Rugby World Cup 2019

[Jon Crofts]

Scots player loses his binding and somehow the penalty goes their way?

[Meanwood Villa]

Fantastic game. Well deserved victory Japan.

[Axl Rose]

Fantastic game. Well deserved victory Japan.

Couldn't quite get that draw! Bastards!

[Meanwood Villa]

Fantastic game. Well deserved victory Japan.

Couldn't quite get that draw! Bastards!

Aye, my prediction of Japan winning a close one was right so you can keep the lottery numbers!

[Axl Rose]

Fantastic game. Well deserved victory Japan.

Couldn't quite get that draw! Bastards!

Aye, my prediction of Japan winning a close one was right so you can keep the lottery numbers!

Cheers mate!

[Jon Crofts]

What was especially great about that game was the almost complete lack of stupid penalties given away. England take note.

[itbrvilla]

The Scots should give up team sports...

[UK Redsox]

A revised history of Rugby in Japan

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49878877


Extract

Ten years ago, Galbraith helped organise a tour of Japan for a British rugby team. A history graduate, he offered to contribute an article on the origins of Japanese rugby to the tour programme.

Before he got on the case, the generally held belief was that rugby had been introduced to Japan in 1899 by two Cambridge graduates, Edward Bramwell Clarke and Ginnosuke Tanaka.

But Galbraith found evidence that it had actually been played much earlier.

An article dated 26 January 1866 speaks of a "football" club, as rugby was known then, founded in the port of Yokohama.

That was five years before England's Rugby Football Union was founded and earlier than any known club in Wales came into existence.

Thrilled to have achieved the historian's ultimate goal - finding a new source of evidence - Galbraith took his discovery of the Yokohama Foot Ball Club (YFBC) to the Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU). But, he says, "they weren't interested" and "insisted that Japanese rugby started in 1899".

And so he set out to change their mind.

[taylorsworkrate]

George Ford dropped with Farrell moved to 10 for Saturday.

Ford has probably been England's best player so far and is in brilliant form, whereas Farrell has been below par. I don't see why Jones has moved away from the Ford/Farrell combo ar 10/12.

Its the sort of selection that should result in instant dismissal for Eddie should we lose.

[Jon Crofts]

Can't argue with Manu & Henry at centres, I like that.

[UK Redsox]

Was a team announced for the France game before it was cancelled ?

Maybe the plan was to have played Farrell at fly-half in that game

[Risso]

Big Courtney back in as well, good lad.

[UK Redsox]

Australia make an even more surprising choice at centre

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/50079948

Teenager Jordan Petaia will play as a centre for Australia for the first time in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final against England.

The 19-year-old, who will win his third Test cap after previously featuring on the wing, partners Queensland Reds team-mate Samu Kerevi in midfield.

In a more obvious change Will Genia is back at scrum half

[Dr Butler]

that England side looks very strong and the bench looks great too...

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[taylorsworkrate]

Was a team announced for the France game before it was cancelled ?

Maybe the plan was to have played Farrell at fly-half in that game

Maybe. Just seems a big big call when Ford is in such good form.