The Rugby Thread

[JCRD]

Jill Douglas = definitely guilty pleasure.

 

[teok]

As a casual rugby watcher (only watch World Cups and the odd Six Nations game) it bemuses me that the starting XVs are declared a full day before kick off. I thought England were playing yesterday after I saw the team sheet.

Is there a particular reason for it, or is it just tradition?

I think knowing the exact team line up is much less of an advantage in rugby than it is in football. In football every thing can hinge on a specific match up. Say not knowing if crouch or defoe was going to start etc etc instead of specifically peoparing to face one or the other.

 

[E17yid]

Huge game now

 

[TheChosenOne]

Huge game now

Having some of this

 

[Danners9]

Fox Sports here has NZ vs South Africa
Channel 9 has Melbourne Storm vs Parramatta Eels in the NRL Semi-Finals.

It's a rugby-fest tonight.

 

[TheChosenOne]

Having some of this

"All of it actually"

 

[E17yid]

The ginger monster at the breakdown there.

 

[E17yid]

Poor option by de klerk

 

[teok]

Fox Sports here has NZ vs South Africa


It's a rugby-fest tonight.

I have to wait until after the spurs game to eat any thing today. I'm fucking starving.

 

[tototoner]

i love Faf de Klerk, he's like an energiser bunny with a Barbie wig

 

[E17yid]

Played Scott Barrett

 

[E17yid]

How’s that not a pen for round the neck on Savea

 

[E17yid]

Smith did very well at the scrum there. Thought de Klerk had him.

 

[teok]

You see faf at the front of the line out.

 

[teok]

Also the SA blitz defence is crazy.

 

[LeParisien]

SA lime peak level spurs. Pressing high, taking risks

 

[E17yid]

You’d bet your house on Pollard there.

 

[E17yid]

Here we go. Pen try and sin bin

 

[E17yid]

Or not.

 

[LeParisien]

SA lime peak level spurs. Pressing high, taking risks

And somehow not winning despite dominating a bigger rival. One brain fart!