4 fixtures this week, with SA coming to Europe too
1515 WAL v RSA
1730 ITA v ROM
1730 IRE v ENG
2005 FRA v FIJ
Also on today
1530 GEO v USA
And the Top14 kicks off too!
Another week, another English Red Card.
The highly opinionated folks on the old sub-reddit from the North used to regularly claim that the Southern Hemisphere was too soft on cards (for various reasons, not carding enough, then the 20 minute red) and that the stricter Northern Hemisphere processes would be an advantage as time went on as they would be so used to it they wouldn’t be doing these bad things anymore.
I think the truth is that the whole scheme of trying to reduce the tackle height without legislating to define a lower legal tackle was always going to be a bad approach in a professional era where coaches and teams will push all of the rules to the limit. The upcoming rule changes in various competitions that legislate a legal tackle height and force it much lower than the head need to be applied to the professional game as soon as possible.
what a score-fest by South Africa against Wales
HT in Dublin. 12-3 - I’m on a bus so only just following, Ireland lineout needing work I did catch
Italia vs Romania my pick of the matches
looks like USA vs Georgia is the closest game so far today. Even though Georgia kick our ass
Our turn next week vs The Lelos. I wish we’d seen USA kick on after MLR
Wym? Like what you plan on watching? Cuz I’m watching England vs Ireland
Closest game I reckon. Others are dead rubbers
Early red in the Italian match, stupid clearout
FT in Cardiff, 16-52 and Wales are miles off things. I don’t think I’ve learned much about Scotland’s opener either. SA scrum a weapon, as expected. Card referral a yellow for me, carrier had significantly dipped
what you think about that yellow on the try against Wales ? Right call ?
Right call
I agree, did you see the Wales player give South Africa a try by passing it to them.
Lol, I missed that. Will have to check highlights tomorrow
@[email protected] I noticed something odd about this post… On my instance and even on sh.itjust.works I think it won’t show unless you view the top posts in the last 7 days. Doesn’t seem to appear if you sort by new or anything just looking at the community as a whole.
Welcome to the fediverse! It mostly works? I suspect either a caching issue or a sorting issue. Probably a SJW problem more, maybe the next version of Lemmy server software sorts it. Maybe I should raise a bug report also though
Just tuned in for France at 59’ and Fiji starting to slip away at 31-17. Mata making some great carries already
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Ireland and the quarter final curse though. France my pick for winners with their draw. SA and Ireland to knock ten shades of shit out each other to avoid NZ, who I expect to win their opener and hence the pool. England to make the semis, masking how bad they really are, with Wales bottling a quarter final even worse than Ireland usually manage
And Scotland to push both Ireland and SA but fail to escape. Despite them one of them playing the final
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I get it. But this year its still France or NZ. The meme continues. I really hope not, but alas
Quiet last 20, 34-17 - french defense looking solid, and fit. Fiji lacking anything other than blunt play, holding back ten moves?
