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I expected more from Ireland, but they only lasted 2 minutes

Ioane sprinting sideways and running out of steam a few meters after finding the gap is the highlight of this match for me.

Players banned after the Belgium - Spain match for abusing the ref. Guillaume ROUET (n°9): physical abuse of a Match Official and verbal abuse: 36 weeks Sébastien ROUET (n°20): physical abuse of a Match Official and verbal abuse: 43 weeks Pierre BARTHERE (n°6): threatening actions/words at a...

Also about Morariu. Not seeing the game then, when this blew up and he was thrown into the argument game for being the president of the organization, I realized it's just a media smear. The president of such an organization does not appoint refs or picks the balls for the game. It would be...

The president of the Romanian Federation says that he too requested Rugby Europe to change the officials for the match, but was denied...

Yeah, me too. I actually gave my analysis in a comment there with a timeline, the numbers with * are ref mistakes I deemed obvious. 1 - 0:05 you can see the Red 4 on his feet with his hands on the ball, the yellow player not releasing the ball 2 - 0:13 2 yellow players off their feet handling...

I honestly believe (and hopefully to no offense to anybody), Spain would have lost even if they had a Spanish referee :p

Well a lot of things have been thrown at the ref and I agree, there is an obvious conflict of interests, but looking at the match he looked like did his job as neutral as you can get. Seeing the match, I'm shocked at how different Spain played here and against Romania. They simply couldn't...

There's a lot of backlash against the Romanian ref... even his wiki page was vandalized... To everyone who saw the match, were there clear biased decisions against spain? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_Iord%C4%83chescu

I haven't seen the match and I can't find statistics. What happened? Were there any sent offs?

Most yellows in a match in the WC?

It's the forwards who made the difference. Canada still plays a great 7's Rugby but lacks in the top 8. I always wondered... if we can combine the Romanian or Georgian to 8's and Canadian or Japan last 7's... we would make a top 10 IRB team :)

To be fair, Canada was superior on the back line. Quick recycling, they always seemed to have an extra man on the outside. Romania dominated the scrum, so the tactic went as it always does, with scrum -> penalty -> touch -> maul -> try. In the end, as much as I love team Canada, it was the Oaks...

Canada plays like a 7's team. I'm terrified of what they'll do to Romania on the back line.

I have a feeling that we'll see another fit from PSA in the locker room.

At least you don't have to listen to Romanian commentators. They're still learning the rules. Every penalty can only be a high tackle or off feet.

Bringing strong backs like Michalak, Fofana and Bastareaud shows that PSA at least has a game plan. In their first match with Romania, they made no sense.

Ah yes, the recurring "expand 6n" thread. 4 years went by so fast. The strongest argument against this was the number of registered players that these countries have. The IRB doesn't feel like the player bases are strong enough to reach competitive levels in 6N. And in my opinion they're right.

The difference was that unlike France, Ireland came on the field with a game plan. They knew that if they play it wide, the defense would eventually crack, and it did, proven by 5 of the 6 tries. France just played as they went, a lot of improvisation and forward charges that lead nowhere...

Let that be a lesson. Nobody scores Romania 44 points and gets away with it :D