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World Cup Odds Right Now New Zealand : 6/5 Wales : 7/1 Ireland : 7/1 England : 7/1 South Africa : 8/1 Australia : 16/1 Scotland : 22/1 Argentina : 33/1 France : 33/1 USA : 500/1 Italy : 500/1
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Vagabundo posted:The big threats from the NH were supposed to be England and Ireland, but it's like they're wilting as they get closer to the tournament. They both have very soft groups for Pool Stages, and unless there are any massive upsets, the projected knockout stages are : - England Australia New Zealand Scotland / Japan Wales France / Argentina Ireland South Africa - England would have a loving ROUGH path to the finals, only to end up playing one of two teams that they regularly lose to. Ireland (or Wales) are set up for a really nice run, where they can waltz through the group stages, rest their players for two matches, and then have to beat South Africa, before facing The Last Boss, New Zealand. If England bottle it at any point, then New Zealand have the easiest World Cup run in their history.
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Mar 16, 2019 20:45
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Vaders Jester posted:Christ... my brain must have blanked that. HOW COULD YOU FORGET ABOUT BRAVE ENGLAND AT A TIME LIKE THIS, THE RUGBY WORLD CUP, THE TIME WHEN WE MUST ALL COME TOGETHER AND BELIEVE IN OUR BRAVE, ENGLISH UNDERDOGS!! GOD BLESS THEM AND MAY GOD SAVE THE QUEEN. WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK AFTER THESE ADVERTS. CMON IN-GER-LAAAAAND.
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Apr 14, 2019 23:00
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Communist Bear posted:So can we expect Vunipola to be sacked/removed or is English rugby going to ignore that he's a clear oval office? Despite winning, Saracens had an absolute NIGHTMARE of a day, and there's no way English rugby can ignore it, because it's incredibly visible. * Vunipola was boo'd every time he had the ball. * At one point, someone ran onto the pitch, for the sole purpose of confronting Vunipola, and actually managed to get face to face with him, before security intervened. * Saracens sold 15,000 tickets, which is less than 50% of the stadium capacity, for a European semi-final. 3,000 ticket holders didn't attend the game, and Munster's (away) supporters outnumbered Saracens (home) supporters by a ratio of more than 2 to 1. * After the match, Vunipola was given a post-match interview, and thus a chance to apologize. His only response was to insist that "I'm allowed to believe in what I believe in", and to deflect the question.
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Apr 20, 2019 22:35
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I drive past it every week, so expect a Trip Report!
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May 5, 2019 15:42
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Hell Awaits Rugby World Cup Referees Nic Berry (Australia) Angus Gardner (Australia) Wayne Barnes (England) Luke Pearce (England) Jérôme Garcès (France) Romain Poite (France) Pascal Gaüzère (France) Mathieu Raynal (France) Ben O’Keeffe (New Zealand) Paul Williams (New Zealand) Jaco Peyper (South Africa) Nigel Owens (Wales)
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May 8, 2019 01:22
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Leaving out Ben Whitehouse, John Lacey and Joy Neville is also kind of unfathomable, but the IRB seem really concerned with maintaining a glass ceiling for referees at major international competitions.
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May 8, 2019 03:30
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Smorgasbord posted:Sorry that is absolute tokenism, no male ref with her level of experience would be in the discussion. Ok? I'm not 100% sure how tokenism works, or even how the selection process works, but World Rugby did recently declare that Joy Neville was The Best Referee In The World.  I hope you understand that it seems a little weird to see World Rugby's Best Referee In The World refereeing Norway vs Denmark, while 19 others are at the World Cup?
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May 11, 2019 03:38
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 Rugby World Cup Goon Squad We have around 3 months to put together a tournament thread, to hopefully convince the rational, sport-watching population of SAS that Rugby is good, and cool, and that the rules actually makes some kind of sense! Thanks to Jerusalem and FallingDownJoe, we have an awesome thread to work with, and right now, we're looking for posters who are happy to Adopt A Country. We plan to give the countries out at random (because it's funnier that way), and posters to keep us up to date on how their country is doing, leading up to a during the tournament. It's up to you to let the thread know which squad they select, which amazing players we should watch out for, what kind of popular native alcoholic drink you drink while watching your adopted country play Rugby, and of course, you'll need to tell us why your country will definately beat Scotland. If you want to Adopt A Country, please post indicating so, and we'll add you to the draw. If there are any countries that you specifically do not want to adopt (for example, you almost certain wouldn't want to end up adopting your actual nationality, or somehow end up having to support England), please list those countries in your post! 
