The Rugby World Cup.

[Trumpton]

warren zevon rip wrote:

> Trumpton wrote:
>
> > Which one? Lamont, Dewey, Lawson, Southwell, Brown, Ford?
>
> Come on, Trumpty, no more clues. You know what part of the
> country I am from!

The Borders. Those were the try scorers (also Parks scored, but he was born and raised, schooled in Australia) for Scotland from their match against Portugal.
>
> > Do you have insight about Namibia then Wazz?
>
> Well, I have touristed there, and its great. I would recommend
> it for a holiday any time. One of our old concentration camps
> is there, which is always a salutary lesson.

From the Boer War or from WW1 & 2?
>
> > Btw, Ireland wobbled to a 32-17 win over Namibia.
>
> I know - Ireland were appalling - thir last try was not even a
> legal one. If the ref had gone to the TV ref, it would only
> have been 25-17.

If the referee's have the technology available then they should always use it.

[mart]

If England make it past the Pool A games its likely to be as runner-up and facing Australia in the Quarterfinals..

Mart

[Deuce Bigolo]

The Welsh seem to have found their hurdle

Australia 18 - Wales 3

Time to lie back on that ' all black' then?

[Deuce Bigolo]

Bog Snorkelling Celebrations Cancelled!!!!

[Deuce Bigolo]

I'll grant you that but given their posturing during the week about how they were going to exploit the aussie scrum they fell flat on their faces

I'm a fairly unbiased Aussie at the best of times and can say i loved the welsh game against england in OZ last world cup where they lost gallantly 57-35 or there abouts but the current crop doesn't have the same cohesion

[Trumpton]

England will have to beat Samoa to get to the quarter-finals. They were awful against the Boks - didn't look like scoring a point.

Wales started poorly but played better in the second half to lose 32-20.

Portugal lost 106-13 to New Zealand, but they were committed the entire game and never gave up.

[Deuce Bigolo]

No surprises,England are a shadow of the world cup winning team

Wales are also off the boil even on their own home patch

I'm watching New Zealand v Portugal at the minute and its 52-3(half time)
and the commentators are describing NZ as lack lustre

Portugal after the first 20 minutes were what you'd expect,easy meat

I'll say it again...its a joke

These sides shouldn't be here

The rugby world sevens understand this and have 3 different sections
so the mismatches are kept in check

[Trumpton]

The next World Cup finals are being reduced from the current 20 teams down to 16 teams.