Official Rugby Thread

[hendrix]

Two pretty outrageous comebacks

 

[Niall]

Its the small things when it comes to Rugby that make it so worthwhile

https://twitter.com/btsportrugby/status/1051107717631356933

 

[marc71178]

It could’ve been worse, he could’ve missed a penalty from inside the 22 and dead in front of the posts 5 minutes before.




Oh, wait...

 

[Heboric]

Full RWC 2007 Final with John Smit | A World Rugby Film

 

[StephenZA]

So does anybody even give a damn about the rugby this coming weekend? I forgot it was even happening until 10 min ago...

 

[Heboric]

So does anybody even give a damn about the rugby this coming weekend? I forgot it was even happening until 10 min ago...

I am not jumping up and down in anticipation, but beating the Poms in England should be considered a good achievement. Ill watch it.
Plus Eddie Jones was flapping his gums on how easy it is to beat the Boks. So hope that gives motivation to the Boks to perform

 

[wpdavid]

I am not jumping up and down in anticipation, but beating the Poms in England should be considered a good achievement. Ill watch it.
Plus Eddie Jones was flapping his gums on how easy it is to beat the Boks. So hope that gives motivation to the Boks to perform

Do you have a link for Jones' comments?

 

[Heboric]

Do you have a link for Jones' comments?

https://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/jones-believes-its-pretty-simple-to-beat-boks-20181021

 

[BoyBrumby]

There's no way yer Boks should've lost that test.

If Malcolm Marx hadn't thrown like grandpa Groucho SA would've been out of sight by half time.

Farrell was a wee bit lucky with the final tackle on Esterhuizen too. There was the merest gesture towards wrapping his left arm, but no arms were involved in the contact.

Credit to England for hanging in there, but NZ aren't going to be quite such generous guests next Sat.

 

[StephenZA]

It was a horrible horrible test.... not a good advertisement for Rugby in any way. Boks much to up and down at the moment, no consistency in player and thus team performance really

 

[Heboric]

Got to learn the new technique boys

 

[StephenZA]

Brilliant, love how Rassie explains what to do after he gets it 'wrong' twice....

 

[Furball]

Can someone explain that one? How does the offside line work in a situation like that?

 

[andruid]

Repechage time...Go Kenya!!!

 

[marc71178]

Can someone explain that one? How does the offside line work in a situation like that?

The benefit of any doubt goes to the All Blacks (or Ireland if they happen to be playing).

 

[James]

Can someone explain that one? How does the offside line work in a situation like that?

When a scrum half attempts to retrieve the ball from a ruck, the ball is not out until that player has picked the ball up from the ground.

This is what is doing the rounds across the NZ Rugby groups I'm on.

 

[Flem274*]

The benefit of any doubt goes to the All Blacks (or Ireland if they happen to be playing).

thoughts on the match deciding call last week?

 

[StephenZA]

It was off side. He was one step to early. Problem is that offside is not normally called correctly on or off field. Players get away with quite a bit.

 

[hendrix]

Can someone explain that one? How does the offside line work in a situation like that?

Same as it works any other time?

Be behind the last man's feet in the ruck, otherwise you're offside.

Laws clearly a good foot offside. Not sure what's so controversial about that.

 

[marc71178]

thoughts on the match deciding call last week?

Only seen replays but it was far less serious then some of the decisions in the France series back in June, all of which went the way of the All Blacks...