If they had those two ( and a ref who had correctly chalked of England's 1st, 3rd and 4th try due to offside, standing up after the tackle and the knock on respectively) they would have won it.
Hore wasn't my favourite player and I'm happy he's retired but that was one bad incident in a 16 year career and he was suspended for five games for it. Compare him to Dylan Hartley and he's a saint, yet the British media went absolutely rabid about Hore because he was wearing a black jersey, not a white one.
For some reason they are televising a light training session for Ireland rather than a match.
Sat in a bar in Montreal watching that game.
The locals were resigned to having little more to do than to cheer the occasional sexton failed conversion.
In that long stretch of Japanese possession at about the 76min mark: it's not often you see consistency in passing and discipline like that in a 2nd tier side. I think.
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I don't know where he got the scorpions, or how he got them into my mattress.
That was pretty amazing, probably one of the biggest upsets in sporting history. I know the result and I still can't believe it happened. Hats off to Leitch, Fumi (IMO the second or third best halfback playing in NZ, even if he doesn't play for us and sits on the bench behind Aaron Smith at the Highlanders), Eddie Jones and the rest of the squad. Incredible stuff from start to finish.
Only four days rest until Japan play a rested Scotland though, so they'll have to recover really quickly.
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Japan knew what their strengths were and played to them.
Sadly I think subsequent teams will be wise to what they can do. And now treat them as a big threat, but god I want them to progress to the finals
Just found this thread after THAT game. Thought I'd share the teams with the best current records against the Spring Boks (South Africa for our American friends):
Just catching up on the game from last night. Wish I had stayed up to watch live. Fantastic game and really earned. Not a fluke but just good relentless rugby from the Japanese. Brilliant game!
This is going to be an interesting group. If SA are rattled by yesterday and if Samoa can tidy up some of their loose ball I reckon Samoa can take a game from them. What really stuck out with yesterdays game was Japan just staying at 100% the full 80. Samoa had good intensity today but tried too hard to make plays that weren't there. The last 20 mins of this game was just both teams giving the ball to each other with silly knock ons.
edit- I think South Africa will bounce back pretty hard though to be honest
USA and Canada seem to have gone backwards over the last few years, which is sad is see. Though Samoa seem to have gone backwards over the last few years too, way too inaccurate given how much they dominated that game.
Also, I'll go ahead and say fuck rolling mauls. I used to be a fan of good rolling mauls because they required skill and drilling to pull off properly but the current rules and interpretations are weighed way too heavily in favour of the attacking team and the refs have no idea how to ref them, so they're basically automatic tries and teams exploit that. At this point, I wouldn't mind if they were removed entirely.
McCaw shows amazing sportsmanship by tripping an Argentinian taking a quick tap. Yellowed.
Chip on your shoulder much?
The yellow cards aren't even the biggest problem so far, our defence is just rubbish. Read in particular has missed like 3 or 4 tackles, just hasn't been the same since his concussion issues last year.
Really good game to watch. The AB's need to pull their shit in on the cynical plays. Shows how hard they are being pushed though.
Also I wish we could not do the crowd booing a personality thing again. It was shitty four years ago when it was happening to Cooper and it'll wear just as thin here.
Cracker game. Felt like a semi not a pool game. Argentina looking better then the 2007 squad. The amount of defense they put on in that second half against NZ pressure was huge. The All Blacks pulled their heads out for second half as well.
If this is the first three days i'm not sure I can take a month of rugby this good.
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England never don't enter a tourney with anything better than "achieved expectations" level of play.
If this game is anything to go by, Australia should roll through this English team and Wales should have a good shot, even without Halfpenny and Webb.
If they had those two ( and a ref who had correctly chalked of England's 1st, 3rd and 4th try due to offside, standing up after the tackle and the knock on respectively) they would have won it.
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Hore wasn't my favourite player and I'm happy he's retired but that was one bad incident in a 16 year career and he was suspended for five games for it. Compare him to Dylan Hartley and he's a saint, yet the British media went absolutely rabid about Hore because he was wearing a black jersey, not a white one.
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Ireland vs Canada now.
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Sat in a bar in Montreal watching that game.
The locals were resigned to having little more to do than to cheer the occasional sexton failed conversion.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
http://newnations.bandcamp.com
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There's a perfectly normal English sentence.
(Says the really not-a-rugby-expert)
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Unspeakably sensational.
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Only four days rest until Japan play a rested Scotland though, so they'll have to recover really quickly.
Sadly I think subsequent teams will be wise to what they can do. And now treat them as a big threat, but god I want them to progress to the finals
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that was amazing. goosebumps. lol.
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If you want I can do you that final section with Japanese or French commentators as well.
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Scotland is really good right? USA isn't making it out of pool play are they?
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edit- I think South Africa will bounce back pretty hard though to be honest
it was honestly closer than it should have been, the us defense was stifling
but not as a close as it COULD have been, they were incredibly sloppy on offense
Also, I'll go ahead and say fuck rolling mauls. I used to be a fan of good rolling mauls because they required skill and drilling to pull off properly but the current rules and interpretations are weighed way too heavily in favour of the attacking team and the refs have no idea how to ref them, so they're basically automatic tries and teams exploit that. At this point, I wouldn't mind if they were removed entirely.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
found this highlight on reddit too, pretty slick https://gfycat.com/RectangularAlarmingIndochinahogdeer
Chip on your shoulder much?
The yellow cards aren't even the biggest problem so far, our defence is just rubbish. Read in particular has missed like 3 or 4 tackles, just hasn't been the same since his concussion issues last year.
Also I wish we could not do the crowd booing a personality thing again. It was shitty four years ago when it was happening to Cooper and it'll wear just as thin here.
If this is the first three days i'm not sure I can take a month of rugby this good.