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>>74749731

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Nice grand slam you're having here
Maybe if you had 20 minutes of extra time you could win
Perhaps.

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>>74749850
Barnes ?

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Get fucked.

>Ireland celebrating like they've won the world cup
>England have still won the championship

Forever cucked

>cuckland

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>Englel

>from chicago to dublin

what did he mean by this?

Tiocfaidh ár lá

With the exception of the Scotland game and the last 5 minutes of the Wales game, England have played like shit really. Not sure how they've won, other than everyone else begin even worse

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>we're going to spend the next 8 months shitposting about how amazing we are
>because we won a pointless game

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lol

YOU CAN ONLY POST BELOW THIS LINE IF YOUR COUNTRY WON THE SIX NATIONS 2017

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>>74749731
>England win the Six Nations
>Ireland acting as if preventing a grand slam is a great victory
Its like some guy losing a fight and having three of his limbs broken, but gaining satisfaction because one of his arms is still unbroken.

>>74750047
ok, shame we choked and lost the grandslam, we're so bad :^)

>>74750047
That's not fair, if it's only by the flag, all of Great Britain has won the (6 minus 3 and a half) Nations.

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>>74750047
>cuckland

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>>74750078
you just don't understand

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHA ENGLELS BTFO

>>74750078

England got humiliated and their 6 nations win is totally hollow now, nobody will even remember who won this one

>>74750411
>and their 6 nations win

That's right, England won the Six Nations. We won it last year as well :) :)

>Ireland will be content with this after their worst playing performance in a 6N and do nothing to improve themselves ensuring a further slide into mediocrity
>English are eternally BTFO and seething

Perfect result desu

>>74750411
probably because we've won it two years on the trot and people are getting tired of us winning

because we won again did you hear?

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:)

>>74750411
>Win the tournament
>humiliated
Pick one lad.

>the state of the other thread
Anyone watching Jags Cheetos?

>>74750915
You know nothing about 6N, only Grand Slams remain in memories

>>74750915
Winning the 6 nations means nothing if it's not a Grand Slam. Everyone's who's a member of a 6 nations country knows this to be true.

Woo rugby.

>>74752052
Jags!

>>74750959
>grand slam edition
Followed by this thread


I'm guessing England fucked the grand slam. I hope Brazil bro never forgives them.


And I'm watching the game lad

>that dummy kick

I see why depressed argie got so depressed when the Jags didn't do well. They are a lovable bunch

>some argie bargie
10/10 commentary

And that kids is one reason why you never let the ball bounce when kicked to you

>cheetah defense
I think Ezcurra is 19 yo

Countries refs in terrible decline
>literally every one
Countries who's refs are in glorious ascension
>Big Strong Kiwis

>wake up
>england lost
kek

>>74753521
>2017
>losing to the Irish
KEK

They would have all been hung over from last night too.

KEK

>>74750456
>>74749930
Implying Six Nations isn't just a joke so Engalnd feels good about beating worse teams. They just needed an excuse to have a setup where they don't get BTFO by their former colonies.

Where did the poopetually pooper poorturbed poonglish run off to?

>he's a tough little nugget he is
>he is as wise as he is tall

Is this guy an overseas version of Sumo?

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Some cypriot banter on England
https://twitter.com/Cyprus_Rugby/status/843173911449800705

>>74753680
Just designate Irish as the official combo-breaker of the rugby world

>BSK ref could see a knock on
>TMO tells him to award the try
This TMO is pretty shit 2bh

>giving a single shit about meme >99,55 and meme >grand slam shit

here comes #LeMeilleurChampionnatDuMonde

>today
Clermont 65 - 13 Pau
La Rochelle 36 - 17 Brive
Bayonne 24 - 20 Bordeaux

Bayonne may still have a chance to not be relegated considering the SF + Racing 92 merging

>postponed for terrorism
Castres - Stade Français
Montpellier - Racing 92

>tomorrow
Toulouse - Lyon
Grenoble - Toulon

>>74754777
I keep trying to watch french league matches byt it feels like all those teams would lose against the Kings
Maybe a fluke win against Bumpups

>>74754777
>postponed for terrorism

Does the middle east now officially include France? Sad! You need Trump more than you know 2bh

>heure de fergie
Literally seething lads

>>74754886
some muzzi allahuakbar'd himself in a Parisian airport this morning, though he only managed to get shot, and the airport got closed for the day

>>74754936
Considering they are scum and worth less than an old sock and still managed to shut down entire parts of france i say they won, again. Get your shit together

>>74754936
Nice work France. You'll be a middle eastern warzone in no time.

>>74754936
Need a wall around your Airport so random muzzies can't suicide via soldier. Walls work my friend.
Make France Great Again

One fusion more and Top 14 can convert itself in Top 12.

>jags lose
Arg flags flooding the thread insulting players
>jags win
No one cares at all
this is true everywhere on the internet, not only here

We are some toxic folk, arent we

>>74757020
Crowd too habitued with derrotas dignas who get speechless when team wins

>>74757097
Does Taringa even give a shit about anymore?

>>74757546
About rugby*

>>74757546
>implying it's only a taringa thing
Even the serious media makes fun of them for losing but being happy about the "progression" they've made

>>74757596
Does the average argie care or even know about rugby?

