Rugby World Cup 2019

[Villan For Life]

Wales did well to cling on there. That turn over in the last minute saved them. The Aussies had the momentum and would have gone on to win.

[Villa Lew]

130th appearance for Alun Wyn Jones making him the most capped Wales player, what an inspirational captain he must be.

[UK Redsox]

Aussie tv former players going mental about the referee at the end of that half, the word disgrace being used a lot.

I bet they were singing his praises when Hooper wasn't binned for that late tackle, as he should have been

Anyhow, great from Wales.

[paul_e]

Good first half for Scotland, Russell has been superb, his 2 moments of real class creating the tries. The Hogg drop goal was great as well. However Despite getting 12 points Laidlaw is playing poorly, he's thrown 5-6 really poor passes when scotland had overlaps, a better passer at 9 and they could have another 15-20 points here.

[Axl Rose]

As someone that doesn't understand rugby so well, and watching with Japanese commentary (of which I understand about half), why was the Samoan chap sent off and Scotland given 7 points? Illegal tackle?

Anyway, well done Scotland.

[taylorsworkrate]

Samoa seem a pale imitation of the competitive team they used to be.

In fairness it seems that all 3 of the pacific nations have regressed in this world cup. Fiji, Samoa and Tonga have all been very poor so far.

[UK Redsox]

As someone that doesn't understand rugby so well, and watching with Japanese commentary (of which I understand about half), why was the Samoan chap sent off and Scotland given 7 points? Illegal tackle?

Anyway, well done Scotland.

He illegally stopped a try being scored, which meant a Penalty Try was awarded. Teams no longer have to convert a Penalty Try, it's just a straight 7 points.

Normally this would also just be a 10 minute Sin Bin offence but because the player had already served one Sin Bin period, he was sent off.

[paul_e]

Yep, the worst bit about it is that all he needed to do was make a show of using his arms to complete a legal tackle and it wouldn't have been a problem. He was thick as fuck for the first yellow as well, if he'd waited until they crossed the line he could've dived in and stopped it as he did because there's no offside then.

[paul_e]

Red card coming here, fucking awful shot but the US 7, clear shoulder charge to Farrell's face.

Did you see the Francis hit Paul ?

I haven't yet but BBC text commentary suggests a possible citing and ban

I think a ban would be harsh but a yellow at the time wouldn't have been a terrible decision, there was another US player who made a similar hit and I'd say the same for him as well but in both cases they had their arms down and wrapped properly and there was no intent to hurt the opponent. The one that was a red had absolutely no mitigating factors, it was fucking awful, I've seen a broken jaw from a similar hits so he gets absolutely no sympathy from me for seeing his tournament over after 3/4s of a game (he'll get a 5-6 week ban I suspect).

Just to go back to this, the citing panel came to the same conclusion as me and dismissed it below the red card threshold so Francis is available.

[Axl Rose]

As someone that doesn't understand rugby so well, and watching with Japanese commentary (of which I understand about half), why was the Samoan chap sent off and Scotland given 7 points? Illegal tackle?

Anyway, well done Scotland.

He illegally stopped a try being scored, which meant a Penalty Try was awarded. Teams no longer have to convert a Penalty Try, it's just a straight 7 points.

Normally this would also just be a 10 minute Sin Bin offence but because the player had already served one Sin Bin period, he was sent off.

Ah, understood. Thank you, mate.

[paul_e]

France have been awful so far in this match, 2 very good tries from nothing,which you'd expect against weaker opposition, but the structured play is terrible and they should probably have had a yellow card or 2 already given the amount of penalties they've given away in the 22.

[luke:lamf]

I've gotten worked up about it here before, but there is literally no point in any other team turning up in the refs aren't going to call forward passes against NZ. Ten minutes in, and at least two blatant forward passes with no sanction. Their running game is good enough, without favours from the officials.

[paul_e]

I've gotten worked up about it here before, but there is literally no point in any other team turning up in the refs aren't going to call forward passes against NZ. Ten minutes in, and at least two blatant forward passes with no sanction. Their running game is good enough, without favours from the officials.

I agree, forward passes, not releasing in the tackle and side entry at rucks have to be truly ridiculous for NZ to be called up for them, it's been a problem for a long time and all 3 combined make it very difficult to compete with them.  That said, Canada are a terribly weak side this time around (after looking a decent team in the last couple of world cups).

[AsTallAsLions]

Gwan the ABs

[UK Redsox]

Canada won the last twenty minutes 0-0