, win and we're probably about 99% certain of going through.

It's a pipe dream. England have absolutely no chance of beating the Aussies. Zero.

Yeah, 4 wins in the last 5 meetings is the sort of record that suggests it's impossible...

Back in the real world we need to dominate their front 5 from the very start and try to get the ball wide as early as possible to get Pocock and Hooper running all over the pitch, if we can tire those 2 out they lose a lot of their advantage at the breakdown.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #246 on: October 02, 2015, 08:56:09 AM »
Good display Fiji. The Welsh failure to get a bonus points makes it very simple. Lose on Saturday and we're out, win and we're probably about 99% certain of going through.

It's a pipe dream. England have absolutely no chance of beating the Aussies. Zero.

Yeah, 4 wins in the last 5 meetings is the sort of record that suggests it's impossible...

Back in the real world we need to dominate their front 5 from the very start and try to get the ball wide as early as possible to get Pocock and Hooper running all over the pitch, if we can tire those 2 out they lose a lot of their advantage at the breakdown.

we said pretty much the same about Hooper and Pocock in the pub yesterday as we watched Fuji v Wales...

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #247 on: October 02, 2015, 09:29:31 AM »
Morgan destroyed them at the scrum in the Autumn international last year, here's hoping he can do that again.
The bread stealing convicts might be just a little too consumed with the thought of putting England out of their own World Cup and take their eyes off the ball as well.
Looks a better side with Joseph back in the side (good to see another local boy doing good, his Mum taught my daughter at school)

Let's fuck the fuckers.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #248 on: October 02, 2015, 01:57:36 PM »
Good display Fiji. The Welsh failure to get a bonus points makes it very simple. Lose on Saturday and we're out, win and we're probably about 99% certain of going through.

It's a pipe dream. England have absolutely no chance of beating the Aussies. Zero.

Yeah, 4 wins in the last 5 meetings is the sort of record that suggests it's impossible...

Back in the real world we need to dominate their front 5 from the very start and try to get the ball wide as early as possible to get Pocock and Hooper running all over the pitch, if we can tire those 2 out they lose a lot of their advantage at the breakdown.

Yep it's almost a paradox, we need to crush them in the forwards but we need to get the ball wide to do that.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #249 on: October 02, 2015, 01:58:09 PM »
Morgan destroyed them at the scrum in the Autumn international last year, here's hoping he can do that again.
The bread stealing convicts might be just a little too consumed with the thought of putting England out of their own World Cup and take their eyes off the ball as well.
Looks a better side with Joseph back in the side (good to see another local boy doing good, his Mum taught my daughter at school)

Let's fuck the fuckers.

Yep Morgan has looked well short of match fitness, we really need him to step up tomorrow.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #250 on: October 03, 2015, 09:17:51 AM »
Given that this is our home World Cup this is probably our biggest game since the 2007 final. It is the definition of must win and I really hope we turn in one of those quality performances that we occasionally do.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #251 on: October 03, 2015, 10:38:04 AM »
NZ v Georgia was a pretty entertaining game to watch.

Georgia gave it everything they had (even matching NZ at the cheating at times) but the All Blacks pulled away in the end

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #252 on: October 03, 2015, 11:04:31 AM »
Yeah it was decent. I'm praying this weekend will be a reversal of last weekend and we get a Villa and an England win.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #253 on: October 03, 2015, 11:09:54 AM »
Amen to that.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2015
« Reply #254 on: October 03, 2015, 05:01:45 PM »
Oh well 50% of that wish has failed.

 


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