Watching opening ceremony.

Anyway, have we been lulling everyone into a false sense of security since Borthwick took over?

I know the answer is no btw.

Mad that the world's top 5 countries are in the same group.

Entertaining game.

Thought they might have blown it, but they regained their composure and saw it out well.

Another great quarter final, Rugby Union is ace, I still don't know the rules though.

3 minutes ago, Alf Hartigan said:

Another great quarter final, Rugby Union is ace, I still don't know the rules though.

Some of the technical stuff is hard to grasp, and hard to see; the refs have to be really alert.

I thought he missed a bit today from both sides, but it was a good game.

How the hell Smith played on I don't know. 

Smashed nose, then a whack on the head. I was thinking they should take him off, but he stuck at it. 

7 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Some of the technical stuff is hard to grasp, and hard to see; the refs have to be really alert.

I thought he missed a bit today from both sides, but it was a good game.

How the hell Smith played on I don't know. 

Smashed nose, then a whack on the head. I was thinking they should take him off, but he stuck at it. 

Aye got family down south who take the piss for me not knowing all the rules, I can still tell when it's a good game though. Looking forward to this last quarter final now. Still can't see how England can get past either

39 minutes ago, Alf Hartigan said:

Aye got family down south who take the piss for me not knowing all the rules, I can still tell when it's a good game though. Looking forward to this last quarter final now. Still can't see how England can get past either

Certainly underdogs, but there were some good things today.

Bit disconcerting conceding a try whilst a man up, but fair play to the opposition for that.

A few of them looked shagged at the end; hope they can recover in time.

France or South Africa will smash us next Saturday....

Would love to be proved wrong.....

This is a fun one. Normally fall asleep watching Union 

This is ridiculous 

Great day of rugby.

Good performance from England. Fair play to Fiji fantastic effort from them.

But the quality in this semi is something else, sensational rugby. 

Vary average 1st half, not sure what the fuss is about France & South Africa...... 👀

Just hope it's the pinnacle for them.

Like when we beat NZ last time, then couldn't hit the same levels afterwards. 

58 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Just hope it's the pinnacle for them.

Like when we beat NZ last time, then couldn't hit the same levels afterwards. 

We could do with 20 players on the pitch next week. No chance methinks. 

Last Northern team left in? As per

French missing out

SA NZ final surely

8 minutes ago, globaldiver said:

Last Northern team left in? As per

French missing out

Quite.....

3 hours ago, Alf Hartigan said:

Another great quarter final, Rugby Union is ace, I still don't know the rules though.

Four sensational quarter finals. Repeat in the semis hopefully although I'd be surprised if Los Pumas cause the All Blacks many problems.

We have our work cut out for us. There's always hope.

Good win, but we are playing a different game to the elite

And while we have an english forward as coach, we wont progress

That fucking scrum half of ours, dear god

 

Watch us win it

 

4 hours ago, Casino said:

Good win, but we are playing a different game to the elite

And while we have an english forward as coach, we wont progress

That fucking scrum half of ours, dear god

 

Watch us win it

 

With the rest of the world against us. It's the hope that kills you!

Really am hoping against hope mate but I can't see us getting past next weekend. If by some miracle of a giant killing act we did, who's to say that we couldn't win a one off knockout game!

Time for AF to come home and take the reins. Our relative success might make it difficult for them to replace Borthwick!

Come on England.

After the cricket, its down to the rugby lads.

good start

great how the ref has dealt with this by talking to the captains 

football could learn a thing or two

14 minutes ago, L/H White said:

great how the ref has dealt with this by talking to the captains 

football could learn a thing or two

been said for years.

Come on England.

Isn't there some new rule in football where if more than the captain plus a certain number of players surround the referee then cards start coming out?

4 minutes ago, Marc505 said:

Isn't there some new rule in football where if more than the captain plus a certain number of players surround the referee then cards start coming out?

Dunno, but the abuse to refs in football continues to feed down to kids, need to copy Rugby Union in this respect.

Anyway, back to Rugby, it's on this.