# Rugby World Cup 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 17, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123 "2015-08-17T22:59:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/141 "2015-10-18T13:59:59Z")
Woo hoo ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/142 "2015-10-18T14:01:25Z")
And so the hopes of an entire hemisphere weigh on the shoulders of Scotland. _gulp_ ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/143 "2015-10-18T15:39:20Z")
So far doing surprisingly well, although OZ have missed two conversions ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/144 "2015-10-18T15:45:20Z")
Make that 3 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/145 "2015-10-18T15:53:04Z")
So, first half the Aussies have scored three tries, and Scotland are still ahead. Oh God, the hope, the hope… ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/146 "2015-10-18T15:53:47Z")
Shows what I know about the Ireland-Argentina match. Meanwhile, I’ll stick my neck out and say that a point up at half-time against Australia isn’t enough. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/147 "2015-10-18T15:59:02Z")
> [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](#): > > Meanwhile, I’ll stick my neck out and say that a point up at half-time against Australia isn’t enough. That’s not sticking your neck out all _that_ far. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/148 "2015-10-18T16:04:47Z")
FFS that’s a fucking terrible decision - deliberate knock-on and a yellow my fucking arse ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/149 "2015-10-18T16:35:00Z")
Quite a battle in progress ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/150 "2015-10-18T16:39:49Z")
Good lord they may do it ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/151 "2015-10-18T16:45:46Z")
Wow that was something. Australia are very very lucky ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/152 "2015-10-18T16:52:31Z")
It’s the hope that kills you, in the end. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/153 "2015-10-18T16:56:28Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Good lord they may do it Im Scottish. Im content enough at that result. We really ran the risk of having our asses handed to us further on in the tournie. The Aussies probably just about deserved the win. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/154 "2015-10-18T16:59:32Z")
It was an awesome game ( ok I was following along on the guardians play by play ) and Scotland can certainly head out with head held high after that. Somewhat hopeful for a more balanced Arg/Aus match now. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/155 "2015-10-18T17:00:34Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > It’s the hope that kills you, in the end. Hope is the mask despair wears to get past your guard. Son is beside himself. I’m beside myself. That is the classic Scottish heroic loss, and I have seen enough to be used to it, but I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/156 "2015-10-18T17:00:52Z")
In affectionate remembrance of NORTHERN HEMISPHERE RUGBY which died at Twickenham and Cardiff on 18TH OCTOBER 2015 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/157 "2015-10-18T17:06:38Z")
> [@Stanislaus](#): > > That is the classic Scottish heroic loss, and I have seen enough to be used to it, but I’m not. Same here man. I was 10 in 1978, you’d think I’d have learned over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/158 "2015-10-18T19:09:45Z")
Well bugger me senseless. Being English I’m used to the odd bit of cruel luck and dodgy decisions over the year, but with less than half the ball and barely a third of the territory Scotland nearly crafted a miracle. Not that they’ll be winning a World Cup in my lifetime but even so, that was a hairsbreadth away from being fucking epic. ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/159 "2015-10-18T19:49:38Z")
I’m all for the “no disrespect to the refs” and all, but that was fricking ridiculous. Not sure Scotland were actually “the better team” or anything, but it’s sad to see the refs screw up games like that. The four matches this weekend were absolutely awesome by the way, a real advert for the sport. Also quite a difference with the footie wolrd cup, which seems to tighten up the further you get… which means fewer and fewer good games. Seems to be the opposite here. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123/160 "2015-10-18T20:03:03Z")
Poor, poor Scotland, what a horrible way to lose. Argentina looked excellent against Ireland, should be a good match between them and Australia. **polar bear** in past RWCs the knockout games have been much more dour, it just seems we’re in a phase that favours attacking rugby at the moment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rugby-world-cup-2015/728123.md?page=9)