Off Topic The Rugby Thread

11-12 at halftime, England fortunate to be just a point down but having gone 0-12 after a bright start have clawed their way back after NZ dominated much of the half. Drop goals from Ford have set up a spicy 2nd half. Will England's replacements have the edge?...

 

Absorbing game....AB's look like scoring every time they have ball in hand, but England hanging in there.....
All to play fir 2nd half....

 

Yellow card for NZ and England take advantage, 18-12...

 

25-12 now, England playing well.

 

England concede a try and have a man binned. Far from over.

 

NZ fighting back and England a man down 25-19...

 

Ford with the penalty 28-19...

 

NZ blunder and England wrap it up 33-19...

 

Outstanding win for England

 

Statement win against an All Blacks team ‘in development’ which according to Richie ‘born offside’ McCaw is not permissible, you have to be fully developed to play for New Zealand.

Now Wales v Japan. Good luck Taff, let’s see Eddie crying into his beer.

 

Cracking good win by England from 12-0 down to look really good and only concede another 7 points while scoring 33 is some performance....

 

Great result for England, the match was a lot closer than the final score but we rode the storm and deserved the win. If we can sort the lineout which was our weakness here we will challenge the best...

 

We need a big improvement over last week but Jac is missing (until Feb I’ve been told).

I know Steve Tandy. Lovely guy.

I feel sorry for him that he’s taken the Wales job at this time.

Hopefully, we can do something today but I’m not hopeful.

Isn’t it a winner take all game viz a viz World Cup rankings?

 

Hope it hasn’t angered the All Blacks too much given we’ve got them next week

 

Wales 24 23 Japan

Never in doubt

 

And a stunning win against mighty Liechtenstein.

They’ll be singing in the valleys tonight. 66% of my house breathing big sighs of relief while I smirk.

 

Just shows how poor we are currently in both sports

In football 1 nil win over who?

If you had said ten years ago that the players would be celebrating and jumping for joy after beating Japan in Cardiff by 1 point, they would have taken you away in a straight jacket.