Quarter Finals

[wpdavid]

Don't have to bring some pop national psychology into it. They're just pricks, at least Farrell is, and pricks are everywhere, playing for every country in every sport.

Yeah, but it's fun. I'm not saying you're wrong. You probably aren't. But Farrell's got enough previous to suggest that, deep down, he doesn't think the rules apply to him. And today's deliberate knock-on could have cost us the match if Fiji had made the most of the penalty, which would have been likelier if the ref hadn't bottled the yellow card. I dunno, I just don't find the England rugby team likeable, and it wouldn't have bothered me at all if Fiji had knocked us out today. Whereas I have no real gripe with the cricket or football teams even when they don't play as well as they might.

 

[wpdavid]

He got a red card for a clumsy completely unintentional head clash. He did as much damage to himself as he did to the other guy.
That collision can have no relevance to someone's character.

Agree to differ mate when someone habitually finds himself in trouble with the refs or is lucky not to, as he was today. But it's fine.

 

[Tom Flint]

Yeah farrell doesn't come across well and marler is annoying af. But the rest seem OK. The celebrating penalty thing winds a lot of people up and now most other teams do that too

 

[wpdavid]

Marler's an interesting one, and to be honest he completely disproves the point I was making (albeit very badly). I absolutely used to view him as a complete DH for his conduct on the pitch, and then I read something that he'd written, maybe in a book, where he spoke really well about mental health and his struggles with it. So what do I know?

 

[ripper868]

Fast Start that.

 

[Ali TT]

Fast Start that.

Wow, not sure I've seen a South African side blasted backwards like that before.

 

[Tom Flint]

Marler's an interesting one, and to be honest he completely disproves the point I was making (albeit very badly). I absolutely used to view him as a complete DH for his conduct on the pitch, and then I read something that he'd written, maybe in a book, where he spoke really well about mental health and his struggles with it. So what do I know?

Yeah I don't think marler is a bad guy. Just annoying, he had a random talksport feature a year or so ago which was very cringe and was stopped after a couple weeks!

 

[ripper868]

This is going to be so much fun.

 

[Ali TT]

And just like that it's level.

Just had 3 amazing quarters already yet that 8 minutes beats them all.

 

[Furball]

Not convinced that lineout throw was straight at the start.

 

[BazBall21]

Fancied SA for tonight

 

[ripper868]

Sa's little guys (well, Arendse so far) making a huge difference, give so much pace. Reinach been justified over de Klerk so far as well.

Loving that his isn't just a forward bash fest that many I think expected.

 

[Furball]

Superb from du Pont

 

[BazBall21]

Dupont oozes class

 

[Ali TT]

Wow wow wow wow

 

[ripper868]

Great work by AdP to go quick there.

 

[ripper868]

Holy Kolbe batman. Been a while since we've had one of them.

 

[BazBall21]

Two conversions charged down.

 

[StephenZA]

I'm not gonna survive tonights game...

 

[Furball]

This is a ridiculous game of rugby