Excuse my ignorance but what happened to Paulse? He was always exciting to watch :)
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Excuse my ignorance but what happened to Paulse? He was always exciting to watch :)
Burger's ban has been reduced to 2 games. I'll complain no more :)
Too old, too small, can hardly make the Western province side these days. JP Pietersen is an exciting new prospect who is far better than Paulse and he plays for the Natal Sharks :) Watch him this tournament along with Habana ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
I'll complain for you then...Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Its a load of cr@p when a player going for the ball in the air accidentally collides with another player in the air and is suspended. If he had gone for the man only and taken his legs out from under him I could understand, but that was a 50/50 ball and neither of them had a clean take!!! It's a joke :down:
There, had me rant for the day :)
So true. But 4 games is worse than 2 so lets not complain too much. I don't think it was anything more than a penalty or yellow card at worse but you and I agree on that and others don't :)Quote:
Originally Posted by 555-04Q2
Pity about Paulse. I always thought his power was in his speed and how small he was. Habana more than makes up for it. Signed up on the BBC site to comment on stories and my nick is MyBloodIsGreen :p Tomorrow night I'll be watching rugby while my English girlfriend who couldn't care less sits on the couch with me trying not to fall asleep. PARADISE! :cheese:
Well, todays the day where England will need to stand up and be counted. There is no second chance really, theis is the World Cup and we are in a dog fight.
We need to win this game no matter what.
and you won't because we're stronger :D
Although in reality anyone could win ;)
I dont know how to put this nicely but...we are going to hammer England tonight by probably 20 to 30 points. They have lost the plot since winning the 2003 compo and have lost 22 of their last 37 games, a pitiful track record :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Flat.tyres
I've managed to ditch the wife for the evening to watch the rugby in peace! Looking forward to it :) Got my biltong and beers, now all I need is 21:00 local time and my TV!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Plus Wilko won't be there. I do hope the game is a whitewash :) Will wipe the smiles off a few faces. Tonight will hopefully be revenge for having to see the Boks lose in Perth in 2003 :)
I prefer droe wors. But then again I was born in Australia so I'm not a 100% Sarf Efrican :pQuote:
Originally Posted by 555-04Q2
Man the Boks are playing well. England are having moments but seemingly nothing more :)
Stop going for drop goals Percy!
Not that I know alot about rugby, but it's not looking good for England at all :p :
Could be worse but they won't be happy about not being on the scoreboard
Robinson injured :( What a pity. That's really crap. Such an exciting player.
End of his career?
Hope not but it seems so :(
Full time and it's 36 nil in the Boks favour. Never really seemed like they got into top gear. The English never seemed to get into gear at all though :mark: Hope Robinson recovers.
Robinson, Wilkinson and Barkley all likely to be fit in time for Samoa next week according to ITV, which is good news for what has been a dire tournament for England.
Watched a bit of Wales vs Australia, thought the Welsh put up a great fight, i look forward to watching their next game, possibly the best team the home nations have, even though i bias myself towards ireland :p :
A clinical performance from our Bokke, but I am a bit dissapointed that we didnt score more points :( England were hopeless :( and will not make it past the first knockout stages if they play like that.
I'm afraid you're right. At the moment, it will probably be Tonga and SA going through. England may luck into 3rd but I cant see them beating Samoa. What a trully desperate state of affairs for the champions.Quote:
Originally Posted by 555-04Q2
Well you'll have Wilkinson back soon. I think the English will get through but won't go further than the next round.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flat.tyres
I don't think one man can instill a vision and passion that is void from just about every England game since 2003.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Forget about this years competition and get the ERFU to start making plans for 4 years. We need to be in a situation where a team is built over the next 2 years with depth and interchangability so that in 3 years we start to be able to play a total rugby game with detirmination and belief and in 4 years, have a side that nobody wants to play.
As one of our rugby commentators said, England spent 4 years parading their trophy around instead of preparing for France 2007 :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Flat.tyres
Thing is they didn't need passion in 2003. Just give the ball to Johnny and he'll score. Regardless of what anyone says Johnny won the world cup in 2003 and if on form this time round could get England through a few games. But the team around him is nowhere near as good as 2003's team so their defence isn't up to it. Just look at how many points they've conceded sofar. Probably more than in the whole 2003 WC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flat.tyres
Sounds a bit like their cricket team and the ashes in 2005................Quote:
Originally Posted by 555-04Q2
meow.....................
When it pee'd down rain on the friday prior to the the final in 2003 and saturday was wet, I really though that the English forwards would dominate the game and win. If it had been dry I'm sure that they would have been run off their feet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
I'm still in shock, he may not have been a regular in the WRC lately, however Colin will greatly missed by a lot of people.......... RIP
JW didn't win the RWC for England. He was superbly influential and effective but cannot conjure the ball from thin air. The forward attacking platform gave the backs the chance to be creative and kick points. Because it was so effective, teams gave a lot of penalties for JW to kick.
You tell yourself that :) But the results since then have shown that he's a huuuuge part of the team. Generally when they've not had him they lose and if they have him they generally do quite well. No other team has one single player who is as big a part of their team as Wilkinson. Knock on will come here and argue with me over this but yourself and him are wrong :cheese:Quote:
Originally Posted by Flat.tyres
I can't copy posts but in response to your post, the England team fundamentally changed after the RWC. To ignore this is naive. I don't know what the thread starter would argue with you but one man does not a team make. A fly half cannot win ball from a start or restart. It takes the big boys up front.
But if you can pass the ball to a fly half and he can kick it down the field accurately and gain you large amounts of territory then you do the math :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Flat.tyres
We are in agreement Daniel which has me questioning both my sanity and my argument.
1. The game is started.
2. The forwards secure the ball.
3. They pass to JW who kicks miles up field into touch.
4. The forwards secure the ball.
5. The opposition give a penalty.
6. JW kicks it.
7. Goto 1 again.
Team effort, no?
What I'm saying is that if you can get up to within 5 of the touchline 50 times (an exaggeration) that you're going to get tries and the opposition will concede penalties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flat.tyres
Team effort of course but Wilko was the lynchpin ;)
And what I'm saying is that if you cant win / retain ball and get up there, as we saw against SA last week, it doesn't matter a toss who your kicker is because your fragged.
Hope Dani Roussow is ok. I did wonder if the Boks were letting Tonga off easy to make it harder for the English to get through but now I don't know. Boks are really putting the gas on.
This ref's bloody useless. Yellow card's Habana for no real reason, lets an offside tongan player interfere with play which then became a try, lets tonga bring down the maul with just a penalty. I like good refereeing but this was very much ott :mark:
I think it depends on who the decision goes against as to whether it was legitimate :p : Take the Samoan try against England. Was there downward pressure and control? Nobody in my pub thought there was but the TMO said there was. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
Didn't see the England game. I agree though :p If a ref punishes the Boks it's not on!!!! :angryfire Just joking :) One of the aussies was lucky to get away with his try as he dropped the ball and didn't have any downward pressure :mark: I know it would irritate a lot of people but I'd like the video ref to be able to make decisions himself and second guess the on-field ref.
Anybody see the Scotland v All Blacks game, What was going on with the kits??Unbelievable, when are the IRB going to do something about colour clashes. They both had dark shorts and socks, so when there is a ruck or maul it's hard to make out who is who. Changing shirts isn't enough, shorts and socks please. IRB sort it out,... and on Friday France vs Ireland- in football Ireland play in white against France/Italy, so why not in Rugby??