I don’t mind them losing - I expected it. What really annoys me is that they wait until 60 minutes, 13 points down to remember that a) both sides are allowed to score tries; b) they’ve got some idea how to do it; in fact c) look, we can do it once, just to tease you.
I know that playing for territory and kicking points got them to a quarter-final, but you need to be able to score big points to get any further and 20 minutes left isn’t the time to start trying.
Why do you hate Ame…errrr…South Africa?
I’m a now gutted Kiwi born in America in an American body with American parents. As a devotee of the oval ball, I’ve spent nearly half my life involved with rugby union. I decided to move home after visiting two years ago (as well as last year when I was able to see the All Blacks destroy Australia in Christchurch).
Sure, it could be first five-eighth, standoff, pivot, flyhalf, etc.
As a now-retired and never very good front-row forward, I must admit I don’t really know one position from another once you’re outside the scrum, since of course we always referred to them as "Fucking backs :rolleyes: " 
You have reason to be gutted. Why New Zealand have managed only one World Cup since the competition was inaugurated - and that back in the amateur days when everyone else’s idea of training was a couple of beers and a cigarette before the game - is a constant source of astonishment. Still, I must admit that it provides fuel for schadenfreude, much the same as the Celtic nations probably felt during the latter half of the 1990s when England should have been Grand Slamming the Five Nations every year but kept treading on one banana skin after another.
As long as this thread remains active, I will begin each morning with that song running through my head: “Oh, look at all the lonely people.”
Argh.
Actually, I’ve match-played every position. My mindset has always been that of a forward (prop and flanker to be specific), but for the longest time I was stuck in a backs body. It’s no longer true that I’m a tiny little back but I now have to wait to get my chance behind our forwards. My time is running out, I’m nearly 40, but I want to get to prop size so that I can play out my last few years in the front row (consistently, that is), hopefully at tighthead.
It’s tough knowing that New Zealand had, has, and probably always will have one of the best teams in the world, but can never seem to get it right at the RWC. That they don’t win doesn’t change the fact that they are the best, but it doesn’t make it any easier. :mad: :smack:
Just because it’s doing the rounds. 
The correct way for an Australian to address an English Gentleman…
2 Minutes in…
Oh My! 
keeps fingers crossed
Bah, we either need to kick better or go home. I can barely watch.
Wow. I think I lost a stone and a half watching that…
It was ugly but you can’t argue with a result!
Excellent.
Heh.
I had to cross my toes too, but it worked.
Well bugger me backwards.
No direction of buggery will make sense of this.
you want that bacon salt or what
Thanks but no thanks, I’d much rather have a Mars bar.
Anyway, not a great fan of rugby but what a game… and let’s not forget the English football team also won
Kudos to England. Now, come on Argentina for tonight!
Also, come on Scotland, two games to go! woot
Well oh dear, looks like the Pumas (who, I hear, are meant to be “the Jaguars” but some dumbass sports reporter misinterpreted the cat on their kit and they let it stick) aren’t gonna make it.
Which gives us a very interesting position.
Is the England team going to be able to score more than no fucking points at all next Saturday? :eek:
Jesus, fucking dirty play from the Boks. Smith deserved the yellow card.
ETA: And now Dr. Contepomi too. Pretty sad.
I don’t think it’ll be a repeat of the 36-0 drubbing. Argentina were able to pin SA back for substantial periods of the game, failing mainly to capitalise on their territory through some horrible, horrible mistakes. If we’re disciplined about coming out of good positions with at least 3 points, we should be able to get a respectable score on the board.
I still think we’ll lose, however, largely because SA look far more dangerous on the break than either Australia or France, and I can see some of our looser passes getting comprehensively pounced on. On the other hand we all know how well predictions have worked out this tournament. But on the other other hand, SA are pretty much the only side that have run to form so far, a close match against Tonga notwithstanding.
Gotta agree with the Badger.
It was a great performance (although ugly) by our boys and I reckon we’ve done exceedingly well to get to the final. South Africa can be put off their stride so it’s down to finding their weak spots and forcing errors.
Of course the likelihood of that is somewhat slim and the safe money has to be on the Springboks.
Typical fucking Badgers, always sticking together.