>>74757658
I could assure the average Argie knows we play that sport and probably watch the WC games but couldn't tell the rules

Quite like soccer in your country, I guess

>>74757658
The average argie knows that rugby exists obviously but dont care

>>74757596
> media
Fox and public television are not real media, at least not the sport journalism. Derrota Digna was a popular mock term but it was a meme only in Taringa.

>>74757658
The attendance might be smaller than basket but is less plastic than the apehoop fans. If it wasn't for WW1 it would be the oldest league of any sport in Argentina.

>>74757973
Rugby isn't the 3rd sport anyways

Mortorsports, boxing and tennis are bigger

>>74754886
well, actually, they were not played because the players are on strike due to the surprise merging

>>74758052
I mean actual sports.

Tennis is fine, but i was aiming more to club sports.

>>74758218
Then yes, rugby is the 3rd most popular team sport

Still football takes like 80% of the audience, all other sports are small compared to it

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Who is your favourite kiwi club player?
Mine would probably be pooloo or assoh
Also jayzus ben smuth got ruined by maafi

>>74757020
Im argie and have been posting
Last years suicide tells you what happened to whoever could have cheered for them

>>74760506
Liking Aso atm
He is my favourite "new" player

>>74760675
Dont know whu the sidden argie flag but im in the us.
So far i appeared as a murrikan flag

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>>74760684
Not that I get to see much super rugby ( mostly just highlights ) and he's probably not all that new but jordie barrett seems damn good too.

>>74757020
You like ulster fans, super vocal when moaning ( like 80% of the time ) and then near dead silence when things are going semi well.

>>74760753
Barrett is 19 and it's his first super rugby season.

Pretty fucking new if you ask me.

>>74760753
Yea all 3 Barrett's look in form atm. Scotty will be on the bench for lions but the other 2 will be starting imo. Ben on one wing and Savea on the other

>20 straight minutes of scrum resets in Wales vs. France

/nrl/ was right about our sport lads

>>74763224
>actual physical confrontation
>NH being any good at it

Mate, that's like saying someone was right about cricket being shit when looking at our shit team play. Of course the bad makes it look like a bad sport.

My flatmate got dropped from starting half back at a pre season game and is having a domestic with his GF

Fucking half backs lads

I dont get rugby I thought england already won the six nations thing

>>74763224
Blame the poorthern hemisphere for being useless at rugby

The rest of the world still knows how to play

>>74764746
average NH poster

>>74765204
idk what NH but mmkay

>>74765293
NH = Northern Hemisphere aka we can't play out side our winter season so we can't play you BSK's when you are available and ready to play us

>>74765588
still dont really get it t b q h f a m a l a m

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>england

So do you think it was fair for the welsh that the French had a good scrum? I mean isn't it unfair that the French have a good scrum and the welsh don't? Shouldn't there be rules that forbid teams playing against wales having a good scrum because then the welsh scrum could loose and that's not how you play this game?

>WE WUZ KINGS

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Hey /rug/

>>74768053
Not watching the bachelor this year. I'm trying to stave off brain cancer.

>>74767819
I think it's unfair that the Cheetahs have a better scrum than the Welsh. And they only have 1 player that has 15 SA national side caps, everyone else is literal "who's?"

But then there is a reason for the Welsh jokes

What does /rug/ drive?

>kiwi shitposting
>0 responses
>muscular aussie posting
>singlehandedly revives a dying thread

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>reminder that england just got touched up by a country with almost as few players as Australia

>>74751343
Why are England they only six nations county to not be allowed celebrate a six nations title win, just because they lost one game?

>>74769016
because winning the 6 nations means nothing if it's not a Grand Slam. Everyone's who's a member of a 6 nations country knows this to be true.

>you now realise that Ireland are unbeaten when facing teams on an 18 win streak

>>74769046
Not just unbeaten. A 100% win record.

That said, if England can bounce back from this defeat and win back to back Grand Slams in 2018 and 2019, the 2019 World Cup is theirs for the taking. If not, they can forget about winning the World Cup.

So humiliating. Don't know how will ever live this one down. It's like the 7-1 of Rugby.

>>74769126
18-1 you mean.

>>74769037
But why did Wales and Ireland get a massive hard on when they won it but no grand slam?

I don't understand the english complaining. England got two grand slams this weekend (U20 6N and Women's 6N).

>>74769037

it sort of matters when you have a few teams with a realistic chance of winning

problem was this year everyone knew england were going to win and then we just got meme'd by a bunch of paddies fired up after their national day and whose whole raison d'etre is trying to get back at england for the whole potato famine/colonialism thing (a bit of bants back in the day they just won't let go)

>>74768789
holy crap england has more players (2.5m) than everyone else combined (1.7m)

>>74769193
Not really.

You're only a true champ when you run the table - like everyone that has ever won the RWC.

It's like how every time that Aus has won the rugby championship it's been because NZ lost to RSA as well and Aus didn't. There's nothing special in those tournament wins, Australia just had other results go in their favour, like england did this year.

>>74769170
Because of this >>74768789

>>74769243

you're comparing different competitions in a silly way

i'm just giving you how it feels to those participating, it clearly matters for instance if the winner of the last game decides who wins the 6n, even if both teams have lost a game before it

i don't really care whether an aussie thinks the 6n matters desu, i don't care about the rugby championship at all

>>74768789
It's outdated. Is there similar infographic with more recent data?

