PACIFIC NATIONS CUP
>Sun 28 July
12:00 United States of America v Canada, Glendale, Arizona
>Sat 3 Aug
14:30Samoa v United States of America, Suva, Samoa
17:15Fiji v Canada, Suva, Fiji
22:10 Japan v Tonga, Osaka, Japan
**all times in official RWCT**
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Eager
Hue on Hueicide watch
shall give septics vs leafs a look I think
>a draw in Wellington
This kills the hue
FUCK Snyman, and fuck Wales.
*Ting Ting Ting*
Ahem
Fuck canterbury
Fuck their shit jerseys
Thank You
leafs getting SHARTED on atm
score?
USA 20-0 Canada at halftime
wtf happened to leaf rugby
I think the yanks are improving over time.
can't wait for the kiwis to be dethroned by wales
Who scored more boundaries, New Zealand or South Africa?
Seethe more lad, Falkirk is STILL rightful English clay.
>no sunday M10 rug
Fucking bullshit
I suppose the equivalent is who breached the advantage line the most times.
Brodie's apparently good to be back for the WC.
>world gets apoplectic about McCaw "entering from the side"
>all black gets injured from the same, not a peep is heard
Ben OKeeffe doesn't care what happens at the ruck.
Oh wrong game. Nic Berry does care but he had already blown his whistle.
You're an absolute munter if you think O'Keefe is nearly as bad as Berry, Sheddy. Nice to see what you really think though.
Need to bring back Steve Walsh teebh.
Think he's still dealing with his demons tttt
Just bet my house on Australia to be the Poo Blacks. AMA
>shed
>house
pick one
Agreed.
*wins 16-16*
*wins 98.7% of the vote*
Scotland
, Japan's
bitch
>Aotearoa
>drawing in purpose to evade from "TRC winner curse at WC year"
Aotearoa shall loss WC anyway
Canada has two losses against Brazil in last three years
their best player doesnt play outside of world cups
All Fats.
Savea isn’t in the team anymore m8
miss him 2bh
gnight /rug/ don't 404
USA destroyed Canada
is their sevens success, dare i say it, translating?
you now remember kerr-barlow
I think it's more how rapidly Canada have declined. USA only had one sevens player starting. Feel bad for DTH and Ardron Tbh.
free izzy
A combination of that and a professional domestic league
Canada has stagnated while other countried have advanced
This
Was freed from his contract, lad
Ranked 2nd in Wales on the bru lads.
Will Sergio do it?
Who is Italys next/back up 8?
4 WC matches, 5 6N matches and 2 or 3 june tests. Record shall be broken if no injuries.
>4 WC pool games 1 warmup and another 6N to draw level
He could, although it wouldn't surprise me if he retired and took those Toulon bucks.
is it braam steyn? i'm not even sure
Either Steyn or Negri
More often than not, anyone who wants to play after HS has to either pay for their own equipment and expenses, and we only train in one place so often a young kid like 18-19 doesn't wanna move all the way to some shitville town just for rugby that he will have to pay for
Another fine example how wikipedia is a joke and can be manipulated by anyone, BOD's caps are 133, not 141, ROG's caps are 128, not 130, the same goes for the 2 Welsh players and Jason Leonard
The lines is not a Country and therefore international caps shouldn't be included on this list, the barbarians is also a meme team and you dont see those caps being included
They need proper article protection on wiki to stop misinformation being put out, its a joke
Seething
If anything Lions caps are worth more.
Just woke up from a coma lads. Are the Wallabies good yet?
Well they didn’t lose to Argentina again so it’s a definite maybe
nah lad go back to sleep
ireland
will...
you lads are obviously in such awe of my anime pics you cant even bring yourselves to post
i am truly humble at your reverence to me
why are all Irish women ugly?
Technically they're only worth 25%
Like TJP, TKB is a halfback who makes surprisingly good flanker impressions
Rugby.
awful post that
grim indeed
Seriously considering putting my savings on SA to win the World Cup
ngl
easy on mate, 20 quid is a bit of money
It really boils down to the fact that we failed to adopt any sort of professionalism.
There's nothing to gap the surprisingly high level amateur teams/players to the international level.
And so, we're stuck in a vicious cycle where selectors will only pick players with pro experience. Players whose pro experience is at the academy level or the 3rd/4th tier of european competitions. Some way past their primes and have no business being on a Canadian provincial team let alone the national team but are selected anyways and block the pathways for actual talented but amateur players to develop or even showcase themselves to interested pro teams.
Of course there's a litany of other issues, the extremely small player pool, the bleeding of young talent and etc. but this was the one that was on my mind most recently especially after that loss to the US.
>TFW Canadian Rugby
Forgot picture.
Also forgot to mention how this affects the head coaches we recycle through regularly. Because we dont give our coaches enough resources to actually do fucking anything(last i heard we still dont have a backs coach, ffs). They dont really have enough time to do some decent scouting so they have to rely on what they've been told and what they have. Which is usually the shit players who have worked with RC before. So on and so on.