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Jun 8, 2019 19:42
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ElectroMagneticJosh posted:Keen to adopt a country There 6 countries left in the pot, and the 3 "most interesting" ones are still open. I'll leave it open for another few days, but if anyone wants follow a second country in addition to your ACTUAL NEW LEGALLY DESIGNATED RUGBY NATIONALITY, I can wrangle things to make sure that you write about 2 countries playing in different groups 
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Jun 14, 2019 16:17
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To countdown the last 100 days until the World Cup, Rugby World Magazine has published a list of it's Top 100 Players In The World, and it's kinda weird. - 20: James Ryan (Ireland) 19: Jonathan Davies (Wales) 18: Jamie George (England) 17: Alex Goode (England) 16: Stuart Hogg (Scotland) 15: Ardie Savea (New Zealand) 14: Peceli Yato (Fiji) 13: Faf de Klerk (South Africa) 12: Billy Vunipola (England) 11: Pauline Bourdon (France) 10: Tadhg Furlong (Ireland) 9: Viliame Mata (Fiji) 8: Finn Russell (Scotland) 7: Ben Smith (New Zealand) 6: Owen Farrell (England) 5: Liam Williams (Wales) 4: Brodie Retallick (New Zealand) 3: Mako Vunipola (England) 2: Beauden Barrett (New Zealand) 1: Alun Wyn Jones (Wales)
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Jun 15, 2019 17:16
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Lots have been drawn. 3 countries are unadopted, but I'm happy to do write-ups for them stavros880 posted:I'll adopt one of the remaining countries. The more inept the better. You're going to loving LOVE the next 3 months of your life!
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Jun 18, 2019 21:44
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Goon World Cup 2019 If you need me to re-assign you a new country, because you've accidentally been assigned your former (birth) country, speak up! If you want me to re-assign you a new country, because your new country is scheduled to play against your former (birth) country, then tough poo poo. Your old country sucked, and that's why you decided to switch to [New Country]. VIVA LA [NEW COUNTRY]! - 
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Jun 18, 2019 22:37
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They explain it here : https://www.pro14rugby.org/2019/06/17/conferences-confirmed-for-2019-20-2020-21-guinness-pro14-seasons/ It's kind of dumb, and they openly admit that the groups are unbalanced, in order to "make sure each union is correctly represented" - In brighter news, multi-millionaire Israel Folau is crowdfunding $3.0m, so that he doesn't have to pay for his own pointless legal battle against the nasty men who said he couldn't play Rugby anymore. https://au.gofundme.com/Israel-folau-legal-action-fund
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Jun 21, 2019 16:55
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Paddy "she was enjoying it" Jackson somehow has a contract for 2020, and I've seen Bees Roux play in The Pro 14 without anyone batting an eyelid. I can see him playing in England or France, and being touted as a great comeback story 
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Jun 21, 2019 21:27
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Aramoro posted:Do we make our effort posted about our beloved adopted countries here or will we be making a RWC thread? Make them here when final squads get announced?
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Jun 28, 2019 18:32
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bessantj posted:The Welsh and Scots are joining up! ... Are there even 6 premiership-quality clubs in Scotland? Hawick Watsonians Melrose ? ? ? Are they just going to Regionalize everything into : Warriors B Edinburgh B Stirling Hawick / Melrose Ayr ... Haddington?
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Jun 29, 2019 19:28
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goatface posted:AYR, BOROUGHMUIR, HERIOT'S, MELROSE, STIRLING COUNTY AND WATSONIANS Oh, wow. So, it's teams full of retired Welsh professionals vs teams of Scottish schoolchildren? (3 of those clubs are literally Edniburgh college teams.)
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Jun 29, 2019 19:36
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Vaders Jester posted:Japan have revealed their jersey for the RWC and it looks loving awesome. In keeping with the rugby tradition of "New Zealand Are The Best At Everything".. 
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Jul 4, 2019 14:39
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The jerseys are up for order on the official webite, along with lots of other tat, from your country of choice. https://shop.rugbyworldcup.com/ I'm probably not going to be able to resist buying the baseball cap that just says "Ueeruzu" on the back of it.
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Jul 4, 2019 17:14
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The England shirt is completely white, except for a patch announcing that they won the 2003 World Cup sewn onto the shoulder. gently caress England.
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Jul 6, 2019 01:44
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bessantj posted:The Welsh jersey comes with the stench of failure Yeah! I'm really glad that I'm Italian, now!
