Wales weren’t great today eh. France though looked like a Fiji in blue, played some lovely offloading and got over the gain line often as a result. They worked hard when down a man too, with Medard playing some lovely territory at the beginning of the second half. They forced Wales to work very...
So it does look like the crowd/atmosphere/culture/tournament may have gotten to Wayne a bit here... as it may have during other Japanese games. I still think the Boks will be able to get things done here and move on to the semi finals but Barnes has disappointed me a little here, one of my...
I thought New Zealand would take this game but not like that eh. Sad for the Irish, who are a great rugby nation that can not put it all together at World Cups for whatever reason. Still New Zealand were better today than they were when they beat us at the start of the completion, which is a...
Impressive from the English this morning, very clinical particularly in the last quarter but Australia, gracious me that was the worst that I can ever remember having seen them play. Sometimes a philosophy can get in the way of performing. I think it happened with Scotland this year and to an...
After years of seeing the New Zealander untouchable strength of psyche never flinch, all it too is a few Irish fans who’s team has been rubbish all year to fake a bit of confidence for a laugh and you kiwis go to pieces. Brilliant.
I find it difficult to predict specific scores but I’ll go with ‘by how many’.
England vs Australia: England by 2
New Zealand vs Ireland: Ireland by 3
Wales vs France: Wales by 8
South Africa vs Japan: South Africa by 11
A couple of fairly surprising selections from both coaches for this match, which I suppose evens it out to how balanced the match would have been if the coaches had picked what I would assume to be the absolute best teams. Ford has looked top class so far but if Jones is not going to select him...
I think we’ll win this one but jeepers, it will not be as easy as some on here think. Proper rugby team Japan, we do not need to be thinking these are nobodies.
We’d struggle to beat Ireland and they beat Ireland, will be a hard fought game.
That easy route you’ve been banding about ;).
Well as it stands we could be playing Japan and although we beat them fairly convincingly a few weeks ago that performance against Ireland would at the very least trouble us. At the most, well the have beaten us before.
Then if we got past...