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petej
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Australia are a rugby cancer under Jones.
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Red, the reddest red of all the reds
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C69
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Punch to the head lol
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Yup, that going to become a red.
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Somebody explain to me how a player thinks he can ger away with shit like that?
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That’s absolutely astonishing
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No red :lolno:
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BnM
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On the other angle the Portugal player was coming in high so maybe mitigation. But surprised.
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Bloutoria wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:21 pm Somebody explain to me how a player thinks he can ger away with shit like that?
Ok. Because he can, it seems.
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Would it kill them to referee tier 1 and tier 2 teams equally?
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No arms in that tackle, looked like a shoulder charge?
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BnM
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ffs Portugal 15 you had 1 job and it wasn't to score the try.
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salanya wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:13 pm I've backed Joy on several occasions, but after the last 5 minutes she can feck right off. :mad:
She’s embarrassing all women in this match.
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Oxbow wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:25 pm No arms in that tackle, looked like a shoulder charge?
Yep, it was. Needs checking.
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BnM wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:25 pm ffs Portugal 15 you had 1 job and it wasn't to score the try.
The players outside him had overran so he couldn’t pass without it being forward.
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Is this Australia or Namibia? Filth.
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Portugal reminding me of SA a bit. Just unable to finish their opportunities.
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Lady P wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:25 pm Would it kill them to referee tier 1 and tier 2 teams equally?
Fair question.

Embarrassing for the sport.
Over the hills and far away........
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Aussie scrum and being manshamed - name me a more iconic duo
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Just loving Portugal.
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At last. Huge credit to Portugal for keeping going (Italy on Friday night anyone?)
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That pitch is taking a beating!
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Give them the maul try they should have had, and the one they bottled before half time… ffs this could have been an epic finish
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Jawbreaker scores a try. Should be showering right now.
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Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:33 pm Give them the maul try they should have had, and the one they bottled before half time… ffs this could have been an epic finish
That's the craziest thing, they actually didn't even play as well as they're capable of playing. They bottled some other chances too.

Shocking from Australia, really. You really wonder what this game may have looked like without that Portuguese card in the first half.
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Why are Australia such filth? The tackling is consistently borderline high.

Journos should question Eddie about his teams discipline.
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Fun watch.

If the bullshit around the maul try didn’t happen, if the officiating team had made any real attempt to deal with Australia’s high shots, if Portugal had taken their three/four absolute stone dead chances…

I’ve been a real sceptic about promotion/relegation from the 6N, but must say this weekend has converted me. To see the ambition, the skill and the pride both Portugal and Georgia have shown, when compared to the patheticItaly performance, I’m happily on board with the idea now.
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:thumbup: :thumbup:
Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:49 pm Fun watch.

If the bullshit around the maul try didn’t happen, if the officiating team had made any real attempt to deal with Australia’s high shots, if Portugal had taken their three/four absolute stone dead chances…

I’ve been a real sceptic about promotion/relegation from the 6N, but must say this weekend has converted me. To see the ambition, the skill and the pride both Portugal and Georgia have shown, when compared to the patheticItaly performance, I’m happily on board with the idea now.
“It was a pet, not an animal. It had a name, you don't eat things with names, this is horrific!”
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petej wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:44 pm Why are Australia such filth? The tackling is consistently borderline high.

Journos should question Eddie about his teams discipline.
Koroibete has been doing no arms shoulder barges for awhile, the commentators always get very excited by them and say how much of a good tackle it is. It's completely illegal and should be a card. Refs don't care because there's no head contact. Did one last year on Mapimpi to prevent a try that the Aussies thought was brilliant. Lost his head in this game and was doing no arms torpedo shoulder barges on the regular.

Wallabies are a dumb low skilled team. They're shithouse.
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petej wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:44 pm Why are Australia such filth? The tackling is consistently borderline high.

Journos should question Eddie about his teams discipline.
Eddie and Cheika both seem incapable of instilling discipline in teams. If anything, they make it worse.
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sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:55 pm
petej wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:44 pm Why are Australia such filth? The tackling is consistently borderline high.

Journos should question Eddie about his teams discipline.
Eddie and Cheika both seem incapable of instilling discipline in teams. If anything, they make it worse.
If your boss is a dickhead…..
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Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 8:50 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:55 pm
petej wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:44 pm Why are Australia such filth? The tackling is consistently borderline high.

Journos should question Eddie about his teams discipline.
Eddie and Cheika both seem incapable of instilling discipline in teams. If anything, they make it worse.
If your boss is a dickhead…..
yeah.. not surprised by EJ, but always reckoned C was good, tbh.
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Final permutations for Pool C:



And for Pool B:

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Simian wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:10 pm
Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 8:50 pm
sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:55 pm

Eddie and Cheika both seem incapable of instilling discipline in teams. If anything, they make it worse.
If your boss is a dickhead…..
yeah.. not surprised by EJ, but always reckoned C was good, tbh.
Discipline of Cheika's Aus side was abysmal by the time he left them. Argentina have always had it in them to go on a penalty hot streak, it seems more regular with him at the helm.
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sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 11:35 pm
Simian wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:10 pm
Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 8:50 pm

If your boss is a dickhead…..
yeah.. not surprised by EJ, but always reckoned C was good, tbh.
Discipline of Cheika's Aus side was abysmal by the time he left them. Argentina have always had it in them to go on a penalty hot streak, it seems more regular with him at the helm.
Cheika's a famously emotional hothead... there's no shortage of footage showing him getting all demonstrative in the box or on the sidelines when things go against his teams.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with displaying emotions, of course... but not at work, especially when you're employed in a role that demands calm decision making and rational process.

That emotional expression must rub off on his players and in his case, it's not a positive influence.

Eddie's personal demons are a darker, more elusive beast. His psyche must resemble the depths of the Pacific... unimaginably deep, populated with creatures of myth and terror while on the surface long periods of seeming calm turn in an instant into storms of horrifying intensity. He's a Grade A psycho...

but all he's doing is focussing on Portugal this week, mate.
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It's taken a while to warm to them, but I have to say the doodle maps are awesome.
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Tuisova missing his 7 year old sons funeral to play against Portugal....fair play to him, wouldnt be my choice.
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ASMO wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 4:32 pm Tuisova missing his 7 year old sons funeral to play against Portugal....fair play to him, wouldnt be my choice.
Apparently he was told just before the game last week

Such a sad story.
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Awful
RIP
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Italy by minus 50.
Is that the way it works?
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