>Sat 21 Sept 16:45 Australia v Fiji, Sapporo Dome 19:15 France v Argentina, Tokyo Stadium 21:45 New Zealand v South Africa, International Stadium Yokohama
>Sun 22 Sept 17:15 Italy v Namibia, Hanazono Rugby Stadium 19:45 Ireland v Scotland, International Stadium Yokohama 22:15 England v Tonga, Sapporo Dome
M10 CUP Week 7
>Thurs 19 Sep 19:35 Canterbury v Manawatu, Orangetheory Stadium >Fri 20 Sept 19:35 Hawke’s Bay v Taranaki McLean Park, Napier >Sat 21 Sept 14:35 Waikato v Tasman, FMG Stadium Waikato, Hamilton 17:05 Southland v Counties Manukau, Rugby Park, Invercargill 19:35 North Harbour v Otago, North Harbour Stadium >Sun 22 Sept 14:05 Auckland v Wellington Eden Park, Auckland 16:35 Northland v Bay of Plenty, Semenoff Stadium
wouldnt want any of these countries to get it somewhere small so it's easy to get around and cheap so it's easy to attend and somewhere with a decent timezone like italy would be better
Cameron Allen
They were complaining about the time zones last thread, no matter what happens to the OP UK will complain because that's all they are good at
Eli Nelson
2023 is France right? I'd unironically love USA, but they won't get the attention needed. Ireland would be great too.
Christian Price
>>Argentina
Stadiums with chain link fences with barb wire and armed police isn't a good look for a WC
Jordan Lewis
France is the world cup before so it will be a non Europe country
Easton Young
I like how they blow in a couple of times a year and try to run things kek
Landon Parker
Why do you make it sound like wife beating spree's are a bad thing?
Colton Cooper
We've almost got a set lads. Based fucking artlad. Looking forward to Russia
Make the same image but for this years teams and we will use it
Tyler Wilson
australia for obvious reasons argentina for kino reasons
Thomas Torres
France v Argentina on Saturday lads in the only really competitive group, who do you think will win?
Parker Cruz
Spain* Romania are cheat biscuits
Adrian Bell
So hard to call desu, it’s one of those “if they turn up” things. It’ll be a war not a match. I reckon the Argies will have been doing overtime on their scrum and it’ll be fixed for this, given the new rulings. So a 80min scrum contest. France are looking good though. It wouldn’t surprise me if Argentina beat France and then France beat England.
Tyler Perry
Dont know and dont really care, but it reminds me of this game in the opening match of the 2007 RWC where France were playing them and the Argie lads looked like they had just snorted 20 lines of Medellín's finest and were twitchy as fuck during the anthem lineouts and ended up beating them
I reckon England will win all of their matches and this is to decide who finishes 2nd. Argentina have an advantage seeing as they're not at the start of their season like France so I reckon they'll win but if this game came later in the group I think the French would have won.
Anthony Martin
>So is france they are both teams that can turn up massively to world cups France are not the same side they used to be so I think this is irrelevant. Kiwis always over-rate France just because of 99 and 07.
Owen Williams
Look at that list, those are teams that turn up and do well at world cups. France at least lost to a higher seed in 2015 unlike some under performing teams that arent on that list.
Elijah Adams
ooooh someones catty meow!
Ryder Price
Kiwi Status: Meowed
Joshua Howard
But Where's Ireland!?™ *canned laughter* *theme tune plays*
Our insufferable posting habits in this thread will come back to haunt us when we inevitably we knocked out in the quarters again wont it?
Isaiah Scott
I hope USA does well just so it puts another nail in the NFL's coffin. When America makes the switch to Rugby we'll have another world class team to mix things up a bit.
Daniel Scott
I have never played Ireland lad
Bentley Cooper
Yes but at least it will be funny this time, in a tragic sort of way, especially with us being supposedly world number one Felt the last two wc's were just cruel, then again I might have been becuase I genuinely believed we could have been contenders, this time I dunno, just gonna enjoy the rugby on show I guess
So you see Argentina being better conditioned than France? Yeah they’ve had a much needed long break, been in Japan longer than anyone else... actually idk what France’s per-comp prep has been, it’s like who’s the least laziest culture will win thing. Going Argentina because of ignorance of France’s prep.
Dylan Miller
Any chance >we make it out of groups lads.
Kevin Garcia
Listen lad, you’ve got a flag on and i’m imagining you’re Richie McCaw okay?
