The Official, one and only, Men's IRB Rugby World Cup 2023 thread

[C69]

Wow!

Indeed the Oz scrum marmalised

[Torquemada 1420]

Natural order of the universe is restored. Aus scrums being manshamed by everybody.

[Slick]

I’m beginning to come round the a 6N A & B with a playoff. Imagine a year of games potentially in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Tbilisi and Hamburg .Reckon you would still fill a stadium for a 6Nb fixture against this lot

[Torquemada 1420]

Another dim red incoming.

[Torquemada 1420]

Probably a very dumb question, but can someone explain to me why Saffas are ahead of sweaties in pool B?
Both on 10 points, and the jocks with a better points difference.

I imagine it’s something obvious but whatever it is, I’m missing it.

Good question, I don't get it either.

It's decided by the bunker system.

[ASMO]

May get away with that one, looked passive

[Insane_Homer]

Yellow, I think it will stay yellow, initial contact is should/ball and then pops up with arm to make head contact.

Pen goal missed by Aus.

[PCPhil]

Ah well, nice while it lasted

[petej]

That should not be upgraded based on the decisions made recently in the world cup.

[Torquemada 1420]

That should not be upgraded based on the decisions made recently in the world cup.

It's a minnow. He'll be banished for life.

[Insane_Homer]

Nice try from a dodgy thrown lineout.

[C69]

Forward pass not checked?

[Insane_Homer]

Correct decision

[ASMO]

Right call

[Paddington Bear]

I’m beginning to come round the a 6N A & B with a playoff. Imagine a year of games potentially in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Tbilisi and Hamburg .Reckon you would still fill a stadium for a 6Nb fixture against this lot

Yeah a 6N involving trips to:
London
Paris
Edinburgh
Lisbon
Tbilisi
Rome

Seems pretty ideal as a permanent solution

[Torquemada 1420]

Correct decision

Indictment on this RWC that we need to worry about and applaud the officials making a correct decision.

[Torquemada 1420]

I’m beginning to come round the a 6N A & B with a playoff. Imagine a year of games potentially in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Tbilisi and Hamburg .Reckon you would still fill a stadium for a 6Nb fixture against this lot

Yeah a 6N involving trips to:
London
Paris
Edinburgh
Lisbon
Tbilisi
Rome

Seems pretty ideal as a permanent solution

I see what you did there.

[Simian]

I’m beginning to come round the a 6N A & B with a playoff. Imagine a year of games potentially in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Tbilisi and Hamburg .Reckon you would still fill a stadium for a 6Nb fixture against this lot

Yeah a 6N involving trips to:
London
Paris
Edinburgh
Lisbon
Tbilisi
Rome

Seems pretty ideal as a permanent solution

it's a nice idea in some ways, bur would kill pro rugby in whoever went down, imo. maybe they'd bounce back up straight way, but that's not happened at junior level.

[Slick]

I’m beginning to come round the a 6N A & B with a playoff. Imagine a year of games potentially in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Tbilisi and Hamburg .Reckon you would still fill a stadium for a 6Nb fixture against this lot

Yeah a 6N involving trips to:
London
Paris
Edinburgh
Lisbon
Tbilisi
Rome

Seems pretty ideal as a permanent solution

Yes and a tri nations of social media war between Dublin, Cardiff and Cape Town. Lovely solutions

[ASMO]

All i can say is that the Fiji v Portugal game is going to be mental for running rugby

[Paddington Bear]

All i can say is that the Fiji v Portugal game is going to be mental for running rugby

Something that can be said about all the European tier 2 teams (and Spain who are not here) is that the scale of their ambition with ball in hand is lovely to see, genuinely enjoyable to watch

[petej]

All i can say is that the Fiji v Portugal game is going to be mental for running rugby

Something that can be said about all the European tier 2 teams (and Spain who are not here) is that the scale of their ambition with ball in hand is lovely to see, genuinely enjoyable to watch

Agree. Portugal really should have scored a couple of minutes ago

Edit- don't think the ref is giving anything to Portugal here.

[Paddington Bear]

All i can say is that the Fiji v Portugal game is going to be mental for running rugby

Something that can be said about all the European tier 2 teams (and Spain who are not here) is that the scale of their ambition with ball in hand is lovely to see, genuinely enjoyable to watch

Agree. Portugal really should have scored a couple of minutes ago

Yeah a couple of blown opportunities and a poor sin bin period. But this has been a pretty even game.

Honestly can’t understand how anyone sees a game like this, the crowd like this, and then demands tier 2 teams get chucked out the world cup

[Fonz]

Scoreline flatters the Wobs, that card utterly killed the Portuguese...thought it was harsh too as the guy more or less stood there as the Aussie tried to run over him. Whatever.

[Simian]

I know this has been discussed here loads, but it's wild GT is a pundit on itv

[Fonz]

Selfish from the Portuguese 7 on that non-try as well, should be a 10-point game.

[Paddington Bear]

Two gilt edged chances gone begging for Portugal now, this could have been very close

[C69]

Throat high, Neville FFS it's about player safety

[petej]

Can't believe that isn't a yellow.

[Paddington Bear]

Announce implosion

[Paddington Bear]

Has to be a penalty try ffs

[Bloutoria]

Ozzie supporters must be hating this.

[Brazil]

What the fuck is Neville playing at?

[salanya]

I've backed Joy on several occasions, but after the last 5 minutes she can feck right off.

[petej]

Has to be a penalty try ffs

yep

[Oxbow]

Nobody else can see it's clearly lost forward, Joy.

[Torquemada 1420]

What the fuck is Neville playing at?

Was just about to post that rugby really needs to f**k Joy Neville off to the local park.

[Paddington Bear]

Oh Jesus that’s dismal

[C69]

Dear God

[Sandstorm]

Am I missing any quality today, Lads?