The IRISH RUGBY thread

[RedHand88]

What a shambles of a tournament.

Ewan is right about it all.

[Angelo]

What a shambles of a tournament.

It's a joke tournament anyway,  whole group stages mostly a waste of time. Giving draws due to bad weather is just bonkers

Itchy again commenting on a sport he hates. Sad really.

Meeeeoooowwwwwww.

It's a joke "sport" where about 3 countries take it seriously and another 4 take it half seriously and another 4 or 5 countries that take a passing interest in it.

What has happened regard the cancellations just validates that is the farce we knew it was.

[Itchy]

What a shambles of a tournament.

It's a joke tournament anyway,  whole group stages mostly a waste of time. Giving draws due to bad weather is just bonkers

Itchy again commenting on a sport he hates. Sad really.

Walter posting about a poster he hates, sad really.

[GetOverTheBar]

Italy had zero chance against New Zealand reserve team. England, France or as straight forward

They deserved the chance to try and stay in the tournament. Sport is full of David v Golaith moments. Indeed the Japanese know this only too well considering the South African game at the last world cup.

[Solo_run]

With the typhoon due to hit, games cancelled, potentially more games to be cancelled, England and NZ being given an extra weeks break, WR admitting to costly errors in the IrevJap game, Japan's bonus point try against Samoa, the state of the rugby pitch for tomorrows game it is safe to conclude that this tournament is becoming even more of a joke.

[Hound]

With the typhoon due to hit, games cancelled, potentially more games to be cancelled, England and NZ being given an extra weeks break, WR admitting to costly errors in the IrevJap game, Japan's bonus point try against Samoa, the state of the rugby pitch for tomorrows game it is safe to conclude that this tournament is becoming even more of a joke.

Started great, but it's gone pear shaped solid.

However, nobody remembers what happens in the group stages (other than the occasional surprising exit, such as England last time). It's from the QF onwards that decides if a World Cup is a success or not, and there seems to be a lot of potential cracking matches to come.

[thewobbler]

I think if you're being entirely honest about it, the group games in every sporting tournament are a bit shit in comparison to the knockout stages.

[Wildweasel74]

So Irish imports Aki and Kleyn sing Ireland call, our Northern lads do not, and we worried about Irish men issues, some Born Irish men don't see them selves Irish as I don't know why we give Aki and Co a hard time.

[Wildweasel74]

His head high stuff getting silly, Stockdale more responsible for that (not his fault as he falling) that Samoan couldn't get any lower

[shark]

So Irish imports Aki and Kleyn sing Ireland call, our Northern lads do not, and we worried about Irish men issues, some Born Irish men don't see them selves Irish as I don't know why we give Aki and Co a hard time.

Best used to sing it. Has explained that he found it unhelpful to be too wound up when trying to throw in to an early lineout.

[Solo_run]

Aki while shown great ability has always shown he can be a serious liability.

[gallsman]

State of the rte commentary. Wanted red for Samoan hit on Stockdale, saying there's no mitigation when Stockdale clearly fell into the tackle. Then they want only yellow for Aki and start inventing the Samoan falling into the tackle despite the fact it was clearly Ali's hit that flattened him.

[screenexile]

If Stockdale is a few inches smaller the first is a red but the Aki call was right.

Very unfortunate though you can see how it happened.

This is going to be another stutter to the finish line!

[Itchy]

If you get 8 tries do you get 2  bonus points?

[Nanderson]

On the new high tackles, could you not fabricate a yellow/red card by just taking the hit and running into a players shoulder?