Rugby World Cup general discussion
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Fuck Owen Farrell, fuck the RFU, and fuck that bloom of a disciplinary panel.
Farrell has a long and ugly track record of this kind of horror tackle. He's been to tackle school, and obviously flunked it because he's learned nothing and has no remorse. His only defence is that he's been allowed to get away with it for so long, why should he take it seriously now?
The RFU's decision to appeal and presumably pay a small fortune for a KC to hypnotise the rubes on the panel into imaging they saw some mitigation was a shocker. There might be no room for sentiment in elite sport, but there is room for integrity. The RFU is talking a big game about tackle safety in the community game, and this completely undermines that message and makes them look shameless. Just because they could, doesn't mean they should have. And of course it's backfired - now the whole debacle is running on longer, when they could have just put it behind them and planned for having Farrell back for the knock-out stages (pun intended).
And the panel has been made to look like a bunch of fools, accepting some mitigation that Blind Willie McTell could see is non-existent. A month out from the highlight of the rugby calender, they've made a mockery of the whole process, undermined a ref and TMO who made a correct decision, undermined the whole bunker review process, undermined the message that WR take dangerous tackles seriously, and given the impression that any union who can afford top, top lawyers can write their own rules.
Fuck the lot of them. I hope WR's appeal succeeds, Farrell gets the substantial ban he deserves, and everyone can learn from this sordid affair and avoid it happening again.
(Bloom is the collective name for jellyfish)
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Well said
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FFS! This Farrell shite is boring as f%#k. The inconsistency of the rulings isn't Farrell's fault. Let the lad play and attack the admin.
@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Rugby World Cup news:
FFS! This Farrell shite is boring as f%#k. The inconsistency of the rulings isn't Farrell's fault. Let the lad play and attack the admin.
Well it's not the admin even, they set laws to allow him to be penalised etc, but lawyers etc got involved.
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Well the preparations of one entire side of the draw are just going swimmingly
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Well the preparations of one entire side of the draw are just going swimmingly
@mariner4life said in Rugby World Cup news:
Well the preparations of one entire side of the draw are just going swimmingly
Eddie Jones is pleased on multiple levels
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Well the preparations of one entire side of the draw are just going swimmingly
@mariner4life Lol. Yeah, we're a collective basket case. At this point the only honourable thing to do is for pools C and D to agree to play a plate division instead
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Rumoured French squad. Formal announcement tomorrow
La liste des 33 joueurs retenus pour la Coupe du monde de rugby
A la veille de l'annonce de la liste de Fabien Galthié, RMC Sport vous donne les noms des 33 joueurs qui vont partir en quête du trophée Webb Ellis à partir du 8 septembre.AVANTS (19)
Première ligne (9)Piliers : Reda Wardi (28 ans, 8 sélections), Jean-Baptiste Gros (24 ans, 24 sélections), Cyril Baille (29 ans, 44 sélections), Uini Atonio (33 ans, 52 sélections), Sipili Falatea (26 ans, 13 sélections), Dorian Aldegheri (30 ans, 10 sélections).Talonneurs : Julien Marchand (28 ans, 30 sélections), Peato Mauvaka (26 ans, 23 sélections), Pierre Bourgarit (25 ans, 10 sélections).
Deuxième ligne (4)Thibault Flament (26 ans, 18 sélections), Cameron Woki (24 ans 21 sélections), Paul Willemse (30 ans, 28 sélections), Romain Taofifenua (32 ans, 43 sélections).
Troisième ligne (6)François Cros (29 ans, 20 sélections), Grégory Alldritt (26 ans, 41 sélections), Charles Ollivon (30 ans, 34 sélections), Anthony Jelonch (27 ans, 25 sélections), Sekou Macalou (28 ans, 18 sélections), Paul Boudehent (23 ans, 2 sélections).
TROIS-QUARTS (14)
Demis de mêlée (3) : Antoine Dupont (26 ans, 48 sélections), Maxime Lucu (30 ans, 15 sélections), Baptiste Couilloud (26 ans, 12 sélections).
Demis d'ouverture (2) : Matthieu Jalibert (24 ans, 25 sélections), Antoine Hastoy (26 ans, 4 sélections).
Centres (4) : Jonathan Danty (30 ans, 22 sélections), Gaël Fickou (29 ans, 80 sélections), Arthur Vincent (23 ans, 16 sélections), Yoram Moefana (23 ans, 18 sélections).
Ailiers/arrières (5) : Gabin Villière (27 ans, 13 sélections), Damian Penaud (26 ans, 43 sélections), Louis Bielle-Biarrey (20 ans, 3 sélections), Thomas Ramos (26 sélections, 28 ans), Melvyn Jaminet (24 ans, 14 sélections).
Les 9 qui vont quitter le groupe :Thomas Laclayat, Bastien Chalureau, Florian Verhaeghe, Yoann Tanga, Dylan Cretin, Baptiste Serin, Emilien Gailleton , Ethan Dumortier, Brice Dulin.
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Sir Steve Hansen to help the Wallabies.
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Sir Steve Hansen to help the Wallabies.
@sparky said in Rugby World Cup news:
Sir Steve Hansen to help the Wallabies.
Strip him of his knighthood immediately
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@Machpants said in Rugby World Cup news:
Well, he shows his quality compared to Wayne Smith
I thought we were all for helping out the minnows
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Is it just me or did Hansen become a smug arrogant fluffybunny towards the end of his tenure?
@KiwiMurph said in Rugby World Cup news:
Is it just me or did Hansen become a smug arrogant fluffybunny towards the end of his tenure?
I think he was always like that to be fair
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Is it just me or did Hansen become a smug arrogant fluffybunny towards the end of his tenure?
@KiwiMurph said in Rugby World Cup news:
Is it just me or did Hansen become a smug arrogant fluffybunny towards the end of his tenure?
Pre the World Cup loss, his 2018-2019 interviews started sounding like some philosopher-king of rugby rather than a simple rugby coach.
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Seems to be in it for the $$ (although it says he's not being paid).
He was obviously on the payroll of that rebel hybrid competition thingy that raised it's head a year or so back.
He's already dead to me for his dalliance with recruiting players for an Aussie league team.
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@KiwiMurph said in Rugby World Cup news:
Is it just me or did Hansen become a smug arrogant fluffybunny towards the end of his tenure?
Pre the World Cup loss, his 2018-2019 interviews started sounding like some philosopher-king of rugby rather than a simple rugby coach.
@Frank said in Rugby World Cup news:
@KiwiMurph said in Rugby World Cup news:
Is it just me or did Hansen become a smug arrogant fluffybunny towards the end of his tenure?
Pre the World Cup loss, his 2018-2019 interviews started sounding like some philosopher-king of rugby rather than a simple rugby coach.
Because he never really needed to coach
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Sir Steve Hansen to help the Wallabies.
@sparky said in Rugby World Cup news:
Sir Steve Hansen to help the Wallabies.
Don't know why it's even news. It happens often. Didn't Henry help the Oumas etc? Most of these coaches are mates and I sure Hansen is only casting eyes over what Eddie is doing, and not actually taking training etc.
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Ireland’s gun hooker Sheehan has picked up an injury. Maybe 6-8 weeks out.
