International Rugby

[Lsvilla]

Good to see premier league standards of refereeing in action

[AV84]

Stupid Fiji!

[Jon Crofts]

Jammy Welsh fuckers.

[PaulWinch again]

Wales have robbed that. How they only got one yellow card

[AV84]

Wales will be very happy with that. Fiji definitely the better team, some very questionable decisions from the ref that went Wales' way.
At least Fiji get 2 points from it. Sets up an interesting group now.

[PaulWinch again]

How Wales only got one yellow there - persistent foul play even after the first yellow.

[Jon Crofts]

Should have had at least one penalty try for Fiji if not 2.

[Pat McMahon]

Sounds like the French authorities managed to fuck it up royally for thousands of people last night. A mate was there last night took him over 90 minutes to enter the stadium, 45 minutes at half time to get a beer, hundreds of toilets were out of use and after the game the Metro wasn’t running.

A mate of mine sells hotel rooms to some of the big sports travel businesses and he was at the game last night. He’d heard rumours of a shambles so got there early but it still took him an hour to get him. Some England fans behind him took 2.5 hours to get in and only arrived in their seats at half time.

Maybe they should have recruited the Villa turnstile and catering teams this weekend?

[Brazilian Villain]

Similar shambles at the Ireland game in Bordeaux. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/irish-rugby-fans-roasted-in-bordeaux-heat-as-stadium-staff-slowly-opened-water-bottles-one-by-one/a377028141.html

The ex-players on the TV over here also very critical of the way the national anthems have been handled.

[Jon Crofts]

It was the same at the Euros, CL Final and now the RWC, somehow they landed the Olympic Games, god help anyone going there.
RWC 2007 I went over for 2 games and the final in Paris and it was impeccably well run.
Weirdly it doesn’t seem to affect domestic sport in France so what is it that the minister and ministry of sport are doing or telling the authorities to do that’s so different and why?

[Jon Crofts]

While we’re at it, let’s talk about the pundits and commentators on ITV.

Awful, I’d rather have Jonathan Davies whining on and Brian Moore spitting over everyone than the crew they had on last night.

[AV84]

The ex-players on the TV over here also very critical of the way the national anthems have been handled.

I'm hoping they drop the anthems once everyone has been butchered once. I understand having a live choir at the first game, it was a bit of a celebration or whatever, but as far as I can see it's just a recording at all the other games. No need for it at all, just use the standard instrumental and let players/fans sing it themselves.

[LeeB]

While we’re at it, let’s talk about the pundits and commentators on ITV.

Awful, I’d rather have Jonathan Davies whining on and Brian Moore spitting over everyone than the crew they had on last night.

Jonathan Davies, I'd forgotten about him but he has one the most annoying voices I've ever heard.

[PaulWinch again]

While we’re at it, let’s talk about the pundits and commentators on ITV.

Awful, I’d rather have Jonathan Davies whining on and Brian Moore spitting over everyone than the crew they had on last night.

Jonathan Davies, I'd forgotten about him but he has one the most annoying voices I've ever heard.

“Nuuuuuuumbers”

[paul_e]

While we’re at it, let’s talk about the pundits and commentators on ITV.

Awful, I’d rather have Jonathan Davies whining on and Brian Moore spitting over everyone than the crew they had on last night.

Of the team they have for commentary I like Monye and I'm fine with Kay but the rest are shit, at least they didn't get Healey in.