>>74769251
>Population meme

Jesus lad

>>74769294
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rugby_union_playing_countries

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For interested people, Russia x Germany stream
http://www.rugbyeurope.eu/rugby-europe-international-championships-m3-russia-vs-germany

>>74769318
Thanks

>>74769318

lol i knew the stats were bs but counting u13 girls?

>>74769243
Australia's only won the Rugby Championship once, and in that year SA lost all their matches. You're thinking of the Tri Nations perhaps?

Sri Lanka with more registered rugbiers than Argentina

>>74769364
That's why they included the % of male senior players, which is just as bad, seeing as England still has more than anyone else.

>Tonga with only 8 registered referees
How work local tournaments? With 6 teams playing simultaneosly at same pitch?

>>74769392

it's not really that bad desu, most people only really get introduced to rugby in secondary school as a 3rd or 4th sport and play it for a bit of bants, and can then have fun even when they're older at a low level

it's just not taken seriously aside from a tiny portion of the population - australia has this excuse as well i think

not to mention most people introduced to it are basically just set on having a solid career in some middle class job and maybe having a bit of fun with it at uni but nothing more

surprised at the tiny amount of refs though

why is rugby in south africa dying when they still have the second highest number of players

>>74769530
It's only boer butthurt because rugby isn't an exclusive club for them anymore

>>74769530
Because all that really matters is the very very top players - you can have 100,000 senior males but all you really need is 50 great senior males.

When, of those 50 great senior males:

>10 go and play in europe and aren't available for international selection;
>10 won't be selected in the national team because they're white and you already have 10 other whites in the team
>5 are on their way out because they're getting old
>5 are on their way up, but haven't hit their peak

You're left with a team that's 5th best in the world rather than 2nd.

>>74769555
looking for a non grandslam opinion m8

SF and Racing 92 merging just got canceled because the players went on strike.

http://www.lequipe.fr/Rugby/Actualites/Top-14-la-fusion-entre-le-racing-92-et-le-stade-francais-est-annulee/786843

a fucking farce

>>74769656
The owners of both clubs should be banned from french clubs rugby

>>74769656
That basically confirms that it was all shit. They wouldn't have announced it if it wasn't sufficiently advanced at that point, so it was all just a stunt I guess.

lads

LADS

>englel

18-1

>>74769961
You're slow lad >>74769153

>>74769364
Just the RFU blowing their own trumpet.

"Look at how many people we've got involved in the game, all these people have said the word 'rugby' before"

go romania

kek at this English "defence"
>w.w.we have the largest p.p.player p.p.pool b.b.but what does that even g.g.give an as advantage???!?

With defence like this it's no wonder you lost 2bh

Don't underestimate Jacky Lorenzetti

>>74770269
30,000 ferocious Maoris looking for an opportunity to eventually make some money away from New Zealand is a better player pool than 150,000 privileged mostly whitebois playing at uni with their pals tbf

>>74770684
>1 BSK is worth 500 weak emasculated Englishmen
Sounds about right, sad we are talking about your best and brightest here too...

I think Gatland would have found it very difficult not to pick Hartley with 2 slams as captain. Now I think he'll end up with the player he always wanted - Alun Wyn Jones!

>>74769656
Great. Now I can live in peace again. What club do you support btw?

>>74771053
He'll pick Warburton again. It's so fucking obvious.

>>74771053

You say that like it's a bad thing and Hartley isn't absolutely shite

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Spain 30-0 Belgium
Russia 52-25 Germany
Romania 8-7 Georgia

REC 2017 Final Standings

1. Georgia 19
2. Romania 19
3. Spain 13
4. Russia 9
5. Germany 8
6. Belgium 2

>>74772908
Who qualifies then?

>>74772908
2017 and 2018 editions (doesn't counting Georgia matches) count for WC qualifiers for Europe

>beaten by fucking romania
and there are still casuals that want georgia in the 6nations

>>74773005
Georgia matches count too. It's just that if Georgia tops the group, the team finishing 2nd will get the spot.

>Vern Cotter as Scotland coach
>Wins 19
>Losses 17
kek

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>>74773822
>Wale5 talking shit

>>74773975
>4th is considered a good tournament for Scotland

>>74773822
That's better than every other Scotland coach in the professional era.

>poo peelanders celebrating an other countries victory

top kek stay pathetic boys

>>74774045
>5th (fifth place)
>only 10 points
>No BP on Italy
>Having to be Welsh
Truly awful

So if we hadn;t gotten pumped by england would we have come second?

>>74774140
>first time in 10 years you haven't finished 5th or 6th
>acting like you're one of the big boys

>>74774198
Third, behind Ireland.

>>74774099
If you count the professional era as from the '96 5 Nations onwards, then you've got Scotland winning the 5 Nations in 1999 and finishing 2nd in '96'.

Then in the 6 Nations, they finished 3rd in 2001, 2006 and 2013, and 4th in 2002, 2016 and 2017.

I think the main difference has been psychological: instead of beating Italy, a shitty France and maybe one "fluke" win against one of the home nations, the two wins against Wales and Ireland did seem more like the result of better play than just sheer luck. By the time it came to squabbling for position in the final weekend, it had been taken out of >our control thanks to the England game (and then all the "wrong" teams winning).