Business idea: kiwi posters are to be known as Richie
Jeremiah Reyes
The Saffas are roided to the tits and could soften them up for us alright, we'd have to see were we are with our own injuries, Henshaw is now a doubt for the group games and theres question marks over some other of our lads
Lincoln Cruz
>very few matches played at times friendly to burgers
You're playing Fiji on Wednesday, good luck terobros
Isaac Young
thanks...we will do our best,
Jackson Richardson
your greatest enemy is yourself
Levi Sanders
Anyone got Artlads png's for Wales, NZ and Aus, plus Samoa if he's posted it yet, think thats all i need
Caleb Robinson
It's from last world cup la
Unrelated there is a claw machine at the supermarket I go to with scarfs from NZ super rugby teams and a few NRL sides. Reminded me of the ones that have the mini balls
Chase Turner
Do you honestly believe that? Their backrow/sr are legit ubermensch. The amount of random tests this world cup.. look into it, the SH can’t cheat for once. Look at the natural state of a pee wee
Whoever wins group B has the easiest run in, unless Scotland’s speedy ruck thing... or Hog, desu I wouldn’t like to face Scotland in a quarters as a NH side but they’ll fold against the pee wees.
Did you see the pic someone posted of them the other day?
I mean i know players have to be in peek physical fitness but something didn't look right with it, everyone of them were ripped to the gills, even their front row who are usually flabby bastards at the best of times, Plus their player of the year from last year Dyanti just failed his tests
Luke Cox
The >NZ poaching is a meme Both that qualified through parent were born to 2 NZ parents in aussie and were back in NZ before they could remember.
Hurrr fiji, samoa and tonga, you poaching their players has become so frowned upon that you really can't get away with it anymore. Now it's seen as more acceptable to go to france because at least they get paid well, even though french clubs are essentially doing the same thing
Justin Bailey
Our "mercenaries" are all Irish that are even more Irish than the Irish because they're choosing to be Irish, they love Ireland. Yours are Tongans etc that are selfishly betraying their own people to pursue money and personal glory under a foreign flag.
Angel Kelly
Gibraltar is on the continent, unless he's Irish then you are correct sir
Christian Bell
>more irish >choose to be irish Whens the flight home lad?
Not him but i saw that list and of the 5 that it had Ireland at 2 of them were Joey Carbery and Luke Mc Grath whose parents are Irish and were on a long Holiday in the Countries they were born so they are of Irish stock meaning we are only on 3 mercs in our NT, thats 1 less than you if your maths isn't that good
Chase Ross
The only bent thing, no actually there's two bent things >not replying and our taoiseach
I dont know, had trouble reading it myself, the original article is on the independent but the greedy fucks had it behind a paywall, this was the only free version i could find of it
Nolan Brooks
Here is a fun little test. All are done in 15 or under games. (10 + loser - winner) * 0.3 = points change. If you played 10 games vs a team on the same points and won 7 games in a row and lose 1 (one) the team that went 3-7 will be higher ranking than you. If you go 7-3 you will be around the same points the 3-7 team was after 7 losses.
It's cool man. They're fucked once they're all properly tested, as in not tested by their own officials the dirty cheating cunts.
Cooper Thompson
The main takeaway from the "muhmercenaries" debate is that paddys are either fucking stupid, or willfully ignorant.
Carson Brooks
kiwis worked into a seethe again
Adam Richardson
it did in 2015 and 2011 youd think we'd fucking learn
Hudson Hall
Im not sure he is one, this place is full of false flaggers who go from thread to thread setting off grenades
If he is a Kiwi then he sounds bitter and drunk, either way.....
Robert Cruz
There's one Kiwi that is a known falseflagging Saffa and he vehemently hates Australia and Ireland, that's his tell because no matter what is said here between Irish, Kiwis, and Aussies we know that deep down we like each other and are mates but not this one cunt he's clearly unironical about it.
On Rugby365 (a saffa website) theres a member called "The Smashing", the fuck hates Ireland with a passion mainly due to Patrick Lambie having his career basically ended from concussion in the game they lost to us when we were down to 14 men for 60 mins of the game
The dumb fuck wont take it into account that it was CJ Stander who bounced off his head and caused it and not an actual Irish Player
Im thinking that might be the same guy
David Wright
reckon it's just a kiwi and youre reading too much into it who really cares anyway
I actually agree with the cazzies. While the RWC is on, M10 games should be relegated to the first reply so that the OP is cleaner.
Nolan Edwards
not him but falseflagging is a thing and just to be aware of it is all, because it's really easy to think of each individual flag as the same poster
Chase Jenkins
Shant be relegating M10 anywhere
Christian Cook
>Patrick Lambie that's probably who it is lmao and the thick cunt wouldn't remember anything from that game anyway
Jack Hall
The M10 are really the only games that should be there with a link to a calendar than auto detects your timezone for the world cup. M10 are the only ones where 1 timezone is enough
Lincoln Robinson
They should both be done in local time. I love M10 and will keep watching through the RWC where I can, but I think some temporary concessions to by far the larger tournament need to be made.
