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What an absolutely massive victory
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Oct 13, 2019 12:45
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Great game, Japan deserved it. Surely they're a tier 1 team now.
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Oct 13, 2019 12:45
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That was a great fuckin game.
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Oct 13, 2019 12:45
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There might be money thrown at some of those players to draw them out of Japan.
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Oct 13, 2019 12:46
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Shame for Scotland. But a well deserved victory and fantastic game.
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Oct 13, 2019 12:47
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What exactly does it take to become a tier1 nation?
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Oct 13, 2019 12:47
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Flayer posted:What exactly does it take to become a tier1 nation? Beating the All Blacks at least once.
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Oct 13, 2019 12:50
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Beating the All Blacks at least once. Wales kisses their 1953 trophy every night before they go to bed.
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Oct 13, 2019 12:56
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Beating the All Blacks at least once.
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Oct 13, 2019 13:01
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Flayer posted:What exactly does it take to become a tier1 nation? Being allowed into the big competitions on the fairly arbitrary basis of what will make more money
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Oct 13, 2019 13:02
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Absolutely classic performance from Japan and what an amazing match. Really happy they found a way to make that game happen
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Oct 13, 2019 13:08
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I watched it in the Narita Departure lounge high-fiving a Dutch guy who was following Australia with his wife for a month.
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Oct 13, 2019 13:24
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Just realized the Canada-Namibia cancellation draw gives them both 2 points, dooming the USA to share the wooden spoon with Russia on points. The Russians get it thanks to point difference.
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Oct 13, 2019 13:29
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That was one of the all time great games of the World Cup. We came out on the losing side but I can't be too disappointed. Japan came and took the game off us.
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Oct 13, 2019 13:31
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Aramoro posted:That was one of the all time great games of the World Cup. We came out on the losing side but I can't be too disappointed. Japan came and took the game off us. gently caress that, we're a hopeless arse of a team. Fire Townsend and the entire senior squad into the loving sun. Dissolve the SRU.
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Oct 13, 2019 13:34
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I don’t really think you can calculate how much the home advantage meant to Japan there.
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Oct 13, 2019 13:37
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It's been a long time since I've felt this proud to not be Scottish 
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Oct 13, 2019 13:55
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Beating the All Blacks at least once. That would make the ABs not a tier 1 nation. It would also make the Baa-baas a T1 team, which is good.
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Oct 13, 2019 14:12
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Communist Bear posted:gently caress that, we're a hopeless arse of a team. Fire Townsend and the entire senior squad into the loving sun. Dissolve the SRU. Someone Scottish says something similar to this most years. It's basically the boy who cried wolf at this stage.
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Oct 13, 2019 15:08
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LimburgLimbo posted:Japan is gonna loving win all their pool games
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Oct 13, 2019 15:14
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Can't argue with result, Japan were incredible. Really hope they can go deep in the tournament.
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Oct 13, 2019 16:03
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Kitchner posted:Someone Scottish says something similar to this most years. It's basically the boy who cried wolf at this stage. Except in this version of the story it's a pack of wolves every single time
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Kitchner posted:Someone Scottish says something similar to this most years. It's basically the boy who cried wolf at this stage. True that admittedly. As this point it just doesn't matter. gently caress Scotland.
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Oct 13, 2019 17:53
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Japan played some blinding rugby. Fantastic. Fukuoka is an absolute flyer.
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Oct 13, 2019 18:22
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harperdc posted:Just realized the Canada-Namibia cancellation draw gives them both 2 points, dooming the USA to share the wooden spoon with Russia on points. The Russians get it thanks to point difference. Amazing, though I kinda wish that we'd get embarrassed by Namibia and hopefully spur some change with Rugby Canada. Absolutely fantastic job by Japan against the Scots.
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Oct 13, 2019 18:53
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Communist Bear posted:True that admittedly. Drunk Scottish fans decrying the performance of the team and insisting they don't care any more, only to see them next year full of hope before repeating the cycle is basically a rugby tradition. Same with Italian fans insisting they will stop turning up to games if they don't improve. Or Welsh fans trying to act all cynical about their team's ability to perform but screaming at the top of their lungs of one of the players a) touch the ball and b) look in the direction of the try line. Or England fans walking into a pub of rugby fans from other teams and all the friendly chatter hushes and suddenly no one wants to talk to each other. It's all part of the rugby fan experience.