>>74772908
Hahahahaha Romania won. Maybe they should replace italy? LoL

>>74769530
The simple answer is that kaffirs have fucked the country because of muh oppression and it's now a race to the bottom. Rugby suffers just as the white man does

Morning lads, morning Ireland

afternoon kiwi

>>74771217
none

Brive, if anything, as they're from my region, but I won't lose my sleep over them.

Just had a shower, was able to look down and still see my penis.

Forwards do not know this feeling

The Lions attack coach is Rob Howley. Just let that settle in for a second.

Why are cheetahs so bad?

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>>74776504
the fuck did you just say

Reminder the big strong handsome and intelligent Hurricanes would have topped the 6 nations with ease

Just had a great Welsh lads. The fish oil pills are really softening my stool up, would recommend if your on a diet.

>>74776504
The Cheetahs only have 1 SA national side player in their team and he only has 15 caps. It's a literal "who?" Side and that's why they don't do well

literally no New Zealand derbies in next round of fixtures, fuck sakes.

>>74776922
Nice lad, keep us up-to-date on those bowels of yours

>>74776504
if you're referencing the jaguares game the cheetahs rested a bunch of players for the match just like the loins did. zeilinga was on the bench.
jaarsveld didnt even make the trip, nche, cassiem, rhule didnt travel either.... the list goes on. point is this wasnt a first choice cheetahs team and even then they had the lions share of possession in the second half. disjointed due to not playing much together desu

Can somebody redpill me on Wayne Barnes?

Very competitive 6 Nations this year lads.

Disregarding Italy, the only team to win away was England. Disregarding the England - Scotland game the margins of victory were tiny with both teams within a score into the final minutes.

There's clearly not a whole lot between 1 to 5, home advantage playing a big part in the results. Hopefully France and Scotland can keep up their performance for next year.

Champions Cup quarter finals now in 2 weeks time now.

>April 1st
15:15 Leinster v Wasps
17:45 Munster v Toulouse

>April 2nd
13:00 Saracens v Glasgow
16:15 (CET) Clermont v Toulon

>>74750000
Good post and checked

guys help us

>>74778351
Good ref, communicates well with players. Did the best he could in ridiculous circumstances of the France v Wales game. Though he probably should have given a penalty try far sooner (people would have still complained if he did)

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>>74754777
>pau are in 5th, 1 point behind toulon
>best player is a 36 year old irishman with 0 (zebo) caps
>in 1st place is la rochelle
>who finished behind ZEBRE in their challenge cup group last year
What does French rugby mean by this?

>>74778374
>both teams within a score into the final minutes

weren't wales a converted try and a pen behind scotland before that final penalty?

>>74778728
>praise kek

Some SCATHING poo peeland articles about England today. Cannot imagine how seething they would have been if England won. Don't know why they're so obsessed with the record, it's literally just a number. The slam was far more important. Cyprus have the record anyway

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>>74778374
>April 1st
>Munster v Toulouse
Why the fuck couldn't Connacht qualify? With how close Galway is, it would have been a GOAT quarter-final atmosphere in Limerick. Fucking Wasps bottling at home against Toulouse and Carty not going for the drop goal.

REEEEEEEEEE

>>74779165
Is this the one you are referring to?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11821243

>>74779533
>sharing a rattue article

Was being a (((rube))) part of your plan?

>>74778728
Is Colin Slade 36 and Irish?

So lads, we dominated Cheltenham AGAIN

>>74780287
Were any of big joe joyce's horses racing?

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>>74780349
Joe's gone out to stud

>>74779533
>the rise of Ireland as classy challengers
>Ireland play the game with verve and guile
Wew.

I always suspected kiwis never watch >us, but now I know for sure. Accusing England of not showing up regularly enough, but giving Ireland a free pass? Come on now.

With the exception of the games against New Zealand in Chicago, and parts of the game against England, the Irish attack is extremely predictable. The back row wasn't working all championship, but Schmidt refused to change it, giving that fucking smug smile to anyone who dared to think they knew better than him. If Heaslip hadn't gotten injured at the 11th hour, the man of the match wouldn't have even played. Lo and behold, having him there as a lineout option and poacher gave the team more balance like everyone had said it would.

Oh, and thank God for the injury to Kearney. He won't be dropped until he begins actively losing games for Ireland.

>>74780716
Think people are getting ahead of themselves with the win against England.

Using it as confirmation bias.

>>74780716
Chris Rattue has never watched rugby before. His entire opinion on rugby is derived from reading /rug/ with everyone but kiwis blocked. Tripfags opinions count double.

>>74773374
Kek
Those guys think that just because they have a kiwi as coach, they can play with the best of europe

>>74769656
Good. Man can hope the Stade will find a way to bring down that 7 mil deficit because they have still a lot to do. I'd hate it if they end up being administratively relegated to ProD2 or worse after what they've done. Feels good to see by the end of this shitshow, a lot of people told Lorenzetti to fuck off.

Also, I wonder if that fail will make the derby anything really significant and special but my hunch says no.

>>74773374
I only remember Brazil saying that and then everyone taking the piss.
It was "fiji in the Bledisloe" tier and I don't think anyone was saying it seriously

>>74773374
I don't want them in the Six Nations, but I still think they (or whoever wins that competition) should be allowed have a play-off with whoever comes last. If they aren't good enough, what is there to worry about?

