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New Zealand vs France
- Thread starter Icy Gull
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nwgull
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This isn't a great French team though. Remember, even England put 50 past them 6 months ago!
BensGrandad
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If the score stays the same we will still be the only team to have the World Cup at both Football and Rugby.
I don't follow BG. Can you explain please?
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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It's the quality of the rugby with options all over the pitch that impresses me. Fantastic to watch IMO. The French are not a great side but they are not mugs either.
England are a much better team than we saw in this tournament too, but they are so far off being anywhere near the quality of NZ.
jakarta
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This World Cup is becoming like the Rugby League World Cup, weeks of faffing about until Australia play New Zealand, the only difference being NZ will win...
BensGrandad
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We won the FIFA world Cup in 1966 and The Rugby World Cup ?? The only other team in the rugby World Cup 2015 to have won the FIFA World Cup is France who if they lose tonight cannot equal our record.
Ok - I thought you meant hosting.
warmleyseagull
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Expected Tri Nation domination to be concluded when Scots don't turn up tomorrow. It is strange that the northern countries don't seemt to learn. The 6 Nations is effectively a Championship.
nwgull
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The fawning over Nigel Owens has annoyed me in this game. Ritchie McCaw should've seen yellow and deserved far more than that girly slap for the blatant cheating on the floor and preventing the French from getting quick ball.
Jimmy Come Lately
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Argentina?
drop dead fred
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the tri-nations is now called the Rugby Championship ??
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- Apr 5, 2014
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Owens is a fine referee, although the legend grows bigger than the talent. He may get the Final this time though.
He's Rugby's Dickie Bird.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,263
Argentina are in it now.
jakarta
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No-one in World Rugby deserves a good hefty boot in the face more than McCaw, it seems however he is made of Teflon...
hart's shirt
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This shows what happens to a national side when their domestic league teams import in the best players money can buy.
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el punal
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I give you . . . Wayne Barnes.
- Apr 5, 2014
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A big contrast in the reffing of the quarter finals so far.
Barnes blew up for so many petty infringements at the breakdown getting quite a few wrong when you saw them afterwards and Owens let the game flow only penalising when the team gained advantage from it.
They really need to sort the difference in interpretation out because it's infuencing results.If Wales had a ref like Owens today they would have been quite a bit ahead at half time and then may have gone on to win.
Barnes blew up for so many petty infringements at the breakdown getting quite a few wrong when you saw them afterwards and Owens let the game flow only penalising when the team gained advantage from it.
They really need to sort the difference in interpretation out because it's infuencing results.If Wales had a ref like Owens today they would have been quite a bit ahead at half time and then may have gone on to win.