International Rugby

[Meanwood Villa]

And their biggest ever defeat

[paul_e]

Alldritt, Ollivon and Ramos were exceptional tonight.

[Jon Crofts]

All Blacks making England look organised.

[PaulWinch again]

France look unsurprisingly strong.

[Meanwood Villa]

And their biggest ever defeat

At the world cup I should say

[UK Redsox]

Did I imagine ITV adding 2 points for each of the NZ "conversions", only to take them off again?

In fairness, the touch judges couldn’t agree on one of the kicks.

My fellow University of Gloucestershire graduate, Christoph Ridley, also forgot that you can kick direct to touch from a Mark

[UK Redsox]

France look unsurprisingly strong.

Despite DuPont being a bit ropey at times, especially collecting the ball at the back of scrums

[UK Redsox]

Still don’t know how that one NZ try was allowed. Aaron Rodgers would have been proud of the pass

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Alldritt, Ollivon and Ramos were exceptional tonight.

Yup. I thought the Portuguese fella looked very strong tonight.

[edgysatsuma89]

World Cup prediction time.
France to beat South Africa in the final, should be close but home advantage might swing it for Les Bleus.
Ireland to go out in the quarter finals, and still not have made a World Cup semi-final.
England to go as far as (if not further than) Ireland in the tournament.

I've been out the loop with rugby union for a good 3/4 years so I placed a bet on this being the final based purely on your prediction. Did it just before the first game, 6/1. So for in advance:

Thank you BV

Fuck you BV

I'll edit it later.

[PaulWinch again]

In spite of myself I am excited about the game later. The selection gives me hope - probably wrongly - but I’m looking forward to it. I think part of it is that we international sports tournaments go I always find it really compelling.

[Monty]

Usually I can't be bothered with the 'I don't support England' type of English self-hatred, but something just stops me with English rugby union. I think Cipriani's memoir explains some of the attitude I just can't get behind. Also I went to a posh school and many of the rugby lads were just the dirt worst - which is unfair, and hey I support England at cricket when the biggest c**t in the school was the cricket captain, but I guess it's the aggregate impression.

That said, would love to commit more to the Irish support but being the most plastic of plastic paddies it sort of feels fake. Maybe around here I can get away with it.

[Axl Rose]

Usually I can't be bothered with the 'I don't support England' type of English self-hatred, but something just stops me with English rugby union. I think Cipriani's memoir explains some of the attitude I just can't get behind. Also I went to a posh school and many of the rugby lads were just the dirt worst - which is unfair, and hey I support England at cricket when the biggest c**t in the school was the cricket captain, but I guess it's the aggregate impression.

That said, would love to commit more to the Irish support but being the most plastic of plastic paddies it sort of feels fake. Maybe around here I can get away with it.

😂

My dad is half English, half Scottish, and my mum is half Irish, half Welsh, with a bit of French in there somewhere.

Not forgetting my dearest Japanese wife.

And I don't particularly support any of them. Villa all the way!

[AV84]

That said, would love to commit more to the Irish support but being the most plastic of plastic paddies it sort of feels fake. Maybe around here I can get away with it.

Ireland's head coach is English so you could lean into that. Also you're probably as Irish as some of the lads on the team, not that that's specific to the Irish team mind.

[Gareth]

I’m hoping the WC will get me back into rugby, have barely watched any since Worcester went bump & as I believe rfu and Prem rugby were quite happy to lose Worcester from the league I couldn’t care less if England lose all group games.

Borthwick is the Southgate style of coach, nine but dim and so risk averse…Ben Youngs being the squad is mad…he’s at least 60 caps too heavy…at least