Dont care anymore, the Island has been flooded with Polish Women and Irish Women are now realising they have to dump their cunt attitude and start acting like Women again
Rugby
Typical fucking Blues player.
Devilishly cheeky.
>Implying everyone doesn't do some variation of putting the ball over the mark
Have you every been to a game in real life and watched? Next you will say players never play each other without the ball, or never shove each other to the ground again after getting up from a ruck.
Casuals OUT
Lions games are recorded as full test matches, BaaBaas games aren't.
You forgot "Never give each other a wet willy"
Maybe but the refs are obviously still in your pocket
ah yes
a fellow member of the Lough Gall Bally Tubber RFC i see
Yeah how about an angle that isn't top down mate. Cannot wait for SA to pound Direland in the quarters and I don't have to see this flag again for a while.
MLR can be an alternative for canadian rugby put itself on the rails. The tops from amateur system being drafted for canadian teams. Ontario has a team there but BC still doesn't.
seething
We paid the line to move
>tfw NZ shall not be the WC champion this year
>lose vs SA and finish second in our pool
>play Ireland in the quarter finals
>Lurch comes back from his injury
>takes out his rage on Ireland scoring 3 tries himself
>keked ireland yet again to never make it to a final
>make it to the finals vs SA
>they go into it the favourites
>beat them in put 100th game vs eachother to lift the cup
Wouldn't that be great
Hmmm can't see this narrative getting any traction with the /pol/tato
Why was he so based lads?
Get a life you fat neet loser.
supabased in Toulouse
The fact that BC doesnt have a team yet is concerning. It reflects poorly on the health of the sport here.
An amateur BC club was able to defeat the Houston SaberCats. While not a good MLR team, still a professional squad. The talent is clearly there, just not anyone willing to back it up financially.
Does anyone have a genuine chance of knocking the all blacks out of the cup?
worried about Wales desu
>Gatland vs NZ
I wouldnt be
If we lose to RSA in the pools, we get Ireland in the quarters, who could do it. beating Ireland, we get Argentina or Wales, who could both do it too.
Beating RSA in pools, we get Scotland in quarters, then Aussie or England. A much easier path imo.
wales
ireland
england
south africa
australia
france
argentina
japan
should draft up bryn gatland for the mind games
gonna be COLD tonight lads wew
cant say the same fortunately
>A
dropping to 5º overnight. Gonna freeze my little nips off
>B
Fire already cranking along, burning coal like I don't give a fuck about climate change.
low of 13 overnight here
>differing orders
Fucks sake who put this abortion together?
like some kind of tropical winter paradise
r/
*looks stupid in your path*
I knew it! The rugby balls are probably taking your pay too! Those oval shaped bastards!
The French. Always the bogey team in a RWC year.
*kiwis at japan*
did he died
Is there any reason for you to be such a cum guzzling faggot or not? Did a BSK fuck your missus while she was "finding herself" over here?
How else does BB get those bounces!
>N. England
>wearing prussian blue
dead spoort
dead poomunity
Wank then bed.
shall be missing the rest of the TRC
maybe don't be, lad
Canterbury needs to be stopped. Zero effort in that Irish jersey and Japan looks like Iron Mans fucking groin
French away jersey from Le Coq Sportif is fucking kino, so much so I might have to buy it (french grandparents) but the two differing blues on the home jersey is shocking - maybe running a paneled tricolor above the seam line would have looked better?
Someone actually did the BB stats on the different balls used, and his stats using Adidas were by far the worst.
Ben Smith on RugbyPass found that his goal kicking success rate dropped by like 20%.
I've got Australia losing to Wales in pool, and France topping pool C. You guys are fucked in the semi.
A long family history of mental illness padraig?
at least we'll make semis.
Australia runs NZ. Fuck the Poo Blacks.
Ireland/Argentina/England vs Wales in other semi.
You could at least run our state sponsored swimming drugs programs.
gottem:DDDDD
Alright, I'm home on antibiotics and painkillers and this occurred to me:
New Zealand will not lose if they are in the final.
New Zealand will lose if they play France or Australia in the semi.
New Zealand will lose if they play Ireland in the quarters.
this dull cunt is completely obsessed with NZ losing holy fuck
excellent post, well made
>one shouldn't ponder on the possibilities of the favourite not winning
I'm not boring and don't bully me I'm not feeling well today.
The Irish faggot and the aussie whiner are fucking awful t b h. One thinks his team is the only good and fair team in the world and the other hates his team and the sport. They're making me root for NZL even though a third straight RWC win would hurt international interest in the sport.
Name one good and fair team in world rugby except for Ireland.
Fuck the Wallabies, fuck the ARU, and FUCK COCONUTS
what happened to you?
