Official Rugby Thread

[Fuller Pilch]

Well done Scotland!
With the ABs being so dreadful last year and now this from England, perhaps South Africa's tactic off not playing is a good one.

 

[Furball]

Have to say, I had a heart in mouth moment when Finn Russell got charged down with 30 seconds to go, was ****ing needless.

Should have been well outside if we could kick penalties.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Christ, England v Italy is a hard watch.

The current Azzurri are all kinds of awful, but England seem to have collectively forgotten the basics too.

V low quality fayre.

 

[Heboric]

Kolisi leaving Western Province

Western Province confirms Kolisi departure after doing 'everything possible' to keep him | Sport

Springbok captain Siya Kolisi will part ways with Western Province Rugby after an 11-year journey which has spanned his entire professional rugby career to date.

www.news24.com

Those bunch of idiots really stuff things up, cant blame any player wanting to leave

 

[Niall]

France 2nd favs for the world cup now behind NZ, be fantastic if they could string it together in 2023.

 

[Spark]

usual service from the brumbies, but geez the tahs are a little bit ghastly.

 

[Spark]

usual service from the brumbies, but geez the tahs are a little bit ghastly.

in hindsight, this may have been overly kind

 

[James]

France 2nd favs for the world cup now behind NZ, be fantastic if they could string it together in 2023.

Where are South Africa?

 

[wpdavid]

English discipline an oxymoron yet again, as they try to break their own record for number of penalties conceded.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

the first try seems a bit ridiculous all the same, and i like wales rugby

 

[BoyBrumby]

Have to say the call for the second Welsh try is possibly the most obviously wrong decision by an official I've ever seen.

At no point does Rees-Zammit have control of the ball and he knocks it forwards in the air. It then goes backwards off his thigh, but surely that doesn't nullify the original knock on.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Started watching this just after half time. Quite a decent game. Go Wales. Really can't get interested in Super Rugby before April, but 6N is pretty good.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

30-24 now. Ian Botham's grandson on for Wales

 

[BoyBrumby]

Honestly we've pissed this away with indiscipline.

Claw our way back to 24-all and then promptly give away three kickable penalties in ten minutes.

Sigh. It's the hope.

 

[MW1304]

I've never seen Genge do a single thing right, what is the point of him? Conceded a key penalty as soon as he came on and everything went to **** from there.

His hair ****ing sucks too.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Hate to single one man out, but Jonny Hill isn't a test lock's arsehole. Done well with the Chiefs, but desperately short (ironically for a bloke of 6' 9") at this level.

Standing by this. Bloke's just an oaf.

Playing next to Itoje throws it into sharper focus, but he's just too far off the pace to be effective.

Brain fart for the Welsh third too.

 

[weeman27bob]

At the end of the day, I'm not disheartened with England's loss in that games - we generally looked pretty good in attack and there were at least three fluke events that you'd usually chalk just one up to having an bad luck more than anything else, so to have that many in one game is just unfortunate.

It doesn't seem like we've adapted to how the referees are applying the Laws at all though, and are giving away so many penalties as a result combined with poor discipline. We've nearly conceded as many penalties in three games as we did in the whole of the 2020 tournament.

It's frustrating given how good they've been in the last couple of years, but I think Curry and Itjoe need to adapt how they play the breakdown. Winning penalties from the opposite holding on at the breakdown are so much harder to do now and they've given away a lot of penalties trying

 

[Niall]

Where are South Africa?

I need to check but France have a good draw and are a seriously impressive team that many feel will peak in 2023 as they will be hosting in front of (fingers crossed) huge crowds.

They have not had a great week though with the fallout of covid.

Not much between the likes of NZ, France and South Africa at the moment is their?

 

[James]

Not much between the likes of NZ, France and South Africa at the moment is their?

The way NZ performed in 2020, I think they're well back in the pack now and have a lot of room for improvement. Certainly won't be clear favorites going in 2023 I don't think - especially in a Northern Hemisphere World Cup. Playing in France too brings back horrible memories.

 

[Flem274*]

im still fuming about that conversion not being given to the canes last night. we were just too indisciplined, and williams didn't want to send off blues players for doing exactly the same thing.

blues a very easy team to hate now. buying their way to success.

crusaders will put 40 on us next week if we play like that again.