Josiah Moore
kek
Jace Morales
I have no clue how this game works, but here are my picks. How did I do?
>They should both be done in local time. Not how that works. >I love M10 and will keep watching through the RWC where I can, but I think some temporary concessions to by far the larger tournament need to be made. No, this is /rug/ not /rwc/. And to divide the thread further seems like a stupid idea.
My concessions are designed to avoid dividing the thread. If we have RWC in the OP and M10 in the first reply then the risk of separate RWC threads goes down.
predict the number of cards given out this weekend
Matthew Allen
Just beat France on Saturday and you're golden m8.
Jose Kelly
any big man in?
Jason Johnson
I answered before with the honest statistical chance you had.
Henry Carter
I'll do a work up this arvo, but seeing as Cardner is reffing FRA v ARG, I'm picking at least two yellows each team, and then someone getting yellowed twice for a red.
Leo White
NZ pool match refs: >Garces >Poite >Gauzere >Pearce Ahhhhh wtf?
Grayson Hernandez
concentrate on beating England and you will
Jordan Baker
We will get out the pools so it doesn't matter. Only one that does kind of is first up.
Carter Lee
Do we have a realistic shot of beating anyone except maybe Tonga?
Lucas Turner
Seriously answer? No. England has a four day turn around after the match against you to play Tonga. Even if they conserve strength and withhold key players, I don't think your team has what it takes to steal one away from them.
But look, I wrote off Japan's chances last RWC and opted to sleep through their match against SA (a decision I still regret).
Colton Hall
I don't work with low quality. Even my shitposts are premium.
Ryan Ramirez
Not at all, even Tonga is a stretch.
Jordan Reed
JPN V RUS >Owens: 1 yellow AUS v FJI >O'Keeffe: 2 yellows FRA v ARG >Cardner: 3 yellows, 1 red NZL v ZAF >Garces 4 yellows ITA v NAM >Berry 0 cards IRE v SCO >Barnes 1 yellow ENG v TON >Williams 2 yellows
Pretty close to accurate, but you forgot to mention that O'Keeffe handed them all to the wrong team.
Jose Parker
You dont know the format of the tournament. I really just called it that so it had no home advantage and could be at a neutral ground. From match 6 onwards it could have been dead rubbers if it was a best out of 10 and all 10 games had been booked in at venues so needed to be played.
Dylan Clark
I really don't care, its clearly a contrived scenario made for you to cope.
Ayden Ortiz
Why are you encouraging his presence mate?
Jordan Evans
Back to your cuckshed m8.
Samuel Walker
Death camps.
Isaac Perez
>not drafting the casuals to put them on /rug/'s daylife
Bentley Wilson
It's there under Argentina m8
Logan Nelson
What's daylife mate
Oliver Sullivan
Routine
Kayden Ross
Ah ok. Nah fuck cazzies mate.
Dylan Hill
Every regular user has started as casual. Don't renegate the grassroots.
Samuel Torres
**trudges back**
Camden Evans
If you aren't able to tolerate a constant stream of abuse from kiwis then you'll never last here anyway.
Liam Johnson
Kiwistorms are small coffee for me
Juan Howard
I don't mean casual poster m8, I mean rugby casual. Big difference. I was never a casual, I came to /rug/ armed with elite knowledge and experience.
Evan Ward
Good lad.
Andrew Reed
Alright lads, I've perused the thread and gauged the murmurings of the masses. the following decisions have been made to avoid upsetting casual visitors and NHers (i.e. casuals) alike: >/rug/ not /rwc/ >M10 will go in 1st post, not OP >match threads for big T1 games >times will remain RWCT until the RWC itself changes >non-T1-authored threads are not allowed
These decisions are final. Thank you and ka kite.
Connor Brooks
Any suggestions, comments or complaints please refer to pic related.
No I was elected, if you weren't around then, that's not my problem m8
Christian Nguyen
Not saying it's impossible considering last time, but it's just not realistic to expect it.
Christian Rivera
t. Juan Guaidó
Asher Hill
Games involving Japan ought to be given match threads as well.
Thomas Green
>oh boy my e-tickets are ready >go to website >put in queue for an hour >website crashes
Shameful
Liam James
Maybe that can be your job Singapoo. oh no
Christian Barnes
Do you not get the group email?
Benjamin Watson
I can’t even log in. It makes me queue as if I want to buy tickets
Levi Richardson
You think they'd let Japs like you get in first shedcunt.
