RWC 2019

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have we saved our worst game for the final?

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talk about a nail biter

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El stovey said:

Sour grapes blaming the ref going on in here.

I don't think the ref is great - but then you've got to play the ref. We haven't got an answer to this at the moment, if we don't sort this out PDQ we're fked.

As things stand I have my doubts as to whether we have the answers

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I keep hearing how the Saffa's are so 'big and strong' - the thing is though that we're actually (slightly) bigger

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interesting - Slade for Ford

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Murph7355 said:

Ford's not had his best game. I like him, but he's been off this game.

agreed - but then again EVERYONE seems to be off their game at the moment

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Murph7355 said:

Ford's not had his best game. I like him, but he's been off this game.

agreed - but then again EVERYONE seems to be off their game at the moment

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at this point I'm losing the faith. I know that there's still 1/4 of the match left but I really can't see we've got the answers to the questions posed

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at this point I'm losing the faith. I know that there's still 1/4 of the match left but I really can't see we've got the answers to the questions posed

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that's it. Well done SA

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even if by some miracle we win this the better team have been SA by a country mile. I can't think of a single player from England who'd make a joint team

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Trophy Husband said:

Indeed. The real final was Wales v SA.

and pause for breath...

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TheGreatSoprendo said:

That was Matt Dawson.

make that smug tt eat his words is almost worth not winning!

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phil_cardiff said:

Repeated by one other on here. Thought it was a bold shout at the time...

I see some are still flinging mud the Welsh way today. Ah well, at least we know how it feels to lift a trophy in 2019

aye - and we know what it's like to beat the All-Blacks in living memory

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JustALooseScrew said:

Incomming....

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schmalex said:

That’s in really bad taste, fella.

The poor guy was knocked unconscious and you take the piss. Grow up or fk off

Been reported to mods, for what it's worth.

More than once, then.

given that there's a pic of a baboon being compared to diane abbott on another thread (which I've not reported) I suspect that fk-all will be done - does make me wonder at how stuff is moderated here

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julianm said:

No doubt they were bitterly disappointed but were men enough to show respect for their award.
The RWC players are highly paid professionals, not 14yr old spoilt brats.

you could also argue that they'd had time to get their disappointment out of the way. That being said - accept the silver lads, it's a feckin' great result. IIRC EJ's task was to get to the semis - job, jobbed... from a performance perspective we over-achieved (indeed didn't EJ say before the WC that we weren't yet the finished article, albeit that could just be mind games)

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phil_cardiff said:

You're in a good place. Huge player base. Need to develop a bit more depth at 3, 9 and 15 but deep squad otherwise.

We're not in as bad a position as Scotland wherein one key injury leaves you fked, but we c/should be better. We (currently) seem to have an embarrassment of riches at wing and 2nd row together with some decent options at 6/7/2 but if, for example BV and Wilson can't play who is world class there? If MT is out who is our world beating centre?

NZ has (had?) the right idea with a steady drip feed so suddenly you've got a lot of options - though to be fair this time that didn't quite happen

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Derek Smith said:

I've had a couple of emails from Welsh rugby players I know. There was a remarkable lack of ribbing in the first ones, and as the conversation developed it turned into a discussion about the RWC as a whole. No nastiness, not relishing the loss, just enjoyment of a great tournament (well done Japan). I'd emailed them when they lost to the ABs. What would anyone say but well played/hard luck/sorry you're not in the final.

The reaction on here does seem strange. I've flicked back through the thread and couldn't find any English comments about the Welsh loss to the ABs that were nasty, and no rejoicing.

I've had too many good times with the Welsh in rugby matters to do anything but support them in any tournament after my national sides. It makes one wonder if those making comments follow rugby, or have ever been to Twickenham for a Wales/England match where you sit side by side with the foe for the 80 mins, then talk about the match, that is until the buggers start singing, whether they won or lost.

This is rugby for heaven's sake. The sport where you mix with the other supporters.

TBH I've got no issue with the ribbing - it's all part and parcel. However, comments like "well Wales only lost by 3 therefore we'd have beaten England easily #notworthyfinalists" or "Good luck SA, anything to stop the Poms fluking another RWC" go a little further (IMO)