Check the rugby championship lad, SA are the favourites
I've 4 broken teeth to be removed under general anaesthetic because my jawbone density is too strong otherwise and I've an ear infection and I've to wait because I let the private cover lapse a couple years ago. I'm alright though really except most likely going to be addicted to codeine or tramadol by the time it gets fixed.
Your ear infection will destroy your hearing btw, teeth and jaw bone and be rebuilt, once your hearing is gone, that's it, it's gone. How fucking expensive are antibiotics in Ireland that you need private cover for them though? Jesus.
I've got the antibiotics, they were €17 for the pills for a week and now the eardrops I got for €2. They're not expensive. The problem here is if you don't have private cover you're fucked if you need surgery you've to wait or pay for it yourself, mine would be about €2k so my dentist said. If they could just pull them out at the dentist they're €70ea plus another €70 for the consultation.
Our health system here is shit, almost american level.
how do you break 4 teeth?
It's embarrassing and I'd prefer not to discuss the how it happened, but I will say the pain is severe it's stronger than bruised rib cartilage but not as bad as a torn abdominal muscle.
Give us the story mate, I'm 2-3 on street fights and have had my jaw dislocated without losing a single pearly white.
>>play Ireland in the quarter finals
>>Lurch comes back from his injury
With no reservations what so ever, I would much rather play NZ than SA in the quarters, and in the last game between us it was Retallick that cost you the game with a mistake at the end when you had a chance of drawing it
>France topping pool C
Not a chance, until i saw the Aus/Arg game the other day and saw how tired and worn out the Argies look i had France to get knocked out of the group, they'll be 2nd at best
If we play NZ at the quarters we can upset them, it'll be our final. If we play them not until the final they'll smash us, it'll be their final and the occasion will turn our guys to water. I was watching the fucking cricket last week. If we make the final and lose we might win it in 4 years, but if we beat NZ on the way to the final I believe we can win the whole thing.
Suspiciously cazzie ideas going on here
I think this is a good take, The earlier IRE can take on NZL the better, as they'll be pumped as fuck to knock them out. BUT:
NZL 2nd in pool to IRE 1st = NZL wins. You've got to be dreaming if you can't see a 50 point hammering after NZL scrapes through the pool stages.
NZL 1st in pool to IRE 2nd = NZL wins. How the fuck have Ireland managed a second in the pool stage against Scotland, Russia and Samoa. Sorry lads, the semi final dream just doesn't happen.
youtube.com
plenty of names in the 2019 WC squad
The fucking scum in this thread.
If i remember correctly that might have been the game Heaslip had himself red carded and we were down to 14 for most of the game
It doesn't matter anyway, when it comes to NZ the monkey is well and truly off our back and with the level we are now at we can beat you with regularity, you keep watching that video if it makes you fell better but those days are long gone.
Any Farrell who is the best coach in the world for shutting down NZ is our head coach after the WC so work that one out for yourself
*Andy*
>It doesn't matter anyway, when it comes to NZ the monkey is well and truly off our back and with the level we are now at we can beat you with regularity, you keep watching that video if it makes you fell better but those days are long gone.
Talk it up further mate, have you ever been in a fight?? My first fight I was 16 years old and walking along Queen St to get to Auckland University Law School where they had a cross examination show for their potential new students.
I was walking down the main street and someone asked me for money, told them to fuck off, and then one of their midgets hooked me in the back of the head, which had me reeling, so I spun around and laughed as I told him to fuck off.
cant tbqh
never managed to find myself in a situation where I've had to fight oddly
Good article lads
the42.ie
They're fun. You'll not find yourself any faster than in a proper fight.
>Good article
>The 42
Ireland will lose to Scotland in the first pool match.
shall get in a few scraps in Europe
Japan's jersey is disgusting.
Every cant-erbury jersey is disgusting, went in to a sports shop the other day to have a look at the Irish WC jersey and it felt like shit, the material felt so weak and cheap that you could tear it like paper
And they want €90 for it, im never buying a canterbury jersey again after the shit they produced for this World Cup
Imagine never beating a team twice in a row and claiming you have them all sorted out
Good thing to note is that this will be world cup rugby not a tour of exhaustion after 9 months of playing world class international footy
Morning
Japan will win all of her pool matches then defeat the Zaffers at quarters.
*hits blunt rolled from potato*
and you'll buy it too ya mug.
thanks for the free money.
did the missus heem you lad
Ehh mate stubbies for the stubbie god
Probably not a good idea, this one. My flatmate in Spain (The Manlet from Mildurra) got heemed so hard that they found him propped up against a tree the next day. I think that level of unconsciousness gives you brain damage.
Are you a retard or a Pomgolian on their OE?
Shan't be buying more annual garbage from underarmor. Sooner they fuck off, the better. We haven't had a good jersey in years.