Landon Ramirez
mums from Ireland so that basically lets me barrack for them
Benjamin Young
>non-T1-authored threads are not allowed Hmm
Nathan Martinez
>>trying to buy tickets when the tournament starts this Friday I hope you're not serious
Cooper Ward
>he didn't go to the AGM OH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Connor White
You were receiving an exemption from the skipper, which has now been revoked for questioning the skipper.
Camden Torres
Strangely that is not me. I will be watching from the comfort of my couch.
Ian Jones
Go USA go WALES go JAPS vamos PUMAS
Jonathan Bell
thought you ere having a LARP lad
Jack Campbell
Can you read English? I bought them already. It’s making me queue just to log in and print my tickets.
Kayden Nelson
As coach of /rug/ I agree completely with my captains decisions
Wyatt Evans
Thanks coach.
Hunter Rodriguez
wait is sheddy in japan
Ian Cruz
Guinness was invented by a pro-British, pro-Union man who thought the Irish were too dumb to look after themselves. Furthermore, today, it is owned by a British company. Guinness is the opposite of 'Irish'.
John Williams
nah he has to bypass the boss's 4channel firewall with a Jap proxy, which I believe breaks 4channel's rules.
>going to the world cup for two weeks >still haven't booked all my hotels or planned shit oh well, spontaneity can be fun, right? I also tried learning japanese for a year to help me out, shit was impossible. the kanji and conjugations were fine, grammatical particles and word order fucked my brain up something fierce
Charles Campbell
too much autism back to basado crickado
Angel Roberts
Once we stoop to that, we're no better than those animals over at /hoc/ and /cric/
Elijah Brooks
I've used USA before but then I get confused with seppo even though he isn't real. I'll try Netherlands (only get 3 options with the free version) and see if it isn't too slow.
Justin Hill
Hello gachanon, how are you these days?
Zachary Gutierrez
*dabs into maori port*
Justin Howard
>S**** isn't real Oh sweet child
Nathan Fisher
>England gets hardest group >rest it's so easy to predict who will finish 1st and 2nd >it comes down to which order it is in, not the teams Bar England's group, that is. Literally any of them could do it. Tonga isn't playing Poo Peeland.
Brody Peterson
Doing fine so far. I thought I managed to find a way to balance my time with all my games but just realised that it doesn't work when all the games have events going on. Need to fix my method pronto
Benjamin Collins
accidentally picked southland not sure why this keeps happening
Zachary Wright
Dunno about that, I think England should comfortably top their pool and leave Argentina and France fighting for 2nd. And Pool A is even harder to call.
Ayden Russell
Sadly timed event stuff is gay, even if it isn't good rewards you feel inclined to do it (which is part of the method they use to make you play and pay). The idea is to completely overwhelm casual players into dropping $20 on some potions to speed up an event which is fine until the next event 2-3 weeks later. It's why I quit Kamihime Project X.
Ayden Evans
>Maori >ports It’s just the beach or in the harbour mate. Maoris were stone age bums
Jordan Barnes
You say that but the weather forecast atm is for Ireland Scotland game to be shit canned opening the door for Japan memes unironically
Joseph Kelly
>comfortably no way, pal
Easton Brooks
Squeezing out a sizable Welsh before work lads
Nathaniel Turner
Dunno about that. Anybody in C could meme it up and finish 2nd. A is gonna be Ireland and then either Scotland or Japan. B is New Zealand and South Africa doing it at a walking pace. D is Australia and Wales.
>In today's All Blacks press conference today, Hansen was asked about Wales coach Warren Gatland using baby oil on balls to prepare his team for the humid and slippery conditions in Japan.
>"You said Warren Gatland has been putting baby oil on his balls, that's probably not the headline you want, old son."
Do USA/Canada. Might as well. They're doing it for 2026 Football World Cup. Or, they could do some up-and-coming country instead that has money too. Netherlands & Belgium?
Bentley Cruz
Nonu is a poor mans Laumape
Luke Butler
They were hit by one a few days ago which is why Australia and England haven't even arrived yet. It's possible it'll be called off if it doesn't die down.
Daniel Richardson
Most events aren't that bad by themselves actually. You can get pretty much everything by event end without paying your way through if you spend your stamina wisely. It's juggling 4 such events simultaneously that gets me.
Your scrum's weakening lately lad. Bit worrying tbqh.
Not gonna dispute B and D. It's just that Ireland are looking way more unpredictable than England right now. Ranking hardly means anything at this point.
Ryder Parker
>2026 Football World Cup Last I checked it was USA/Canada/Mexico.
