RWC 2023

[dontpaintyourteeth]

donkey brained

[druss]

always nice to hear the England fans booing the kicker

Yes, a shame they are not as honourable as other nations' fans.

[bgmnts]

Genuinely haven't heard anything untoward in a Wales rugby game or any booing stuff like that in my limited experience.

[Dr Trouser]

Jesus, Ford has some bollocks about him, retro drop goal onslaught for the win.

Argentina giving a great example of shitting the bed here.

[Mrs Wogans lemon drizzle]

Who's the match commentator for this England game?  I like the way he sounds like he's clenching when England do somthing good.  Mark Pougatch on the other hand is a right cunt.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Hoping this signals the end of Owen Farrell as a guaranteed starter tbh

[Dr Trouser]

This morning I spent two hours unblocking the drain - watching this game was not entirely different to that experience

[Dog Botherer]

better quality rugby in Namibia vs Italy. knew England's only hope was puke rugby, didn't expect Ford to go full Wilkinson or Argentina to play shitter than they've played in a decade though, dats da world cup baybee.

[kitsofan34]

Fifteen minutes into the Japan/Chile coverage and not a peep about either team yet.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

better quality rugby in Namibia vs Italy. knew England's only hope was puke rugby, didn't expect Ford to go full Wilkinson or Argentina to play shitter than they've played in a decade though, dats da world cup baybee.

To be fair (why? -cab editor) playing 77 minutes with 14 men... was hardly the moment for expansive rugby

[kitsofan34]

Chile vs Japan very entertaining so far.

With the way rugby is formatted, it's the high tier 2 vs low tier 1 team games that are most entertaining, unless you have two huge teams playing (Scotland vs SA, France vs NZ)

[Dog Botherer]

To be fair (why? -cab editor) playing 77 minutes with 14 men... was hardly the moment for expansive rugby

England would have been playing exactly the same tactics regardless of the card. their attack is simply non functioning at the moment. it's hard to overstate how bad Argentina were last night, another team wouldn't have dropped everything then given away a penalty at every scrum, and then England would have looked like they did against Ireland.

Chile must absolutely fancy a crack at a demoralized and poor Argentina. they've faded a little towards the end but great to see their ambition and talent.

[Good Hank]

Thoughts as it stands: France look decent; hard to tell about Ireland because of the quality of the opposition; England actually thought about how to play a difficult game rather than brainlessly conceding foul after foul; Eddie Jones will probably take the Aussies to the semis; there's a shock waiting to happen so Wales might be in for an uncomfortable night.

[Dr Trouser]

Scotland still in it despite a ref and TMO who seem to hate them. I'm assuming SA will now empty the bench and go on to win, but god i hope not.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

FUCKDOWN

[dontpaintyourteeth]

I hope Fiji smash this lot

[Dr Trouser]

Warrenball v2.0 only this time even less dimensional

[Good Hank]

Wales look very lumpen.

[Dr Trouser]

No one's told Fiji this isn't a sevens match.

[poo]

Haha Jamie Roberts bald

[Dr Trouser]

His hair is an amazing optical illusion, one side looks like hair, other side slap head.

[bgmnts]

Love watching Fiji.

[poo]

Adams 💪

[Dr Trouser]

Absolute cock of a yellow card

[bgmnts]

Poor Feej :(

No idea why it was a yellow but ho hum.

[Dr Trouser]

Wtf is this bullshit

[Good Hank]

Fiji have been great value. Ultimate chaos.

[bgmnts]

Bit gutted for Fiji. I always remembered them being a team that passed the ball around well but they kept knocking it on.

[Dr Trouser]

Fiji are the only team this weekend who seemed to want to play rugby. If only there had been a better/neutral referee.

Wales have a lot of thinking to do.

[poo]

Wild physical contest thought it was great