Neither. I'm the guy who'd knock your head off as soon as look at you.
rough eh
Fucking hell lads, cut my finger with a stanley blade doing carpets today. Went through my finger like butter.
the Spaniards shall feel my wrath
Most dangerous tool in the shop lad, you learn that on day one
knowing how soft Brits are, it's probably a minor scratch
Is Naholo done at international level now?
Just out of interest for dinner I had 5 weetabix in a full bowl of milk with three handfuls of blueberries and a good lashing of honey and it was pretty nice. Had tomato soup for lunch, soaked a buttered baguette in it, also was alright.
Any of you lads any recommendations for food which doesn't really require chewing?
I can go along fine with soups, yoghurt and soft fruits but just wondering.
*ahem*
FUCK THE AUSTRALIAN RUGBY TEAM
egg salad
spaghetti bolognese if the ragu is dryish and you break the spaghetti before cooking
I'm gonna join a local recreation rugby club. Wish me luck.
You're gonna get smashed m8
scrambled eggs for breakfast/lunch
good luck lad, see you at the 2023 RWC
based porridge.
What are you gonna do cunt? Use your dojo karate on me?
simple left hook usually suffices.
>left hook
Send me a tracking number ahead of time would you?
Based, redpilled, provocative, and important.
you'll never see it coming, not even joking
Based invisible internet tough guy.
good old shitspouter.
all tough guy stuff aside, absolutely 100% positive I'd beat the shit out of you easily.
I could heem everyone in the thread
What are you basing that on? You don't even know me.
can tell you're a pussy by your faggoty posts
>year 6 level arguments ITT
Fuck, where u live? might see you on the field.
Victoria, gonna see if I can cut it in the CW 3rd division
Ah shit, I'm in Burnaby our 3rd team dropped back down into 3rd div. Chance we see each other in finals come May.
Good luck brother.
>Two new law trials are set to reinvigorate play in the upcoming season of the National Rugby Championship, which begins on August 31
>Teams will now be rewarded for strong defence with a goal-line drop-out when the ball is held up in the in-goal area.
>They will also be recognised for aggressive territorial kicking with the introduction of a 50:22 play.
>Attacking teams that boot the ball indirectly from open play or a free kick within their own half and land it either within their opponent’s 22 or touchline will earn a lineout throw.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
FUCK THIS GAY FUCKING SPORT
What the fuck. Is that real?
Yeah. The NRC has always had small law variation trials but this takes the cake.
The worst part is that I read that World Rugby had suggested the 50:22 play as a method of reducing concussions by reducing the number of 2 on 1 tackles by reducing the number of players in the defensive line by incentivizing having more players covering the backfield.
In other news, I hope you all watched the first episode of the new rugby anime Try Knights that came out overnight. I already like it more than All Out!
Forgot to chuck it on the RSS, downloading now.
fuck anime.
got a new one for reposting lads
2/2
There's also another rugby anime called number24 coming out probably later in the year to capitalise on the RWC hype in Japan.
animenewsnetwork.com
Pretty impressive how they already unlocked the rush defence in the first episode.
I'm surprised no one is doing this against RSA, who usually puts their scrumhalf in the defensive line rather than using him as a sweeper. Antipodean rugby has a lot to learn from Try Knights.
>>casts look like Korean boy band
>>body of football players
For fucks sake Japan.
>no top tier rugby on this weekend
fml
There's no secret to defeating the rush defence, the springboks been doing it for as long as I remember. The ABs usual strategy is to tire them out and run rings around them from the 60 min. It's been less effective in recent years because the general fitness of teams doing this have improved. And ABs ball recycling is less efficient without McCaw at the helm.
>anime
cringe
At this point I'm convinced that we can collect /rug/ shitposts bantz and it still be a better rugby story than what Japanese animators can come up with
if only
artlad could definitely draw it better too
Egg salad is good, I can handle soft breads. Actually had some lasagne the other day and meat sauces are grand, also garlic is good against any infection so thanks for the tips.
Porridge is a good idea except it's summer right now but sure it'd be alright. I like butter and honey on my porridge.
Touch rugby?
Very gay.
We gonna win the WC and be no. 1 m8 just you watch
Fuck off O'Driscoll
You lost to Japan m8, it’s brave Nippon’s turn
We gonna get them in the final tho dw
Based Izzy going after the ARU gay brigade
rte.ie
Lads I'm worried Navidi fell for the Savea diet meme.
Where's the Georgian?
>that fucking turbo manlet
His wife is fucking smoking
Looks too high maintenance and lives her life in the mirror, Id wife the fuck out of blondie though
when’s the rug
no pro rugby this weekend lads
The rugby championship? More like the haveaweekendoffhip
;____;
/rug/?
more like /dead/
Stocking energies for WC's shitposting festival
bye week la
Low energy /heart/-posting until the rugby is back on
A long winter until ARC starts
NRC replaced ARC in 2007 lad.
/fullpotential/
Gonna get full kinetic by the world cup lads.