Hudson Martinez
please redpill me on squidge rugby, dardy /rug/ posters
Aaron Brooks
Yeah, it is. But Mexico has no interest in Rugby, really, but Canada and USA do, so there's no reason it cannot be split between the two.
Bentley Phillips
Never heard of you.
Owen Rodriguez
Quite common with the Cricket World Cups back in the day. South Africa would share with Zimbabwe and Kenya, England with Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands, Australia with New Zealand
Jaxson Ortiz
Getting really sick of my posts getting deleted.
Aaron Rodriguez
stuck up little cunt and golden child of reddit.
Hunter Butler
Exactly. These days everything is organised and quicker. It's a shit for the fans if it's like the 2026 World Cup will be, but it's alright if it's just two of those rather than three. Plus it is at least two varied climates. Or could be. Belgium and Netherlands are into their rugby a bit, see no reason why it cannot be hosted there to give it a boost. Easy travel distance, established nations, transport links, established stadia and shit. Should be doable. I would say do it in Georgia/Russia/Ukraine or something but that's a political nightmare atm.
US/ Canada RWC would be elite, but you'd have to have all the pool games confined to certain areas, the distances are too massive. -Toronto/ Ottawa/Montreal -Philly/NY/Boston -LA/San Diego/Vegas -Vancouver/Seattle/Portland -Dallas/San Antonio/Houston etc.
Aiden Nelson
it will be in argentina because pichot is a smarmy cunt
Levi Robinson
I will fight you.
Alexander Murphy
Well, the 2026 World Cup is a nightmare logistic wise. So I dunno. Next year they'll get whittled down further. But yeah I'd agree that it's doable for USA/Canada. Dunno why they're not trying, really.
Also, no patches, no gum, just stop. Drink water. Do 20 pushups every time you think you want a smoke. put the money you spend on smoking a week into a savings acct and buy yourself something nice after 6 months. I bought an iMac.
Wyatt Smith
>iMac Grim.
Got nothing to shitpost about. Just wait until results come in and falseflags begin.
Christian Bennett
it's all mental. Nicotine cravings peak after three days Additionally, figure out why you're smoking. For me it was social, because I'd be alone in the breakroom at work or ditched by my friends while they went to smoke while out clubbing or something. Once you figure that out you can start controlling yourself alot better, at least it did for me
Dylan White
Cпacибo , good lads
Zachary Campbell
good word
Adam Hill
>not Bill
Alexander Lewis
I'd say that most of the French /rug/ posters in the game threads must be the same group of people coming for soccer, apehoop and handball game threads or come from /int/. As for me personally, it's hard to comment in what is happening with the Top14 since I barely watch it anymore, I prefer sticking with the European Cups, the Internationals (including the RWC Qualifiers). I watch and comment on the SH championships and cups when I have the time to do so, which is most likely never now.
Carson Ramirez
It's French week in Lidl here this week
Ian Hernandez
Lidl Ireland makes some nice fizzy apple drink. Good stuff. Shame it's Irish. No hate, just rather support UK because you hate us.
Evan Jackson
what do they sell ?
Jack Carter
Hope you'll find what you're looking for, Lidl France are often hit or miss while doing that.
Mason Gray
We have Alpen Fest this week and wine. So basically Switzerland/Austria.
Jack Torres
like cidona? wait for it, I'll try post the thing in the spirit of rugby snacks
>be on diet even though I don't need to be or want to be >see this >get hungry It hurts.
Have you tried the ciders in these images? They're amazing. There is a 2% cider, it is fantastic, fuck the alcoholic content, it's the tastiest fucking shit. They're both good but the Doux (red label) is the best (and the 2% I'm talking about, the one in the image is 5% or so).
Xavier Harris
le gottem
Colton Jackson
It's pretty quickly filling. I can't finish a plate of that and I can't say I got a "bird stomach".
Wonder if Farro will be doing any world cup specials.
Nolan Ramirez
I've not tried those but I do drink non-alcoholic stuff, beers and ciders, on the regular. Don't need to get wasted from it to enjoy it, that's true, and can drink at breakfast.
Thomas Walker
>that golden time when NH and SH overlap and no one acts like a cunt
for me, it's not paying attention to the flag (but it's pretty easy to pick a paddy post without looking)
Camden Murphy
kiwi chicks? She's a qt on the left
Lincoln Gomez
>nougat, chocolate fondant, crépes and apple tarte as for sugary shit. Ok, that's quite a nice choice here, macarons sounds too /u/ for me but hey, if you feel like it... The walnut saucisson, brie, tarte flambée sounds quite nice in my books too.
