Argentina vs England - 18/07/26

[Quel Carreleur]

Statistics show gingers are rightly the most picked on rugby players in the world.

 

[dullonien]

No dude, you're just wrong here, and have been every time you've made the claim, however many commentators and refs,a new World Rugby themselves tell you that youre wrong.

WR are making plans to take TMO out of local broadcaster control, but they're not in place yet.
This is a known thing.

This was explained a little while back. In URC the TMO has complete control, but in Europe and international the TMO is still at the mercy of the broadcaster. Can't remember about Prem and Top14.

It's going to be changed soon, or at least that's what they've said.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

How on earth has Chessum been the only player punished for rushing in during the entire 80 minutes?

Referees feel a natural uneasiness about his lack of a soul and punish him accordingly

 

[Abraxaz]

Well that was a clear example of a ref not in control, lost count of the number of times he threatened action after push and shove then did nothing.

Felt England were held to a higher standard when compared to Argentina.

But England were still poor and lazy when it came to discipline and getting on side. Very lucky that Argentina didn’t show up the first half.

Argentina showing why they are disliked around the world. Needs to be some lengthy bans for that action after the whistle, this isn’t football.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Getafix's potion is on the banned list, there's no way Obelix isn't loaded to the gills - we need proper testing for their trophies to be stripped

Still a better world cup than 23.

 

[Quel Carreleur]

This was explained a little while back. In URC the TMO has complete control, but in Europe and international the TMO is still at the mercy of the broadcaster. Can't remember about Prem and Top14.

It's going to be changed soon, or at least that's what they've said.

Yup, and Al has been part of many conversations about it, and is consistently wrong.
I did forget above to mention that the URC are the exception here - my apologies for that omission

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Why is the ref ignoring the TMO just to let Argentina try and win!

Argentina couldn't win with that try, try counting.

Come back out from under your rock after t tying to justify racism?

What a disgrace.

 

[Saintjay]

Ginger AND 9 feet tall

Which doesn't help , it makes you look like a giant Swan Vestas cooking match

 

[AlRums]

It disgraced the rugby world cup to the point all results have to be queried.

Asterix on the champs if I've ever seen one.

And Obelix?

Edit: Bugger, beaten to it.

 

[Scotty]

Was an odd performance and the first half we won hands down and was the much better team, second half before the cards we were under alot of pressure but the second half fair play with all the cards to still not let in more than 2 tries, 1 pen try.


How do we rate that performance? As the ref was very card happy for both teams.

 

[Jimbo]

Thing is our missed tackle stats are awful in all games

Fair I didn’t watch all the game and to be fair they are far too high I think England only had 10 more than Argentina but with almost double the tackles and a fair bit less possession.

 

[AlRums]

Come back out from under your rock after t tying to justify racism?

What a disgrace.

To the best of my knowledge, England are the only team to play the race card.

More than once.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

To the best of my knowledge, England are the only team to play the rac card.

More than once.

Seriously, we get it you hate the English but you're getting very tiresome so **** off. It's not "playing the race card" and you're making yourself look like more of an insufferable *** than usual.

For **** sake man just for once in your life drop your ****** up anti English attitude.

 

[Duck a l'Orange]

To the best of my knowledge, England are the only team to play the rac card.

More than once.

By "play the race card", do you mean call out racist abuse against their players? Good for them then, if every other team won't (according to you) it should be a concern.

 

[ChicagoKid]

Before the test, England was lacking an aggressive gameplan. But could bully weaker oppositions however the penalty count and cards were their Achilles heel.

So I genuinely ask have we actually learned anything from this test?

 

[BMatt]

Seriously, we get it you hate the English but you're getting very tiresome so **** off. It's not "playing the race card" and you're making yourself look like more of an insufferable *** than usual.

For **** sake man just for once in your life drop your ****** up anti English attitude.

He doesn't hate the English, just those who don't play for Scotland.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

So I genuinely ask have we actually learned anything from this test?

Honestly? No

We all know the players are capable of playing like they did today - the issue is consistently allowing them to

Give it two more games and see if this is a new dawn


Biggest positive for me is Seb Atkinson having a really strong game, hopefully we continue to reward him with the 12 shirt upto and including the WC - he's looking the real deal

IFW had a really strong game going forwards and on defence too - only issue really is aerial, not necessarily a weakness but when Argentina targeted him it came off

 

[jdawg]

Can you imagine if England ever acted like Argentina after that whistle…