USA vs Samoa in about 38 hours
>youtube.com
Fiji vs Canada in about 40 hours
>youtube.com
Japan vs Tonga in about 45 hours
>youtube.com
Thanks for those very nice
Fucking dire fixtures
Burnaby here too lad, what div you in? Thinking of joining a rec league
>World Cup doesn't start until September
Why?
Faletau out for the wc
>Moriarty at 8 for the whole cup
Dire Tbh lad. He doesn't have the skillset or make enough metres to play there.
Wales won't make it out of their group
Explain why
I don't like Wales
A lot of that seems to be going round at the moment in /rug/
wainwright would make a great 8... hopefully gatland gives him a try there in the warmups
Autumn in Japan. Rugby is a winter sport and that's close enough
Oh g'day freshie how are you enjoying the rugby?
*sticks the knee in u*
Boo that cuz
I reckon Japan still gets some mad high Autumn temps though
/rug/s year
For sure,cant push into winter though or the world cup is in one of the two months a year players get off
late September in Japan is like summer in NZ.
So true.
Doesn't make it not their autumn though does it?
Summer in Antarctica is colder than our winter too that doesn't make summer there winter magically
How can I stream USA vs Samoa in America? Can't find shit to watch it
it's streamed live on youtube isn't it?
It'll be geoblocked for him over there, add a free vpn extension in chrome and use that to get around the block
Thanks, I'll check it out
The other guy is right, blocked in my cunt
Folau's cousin has been JUSTed too now.
looks like he requested it
pretty solid argument
this is expected to be the hottest RWC on record
>Based Volavola's
The location is irrelevant, the RWC has been held at the same time of year for a very long time because it works for both hemispheres as best as possible.
This maybe interesting. Tonga's ranked much higher than Canada. So if Japan wins, they might gain enough points to overtake Argentina in the rankings to no. 10
wish there was some rugby on
January premiere for number24 lads
I have a hankering for some footy
>>college rugby
>>pitiful facial hair
>>everyone looks like they just walked off a set of men's grooming commercial
>>complete disregard for body types demanded of different specialist positions
>>the first rowers are tall, lanky men
This looks 95% anime and 5% rugby.
Also if anyone's wondering, don't bother with this manga
mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp
It's already ten chapters in but there has not been one scene good enough to sell it. Art's meh, paneling inadequate for an action manga, characters lacking charisma, and the pace is woefully slow.
Call me harsh, but this is not a promising series, even by Jump standards
I miss Estonia. He used to tell the sweetest lies.
Ireland will win the World Cup next year.
Breaking News
>Massive Earthquake and Tsunami hit Japan resulting in postponement of World Cup until next year, More News at 10
Hopefully because all the qt Japanese girls get curious and come out for the rugby.
Lol for fuck sake
Noice
Least comfy WC ever incoming.
Not if you're a NEETbro
>cheeky mcdonalds breakfast with the rugby
Would you like some clogged arteries and cancer with those fries sir?
McDonald's breakfast is shite
Literally sit in my car until half 10 waiting for them to cop on so's I can buy bigmacs
Imagine eating healthy all your life and getting cancer anyway.
Big Tasty™ is back in lad, now that's a burger.
Had it only once and found it intriguing
Sort of burger if it was tidied up a bit you'd be happy buying in a proper restaurant
100 years ago cancer was completely unheard of, 1 in a million type disease back then
We're being poisoned lads and our governments are well aware of it and doing nothing
stfu you spastic
there are egyptian mummies absolutely riddled with cancer
100 years ago most people don't live past 70, between the age of 60-70 they'd have died with cancer and not of cancer
The masterpiece breakfast
lovely
wait till he tells you that's coffee.
Pacific Nations Cup today
>USA/Canada
>pacific nations
Cascadia serves for something
That's a fair point.
well both have more Pacific coast than most countries by far so yeah there's that actual geographical fact.
Samoa probably will win. Fiji will thrash Canda. Japan will win if Tonga do not learn from Fiji's mistake
>on the Pacific Ocean
>not Pacific
public school education right here lads
Obviously what is meant by Pacific Nations are the Pacific islands m8
Fiji will be champ in tokio
obviously that's not what is meant as US and Canada are included.
enjoying this game. I think based Nige is reffing to
Not true at all, hence why USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, and Japan have all taken part. The only questionable one is Georgia.
yeah he is
learn to spell retard
I'm watching on Sky but if any GC has a stream for the other lads, unzip away
dodgy passing and handling from the yanks.
dodgy camera work from the coconuts.
Is damian mckenzie playing for usa?
Yes. He's their captain too.
youtube.com
won't work in NZ though
the rugBYE championship
FUCK
goddem
the sheep are coming
I accidentally hit Leon MacDonald in the head with an umbrella at a preseason game today. Said hi to the dab king.
