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I see the French are wearing red, something to do with England winning the football Word Cup in 1966 no doubt...
2015 Rugby World Cup **Potential spoilers**
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Dayvo
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Maybe Scotland should give it a go, too!
Flying_Monkey
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That was one of the best games of rugby I have ever seen full stop. I mean, I'm a Japan supporter, but I would never have expected them to come close to South Africa, let alone beat them.
Dayvo
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Oh, they did, but it is sooo last year! 2014-15
but they just missed out on winning the wooden spoon. Shame. better luck next time.
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Oh, they did, but it is sooo last year! 2014-15
but they just missed out on winning the wooden spoon. Shame. better luck next time.
The Better Together kit of the unionist Union players
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Looks like I missed a corker, I was watching the F1 qualifying then turned over to catch the last five minutes, I wasn't expecting a Japanese win, well done to them.
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Well done Japan!
I always watch the Rugby(Union)World Cup, but not the League version. Probably because it's not on ITV or the BBC and it's crap anyway!
I always watch the Rugby(Union)World Cup, but not the League version. Probably because it's not on ITV or the BBC and it's crap anyway!Surprised, I thought a video editor would be running the live feed and the adverts to the stadium screens, whilst the referee concentrated on the game and analysing the footage for himself.
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If it's a fully qualified ref in charge of the replays, it's no wonder a slo-mo of the error is shown on the stadium screens just milliseconds before a conversion is kicked, causing the on-field ref to panic.
Actually, Craig Joubert should have gone upstairs - he penalised Italy pretty unfairly, in my humble opinion. Looking ahead, for the final, the ref will be from Nigel Owens, Roman Poite, Jerome Garces, or George Clancy. I'm sort of assuming that Wayne Barnes will not be allowed to ref his own country...
Actually, Craig Joubert should have gone upstairs - he penalised Italy pretty unfairly, in my humble opinion. Looking ahead, for the final, the ref will be from Nigel Owens, Roman Poite, Jerome Garces, or George Clancy. I'm sort of assuming that Wayne Barnes will not be allowed to ref his own country...
As I understand it the TMO is a RFU referee - the output he watches is from the Hawkeye system operated by a Hawkeye tech - all the outputs from all the cameras synched at the same time - the replays we can see is whatever he is focused on on his main screen
They really do need to sit down all together and review how the system is working - and how the refs are performing - Id vote for Nigel Owens for the final - there is an adage that you dont notice the best refs - but Owens manages to be front and centre without taking anything away from the rugby
Edit - the part I dont understand is whether or not the TMO has the same rights as a touch judge to proactively bring things to the ref's attention and what those things are - there must be times that he can just say somethings happened without going to replay - the footage is all in the public domain so odds and sods would be picked up by the telly pundits anyway
They really do need to sit down all together and review how the system is working - and how the refs are performing - Id vote for Nigel Owens for the final - there is an adage that you dont notice the best refs - but Owens manages to be front and centre without taking anything away from the rugby
Edit - the part I dont understand is whether or not the TMO has the same rights as a touch judge to proactively bring things to the ref's attention and what those things are - there must be times that he can just say somethings happened without going to replay - the footage is all in the public domain so odds and sods would be picked up by the telly pundits anyway
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AndyRM
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If it's a fully qualified ref in charge of the replays, it's no wonder a slo-mo of the error is shown on the stadium screens just milliseconds before a conversion is kicked, causing the on-field ref to panic.
Actually, Craig Joubert should have gone upstairs - he penalised Italy pretty unfairly, in my humble opinion. Looking ahead, for the final, the ref will be from Nigel Owens, Roman Poite, Jerome Garces, or George Clancy. I'm sort of assuming that Wayne Barnes will not be allowed to ref his own country...
I hope it's Poite. The rest of those are jokers.
Dayvo
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I'd still like to see Neil Back pilloried for his hand in the scrum, denying Munster a small sliver of hope in the 2002 Heinenken Cup Final
https://www.google.no/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=neil back cheating
but he doesn't like to be remembered as being a cheat. NOBBER!
http://www.munsterrugby.ie/news/7303.php#.Vf6MfNKqqkp
https://www.google.no/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=neil back cheating
but he doesn't like to be remembered as being a cheat. NOBBER!
http://www.munsterrugby.ie/news/7303.php#.Vf6MfNKqqkp
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Wafer
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Friday night was a disappointing game, didn't actually think the atmosphere at tickers was that great considering. Scrappy play from both teams, England lucky Fiji missed kicks and neither side particularly able to string phases together. Subs made a difference, Billy vunipola was causing problems and farrell seemed more in control than ford. TMO was annoying, would've happily seen the Fiji try given, everyone though it was a try till the slomo replays were shown. Even I got bored of the repeated swing lows.
What I saw of the Tonga v Georgia game (had to go watch Exeter thrash bath in preseason) Georgia looked worth the win. Japan awesome, really deserved that, it wasn't just that SA were poor, Japan were very good too. Brilliant to watch, best game so far by far. Italy France was fairly meh, biggest talking point probably the injuries. Not nice to see players carried off but huget won't get as much sympathy as most.
Samoa v USA just coming to an end, not especially thrilling but some good moments, Samoa looking more organised but USA dangerous on the break.
Time for a ride when Wales play then see how the All Blacks go later!
Re: haka's (or what different countries call then) singing over them isn't about ignorance, a lot of rugby fans don't actually like them, partly because the ABs at least have become very protective of them. They'll refuse to do the haka unless the opposition stand there and take it. Not allowed to respond or do anything other than line up and watch it. I like the haka's but I can understand people wanting to counter them, the whole point to is to intimidate. Players not allowed so crowd doing it for them. Not great if you don't see a lot of rugby and the haka is a 'rare' thing, but that not the case for a lot of fans.
What I saw of the Tonga v Georgia game (had to go watch Exeter thrash bath in preseason) Georgia looked worth the win. Japan awesome, really deserved that, it wasn't just that SA were poor, Japan were very good too. Brilliant to watch, best game so far by far. Italy France was fairly meh, biggest talking point probably the injuries. Not nice to see players carried off but huget won't get as much sympathy as most.
Samoa v USA just coming to an end, not especially thrilling but some good moments, Samoa looking more organised but USA dangerous on the break.
Time for a ride when Wales play then see how the All Blacks go later!
Re: haka's (or what different countries call then) singing over them isn't about ignorance, a lot of rugby fans don't actually like them, partly because the ABs at least have become very protective of them. They'll refuse to do the haka unless the opposition stand there and take it. Not allowed to respond or do anything other than line up and watch it. I like the haka's but I can understand people wanting to counter them, the whole point to is to intimidate. Players not allowed so crowd doing it for them. Not great if you don't see a lot of rugby and the haka is a 'rare' thing, but that not the case for a lot of fans.
