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Offline taylorsworkrate

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #630 on: November 02, 2019, 11:06:35 AM »
Just didn't turn up at any stage. From the team being late to the ground, to Sincklers injury knocking the stuffing out of the team, to basic error after basic error.

South Africa executed their game plan to perfection. Deserved winners

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #631 on: November 02, 2019, 11:11:33 AM »
Perhaps unfair but not the first time the team have choked completely under Jones.

Offline LeeB

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #632 on: November 02, 2019, 11:20:06 AM »
Oh dear, never mind, what a pity

Offline Axl Rose

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #633 on: November 02, 2019, 11:21:22 AM »
Bill Beaumont bowing to Eddie Jones. Telly turned off.

Well done South Africa.

Offline Nelson Lodge

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #634 on: November 02, 2019, 11:23:50 AM »
Not a fan of either code of rugby, and did not watch it. However, not at all surprised when I found out the result just now.
Everyone connected with England just seemed far too overconfident and complacent. Ripe for a fall and being taken down a peg or two.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #635 on: November 02, 2019, 11:24:16 AM »
Best team won.

We hardly got any of the ball, and when we did it seemed we panicked. Scrum was a mess, as was the breakdown.

At the end of the first half we butchered a couple of massive overlaps and then settled for a penalty - i felt if we could have got our noses in front we would be ok but alas not to be.

Offline garyshawsknee

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #636 on: November 02, 2019, 11:30:30 AM »
Better team won, they played to their strengths. Glad not to see their Andy Gibb wannabe scrum half for a while.

Offline Villan For Life

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #637 on: November 02, 2019, 11:37:31 AM »
South Africa deserved their win, they played their tactical game to perfection. However they won ugly and it sure wasn’t a game for the purist.

Offline Risso

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #638 on: November 02, 2019, 11:39:13 AM »
Three World Cups and they’ve scored two tries, and both of those when we’d largely given up.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #639 on: November 02, 2019, 11:47:47 AM »
Doesn't really matter. They've won three World Cups. Fair play to them.

Offline PaulWinch again

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #640 on: November 02, 2019, 11:49:19 AM »
We have some amazing talent. What we need to learn is how to avoid these massive drop offs in performance. At our best we beat anyone, but today South Africa just had to be decent and let us implode.

Offline luke:lamf

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #641 on: November 02, 2019, 12:09:50 PM »
Huge disappointment, SA did to us what we did to NZ. Still, if England can't win it I'm glad SA did and none of the other 6N countries nor our Antipodean cousins.

Offline PaulWinch again

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #642 on: November 02, 2019, 12:13:40 PM »
I do hope Jones stays on.

Offline TopDeck113

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #643 on: November 02, 2019, 12:14:31 PM »
Only watched the last ten minutes of each half - and the radio commentary of the first 30 minutes of the second half. (Nothing gets in the way of my Saturday morning parkrun!)   From that short glimpse, I'd have to agree with the general consensus that the better team won.

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Re: Rugby World Cup 2019
« Reply #644 on: November 02, 2019, 02:40:57 PM »
I do hope Jones stays on.

Absolutely. Win the six nations for a start on the way to building for 2023

 


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