I'm ready for this. I've accepted it. Canada is rotating in bench players, Fiji is unleashing all their weapons.
It'll take a miracle to win.
>TFW Canadian Rugby
>>The sheep shaggers of the SH
>>The sheep shaggers of the NH
It's a sign
>>No Ardron
>>Fiji will be angry from last week's loss
I'll be impressed if the Canadians can keep the losing score by 20 or less
3 minutes in, 3 injuries ffs.
Why can't we get commentators like Lose to commentate every game?
Leafs getting absolutely worked here.
what went wrong?
It would be worse if the Fijians could hold the ball. Only a 6 point game now, somehow.
Doesn't help that Canada has basically been playing with 14 players, injuries left and right for Canada
Canada just falling apart right now. This forward pack just giving up.
Did Hassler play?
Tongans getting comprehensively outplayed
Very much so.
God damn Japan gave Tonga a hiding.
Impressive how Tonga got atropelated by Japan
Imagine test rugby at high altitudes
americasrugbynews.com
Wales to go full kinetic this WC and atropelate NZ.
Wales are overrated
They'll choke hilariously
Pray you don't meet us in the quarters or you'll have another WC exit before the semis.
Literally can’t meet in the quarters
leave him, he’s a cazz, he doesn’t know
I still see them topping their group, Aus are so coconut now they are the same tier as Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and is why im especially interested to watch that Aus/Fiji game to see who'll out coconut the other
Yes
*dresses up as daffodil*
Ready for the world cup boys
Is 1700m high altitude?
La Paz is located at 3600m above sea level, for example
Answer the question
Good player. Him. Ardron and DTH are quality. The rest of the team is a bit of an abortion at the moment though.
South american standards for altitude say no. 2000 metres at minimum to start the talk
For me, it's Hokuto no Maul
No. Johannesburg is at altitude and we have tests there all the time
Oxygen tanks aren't needed when play at Johannesburg
It's high enough that sports scientists would call it high altitude, altitude training, ect
Their facts dont care about your flimsy definitions that you make up
So to answer you here I dont have to imagine tests at high altitude as there was a test match between SA and Aussie at high altitude 3 weeks ago
>1700 metres
>high altitude
>High altitude is the description given any locale where the athlete begins to experience the limitations that a reduced oxygen intake place upon the body. Scientists generally classify elevations of 6,500 ft (2,000 m) as high altitude because of the pronounced difference in oxygen content; the effect of altitude may be experienced at lower elevations.
encyclopedia.com
>USA is unironically winning a rugby union trophy
good or bad for the sport?
After England touch the William Webb cup, everything else is possible. The gates of hell have opened in 2003.
it's the Webb Ellis Cup mate
It's old mate Wiremu mate, not sure who this Webb Ellis bloke is
/^huemonkey$/
Shall always cherish /rug/ hue, /cric/ hue not so much
early bed loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooms
rugby
grim
>the William Webb cup
Gonna need a book to start writing down all these hueisms
Absolute fucking feast of rugby next weekend lads.
shall be missing it all
Why's that, champ?
>pooli
garn traveling
Fukuoka is legit.
If Japan go far, he'll be the tournament top try scorer.
Doubtful. Pool A is too tough for them to rack up tries. It'll be a NZ or SA player probably. They'll crush tries into Namibia, Italy and Canada.
poo blacks
Top try scorer - Cheslin Kolbe
Top point scorer - Beauden Barrett
Most yellow cards - Leone Nakarawa
Book it
I guess he got atropelated.
>Top try scorer - Cheslin Kolbe
Group A is too tough to get a lot of tries. It's only really Russia you can thrash and I imagine Ireland would rest most starters for that one.
Lads, whats with these Crosses i see drawn on the tape around players wrists like Van Der Flier's here, even Aaron Smith has it tattooed on his left hand, have seen loads of other players with the same symbol drawn on
Most turnovers - Tom Curry (or Pocock if he's playing)
Most offloads - Samu Kerevi
Most metres - Stuart Hogg
most metres will be one of the brown SA wingers
Best Haka performance - Hohepa
Never EVER forget.
Who's going to get the first red card of the WC and why is it Moriarty?
SBW
It won't be the first, but Farrell will (finally) get a card for a shoulder charge. Can't decide if it will be in the pool stages or in knockout though.
For Jesus.
A surprising amount of rugby players are very religious. Especially Ulster lads, Pineaar and Trimble had a weekly bible study going on with a good few others.
It'll be one of the huge Russians decapitating one of the midget japs in the very first game of the tournament.
Russia is more likely to decapitate themselves. I've honestly never even seen them play though, are they big?
Ireland will win the Rugby World Cup
I’ve missed you
It begins
They're big and not very good, a few of their players look like part time body builders to over compensate for their lack of skill with physicality which is a recipe for disaster when they play the smaller and significantly snappier Japs.