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Jul 6, 2019 21:55
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The Rabbi T. White posted:Super Rugby was so boring this year no one even commented on the final. I missed it, because I was playing in a tournament at a Rugby / Drum n Bass festival. At half time, someone ran onto the pitch to hand me a water bottle and a spliff 
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Jul 7, 2019 01:48
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Stitecin posted:Exactly. Minimum weight 225 pounds (102ish kg). Cancel the World Cup, televise this instead.
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Aug 3, 2019 22:30
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HappyCamperGL posted:Lol are Wales really world no 1 now !? Unless Wales manage to Scotland in their friendly against England?
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Aug 10, 2019 20:20
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I’d like the IRB to clarify if Wales are even the best team in Wales.
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Aug 11, 2019 14:24
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It's crazy how many of the 1st-tier nations look "scary as gently caress" to play against, right now. This is going to be a super exciting World Cup for me.
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Aug 17, 2019 21:33
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Aug 19, 2019 22:56
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Finally! A Shirt that we can wear to both the Rugby match AND to the Fetish Club afterwards!
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Aug 21, 2019 12:18
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TLDR : If Scotland win the World Cup, George Foreman will kill himself?
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Aug 21, 2019 23:35
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World Cup Thread Ok goons, a lot of the squads are out, so my plan is to have the new thread ready to post on the 15th September, and then keep to high effort posting for the first few days, before the tournament starts, and we all turn to poo poo-posting  If you have adopted a new country to write about / support / lovingly tattoo onto your body, then please send me a write-up via PMs or via email (awfultyma@gmail.com). Let me know which 3 dudes you want me to use in the header image (If you don't specify, then I usually use the captain, fly-half and most likely try scorer) - Example Writeup  As of writing, Wales are officially The Best Team In The World. They reached this incredible achievement, by beating a series of 13 “kind of bad” teams. Basically, the rugby equivalent of reaching the maximum level in World Of Warcraft, by sitting in one spot for over 2 years, and killing a never ending supply of level 1 boars. When it comes to playing against “kind of good” teams, Wales have a horrible history against Southern Hemisphere teams. The last World Cup saw them knocked out by Australia and South Africa, before going on a lovely Summer Tour of New Zealand, where they lost all 5 games, and were humiliated by a club side. They also tend to lose whenever they have to play a game at any altitude above sea level. .. But they are still The Best Team In The World, honestly! Captaining Wales this time around will be Alun Wyn Jones. He's basically an android, that's built to play Rugby. He can jump, he can catch, he can tackle someone in such a way that they have to leave the pitch for the remainder of the game. The only thing Alun Wyn struggles with is comprehending the emotions of the weak humans that he must play rugby against. He's definitely someone you should be supporting if you're already a fan of Kimi Raikonen, Data from Star Trek, or you just enjoy watching post-match interviews where he stares grumpily at a wall, and refuses to answer any questions. Wales' second key player is probably fly-half Dan Biggar. Unlike his captain, Dan Biggar has a lot of strong emotions, and he's constantly exhibiting one of them with all of the tact and calm of a bad guy in a Looney Tunes cartoon. Dan's emotions of choice are anger, confusion, determination and frustration. He became a running meme in the previous World Cup, when Youtube realized that kicking penalties made him really nervous, and the only way to sufficiently calm down was to perform an elaborate dance routine in the middle of the pitch. If you plan to follow Wales this year, then get prepared for a loving roller-coaster. Despite being The Best Team In The World, most bookmakers don't have them in the top 5. Without any superstar try scorers, or fancy tricks in the bag, Wales are powered by an incredible fitness routine, an unbreakable defense, a stirring national anthem, and the fear of what Alun Wyn Jones will do to anyone who dares to gently caress this one up.
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bessantj posted:God I forgot I agreed to do this, time to find out what Japanese rugby is all about. Also can you change it to Alun-Wyn Jones? I've seen far too many people call him Wyn-Jones and to be honest it's starting to trigger me. Where does it say that? I'm not sure why anyone would hyphenate it, Wyn is just a really common middle name.
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Aug 31, 2019 01:35
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I think every nation and every write-up should share the honor of holding the title of The Best Team In The World. Except Scotland.
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Aug 31, 2019 17:38
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I can write about the time Jeff Hassler quit rugby, so that he could become a sailor, and then DM'd me on Facebook, to try and sell me his motorbike.
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Sep 4, 2019 18:05
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bigfoot again posted:Is there going to be a new thread for the World Cup? Coming this week. I'm waiting on around 6 contributors to send me their team write-ups.
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Sep 14, 2019 16:13
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Scotland's literal best player, David Denton retires, age 29  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/49712831
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bigfoot again posted:I just remembered how good The Rugby Thread was.  https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3899070
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