It's a bit shitty to totally close off the top competition to them though. At least give them something to aim for.

>>74781851
I second that motion

seems fair to me

>>74749930

They were celebrating winning the match, lad.

Congratz to England on their Championship. Shame they couldn't make the 19-in-a-row record or the grand slam, but they really didn't threaten the Irish tryline even once during the match.

>>74782005
Can't believe England didn't go for the corner when their maul was destroying us.

Must not have been confident in their line-out.

>>74778374
>17:45 Munster v Toulouse

Fucking MONSTER of a match at Thomond Park.

Going to try to break into the stadium the night before and sleep in the jacks.

>>74781851
because the six nations isnt some sort of fucking promotion relegation shitter thing
ITS A FUCKING INVITATIONAL
italy got in because they beat several tier 1 nations over the course of a few years back in the 90s. if georgia can put together something like that at some point then maybe there are grounds for them being invited

>>74782172
There seems to be a perception among casuals that going to the corner has a high success rate. It may be effective against Zebre in the Pro12, and it can be good against teams who are on a warning for a yellow card or already have a man in the bin, but in a tight game with everyone on the pitch, it's usually an awful idea.

Surely if didn't know this already you should have learned it over the course of this championship?

>>74782252
Meh, Toulouse aren't as good as they used to be. Expect Munster to win handily enough.

Leinster Wasps is the big fixture that weekend, with both of them top of their respective leagues.

>>74782327
The only reason you'd think that is because of how poor our line-out in the 22 was this tournament.

We'd actually, before this tournament scored 58% of our tries off of that very platform in 2016: http://www.the42.ie/ireland-tries-analysis-2016-joe-schmidt-3218518-Feb2017/

England's maul was destroying us late on. They had won several penalties from it in the second half.

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*loops around you*

>>74780716
What did you think of Payne at fb on Saturday?

>>74782327
It just looks good and obvious. Thats what most people see, plus most people take more risk for the big potential gain rather than the safer 3 points for instance.

Of couse coaches and players who actually now the game don't but its understandable

>>74782308
Sorry Giuseppe, nothing personal meant by it.

If there was a promotion relegation playoff, wouldn't Georgia, by definition, have to beat a tier 1 team to get in? Besides, doesn't it make more sense to base who you're going to invite to your "FUCKING INVITATIONAL" based on recent form (ie a playoff) rather than some results achieved in the 90s by a completely different group of players?

Like I said, if you're so sure Georgia are shit, what's the fear in creating a path for promotion?

>>74776472
Who coached the only team not to get a bonus point against Italy

>>74782522

We cucked the English lineout yesterday.

>>74782576

>nobody within 40 yards
>fumbles ball

Other than that, not too bad.

>>74782613
This made me think

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>>74782540
*smashes you late*
Heh, rien personnellement

>>74782576
Thought he was average, no better than Kearney, maybe even worse.

Clearly wasn't fit, I'd still prefer him there to Kearney though.

Go to sleep yuroshits. We'll take it from here

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>>74782576
>tfw you realise joe will never ever pick you no matter how out of form, geriatric or short on game time your competition is

>>74782695

Jokes on you, faggot. I stay up all night fapping.

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>>74782695
Oh boy, 12 hours of poo puns, tripfags and stale McKenzie memes

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>>74782788
>tfw been slowly stroking a semi while alternating between porn and random internet pages for around 2 hours

Please don't leave me alone with the kiwis eurofriends. They have shit chat, can't handle the bantz and know nothing about rugby.

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The absolute fucking state of the southern hemi's superiority complex is sometimes baffling.
Take this video for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOBH-JDtjE
Not one card was given for and high tackle in the 6 nations, yet these smug pricks directly state that multiple cards were given for high "tackles", thus advancing the narrative the the north is somehow inferior in it's interpretation of the tackle, bollock.
Then in the reds lions match, ( albeit a match that took place after the video was shot ) Quadie gets a red for a fairly run opf the mill high shot that I would bet wouldn't have been red in the north ( unless the match was reffed buy marius matrias and the tackle was against a home team player ).
Grand you guys play better attacking rugby than us, that's accepted but the idea that the north's game is somehow softer or stricter than down south is a fucken loada shite.

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>>74784542
Just to clarify I'm just as angry about that red card for cooper as I am about that bs inferior hemisphere narrative.

>>74784076
>They have shit chat, can't handle the bantz and know nothing about rugby.

I don't think I can be much help i'm afraid

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*contests high ball behind you*

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>>74785662

>>74784542
>>74784621
Just to clarify
Like usual SH is being the testing ground for new rules again. They are cracking down on several rules atm.

You may remember posts about SH posters not liking how the High ball contesting rules and high tackle rules are being enforced.

A tap on the neck while tackling now is a yellow card. Accidentally touch someone's face while tackling them, that's a yellow card. Contest the high ball, that's a yellow card. Try tackle a player that's already being tackled, that's a yellow card.


These rules are being tested on us because the best refs and head of the world rugby ref thing are all kiwis. The rules are being tested because the NH (Ireland in particular but every big NH team does too) has complained about these rules.

*farts*

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>>74786275
Yellow card for you for complaining about high tackles rules lad.

