*** The Official Rugby World Cup 2015 Thread ***

[el_dazza]

A score here makes things interesting..

 

[PlacidCasual]

I'd like to see more counter rucking, Australia are under committing to tackles. We should smash em legally put Phipps under pressure he's a bit of a bottler, easy to rattle. So pressure him.

I'll eat my words over Wiglesworth, this as well as I've seen him play for England.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

I'll be honest I don't fully understand the game but **** me this game does show what modern football has become!

 

[Monkey Puzzle]

Game over.

 

[McBain]

Oh **** off

The ref has basically fished for that.

 

[el_dazza]

Oh dear.

 

[Azza]

In a bit

 

[TheMightyTen]

A fully deserved loss ending in the confusing mess that the whole campaign has been conducted under. There was I thinking it couldn't get any worse then 2011!

 

[Purdy]

Want England to lose but wow the ref was gagging for that, embarrassing

 

[PlacidCasual]

Oh **** off

The ref has basically fished for that.

Agreed, obvious penalty but yellow card, really?
I'm not convinced we'd have done it but that may have killed the game.

 

[McBain]

The first response was just a penalty, then the ref is asking like "Are you sure it's not a yellow"

I couldn't play this game.

 

[Monkey Puzzle]

Want England to lose but wow the ref was gagging for that, embarrassing

The French always betray you in the end.

 

[oldbag]

What a joke, we're out.

 

[MacMiniBoy]

Yeah baby it's done

 

[Abraxaz1]

Yellow card for that but nothing for a shoulder charge to the face, biased french piece of ****

 

[Skeeter]

Sigh

 

[McBain]

Time to get on the New Zealand band wagon.

 

[platypus]

Poite is certainly buying Kefu's tricks, I'm biased but I reckon the tighthead is turning in and Marler is forced to follow.

Australia obviously deserve the win, but the standard of refereeing against England is, once again, dire.

 

[Skeeter]

Time to get on the New Zealand band wagon.

Having watched them play, I can't see anyone beating them. They seem to be telepathically linked to each other, blindly passing the ball somehow knowing a full speed player is already there to collect it.

 

[PlacidCasual]

Poite has been wrong all night at the scrum. I agree with Flatman, Slippers head was on the floor. Hinging should have been an England penalty. I'm always amazed at what a huge difference in interpretation each ref has.

Edit: by the way,I think Australia are the better team tonight and deserve the win. We weren't robbed. Just some stuff gets my goat.