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Post by davejones on Sept 8, 2007 21:17:48 GMT
Who do you think will win the Rugby World Cup.
As France lost last night it has to be New Zealand's trophy.
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Post by bigtj on Sept 9, 2007 6:46:50 GMT
New Zealand certainly are worthy favourites and the ruthlessness they showed yesterday makes me have to agree with you Dave.
One thing for certainly on yesterdays performance it will not be England, if USA make us look ordinary god knows what South Africa will do to us.
May i say good luck to your team ( Wales ) who start their campaign today.
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Post by bigtj on Sept 10, 2007 8:36:30 GMT
South Africa looked very impressive in tbne second half. Looking bad for England as they will now have their confidence on a high.
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Post by NigelS on Sept 10, 2007 9:04:23 GMT
South Africa looked very impressive in tbne second half. Looking bad for England as they will now have their confidence on a high. Agree tony, England have very little chance against S Africa, that Habana felllow will murder us. Samoa also didn't look too shabby and if we can only beat USA 28-10 I am worried. |
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Post by Hammy on Sept 10, 2007 14:40:23 GMT
Let's face England are going nowhere. We may scrape through the group (hopefully beating Samoa) but after that????
We are world champs and we did well to win all those many moon's ago but we are not a shadow of that team.
New Zealand or S.Africa to win. My money is on the all blacks.
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Post by Colemanator on Sept 10, 2007 15:05:20 GMT
Rugby :-/
caulliflower ears, beer guts, overweight, teeth missing, stupid shaped 'ball' :-/ daft rules, what's the point of a scrum :-/, I have to say i was put off the game as an eleven year old, when i moved into secondary school we were forced to play it at the expense of football by our welsh games teacher :(
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Post by CraigC on Sept 11, 2007 14:42:05 GMT
New Zealand to win. SA looked impressive against Samoa, but the All Blacks are a different class to the rest at the moment. Safe to say the winners will come from the Southern Hemisphere.
The WC has come too some for England, who left it too late to replace Andy Robinson and the total lack of idea or purpose that emanated from his sides. I thought France as hosts would do well, but the defeat against Argentina has put into perspective how far they are behind NZ.
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Post by bigtj on Oct 8, 2007 7:58:15 GMT
Well we are into semi-final stages and who would have thought it England v France and I now think a great chance for England to make the final having played poorly in the early stages.
If the pack perform the way they did against Australia then we have an actual chance of winning overall, Jonnies boot will come good and points will come from the mistakes the forwards will false from other sides.
The other semi is intriging as I think the Pumas can give the South Africans a scare, but see the final of England against South Africa.
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Post by davemay on Oct 8, 2007 17:12:34 GMT
With the cup going south then
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Post by bigtj on Oct 13, 2007 18:40:29 GMT
Just come back from the Masters habving watched England win the football, after a day of light alchoholic refreshment am preparing to settle down for a couple of beverages and a shout at the telly hoping the England rugby players can hear me.
COME ON ENGLAND LETS TURN THOSE FROGGIES OVER.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2007 20:43:58 GMT
Jonnies boot will come good and points will come How right you were TJ ! Fan-bloody-tastic ! It stayed 8-9 for ages, nothing would happen. And then out of the blue, two drop goals from Jonny Wilkinson and we're in the Final !!! Bring on the Argies ! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by bigtj on Oct 13, 2007 20:50:28 GMT
WELL DONE ENGLAND. Shows that we have plenty of bottle and who knows what can happen in the final, the world is our oyster. If its South Africa we owe them one.
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Post by NigelS on Oct 14, 2007 3:35:36 GMT
Well what a result! Well done England incredible performance they have done us proud!!!!
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Post by bigtj on Oct 15, 2007 6:17:40 GMT
BRING ON THE SOUTH AFRICANS WE ARE READY TO AVENGE THAT DEFEAT.
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Post by davejones on Oct 19, 2007 20:32:32 GMT
France 3 Argentina 27! Who would have thought that!?!
With fourteen mnutes to go the Frogs need 4 tries!!!
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Post by bigtj on Oct 20, 2007 21:34:16 GMT
Some will see only the defeat, but haven`t England come a long way in this world cup and Brian Ashton has a great deal to build on with yougsters coming in and performing well.
Still felt we were definitely robbed of a try, but South Africa were stronger all round and outstanding in the lineouts. Silly mistakes and penalties just given away were our real downfall.
All in all we have to say well done England and proved the doubters wrong ( including me ) with great team spirit.
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Post by Dave Anscombe on Oct 20, 2007 23:45:10 GMT
Agree Tony. We were robbed :'(, but we were beaten by a team that played a better all round game. Also those two hard games against Australia and France seemed to have taken there toll. But our guys can come home with their heads held high and proud to be English. :) :) Which is more than they could have done a few weeks ago.
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Post by NigelS on Oct 21, 2007 0:56:37 GMT
Also agree big tj, lineouts let us down but can be very proud though of the defence of the World Cup. After all who had us down for making the final. i would have loved to see how the game panned out if the try had been awarded
Come on Lewis tomorrow, he was absolutley superb in qualifying today
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