The Rugby Thread

[Angryred]

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-fire-brigade-rescue-after-30081937

WTF were they thinking?

[Buzzo]

Interesting. I’ve definitely been to a few games that have been ruined as a spectacle because of a red card. Sometimes that has been absolutely fine by me. Sometimes not.

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[Irishnev]

NZ much sharper and better set piece than Ireland - we’ve been rusty as **** and down by 10 with 10 to go

[Buzzo]

Them having a solid warm up match last week has to have helped. But yeah not the expected contest.

[Buzzo]

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[Irishnev]

Them having a solid warm up match last week has to have helped. But yeah not the expected contest.

I wasn’t over confident but felt we could win, the mist annoying thing is that there weren’t great. We were so **** it was easy for them

Back to NZ being our bogey team again

[Sus]

**** that was epic by the Wallabies! So good to see England lose to a 84th min try!

[Buzzo]

Wow - what a test match the Wamlabies snatch it with a try in 82 mins after an England try in 79.

Aussies looked good. Fast and loose but very entertaining some filthy offloading.

Sua'ali'i looks a ridiculous talent.

[Buzzo]

What an offload to win it.

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[Sus]

Sua’Al’I has been a star in the making since he played union in high school. Was a kick in the balls when he chose rugby league

Incredible athlete but some serious structural flaws for Schmidt to fix. But what a great win especially after being absolutely demolished in the first 15 mins

[Buzzo]

Worth the entrance fee for that flying kick chase no look offload.

England need to stop ****ing about with Marcus Smith to try and get Ford some game time. He is easily Englands best player and is at the heart of every attacking threat. Subbing him, or moving him to 15 (where he was still excellent) is madness. Trust him to see the game out.

Ford had another mare, only thing of note was throwing the intercept pass. After last weeks pen miss, DG miss and missed tackle which cost a try.

[Sus]

Yep agreed Smith needs to stay 10. At the heart of everything good re Englands attacking play. If they are worried about his defence, there are plenty of tactical solutions to help with that

[Zapater]

Clean sweep for the Southern Hemisphere.

[Buzzo]

Not sure I’ve seen such a scruffy test match as that in a long time. South Africa wrong side of the ref for the entire second half and somehow still won by 9. South Africa always seem out of sorts v England it’s strange - but - still always win!!!

I haaadd waaaaayy too many beers when we played ZA last week. Thought we played well but never really kicked on when the game was there for the taking. So was an eventually a relatively straight forward win, when we had chances we knocked on or played a poor pass. Last 10-15 we just ran out of gas.

Aussies for us next weekend. Looking forwards to it style wise should be entertaining!

[Buzzo]

Roigard looks quite a player at 9 for NZ. He’s fkn huge for a scrum half.