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Not the Roosters, the Rabbitohs. Arguably their fiercest rivals in the NRL. SBW played for the Roosters, and Burgess flattened him in his first game back--something I'm sorry we didn't get to see again in Union. Apollodorus fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Oct 29, 2015 |
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Jono C posted:From the outside looking in, this is what it felt like. Burgess was picked before he was ready, and is getting blamed for that. The whole plan from the beginning was 'Sam Burgess is going to switch to Rugby Union and play in the World Cup and it's going to be a great English underdog story!' That was the plan at every stage of the process, and Burgess, his agent, Bath and the RFU were all signed on. He was essentially given X ammount of months to get really good at Rugby Union, then lots of money changed hands and he started training.
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Tyma posted:That was the plan at every stage of the process, and Burgess, his agent, Bath and the RFU were all signed on. Final conclusion. All these people are morons.
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Apollodorus posted:Rabbitohs Sounds like some kind of breakfast cereal
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tarbrush posted:Final conclusion. All these people are morons. Yeah, but they probably got rich and don't care.
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tarbrush posted:Sounds like some kind of breakfast cereal That's what I keep saying.
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I thought he'd be an impact sub coming on at 6 to run really hard and bang into people, Lancaster thought his skill set and meagre experience in union leant itself to one of the main distributing positions in the back line. Hindsight and all but it was doomed from the start. Farrell fell into the same sort of positional no man's land that Sam did and he didn't exactly set the world on fire either, it would've been a lovely story but it's not too surprising.
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Unchanged NZ, Sio back in for Australia. Not sure if he's 100% or just deemed worth the risk, he didn't look happy when he went off the field.
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ColtMcAsskick posted:Good article. I had absolutely no idea about any of this. Did it include his great line "I'm only straight on the pitch." 
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Oct 29, 2015 18:56
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The wait is excruciating. Feels like an eternity till Sunday morning
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Everyone here knows that tomorrow is the most important game of the tournament. Go Bokke!
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Madkal posted:Everyone here knows that tomorrow is the most important game of the tournament. Go Bokke! Bismarck  I'm going to a stupid party tomorrow so can't watch the first game. Will have to record it.
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Madkal posted:Everyone here knows that tomorrow is the most important game of the tournament. Go Bokke! I'll continue to back Argentina, simply because I still wish they'd made it to the final and winning 3rd place is the closest thing to that now 
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Jerusalem posted:I'll continue to back Argentina, simply because I still wish they'd made it to the final and winning 3rd place is the closest thing to that now I've tipped Australia and Argentina. South Africa doesn't care about 3rd while Argentina does. They seemed to have a lot of injuries in the semi.
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I'm pretty sure everyone (sans-saffers) will want Argentina to win it. It should be pretty close right? Most of their previous match ups have narrow score lines.
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NZAmoeba posted:I'm pretty sure everyone (sans-saffers) will want Argentina to win it. Argentina have a 50% win record against the Springboks this year, although the results may have been affected by the  throwback jerseys they were wearing: Lucky for me they're both wine-producing countries, so the world's greatest drinking game can take place. Unlucky for me I can't watch it live since I have to teach and then drive home.
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World Player Of The Year Nominees Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys) Daniel Carter (Crusaders) David Pocock (Brumbies) Greig Laidlaw (Gloucester) Julian Savea (Hurricanes Michael Hooper (Waratahs)
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DC... Really? Has had a couple of good games against weak opponents.
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Watching some press conference thing with Eddie Jones and he's just giving the most interesting criticisms of Japanese rugby.
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Knuc U Kinte posted:DC... Really? Has had a couple of good games against weak opponents. He's just getting in on name value at this point. Doubt he wins.
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Knuc U Kinte posted:Watching some press conference thing with Eddie Jones and he's just giving the most interesting criticisms of Japanese rugby. Any idea where I can watch it, or read the story? Very interested to hear what he has to say.
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Apollodorus posted:Any idea where I can watch it, or read the story? Very interested to hear what he has to say. It just popped up on Japanese cable, but this is an article about it. http://news.yahoo.com/jones-says-japan-needs-develop-more-rugby-talent-090846819.html
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It's not the same as watching him cut off the translator when she gets his point across. It's weird watching him because he clearly understand the language to a high degree but he butchers even simple Japanese names.
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Knuc U Kinte posted:It's not the same as watching him cut off the translator when she gets his point across. It's weird watching him because he clearly understand the language to a high degree but he butchers even simple Japanese names. Awww. Also, here's a nice feature: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/rugby-world-cup/11963870/Rugby-World-Cup-who-makes-our-XV-of-flops.html
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I hope they play this game in the appropriate "who gives a gently caress, let's do the fancy poo poo" manner.
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God I hope so. My dad's there tonight and he's just asked me who he should support. I told him in no uncertain terms that it needed to be the Pumas.
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Oct 30, 2015 20:44
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Why are there always people singing during the non-singing bit of the Argentine anthem?
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People also sing along to the Spanish anthem, which is completely instrumental. What else are you gonna do
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Because it has too many non singing bits
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Jesus I looked away for a minute how the heck did the pumas get sin binned already?
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/34682150BBC posted:Australia's World Cup final tactics have been leaked after staff were pictured with their game plans in hand.
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Where was this desire to score trys in the semi-finals, South Africa?
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That man has a broke face. Argentina look like they're not that interested.
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How the hell did they not turn that over. They had clean seconds to secure that ball.
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What happened to that poor Argentinian?  Edit: Definitely looked like Habana pushed the guy to me.
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