So Irish lads, is the only way to get all the games at the World Cup and not just the Irish ones, to either get a new Sky Sports package or get eir broadband for the free eir sports package?
Haven't you got ITV over there? Free to view?
I didn't know ITV had it and I actually can get them FTA and on Sky by tuning it in on the other channels yokey.
That's actually a massive relief since I never thought of that thx
VPN and watch on a UK tv player.
Yes but they block content that an Irish broadcaster holds rights to.
No WC on RTÉ?
>watching rugby on TV
>not going out to the pub
kek, what's your malfunction? Are you an antisocial incel?
>pub at 10am on a weekday
RTÉ have the Ireland games and the elimination rounds but they don't have the pool stages
Put a sat dish on the side of your house and you pick up hundreds of free channels (all the ITV's) with a €70 sat box from power city/did electrical or if you already have a smart tv it'll work directly on that
I stopped paying for tv years ago and continue to laugh my bollocks off everyday at the idiots here who still pay for tv and get restricted from free world events like the RWC
Pro Tip: Im laughing at you, get your shit together
You can pay less and get a box from ali express or similar places but you have to wait for a slow boat from china
based
Cullen doco on SS1 now lads, looks interesting.
>Australia @ $4.30 to beat New Zealand
Hmmmmmm.
Is Yea Forums even going to survive until the world cup? I'm actually worried that this is the end of us now that Hotwheelschan is dead
rugbypass.com
Fuck me this "article" is an absolute joke. He threw one offload to a Counties player that resulted in nothing, and also threw two shithouse passes in his own ingoal that were intercepted and resulted in tries for BOP. The standout player was either Abraham Papalii or the BOP wing who scored like 5 tries. Fuck SBW.
Good thing we didn't move when I suggested. The place will probably be back up soon enough though, they just need to find a new provider. It was only taken down to prevent slow service due to DDOS attacks.
There’s fucking rugby anime? I mean, I guess I should’ve know there was a thing as soon as there was Yea Forums on 4chin but still
Brewing a late afternoon Welsh over here lads
Shall be wearing this for the World Cup because, you know, Fuck canterbury
The Canterbury stuff is the cheapest/laziest garbage imaginable. I haven't got a problem with basic jerseys but they should atleast be well made.
A solid gold bar?
canterbury got paid off by the regular sponsors of Ireland, England etc to produce cheap as fuck shitty jerseys on purpose all because of the ban on sponsorship in the WC, they basically want people to be walking advertisement boards and pay for the privilege
Well, its backfired, people (me being one of them) are refusing to buy canterbury jerseys anymore, this from a company who was only in administration a few years back, hope the fucks go under
You got any numbers or proof? Your fanfic is pretty good otherwise
Given that the other regulat canterbury kits arent as bad as the england and irish ones I think we know where the blame is, and it's with whoever's designs the kit in those within those unions
At least japan added some flair proving that it isn't canterbury to blame 2bh
t. canterbury employee and resident
Wrong flag lad, hasn't been an NZ company for a while
I'm just pointing out that the option to do stupid shit with those strips was an option but someone said no and it wasn't canterbury from what we can gather
>It's the half-back
Makes it even more hilarious
No, i dont need them, when you see the corrupt shit companies have been up to for years you can work out for yourself what they are up to
Why cant it be your and the English union that are corrupt? Seems like Canterbury is fine making crazy shit like the OP image so it's hard to pin those simple boring strips on them.
I'd say the Japan jerseys are the worst by a comfortable margin
Are you 100% sure it's geoblocked?
I'd need to get eir fibre broadband anyway if I wanted to be capable of streaming it
Can we stop and admire one of the most aesthetic rugby jerseys of all time? I'd kill for a vintage Wales one like this.
You're right, there are plenty of corrupt pricks in all unions but Why would anyone in either union come up with the idea of...
>Right lads, its World Cup Jersey time, what are we doing, i know lets get canterbury to produce a piece of shit jersey thats looks cheap and tatty and pisses off the fans to the point that they dont buy any Ireland anymore and results in less money coming our way in jersey sales and overall support
They're corrupt but not stupid, not that stupid anyway
For sure, but you cant say that if england or Ireland came up with an equally out there idea that canterbury would veto it, because they clearly do what the unions want.
>union gets paid by sponsors to make world cup Jersey shit
>sponsor happy because no one buys their un branded Jersey
Canterbury wants to sell as many jerseys as possible, that's how they make their money, why would they make a shit one that wouldn't sell? Your theory doesn't pass a logic test at all. Why would canterbury sabotage a chance to make more money?
I heard theres problems with their streaming service, problems with getting access to it even when paying for it plus the buffering issues
eir is a cancer, stop giving them money to put sport behind a paywall, they're already destroying the Pro14 after only 1 season on their channel and premier sports
walesonline.co.uk
And the large chest sponsors or any of the unions sponsors dont talk to Canterbury anyway, why would Canterbury do anything for them?
It's on your unions for coming up with shit ideas
>Why would canterbury sabotage a chance to make more money?
Because the loss of money from lack of sales would be "more" than made up for from the backhander they get from vodaphone, o2(England) who do not want people going around in National jerseys that dont have their vile brand all over the front
>And the large chest sponsors or any of the unions sponsors dont talk to Canterbury anyway
You just gave away your lack of knowledge of whats going on in this world, thats exactly what they are doing The "business" world is a fucking mafia right now and is geared to fucking over the fans and id you still dont realise this then your naive and stupid
Why would those sponsors be talking to Canterbury? Why wouldn't the union say that's not the design they want? It makes so much more sense that the sponsors talked to the unions said they want them to be basic and look worse than the regular stip, then the unions go to canterbury and place an order for that. This way the people that actually frequently talk to each other and give each other money are doing exactly what they usually do.
Your theory is convoluted and involves ignoring that the union has final say on what their strip looks like and feels like. Canterbury is the unions contractor creating things for them, the unions have the final say. Even if the sponsors when behind the unions back why did your unions sign off on it? They literally have the final say in you theory so if they arent corrupt or stupid then your theory doesn't work. And then your theory is more steps than the one that makes sense.
Occams razor you fool.
Do you literally have no idea what goes on in this world?
>trying to apply logic to anything /pol/tato says
>the union has final say on what their strip looks like and feels like
Why would 2 unions both come up with the "same" bad idea that costs them money and support?
You just answered your own question and proved me right at the same time, good going chief
>sponsors talk to the union and pays them to design a bad strip
>union pays canterbury to make it
>england and ireland get their strips for the world cup
>unions pay canterbury to make a strip
>sponsors talk and pay canterbury to make the unions a bad strip
>canterbury goes to the unions with this bad strip and pays them to say it's good? (Unokns are corrupt) Or the unions are happy with a shit strip because the sponsors also paid them off spending more money than they need to to get a shit strip? (Unions are corrupt and the sponsors are stupid) Or the unions are too stupid to realise it's bad? (Unikns are stupid)
>england and ireland get their world cup strips
Either way the union is at fault for the shit strip, blame them.
Both strips are pretty typical of them, the counties colours with no logos. You could literally draw all the tier 1 nations world cup strips before any of them were announced and be 90+% correct.
It would be weird and raise questions if they were shit and had some designed elements like japan has.
This is the one strip that the manufacturer has their name all over with nothing else advertised, it's literally their time to shine and put out the best product they can, assuming the union signs off on it. Which they have to do and they have the final say.
Whatever why you cut it the union has to be corrupt so why would it be the long convoluted way to get to them being corrupt, when they can be corrupt from the get go and it's a lot simpler theory?
This is effectively correct. The England and Ireland jerseys were the same in 2015 too but people generally liked both of them. The only difference this time around is that people aren’t fond of this design
Hey guys never posted on /rug/before but for what it’s worth I used to play rugby with Lucas rumball one of the flankers for Canada
Cheers !!!
>pale kits
That jersey is the same jersey for the 6 Nations except sans the sponsor which will be reincorporated after the World Cup so your point makes no sense whatsoever
What the fuck is actually wrong with you
I heard Hassler was a chad in school and had a monopoly on all the Canadian pussy.
>No, i dont need them,
Holy fuck you're a braindead idiot. Fuck off back to whatever rock you crawled out from under.
Can brave Southland claim their first win since 2016?
Russia win WC is easier than it
see you boys in a month
Don't they have internet or TVs in Europe?
>This
times wont be too great
I thought you weren't invited to the wedding?
Kia Ora /rug/
shedcunt are you the "poocastle poster" on cric?
looks like England.
I would never post on /cric/. I have self-respect. I am from poocastle though.
I am attending the AB's slaughter of ausfailia wannabees this saturday
>there are literal western "australians" in this thread
Fuck rugby australia
What position you playing mate?
M10 in 47 hours lads
Streaker
based
can't hardly wait
going on Friday
gonna watch a shit tonne of footy this weekend
i was invited, i had uni stuff so i couldn’t go, plus that was months ago
>tfw not marrying a cute boy
>hating bestern australia
2nd best in the nation after qld, of course
Not even in the nation, buddy.
few pre flight brews
Where abouts in Europe are you going? I hope you'll avail of the shitposting opportunities presented to you.
The dream
If you were your own country maybe we'd let you have a rugby team.
Here Here
>Wants to be independent
>Still has british flag within flag
Fucking hell Bruce
Hungry lads
>makes fun of someone who wants to be independent
>has a quarter of their land cucked by a country that's cucked them for 800 years
Yikes, suppose it takes one to know one
>wants to be independent
>favorite team? liverpool
Sick of this thread. making a new one before hue pounces like a thief in the night.
made a thread.
And here it is
what's the yellow blob on the flag?
Good post
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