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>>74782788
>>74783470

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*wins super rugby title and cements starting 10 jersey for the Lions tour*

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>>74786541
>cements starting 10 jersey for the Lions tour
*blocks your path*
heh.. nice try kiddo

>>74786275
>Like usual SH is being the testing ground for new rules again.

That's wrong though, they high tackle law was first implemented in the NH and the no tackle in the air has been around for ages

How casual are you

>>74786658
>That's wrong though, they high tackle law was first implemented in the NH and the no tackle in the air has been around for ages
>How casual are you
A lot less casual than you apparently. I know those laws have existed, they are trialing a new empathise on them due to complaints from NH teams. Just like they trialed a new scoring system down here last year and how they tested new ruck laws down here last year too.
Laws that negatively effect the game are trialed down here all the time.

These changes are literally pro-flopping and that is an area that the NH seems to be excellent at.

>>74786626
Steve, you're too old, and too fat to play test rugby

>>74786786
Nah you're a casual

>>74787027

Not an argument.

>>74787070
Leave him alone. He is casual and doesn't know what he is talking about. That post was his put to feel like he had won.

>>74787070
irish are the trolls of rugby, don't feed them

The RWC ranking lock in date has passed lads. Pick your tastiest GOD:


Rugby world rankings at the cut-off point for RWC draw:

=== band 1 ===

1 New Zealand

2 England

3 Australia

4 Ireland

=== band 2 ===

5 Scotland

6 France

7 South Africa

8 Wales

=== band 3 ===

9 Argentina

10 Fiji

11 Japan

12 Georgia

>>74787923
>NZ SA AR group
The cowardly NH is going to do it's utmost to cheat the draw into that, that way maybe they'll get one spot in a semifinal

>>74787923
Ireland, France, Argentina

>>74760975
Fuck off Jordie will be starting. You don't get debut caps off the bat against the Lions. If he plays against them it will be for the Hurricanes.

>Still trying to move the best fullback in the world to the wing

>>74788042
>The cowardly NH

Im Sorry, What Hemisphere are you again?

>>74769530
Black cunt quoatas. Best players are missing out because they have to take a certain amount of black cunts and their coach is a black cunt so he picks the blacks cunts regardless of the black cunt quoata.
Heineken Meyer never should have been dropped. He lost a semi final to the team who went on and won the tournament. His low point was Japan. Now look at the black cunts record and tell me why he still has a job.

>>74787923

Holy fuck how are Scotland 5th? Thought they were dogshit.

>>74788246
Im argentine on vacation, how many semifinals has your team played?

>>74788295
Did you talk the Belgrano to Ameri... oh wait

>>74788320
>irish taking pride on the english army
how cucked are you?
you don't even own the entirety of your small rainy unproductive island, a plot of land incapable of even feeding consistently it's own inhabitants

>>74788347
>>irish taking pride on the english army
I'm they one who started this meme, though it was something in relation to Argentina obviously, can't remember what

Of course it was appropriated by the buttmad Argie, just checking if it was you and if you were still mad :)

>>74788365
>buttmad Argie,
The one that supposedly offed himself?
What meme?
Yeah, as you can see, im not mad, after all my nat team is capable of reaching the semifinals in a WC.


>get told
>i-it was a m-meme
>you m-m-mad h-hehe

>>74788384
Too bad the Belgrano isn't capable of reaching the Falklands

>>74788394
too bad ireland is incapable of producing enough food
>irish famine a million deaths
>irish losing over a million because they are so incompetent they can't even produce enough food for themselves
>belgrano's death toll 323

>irish needing to bring matters not related to rugby to discuss
lel
Pathetic
>needing to suck english cock even in matters outside rugby?
lel
cuck
this is why you don't deliver in the WC

>tfw when almost a third of ireland is a english colony
we may have lost the malvinas, but at least we sent them packing when they tried to create a colony in our mainland in the 1800s

>>74788468
This 2bh

>remember this thing my oppressor did to you
Pathetic

Reminder that Falkirk is argentine clay.

>>74788499
this

wew

ireland btfo

Imagine being Irish right now

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>>74786786
>>74786275
Aye but those safas have gone down in my estimations for flat out lying. The way they were talking you'd swear there was an epidemic of carded high tackles going on in our matches and they then show footing of some tackles while implying they were carded when in fact they were not.
It's just frustrating to see is all, as is quadie getting a fucking red for a tackle that would be a borderline harsh yellow imo.
I've posted it before and I'll post it again, right or wrong it makes for an interesting comparrison to how it is adjudicated at the moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a57MjiKM8r0

Anyone else join the Western Guard at uni today?

>>74788499
Stop using my autocorrect fuck up as a meme

:(

>>74788347
I remember now, Argies were saying this during the world cup and I said taking pride in another countrys achievements was laughable especially considering of the Falklands

It's amazing this is the first thing that pops into your head over a year and a half later, Jesus it must have really affected you

I reckon the Argie flag is still you using your phone data

That's a bit sad

>>74788720
>and I said taking pride in another countrys achievements was laughable
So im right?

> over a year and a half later
I only remember laughing about your team after all your cockiness previous to the match, no idea what you are talking about, but if you were told that then i see nothing wrong with it

>I reckon the Argie flag is still you using your phone data

i don't even know how or why should i prove that im someone else, but just for the record my phone is not even on roaming, just using the room's wifi, roaming is too expensive for someone my age, or more than too expesive also a stupid expense, my company offers something like 3usd every mb used, and as far as i know it works based on location, i remember being close to the paraguayan border once and posting with the paraguayan flag

>That's a bit sad
how you try to have the last word even though you already got BTFO and even waited for a while in hopes i had gone to sleep is a lot sadder i believe.

Pathetic

>>74788285
They won Ireland and Wales in 6N

>>74788758
right that you copied me and that's all I care about

What are your coulda doyd poodictions for the Lions tour lads

>>74788921
Warbs. It won't be a spear tackle, just a high shot by Cane.

Was thinking earlier today lads, when was the last time someone won the Mike Catt Memorial Trophy? Honestly can't think of one since Israel dagg won it from fatvea back in about 2011.

>>74788921
Will win against Highlanders by 10 more or less, will lose against the AB in the first test by less than 10, will shitpost here how all those loses against franchises were just a warmup and how they'll win the other tests, will get raped by 30+ and 45+ the other tests. All the games not mentiones will be loses by around 15 to 20

>>74788954
Ben Smith got steamrolled by Aso in the weekend

>>74788974
Oh wait, not Aso, it was Laumape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdaktcAW0lg

>>74788987
So Ben smith is the current holder.

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>mfw a kiwi suggests they rename the William Webb Ellis trophy "the Jonah Lomu cup"

>>74788990
It should be the "Damian McKenzie Goblet"

>>74789161
>shitspouter admits that mckenzmeme is a revolving door in defence

>>74789176
kys

>>74789186
Too late, already reported you to the Waikato police. They will be arresting you on one charge of offences against mana, and two charges of just being the worst person. You'll be spending 8-10 in a minimum skuxx prison, getting numbed by big Maori lads.

Dan "drink seven shots of cider then hightail it out of here" Carter

>>74782252
This season's Toulouse is disappointing af. Ever since Guy Novès took over Les Bleus, Toulouse has struggled with the new coach.

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>>74789204

>>74789128
Ewww no keep the Wiremu as Wiremu

>>74788427
Ireland produces a large food surplus, we export far more of our own food than we consume ourselves.

This was even the case during the famine when food was exported from Irish ports while the peasant classes starved. Before the act of Union with Britain serious disasters had been averted when the Irish parliament closed the ports. The British legislature wasn't willing to do this, the Corn laws had just been passed and they were loathe to interfere with the free market, it took them a while to realise the seriousness of the situation, and a significant portion of them just didn't like the Irish.

You can find out more about the Famine by doing your own research and maybe you might stop spouting ignorant shite about one of the archetypal man made disasters on a Mongolian goat fucking instructional website.

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explain yourselves aussies

>>74788954
Kearney got flattened by North

>>74789603
AFL isn't a non-sport. I'll give NRL though.

>>74789662
AFL is pretty gay desu. Any sport where you don't have offsides is nonsense. The essence of ballsports is that they are an allegory for war, and that it is your goal to get the ball through the other team. In AFL the goal is to avoid coming in to contact with anyone else to the extent that if you get caught with the ball you need to get rid of it.

They also implement arbitrary rules like "no throwing the ball" for no real reason. It makes no sense in circumstances where you are entitled to carry the ball, and bounce the ball if you're running with it, but you're not allowed to throw it to anyone else.

>>74789662
NRL should have been an abortion. It's a 13 aside tackle version of touch rugby. The literally took the form of rugby you use to teach some basic skills to kids, added some more players to the field (depending how many you played with it you touch games when you were 6 years old, from memory we played 8 aside) and then made it tackle instead of touch but kept all the rules around touch.

AFL is at least it's own mixture of different bits of other sports and is interesting because it is so different.

>>74789720
Yep. League is a mong-tier 'sport' with no complexity or guile. Bosh for 6 phases and kick until someone on the defence misses a tackle and you score.

>>74787923
Hasn't the band 3 be meant for the already qualified teams? I swear Italy is there instead of Fiji that have yet to be qualified - disregard of the World Rugby rankings, obviously.

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>our year

engershits

scotcucks

Bogpill me on Ulster forwards coach Allen Clarke

>NH posting time
>literally 6 posts

Inb4 quality over quantity, they are shit posts, you know it, I know it, everyone knows it.

>>74793008
They are used to 3-3 results

>>74793016
Based Argie

Good win by the Jagaures on the weekend.
Also, Nico Sanchez is a bit of a manlet lad, what's going on there

>>74787923
Should be five groups of four like in '99. Top four group winners go through to quarters, remaining group winner, the five runners up and the two best 3rd place teams go to quarter-final play-off. Then the bands would be

BAND 1
1 New Zealand
2 England
3 Australia
4 Ireland
5 Scotland

BAND 2
6 France
7 South Africa
8 Wales
9 Argentina
10 Fiji

BAND 3
11 Japan
12 Georgia
13 Tonga
14 Samoa
15 Italy

Doesn't that look more accurate? Argentina aren't third seed, and the third seeds are roughly around the same quality as each other. Also, each of the teams in the group stages will have equal amounts of rest time, rather than one team having four days, and another having a week.

>>74790364
This is correct The actual bands are

1: New Zealand, England, Australia, Ireland
2: Scotland, France, South Africa, Wales
3: Argentina, Japan, Georgia, Italy
4: TBD
5: TBD

>>74793374
4 groups of 5 is easier for the casuals to see who is making it and who isn't and all that jazz.

Plus 4 groups of 5 give the lower ranked teams that won't make the finals more games which is good for rugby.

And the most important reason is they can sell more AB games and make more money.

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>this shade thrown at the current champs putting them at the bottom of the list

Haters going to hate

>>74793424
Ya, but quarter-final play-offs gives some of the weaker rugby nations like Japan and Fiji a real chance at making the knockout round, rather than two guaranteed pastings in the group.

If it was a four team group and Japan beat South Africa they would have gotten knock-out rugby. Instead their reward was a for day turnaround against Scotland.

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>>74793488
>alphabetical order has oceania after south america

>>74778560
Can you award a penalty try for persistent infringements? I thought it had to be preventing a clear try scoring opportunity.

And could you imagine the Welsh butthurt if he'd have given a penalty try? They were already crying refball (fuck knows why, everything went their way in that game)

>>74793517

now now boyo it's never the welshies fault, they can't possibly do any wrong. if anything they play too fair and the cheating opposition always tricks the ref into punishing the valiant, patriotic and brilliant welsh

see also: the irish

>>74793492
Its not really a fair system though 2bh.
It's heavily biased against pool A & E who the winners of their respective pools have to face eachother in the Quarter finals where the other pools play a runner up of a pool.

I suppose of you are only aiming for Quarter finals you don't mind playing a good team there, but teams aiming for the win want to be in B, C or D as it's a far easier path to a semi
>>74793517
Ask yourself, do consistent infringements breaking the flow of the game hinder a team from scoring?
Think for example a team keeps collapsing their scrum and the team that wins that penalty keep playing a scrum.

>>74793492
>>74793580
Just looked closer at '99
Pool C was the pool to be in as you played the winner of a runner up and 3rd place team. That is not nearly as fair as playing the winner from 2 runner ups or playing the winner of a pool.

The 5 pools of 4 system was terrible if you want a level fair tournament. I suppose with how it is now you will almost always have a pool of death which isn't fair either but it's more fair than 2 pools of death (A & E due to the quarters), 2 fair pools and one walk to the semis (pool c who has the easiest Quarter by far)

>>74793580
Well, yeah, I do, but is that ever done? Don't refs tend to be a bit more conservative with awarding penalty tries? I mean, maybe not 20 minutes of retardation conservative, but still...

Plus, again, could you image all the Welsh butthurt if Wayne Barnes had given a penalty try? I mean I'd have found it hilarious, but they'd still have been insufferable about it for years.

>>74793580
>>74793647
Would be nice if we could hold a further draw for who gets who in the knockouts after the pool stage ends.

Also while I'm at it, the tournament's long overdue for an expansion.

>>74793680
There was a penalty try in a Super rugby game I watch on the weekend that was for 2 or 3 infringements in a row, none of which were worthy of a penalty try on their own. But several on your own try line deserves to be punished, if they weren't cheating/breaking rules the attacking team may have scored.

Penalty trys unless it is clear cut always are a bit of a great area. The ref could always warn them that they are close to giving up are try.

>>74793690
A drawing event for who you play in the finals would be cool. Doesn't football do something like that in some tournament?

>expansion
I suppose so, the top 24 teams are all probably deserve to play on the world stage.

>>74793772
>Doesn't football do something like that in some tournament?
Nope, not for tournaments where a number of teams that isn't a power of 2 progresses past the groups.

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Holy shit lad, Gatland just sent me a cheeky preview of the Lions squad

FORWARDS
Hookers: Best, Ford, George
Props: Cole, Furlong, Healy, McGrath, Nel, Vunipola
Locks: Gray, Gray, Henderson, Itoje, Jones (c), Launchbury
Back rows: Faletau, Haskell, O'Mahony, Stander, Tipuric, Vunipola, Warburton

BACKS
Scrum-halves: Murray, Webb, Youngs
Fly-halves: Biggar, Farrell, Sexton
Centres: Davies, Dunbar, Henshaw, Joseph, Payne
Back three: Daly, Halfpenny, Hogg, North, Seymour, Watson, Williams

>>74793816
12 English
11 Irish
10 Welsh
7 Scots

Seems fair enough

give us a hard pool for once

>>74794257
>give us a hard pool for once
This would literally kill the competition.
NZ, SA, Arg pool one SH titan taken out before quarters is just wrong.

>>74794332
>SA
>Arg
>'titan'
fucking lol

>>74794406
>Semi finalists of last RWC
>Objectively proven to be in the top 4 in the world
>not a part of the SH titan teams

okay guys, feel like watching some super rugby. Without giving away the result what game from the last round should I watch?

>>74794444
>objectively proven to be the top 4 in the world
>1 New Zealand
>2 England
>3 Australia
>4 Ireland
Really made me think.

>>74794444
>4 fours
>that post
Checked

>>74794448
saders v blues easy

>>74794454
>rankings mean something when England and Ireland stat padded vs "tier 1" nations in the 6N for 3 years
kek GL getting out of your pool lad

>>74794493
Meanwhile super powers South Africa and Argentina lose every Autumn game.