Rugby World Cup 2019

[PaulWinch again]

Urgh Ben Skeen is the TMO. Is he the one who tried to ignore a blatant forward pass on review of an Australia pass? Only for the ref to correct him.

[Jon Crofts]

Urgh Ben Skeen is the TMO. Is he the one who tried to ignore a blatant forward pass on review of an Australia pass? Only for the ref to correct him.

Didn’t he clearly state to the referee that ‘both look fine to me’ when he asked asked to cue up the passage of play and clearly both were forward? Christ alive.

[PaulWinch again]

Yes that’s it. He was bloody terrible. We got stitched by the TMO the last time we played the Saffers in the final.

[Jon Crofts]

The XV that will win the Webb Ellis on Saturday.

15 Elliot Daly (Saracens, 38 caps)
14 Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby, 41 caps)
13 Manu Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers, 39 caps)
12 Owen Farrell (Saracens, 78 caps) C
11 Jonny May (Leicester Tigers, 51 caps)
10 George Ford (Leicester Tigers, 64 caps)
9 Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers, 94 caps)
1 Mako Vunipola (Saracens, 57 caps)
2 Jamie George (Saracens, 44 caps)
3 Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins, 30 caps)
4 Maro Itoje (Saracens, 33 caps)
5 Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints, 80 caps)
6 Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, 18 caps)
7 Sam Underhill (Bath Rugby, 14 caps)
8 Billy Vunipola (Saracens, 50 caps)

The finishers that will help

16 Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs, 20 caps)
17 Joe Marler (Harlequins, 67 caps)
18 Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers, 94 caps)
19 George Kruis (Saracens, 40 caps)
20 Mark Wilson (Sale Sharks/ Newcastle Falcons 17 caps)
21 Ben Spencer (Saracens, 3 caps)
22 Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 26 caps)
23 Jonathan Joseph (Bath Rugby, 46 caps)

[luke:lamf]

Four Tigers in the starting XV  that could well win a WC. As a Leicester lad, it makes me wonder why we were so unremittingly shit last year.

[paul_e]

Four Tigers in the starting XV  that could well win a WC. As a Leicester lad, it makes me wonder why we were so unremittingly shit last year.

Because they're the only decent players in the squad other than toomua.

[Jon Crofts]

So 1 to go.

Post your predictions here.

England by 15.

[cdbearsfan]

I'll stick with what I went with in the semis.

New Zealand by twenty.

[Richard E]

I'll stick with what I went with in the semis.

New Zealand by twenty.

See, where you went wrong with your prediction that New Zealand would win by 20 was you forgot they were playing England at Rugby and not Scotland at football.

[Damo70]

England 17 South Africa 7. I have applied science and maths and just taken it on the number of votes for each team in the H&V poll. 

[PaulWinch again]

I feel nervous, because we should really win but it’s never that easy.

[cdbearsfan]

I'll stick with what I went with in the semis.

New Zealand by twenty.

See, where you went wrong with your prediction that New Zealand would win by 20 was you forgot they were playing England at Rugby and not Scotland at football.

I don't like you anymore. Putting you on my Enemies List with that nasty Peterwithesshin 😡

[Rudy Can't Fail]

England 17 South Africa 7. I have applied science and maths and just taken it on the number of votes for each team in the H&V poll. 

I hope you didn't put any money on that. Better use the dosh for a new pair of specs.

[olaftab]

30-6. England 3 converted tries 3 pens Zuid Afrika 2 pens.

[Villan For Life]

I think it will be a close fought game with our quality giving us an advantage over them. If we start like we did against the All Blacks and get points on the board early on then the saffers will struggle.

England 20 South Africa 7