I'd take a look a look at the 2% I mentioned then. Can drink the entire magnum and it doesn't do anything to me. It's fantastic. I've saved a few bottles in my cold larder because never know when Lidl will get some in. Also I've been going to Aldi a lot recently, so see if they have other stuff. Only issue is calories, really.
Cooper Perez
I find it hard to associate macarons with /u/ 2bh.
Brody Thomas
kopparberg pear cider non-alc is pretty nice and Dunnes sell it, and if you like a smooth lager there's a Russian beer called baltica which I've only seen at the offy
Alexander White
>Under the alliance, a new committee will be formed by RA with four Australian rugby clubs – Sydney Convicts, Melbourne Chargers, Brisbane Hustlers and Perth Rams Yep sounds pretty fucken gay
Connor Howard
I quite like alcoholic stuff anyway. Usually do wines and shit.
Logan Martinez
used to be addicted to white russians myself
Austin Ramirez
Fucking grim stuff. Izzy was right.
Xavier Scott
Australia v Wales final, your man Gareth to present the winners with Bill
The fact you describe yourself using "blow-in" suggests you are, in fact, no such thing.
Cameron Barnes
aww he's lovely
Brody Martinez
GOTTME
Leo Morales
What upsets do you predict lads?
For me it's Fiji beating Wales.
Angel Taylor
2ez
Luke Brown
they call it salami but it's a saucisson you can give it a try if you havent already
Kevin Hall
If you can call Scotland beating Irel*nd an "upset" I'm tipping that
Ayden Garcia
RSA beating NZ Japan beating Scotland France beating England
Evan Lewis
New Zealand beating Italy
Christian Jackson
>Group A: Japan over Scotland >Group B: None >Group C: Argentina over England >Group D: Wales over Australia
Cameron Hernandez
US of A beating England Japan beating Irelands Japan beating N. England Samoa beating N. England Fiji beating Cymru Georgia beating Cymru
Mason Edwards
Wales over Oz isn't an upset.
Bentley Reyes
Springbik beating NZ isn't an upset at all given their forms from their previous 5 meetings.
Canada beating NZ would be an upset
Tyler Powell
I'll be upset if we don't win.
Isaac Morales
Anyone have any idea what each team will be earning by playing in the competition? I hope teams like Russia, Tonga, Uruguay etc are getting some decent money out of this.
Blake Watson
France beating England. Namibia finally winning their very first RWC pool game against Canada (people might not count it as an upset, I do). Samoa beating Scotland.
Bonus : USA holding tight against France for most of the game.
the team with the best takthiksh shall win the cup
Andrew Johnson
Phew, was about to reply to a potato.
Benjamin Collins
Argentina would be for the best. Fuck Russia. They're only at this world cup because other teams fucked up with player eligibility. They're going to get crushed by Japan
Elijah Taylor
Lads, this wait is killing me t b h. Especially since it's a real yawner of Russia v Japan in the opening game. Then we see Australia stroll past Fiji, with the two late games essentially deciding who finishes 1st and 2nd in their group (I don't see Engpakis getting out of the groups). Then a yawner from Italy vs Wogland, Paddies vs Proper Country, then Engpaki vs Pacific Wogs.
Joseph Rogers
Seeing Japan win, especially in front of a home crowd at a world cup is going to be a treat
Bentley Scott
>Then we see Australia stroll past Fiji Don't be so sure about that
Dominic Morales
yeah be careful that shit don't wash off
David Richardson
It's like annudah 1905 all over again.
Why would Kangerooland lose to a smaller flagcuck country?
William Collins
>Why would Kangerooland lose to a smaller flagcuck country? Like New Zealand?
Lincoln Ward
Yeah but you guys are gonna win anyway and have won the most. Fiji isn't even in the same bracket as Poo Peeland.
Benjamin Cooper
Oi
Nicholas Robinson
Are Fiji still using the Union flag on theirs? I thought they were getting rid of it.
Jeremiah Ramirez
wow racist much
Easton Mitchell
/rug/ is a bit too on topic for my liking
Camden Garcia
Can't remember. I know somebody had a vote recently about it. Can't remember if it was them or Tuvalu. Anyway, Fiji's national motto is literally 'Fear God and honour the Queen'.
Basically because people reee'd about it. I can't remember why they ree'd. Something about their heritage or whatever. In short, Bainimarama is a populist dictator.
Gavin Moore
Based
Leo Jones
*Wins 16-16*
Grayson Thompson
>yfw the rules state that if the 2nd half of a game has to be called off then the current leader wins the game >yfw the rules state that if this is tied then it goes to the team with the most tries >yfw USA beats England due to call off for bad weather I don't know what the rules state if this is also tied. I guess who scored first?
