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When's the actual scheduled kickoff for NZ v SA?
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# ? Jan 20, 2021 11:27 |
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Did the French guy just leap frog over the Argentinean scrub half?
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Penaud doing his best superman impression.
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1045 English time, so an hour and a bit from now
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This is top quality Francing
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Really enjoying this game. Serious intensity from both sides for the most part. Argentina probably should be ahead, but welp, they just keep bottling it at the wrong time. Altho penalty plus 10m now so..
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tarbrush posted:This is top quality Francing Lmao
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Grand cru Francing Although the French can tend to be shite between fifty and seventy minutes and come back in the last ten. The difference being they don't normally have a 20 point advantage to blow.
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Serious drop goal!
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Wtf? Seems a weird time for a drop goal with opposition having a good period with ball in hand. 70 minutes gone i suppose, I didn't notice that at first
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That was the dumbest penalty I've seen in some time.
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Yeah, tactically pehaps not ideal timing there
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Daaaaaammmmn. Just faded
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Finger tips stuff from France.
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Well played France, that was a cracker
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Welp. Definitely a bit of Gallic fire there.
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Probably the best almost Francing I've ever seen.
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Great end, both the match and the handbags
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Ahaha, post gong fighting. Looks like it was in fact an excellent time for a drop goal. Guess this level of quality rugby analysis could be why I don't coach a national, or indeed any, team.
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Not thrilled about the offside line seemingly disappearing though. Argentina can feel hard done by.
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Did Gardner forget his cards? France should've had someone binned at some point. Picamoles intercept was a mile offside too. And I'm pretty sure a French defender rolled into the scrum half on that last turnover.
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All of the matches have been good fun so far. I think about half of Australia wound up in Sapporo, and there were plenty of neutrals and English fans who got tickets for both games this weekend.
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bessantj posted:Not thrilled about the offside line seemingly disappearing though. Argentina can feel hard done by. Both teams were desperate for staying behind the offside line for important parts of the game. When there's two points in it with two minutes to go it can be tough to not see it called, but when you've been getting away with it all match it's a strange ask for it to be suddenly respected (although something Nigel Owens would be happy to oblige with.) That being said France should have had a yellow card, although I'm not sure how much of a difference it would have made. Argentina should have taken at least one chance during the first half and then France wouldn't have been able to hold out. Edit: Painkiller posted:Did Gardner forget his cards? France should've had someone binned at some point. Picamoles intercept was a mile offside too. And I'm pretty sure a French defender rolled into the scrum half on that last turnover. That definitely happened, and I was yelling at the screen as it happened, but again, it's one of those things that you can't expect that to be suddenly called because it's the last minute and you're two points down, however fuming I'd be if it happened to Ireland.
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Are they putting the full matches up online to watch later or just lovely highlights?
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Should be able to watch it again on ITV at some point.
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goatface posted:Are they putting the full matches up online to watch later or just lovely highlights? ITV hub have got them up.
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Actually what is the general line on enforcing offside atm? Occasionally see it enforced strictly, but rushing defense is pretty much mandatory now, esp with the pod offense structure (which someone here explained really well and thank you whoever that was). Seems a pretty fine line for teams to walk as to staying onside or ending up with gaps for runners to hit.
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I was hoping for the clean, commentary-free, crowd and ref mics only version, but that will have to do.
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Offside seems to be enforced if it directly interferes with play or is just really blatant, if not, players tend to be able to steal a metre or two as long as they're away from the ruck and get away with it.
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Slumfrog posted:Actually what is the general line on enforcing offside atm? Occasionally see it enforced strictly, but rushing defense is pretty much mandatory now, esp with the pod offense structure (which someone here explained really well and thank you whoever that was). Seems a pretty fine line for teams to walk as to staying onside or ending up with gaps for runners to hit. Theoretically it's behind the hindmost foot of the ruck, but I haven't seen that rigorously enforced in a tier 1 match in pretty much forever. Behind the bulk of the ruck might be generally enforced, but mostly it's just something that looks obviously offside by someone being particularly far ahead. This often ends up with bad calls though, where someone charging from behind makes yards and just looks offside because they had a head of steam up, while the smothering effect of the whole line being a metre or so offside goes by unnoticed. All in all, it's a shitshow, and probably the most advantageous pushing of the laws outside the ruck that goes on at the highest level of the game.
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It's like scrum laws, enforced when the ref gets generally annoyed with them loving about with the flow of play.
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Awesome, thank you for the clear explanations. So glad I am not a referee
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NZ v SA kickoff is about an hour and a bit still yeah? Time to make some burgs, grab a drink before the main event. Have managed to somehow miss every Boks game so far this year so been looking forward to this bigly. Sorry to all if I have been posting too much. I live in a rugby desert, so I am taking the chance to gorge on the stuff this World Cup.
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Slumfrog posted:NZ v SA kickoff is about an hour and a bit still yeah? Time to make some burgs, grab a drink before the main event. Have managed to somehow miss every Boks game so far this year so been looking forward to this bigly. Nope it’s in 5 mins
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Slumfrog posted:NZ v SA kickoff is about an hour and a bit still yeah? Time to make some burgs, grab a drink before the main event. Have managed to somehow miss every Boks game so far this year so been looking forward to this bigly. Kicks off in 5 minutes. But no worries about asking questions, everyone here is pretty good at answering anything you might want to know.
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Whoops. Thanks again for the save
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Slumfrog posted:So glad I am not a referee You couldn't do much worse than half of them reffing at the RWC.
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Oh poo poo TJ bringing it
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Aaawww yis!
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# ? Jan 20, 2021 11:27 |
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It's like a final, but on day 2!
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