[Other Sport] Rugby (Union) World Cup Official Thread

[essbee1]

So while we have NSC rugby folk in the same place. What teams do you support ?

Me: Harlequins

Me too.

 

[The Mole]

So while we have NSC rugby folk in the same place. What teams do you support ?

Me: Harlequins

Edinburgh

 

[Guinness Boy]

You're clearly not a coach at a club. We have to deal with parents who are worried about the effects of concussion and whether the game is safe for little Johnny or Jane. The game has massively changed - I remember getting being concussed in a ruck and told to get on with it. The RFU is already facing lawsuits from ex-pros and a decline in playing numbers and is reacting accordingly. I'm a coach AND a ref and we're constantly being exhorted to keep the game safe.

Thanks for the explanation on the red.

I sympathise with your position. A mate of mine has a son who is very good at Rugby. Captained his year group at Richmond and is now at a rugby college with a decent chance of turning pro. The mate in question also played and is no snowflake.

He told me last year that he used his one day off in a week (he works for NHS) to travel 30 miles to see his son play. Turned up and they were warming up so he went to get food. When he came back his son and another lad were sat out with bibs on. They’d slightly clashed heads in a warm up drill and were not only out of the game but out for a mandatory number of weeks. “In my day no one would have noticed” was his take on it.

Nevertheless, red for any head contact seems daft. To this novice / layman it looked unavoidable or even as if the Argentinian player dived at Curry. Contrast with football where head clashes rarely even get a yellow. Different games, I know.

I’m not seeing anyone defending Curry this morning so it’s clearly my duffer take on it,

 

[The Mole]

England chaos as hundreds of fans stuck outside rugby stadium and miss kick-off

Some fans were forced to queue for over an hour to get into the Stade Velodrome in Marseille on Saturday evening to watch England's Rugby World Cup Clash against Argentina

www.mirror.co.uk

I posted this under the Marseilles thread. Not sure which place was best, anyway its on both now. This cant happen when we play there.

I’m going tonight so will report back - we are planning to get there very early though

 

[jakarta]

Northern Monkey so my team was RL (Widnes, where I worked) but they had just nicked a huge amount of Welsh Union talent such as Jonathan Davies so watching their first few games was similar to RU! Mind you after a few 'introductions'to RL, JD started to kick the ball a lot more...

 

[One Love]

Northern Monkey so my team was RL (Widnes, where I worked) but they had just nicked a huge amount of Welsh Union talent such as Jonathan Davies so watching their first few games was similar to RU! Mind you after a few 'introductions'to RL, JD started to kick the ball a lot more...

What a player he was, in both codes.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Thanks for the explanation on the red.

I sympathise with your position. A mate of mine has a son who is very good at Rugby. Captained his year group at Richmond and is now at a rugby college with a decent chance of turning pro. The mate in question also played and is no snowflake.

He told me last year that he used his one day off in a week (he works for NHS) to travel 30 miles to see his son play. Turned up and they were warming up so he went to get food. When he came back his son and another lad were sat out with bibs on. They’d slightly clashed heads in a warm up drill and were not only out of the game but out for a mandatory number of weeks. “In my day no one would have noticed” was his take on it.

Nevertheless, red for any head contact seems daft. To this novice / layman it looked unavoidable or even as if the Argentinian player dived at Curry. Contrast with football where head clashes rarely even get a yellow. Different games, I know.

I’m not seeing anyone defending Curry this morning so it’s clearly my duffer take on it,

This seems overly harsh on the kids if they are out for a time period for a clash of heads if they are showing no side affects days later.

Missing the game seems fair enough as a safety precaution.

On the red card last night it seems to be a split on if it should have been, but most seem to say it was unlucky to have happened.

 

[keaton]

Thanks for the explanation on the red.

I sympathise with your position. A mate of mine has a son who is very good at Rugby. Captained his year group at Richmond and is now at a rugby college with a decent chance of turning pro. The mate in question also played and is no snowflake.

He told me last year that he used his one day off in a week (he works for NHS) to travel 30 miles to see his son play. Turned up and they were warming up so he went to get food. When he came back his son and another lad were sat out with bibs on. They’d slightly clashed heads in a warm up drill and were not only out of the game but out for a mandatory number of weeks. “In my day no one would have noticed” was his take on it.

Nevertheless, red for any head contact seems daft. To this novice / layman it looked unavoidable or even as if the Argentinian player dived at Curry. Contrast with football where head clashes rarely even get a yellow. Different games, I know.

I’m not seeing anyone defending Curry this morning so it’s clearly my duffer take on it,

It's been a red all of last season's games and possibly the season before.

As an aside I played 88 minutes of Sunday league game and had two pints of Guinness before someone told me I'd been knocked out at the beginning of a game. I'm pretty happy sport is taking these things a little more seriously nowadays

 

[maltaseagull]

Me too.

Bath.. Where my late Dad was born.

 

[crodonilson]

Always look forward to watching the Brave Blossoms play, this should be a good watch.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Always look forward to watching the Brave Blossoms play, this should be a good watch.

Tell me ..do you do the Haka in front of the tv for every game or just when your fav side are playing

 

[jakarta]

Japan could well qualify if Argentina don't stop playing like dogshit...

 

[The Mole]

Arrived at the stadium OK - great atmosphere between all the supporters

 

[crodonilson]

Tell me ..do you do the Haka in front of the tv for every game or just when your fav side are playing

I would dream of doing it, hugely disrespectful but I do watch it in awe.

 

[jakarta]

Saffers just ahead of the Jocks, one of those games you would like both to lose...

 

[Guinness Boy]

It's been a red all of last season's games and possibly the season before.

Not if you’re Chile or South Africa apparently

 

[Icy Gull]

Saffers get away with nothing but a penalty when, based on Curry’s card, it should have been a red.

No consistency and funny how a S Hemisphere TMO gave last nights red yet today a S Hemisphere team get away with it.

Infuriating

Anyway come on you Sweaties!!

 

[Questions]

Brilliant from the Saffers. They’re starting to go through the gears.

 

[Beach Hut]

Definitely a red card but not given, crap TMO

 

[jakarta]

Game of the weekend for me coming up. Let's hear it for Fiji!