Hope refs actually implement the offside rule at this WC. Rush defence smothers the game
Jackson Cox
Name me five (5) cases where rush defence has won the World Cup AND has been incorrectly allowed.
Kevin Ramirez
Rush defence can be done without being offside user, besides, they using some new camera for the WC to try catch this sort of thing and for the ref to be told about it
Cooper Davis
A slimy little stinky Welsh
Daniel Powell
Imagine missing the joke this much you sperg out like the /pol/tard you are. I've seen multiple people say filtering Ireland makes Yea Forums a much better place and I didn't really put much stock in it but you've made me see the light. Well done, faggot.
Gabriel Wood
It can but won't. The Lions rush defence in 2017 was repeatedly offside, England are serial offenders, there was a lot of it in the most recent NZ/SA match. It's become the norm now, most teams do it and all get away with it
Austin Sullivan
Literally hours after we've been discussing South Africa and their roided players earlier in this thread out comes the media on damage control for them
Are they not able to act independent of each other and have to mirror what all the others are reporting??
The absolute state of "western media"
Bentley Edwards
Same as any other prick sat in front of a camera spinning his hot takes on rugby, but he puts his rants over footage and digs up random bits of niche info. So B+ for effort but C- for any meaningful content.
Ayden Cook
Yeah, that's how news works. News comes out (the saffa assistant commenting on doping in this instance) and news organisations write articles about the news that is currently occurring.
Liam Morris
TOUCHDOWN! No but seriously no, I don’t want (((growth))) in the game. This isn’t wendyball. Sometimes you’ve got to look around and say “yeah, this is pretty good as it is”. Like Italy, beautiful scenery and architecture. Zero growth. It’s doesn’t need stupid shitty plywood structures and 8G added to it. Just leave it be. If rugby is contracting as a sport then that’s a good thing. Can go back to it’s roots of a bunch of people pushing a ball next to a wall with eighteen years of zero points scored and that would be better than bringing in a load of peoples who’re annoying af.
Idk what i’m talking about now but yeah.
Carson Nelson
If there’s one legitimate criticism of media in your feverdream rants it’s that news publications are often willing to copy-paste other peoples work without fact-checking it so that they don’t miss out on “breaking” the story locally. Otherwise you’re literally just getting angry over sports news sites posting pertinent sports news.
William Wilson
Sounds like the same sort of news they got in the USSR back in the day, each country all reporting in unison what people in Moscow told them to report
Im seeing a pattern here
Adrian Campbell
>Reporters turn up to interview >interviewee says the same thing to everybody >journos go back and write up their article >Interviewee: Ireland is fucking retarded, that's my opinion >Articles: Interviewee says 'Ireland is fucking retarded' >Ireland comes to Yea Forums >WTF GUYS WHY ARE THEY REPORTING THE SAME THING?????CONSPIRACY!!!!FACT!!!
It's OK lad. I was pretty sure I was reading about it because it is possible games might be called off (Ireland vs Scotland, for example) and they said if the game needs to be called off after half-time, then the team with the current winning score is the winner. If the scores are tied, it is the team with the most tries scored. I didn't know what happened after that. I mean, chances are it won't ever be a 0-0 or 5-5 or 3-3 or whatever.
Ryan Cooper
Just score more points first.
Jason Robinson
Obviously. But it'd be interesting to see it implemented. Just like the Super Over in the Cricket World Cup resulted in a small print rule being introduced.
John Lee
in Dyanti's defense i highly doubt the """doping""" was intentional. no one is retarded enough to take that risk months before the RWC
Kayden Hernandez
I believe I’ve caught the /rug/ bug
Zachary Stewart
I think my /rug/hole may have been pozzed
Xavier Smith
>Wales backs coach Rob Howley has been sent home from the World Cup for an alleged breach of World Rugby's laws covering betting and anti-corruption.
anything but russia or usa would be amazing. would love to visit south africa, australia and argentina
Xavier Allen
why ? confidential sports are comfy
Thomas Reed
Not set up but just being a retard for not properly checking the substances that are in the sports sports drinks / supplements that are thrown at him.
>Zimbabwe has qualified for a RWC wut
Andrew Evans
They qualified for the first two World Cups. They also had an excellent cricket team back in the day.
Mugabe's incompetence literally ruined everything that was good about Zimbabwe - even sports.
Jack Morales
>Bermuda, Gibraltar etc qualified for World Cup Those all have independent teams, user. If you're including them because of UK, then why aren't you including the French territories or Spain's or Portugal's?
Owen Diaz
I did include all of France's territories.
Spain's territories only comprise of Cueta and Mellila which aren't represented on the map and Portugal doesn't have any territories (unless you count the Azores islands) after their 1974 anti-colonialist revolution in their own country.
