Latest World Cup odds ....... NZ 11/10 Eng 6/1 Aus 7/1 SA 7/1 Ire 8/1 Fra 10/1 Wal 14/1 That makes England favourites against Australia next week, Australia may be worth a punt in that match....
Southampton Academy were playing ours at Landore yesterday ,so I tried getting a sing along going but their parents were strangely subdued
What I can't deal with is that the English media are acting like England last to Namibia.....and that it was such an inconceivable shock that they lost to Wales. OK England were favourites, but it's not exactly a huge shock is it ? Wales beat England often.
Above England in the World rankings in Football and Rugby!.................... PS: James Hook and Gareth Anscombe have been added to Wales' squad after Scott Williams and Hallam Amos were ruled out of the World Cup through injury...........
Fly-half Rhys Priestland says Wales were "happy" to learn giant Fiji wing Nemani Nadolo is out of their World Cup clash on Thursday after being suspended for a tip tackle against Australia. Nadolo denied the offence and can appeal against the decision. But as news of 6ft 4in, 20st Nadolo's ban reached the Wales camp, Priestland said: "There's a few happy boys down in the team room."
I prefer to be underdogs in everything as it takes the pressure away and gives a better frame of mind and gives the opposition a false sense of superiority....
Well done for a never say die attitude and holding your nerve at the death. You deserved your victory. However, Rorke's Drift was largely an English victory*....just saying! * Don't let the film produced by Ferndale boy, Stanley Baker, fool you. (Brilliant film mind!)
The regiment had been based in Wales for six years by the battle of Rorke's Drift, although they were still titled as the 24th Regiment of Foot (2nd Warwickshire Regiment). On that basis, they qualified on Residency Grounds Most of the battle was at night. Like Twickers last Saturday!
The 1964 film Zulu is a depiction of the Battle of Rorke's Drift.[53] The film received generally positive reviews from the critics. Some details of the film's account have, however, been criticised[by whom?] as historically inaccurate (for example, in the movie the regiment is called the South Wales Borderers but the unit was not in fact called that until two years after the battle, although the regiment had been based at Brecon in South Wales since 1873).[54] While most of the men of the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot (1/24) were recruited from the industrial towns and agricultural classes of England, principally from Birmingham and adjacent southwest counties, only 10 soldiers of the 1/24 that fought in the battle were Welsh. Many of the soldiers of the junior battalion, the 2/24, were Welshmen.[55] Of the 122 soldiers of the 24th Regiment present at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, 49 are known to have been of English nationality, 32 were Welsh, 16 were Irish, 1 was a Scot, and 3 were born overseas. The nationalities of the remaining 21 are unknown
We will beat Fiji today, whether we get a bonus point is dubious. There will be no complacency today. I can't see England beating Australia and I also can't see us beating them either with our depleted talent. Not that that bothers me. If you'd told me we'd get through to the quarters before the tournament started then I'd have been very happy indeed. Which we haven't just yet but I think we will now!
Hope that you are right - but, if England beat the Aussies then, with Uruguay in their last game, the English will be definitely through! If the Aussies then beat us.......
We must beat Fiji convincingly, I hope we get the bonus point as well, Our lads should be really fired up for this game given the road ahead looks so sweet now after that fantastic win over England...........
We will be to strong for Fiji in the second half and get a bonus point, England will come 3rd and we will go through with the ozzies