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Kitchner posted:Drunk Scottish fans decrying the performance of the team and insisting they don't care any more, only to see them next year full of hope before repeating the cycle is basically a rugby tradition. It's true. It's all true. [whimpers quietly in the corner as he laments being Scottish]
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I don’t know who I’m going to root for, now  I normally back the springboks but I really want Japan to go deep...  I thought the Japanese side put a really impressive effort forth yesterday. There’s only a few places where things will need to be tidied up against RSA, but lineouts are 100% on that list.
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Oct 14, 2019 14:37
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Nigel Owens confirmed to ref the ABs Ireland quater final
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Oct 15, 2019 06:00
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England v. Australia will be officiated by Jerome Garces. Based on his refereeing in Perth, that means he'll arbitrarily award territory to one team after they knock on, and they'll will be allowed to do whatever they want in the rucks, while the other team will be penalised if they so much as breathe on they're opponents. He's quite simply, not fit to referee at the test level. The Assistant refs are Romain "Qu'est-ce qu'un hors-jeu?" Poite and Mathieu "Drooling idiot" Raynal. Fun Police Ben Skeen will be the TMO. Basically, gently caress French refs, they'll go out of their way to ruin this game. As mentioned Nige will take the All Blacks v. Ireland quarter. His assistants are Pascal Gauzere and Angus Gardiner. Graham Hughes, who is actually pretty good, will be the TMO. Wales v. France will be officiated by Jaco Peyper The Assistant Refs are Nic Berry and Paul Williams. Marius Jonker will by the TMO. Japan v. South Africa will be officiated by Wayne "Actually improved by leaps and bounds since 2007, and it's a real shame he's packing it in after the tournament" Barnes. The Assistant Refs are Ben O'Keeffe and Luke Pearce.
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Oct 15, 2019 07:08
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I’ve been quite impressed by Nic Berry this tournament. SRU will finish a glorious tournament with a disrepute charge for publicly threatening to sue before the game went ahead.
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Oct 15, 2019 07:25
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Kitchner posted:. Or Welsh fans trying to act all cynical about their team's ability to perform but screaming at the top of their lungs of one of the players a) touch the ball and b) look in the direction of the try line. Oh god I do this so much it’s criminal
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Oct 15, 2019 08:26
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lenoon posted:Oh god I do this so much it’s criminal My nan was a proper Welsh nan and she used to shout at the TV every time someone from our team ran more than two steps with the ball too. I got to see Wales vs England in Cardiff pre-world Cup and I've got tickets to Wales vs Scotland in Cardiff next year, and that's always fun because you really get immersed in "Welsh fans shouting at man with egg shaped ball".
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I checked last night after getting an email that there were knockout tickets back on sale, and there are still tickets for Wales-France, and a couple expensive ones for England-Australia. The two QFs in Tokyo, and the rest of the knockout games are all turbo sold out. So if anybody is in or close to Kyushu...
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bigfoot again posted:I’ve been quite impressed by Nic Berry this tournament. Seeking legal advice regarding tournament rules =/= suing WR. That said, Dodson is a loving moron and shouldn't have made it public.
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Oct 15, 2019 11:41
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The amount of Irish people on Facebook groups now looking to exchange QF tickets is rather hilarious. Since japan won thats almost all thats been posted
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Oct 15, 2019 11:48
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LimburgLimbo posted:The amount of Irish people on Facebook groups now looking to exchange QF tickets is rather hilarious. Since japan won thats almost all thats been posted All the Tokyo expats thought they’d be locked in to the local quarter final eh
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harperdc posted:All the Tokyo expats thought they’d be locked in to the local quarter final eh To be fair conventional wisdom for a lot of people would indeed put Ireland at the top of the Pool. Unfortunately I just offloaded my tickets for both Oita games because I’m sick, then saw someone was wanting to exchange and Oita QF for Japan vs SA...
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Kitchner posted:Or Welsh fans trying to act all cynical about their team's ability to perform but screaming at the top of their lungs of one of the players a) touch the ball and b) look in the direction of the try line. Stop watching me every moment of my life please.
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