Every tiny thing coloured in (other than Fiji/Samoa/Tonga) is an overseas territory of either UK,France,US or NZ.
William Gutierrez
How many countries have rugby teams?
Jackson Hill
>all the shitty countries left out Seems fine to me, although its strange none of the Nordic countries and very few slaving countries have picked up rugby.
Oliver Taylor
>I did include all of France's territories. French Guiana isn't. Also, forever mad that the UK didn't keep a lot of places like Tuvalu, Fiji, Kiribati etc.
Isaac Jenkins
About 5, the rest are memes.
Hudson Collins
And Saint Pierre and Miquelon isn't either.
Michael Watson
oh yeah didn't notice that and the tiny little saint pierre and miquelon near eastern canada is also grey
Tuvalu/Fiji/Kiribati will be underwater in our lifetime.
Adrian Hall
This is exactly what I thought. Stephen Jones running things, fucking hell we might actually score a try.
Owen Jones
Slavic not slaving kek
Carter Harris
These are the countries that entered qualification for this year. The men's ranking lists 105 teams - some of whom aren't even actual countries (like the American territory of American Samoa)
True, but... I am forever against our complete and lack of attempt to maintain minor holdings. Sure, we kept globally strategic places, but it'd have been nice. The worst was letting Hong Kong go without a fight and the Trucial States. Our lack of effort to try and get others into the Commonwealth is also annoying me. Ah well, we can't even keep this country from falling apart.
Jason Roberts
It wouldn't have happened if we treated our territories like the French do.
Imagine stepping foot onto some place like Tuvalu and LITERALLY being in the UK - like how French Guiana is LITERALLY France. They vote in general elections, they use the pound, they read who's got the biggest tits in the sun. Shame we'll never have that. We'll just have to put up with our unofficial colonies in Benidorm and the algarve instead.
Cooper Wright
Looking at this map, looks like rugby is only relevant in Europe and Americas and some parts of asia pacific and africa RiP >us and Uzbekistan being the only rugby teams in west asia, not counting Cyprus, Georgia and Pissreal cause they play in Europe
Evan Taylor
UK gave people self-determination, which was a nice thing to do. As for France, yeah, I'd have preferred that but, sadly, retards in charge.
Aaron White
Gulf arabs don't really like sport period. I've seen football games (apparently the middle east's favourite sport) and still the games are deserted.
Kevin Perry
>thrown at him by his team doctors and nutritionists. Maybe he didn't know, I don't know, is it worth further investigation into the Saffer team probably yes.
Carter Flores
HK was leashed to us from China.
Ryan Kelly
those lads seem to like any kind of racing and they sort of like cricket too
Angel Gonzalez
>i miss marmion >i wish I was back in connacht playing good rugby >if joe says "process" one more time, i'll break his fucking neck
Cooper Anderson
No it wasn't retard. I'm not going to explain this to you because you don't know what you're talking about.
>and they sort of like cricket too those are the indian slave workers though - no citizenship. Emiratis only are 11% of the UAE population and arabs as a whole are only 30% of the UAE population.
The UAE is only
Jack Gray
pls post RSA
Dylan Lee
the attendances are weak because arabs bandwagon rich clubs some random sheikh bought and hate their own league but a lot of people watch their leagues in their homes and make excuses like "it's too hot to attend" or "they offer little hospitality" for them not attending the games. we do fill up our stadiums during major world cup qualifier games tho
Daniel Cruz
>Super Rugby Predictor (2018) >Super Rugby Predictor 2018: Top 10% in Africa [region players: 158749] >Super Rugby Predictor 2018: Top 10% in South Africa [region players: 158749] >Pool Runner-Up, Super /rug/by 2018, Super Rugby Predictor 2018 [pool size: 29] >Super Rugby Predictor 2018: Top 10% global finish [192319 players]
Time to dust off the old predictor cap.
Dylan Brown
Very based
Parker Scott
Can you quietly go gibber on about it somewhere else you boring cunt.
Benjamin Martin
NEW THREAAAAAAAAAAAAD
Jaxson Brooks
>make factually incorrect statement >tell you I'm not gonna explain it to you as you're a retard, thus ending the convo >Can you quietly go gibber on about it somewhere else you boring cunt. I had already dropped it because you were a retard, I guess you were too fucking dumb to realise this. Next time, when I give you an out, take it, don't make yourself look like a fucking tard bringing up a dead conversation that ended over 10 mins before.
Wyatt Ward
prediction for saturday?
Austin Rivera
Well fuck me sideways. Hopefully this means some more variety in our attack. Howley is going to heave to get back on the Van and start making some ice creams:
