So this kicks off tomorrow morning. \:d/

There is a Rugby Union thread but i can't find it/cbf. Anyway, imo the events big enough for a fresh thread.



Schedule for the Weekend
Sat Sept 19 England v Fiji Twickenham, London 5:00am Gem and Fox
Sat Sept 19 Tonga v Georgia Kingsholm, Gloucester 9:00pm Fox
Sat Sept 19 Ireland v Canada Millenium Stadium, Cardiff 11:30pm Fox
Sun Sept 20 South Africa v Japan The Amex, Brighton 1:45am Fox
Sun Sept 20 France v Italy Twickenham, London 5:00am Fox
Sun Sept 20 Samoa v USA The Amex, Brighton 9:00pm Fox
Sun Sept 20 Wales v Uruguay Millenium Stadium, Cardiff 11:30pm Fox
Mon Sept 21 New Zealand v Argentina Wembley, London 1:45am Fox

FFS looks like I'll only be able to watch the Samoa v USA match in the first week.

Look at Australia's easy group

Looks like the Union thread got removed.

Edited by iridium1010: 18/9/2015 09:22:33 PM

Take me back a month or two ago and i would have said Australia is getting knocked out in the group stage. The scrum appears to be less shit now which is a miracle. Wales losing both Rhys Webb and Leigh Halfpenny is a huge game-changer as well, I'm not sure they are capable of coping without them.

Yeah we should get through, some huge games in the group.

Only saw the first half of the Fiji v Eng game and man it was pretty dam average.

Felt like the Ref & TMO were very poor and every call seemed to benefit England.

The penalty for the lifting tackle - personally didn't think that was necessary.

England's first try was your typical truck and trailer and Fiji should've received a penalty instead they gave it a penalty try for Eng and Fiji was reduced to 14 men for 10 minutes.

The penalty against Ratuniyarawa I think it was, when he was trying to clear up the ruck, genuinely didn't see anything wrong with what he did.

Anyway was very impressed Matawalu and my man love for Nadolo just gets stronger.

We may be in the group of death but after watching that first half I'm not very concerned by these two side to be perfectly honest.

Our group is tough, but the injuries for Wales should help and we're a good chance to beat England. Should get through the group but we'll need to be on our game. NZ obviously favourites for the whole thing but hopefully we can put in a good showing.

Georgia =d>

Japan leading SA at 43mins.

Holy fuck come on Japan

Ongmgomg

Japan win!!!!!!!

Two upsets today. One being one of the biggest ever

Got so blind watching Ireland that i miss the greatest upset in Rugby History. What an utterly unbelievable result!

This could really spark the interest here for rugby. Still can't get my head around it.

I just cannot fathom this. Such a great result.

Gutted that Canada couldn't keep their score more respectable, but they'll only get better in the next few years.

How so? They normally peak at World Cup level. 5 Appearances, 2 World Champions, 1 Third Place, 2 QF'S. Losses against NZL, England, Australia (x2) before 2015.

That's why I love international rugby. Passion and emotion.

That finish was absolutely brilliant. They held onto the ball for 5mins and like 20 phases to score after the buzzer. And that try earlier where 10 Japanese people were in the rolling maul. =d>

Why didn't the Wallabies play like that when Jones coached us? We just kicked it away all the time

Good highlights package here including the last 3 or 4 minutes.

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They'll be celebrating on the streets of tbilisi tonight :lol:

The Scenes.

In football terms would this be the equivalent of Solomon Islands beating Brazil? or not quite.:lol:

More like Australia beating France.

Like New Zealand beating Germany in a major tournament.

Yea its an incredible achievement but seeing how South Africa was playing in the lead up to this tournament a result like this was certainly on the cards.

Yup, the loss to Argentina.

Twice knocked out in the semis by the stupid rain rule?

the thing is, the 'japanese' team was made up from 7 new zealand expats :lol:

Not particularly japanese at all

not a fan of Rugby but those scenes when the japanese won were amazing.

Half the all-blacks are south pacific islanders and have been for 30 years. Would love to see a "Pacific Islands" team compete.

2 things would happen. The Islands team would be way more competitive than Tonga, Samoa etc by themselves and the all-blacks would be fucked.

Good result all round.