Rugby World Cup 2011 Thread

**Team Sheep** · 09-03-2011, 01:08 AM

With less than a week to go until the big kick off, I thought this deserved its own thread. Really can't wait for this, and if it's anything like as unpredictable and exciting as 2007, we're in for a hell of a 6 weeks. I love how the groups are set up this year, with Pool A being the only one where it's clear who's going through. From a personal stand point it's great to see Wales hitting some form going into a World Cup for once. I can't see anyone stopping New Zealand this time though. It's been said time and again and they've choked, but on their home turf they'll surely put their World Cup demons to bed.

Pool A:
Canada
France
Japan
New Zealand
Tonga

Pool B:
Argentina
England
Georgia
Romania
Scotland

Pool C:
Australia
Ireland
Italy
Russia
USA

Pool D:
Fiji
Namibia
Samoa
South Africa
Wales

**Londoner** · 09-03-2011, 03:29 AM

gonna be a huge thread this

**Londoner** · 09-03-2011, 03:29 AM

though i may post during england games

**Team Sheep** · 09-03-2011, 12:14 PM

Shhh. Some of us do actually talk about rugby here!! I remember back in the day there was a RWC 2003 thread and it was huge. WTF happened?!

**Team Sheep** · 09-03-2011, 12:20 PM

Also being in America, I got really excited when NBC announced they had the rights to the World Cup. Then they released the schedule of matches and all they're showing is the opening game and then all the USA games

What a great way to promote the sport over here...

ITV Player on my laptop in the middle of the night it is for me then.

**Bad Company** · 09-06-2011, 06:13 PM

With 2 days to do, I thought it was time to make this thread.
Will anyone else be watching besides me, newstead, and dowunder?
Australia looking strong, South Africa, England and France area always there or there abouts. NZ at home will be tough to beat.
Thoughts on what's about to unfold?

**Bad Company** · 09-06-2011, 06:14 PM

http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/fi...poolstage.html

Draw for pool stage.

**Londoner** · 09-06-2011, 06:19 PM

already a thread

**Team Sheep** · 09-06-2011, 08:14 PM

The Kiwi can host the thread if he likes, I guess it's rather fitting

Someone delete one or merge them or whatever.

**Londoner** · 09-07-2011, 03:29 PM

you just don't want to be the idiot who created a thread no one cares about.

**Team Sheep** · 09-08-2011, 12:40 AM

There'll be plenty of activity once it kicks off trust me

**Londoner** · 09-08-2011, 02:54 AM

I've actually just checked the schedule finally on itv and seen that there's 4 games in a row in the morning. I'm actually looking forward to it now! Though its a football weekend so how long i stay up for it we shall have to see! lol

**Bad Company** · 09-08-2011, 09:53 PM

Weren't you ragging on rugby last time?
Anyway, All Blacks Tonga tonight, well in 6.5 hours, should be some massive hits!

**Team Sheep** · 09-08-2011, 10:16 PM

Can't wait for the opening ceremony and first kick off. 4:30am for me, but well worth it.

**Londoner** · 09-09-2011, 11:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bad Company

Weren't you ragging on rugby last time?
Anyway, All Blacks Tonga tonight, well in 6.5 hours, should be some massive hits!

Its not an overly exciting sport to me but i do like to watch the world cup if the coverage is good. Dunno if you mean last time by the last rugby thread on here, don't think i was posting in that at all.

**Team Sheep** · 09-09-2011, 02:17 PM

Typical All Blacks vs minnow game, boring blow out. Watched the first half before I retired to bed. Fucking ITV online is doing my head in. Awful.

**Ogen** · 09-09-2011, 10:08 PM

We should finish 2nd in our group, which then means we play South Africa more than likely followed by New Zealand in the semi-finals and Australia again in the final...so that won't be happening.

**Downunder** · 09-09-2011, 10:43 PM

Bloody Jocks are being taught a lesson by Romania

**Sting Fan** · 09-09-2011, 11:48 PM

Wish I had bet on Romania now, I thought they might run them close (Within 20 points).

**Bad Company** · 09-10-2011, 02:50 AM

Romania were awesome. Even Namibia leading Fiji for a bit was awesome. Enjoying the Japan v France game right now, if Japan can keep the ball in hand a bit more then they will do fine.
Game last night was horrible. All Blacks looked like they'd never heard of set piece. Was schoolboy rugby.

Looking forward to England v Argentina tonight, and South Africa v Wales tomorrow should be awesome too. Pretty much gonna watch every game I can.

**Bad Company** · 09-10-2011, 03:29 AM

Holy shit Japan v France. 20mins to go!

**El Vaquero de Infierno** · 09-10-2011, 05:37 AM

There is a rugby world cup!?

**Londoner** · 09-10-2011, 05:44 AM

johnny's lost it lol

**Team Sheep** · 09-10-2011, 05:45 AM

Come on you Argies!!!

**Team Sheep** · 09-10-2011, 05:46 AM

Come on you Argies!!

**Londoner** · 09-10-2011, 05:50 AM

streaker

**Londoner** · 09-10-2011, 05:59 AM

Good thing i've only just woken up and not caring too much about this score atm

**Londoner** · 09-10-2011, 06:03 AM

"panic" over

**Londoner** · 09-10-2011, 06:20 AM

lucky lucky england!

**Team Sheep** · 09-10-2011, 06:28 AM

Hah. That's how England do when they don't have a guaranteed goal kicker. Jonny needs to get his head out of his ass if they hope to go beyond the quarters. Of course they'll just be happy with the opening game win and move on. Horrendous performance by England but such an epic game. Felt like a knock out game already

Love it.

Awesome full day of games though. Watching the Scotland game with a Scot was hilarious, and loved Japan's spirit, genuinely thought they and Romania could pull it off at one point.

**Londoner** · 09-10-2011, 06:37 AM

Didn't see the other games but i assume scotland won? Oh i remember seeing that the japan/france score was close at one point...

**Team Sheep** · 09-10-2011, 06:42 AM

Gonna go out on a limb and say Italy knock out Ireland on the last day of group games. Haven't been impressed with the Irish this year unless they're holding something big back for the RWC...

Tomorrow's game is huge for Wales. Pretty much decides whether we're going further than the quarter finals or not. Can't wait to find out if we can finally beat those South African bastards after coming so close countless times. Always suspected Gatland's had something up his sleeve for the World Cup and here's the time to see it. The warm up games have gone great and the fitness is incredible, and for once there's some strength in depth with the squad as the bench looks superb. The young guys have delivered and even the ones that lack quality make up for it with their work rate. Quietly confident but nervous as hell. Don't think I can stumoch another agonising loss to them.

**Team Sheep** · 09-10-2011, 06:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TL

Didn't see the other games but i assume scotland won? Oh i remember seeing that the japan/france score was close at one point...

Yeah Scotland won but were losing with like 8 minutes left. Japan rattled the fuck out of France, was great to see.

**Londoner** · 09-10-2011, 06:47 AM

Ha, atleast we weren't the only big team struggling.

**Team Sheep** · 09-10-2011, 06:51 AM

This has lightened my mood and given me a nice chuckle

Doubt any of you will get much of it but what the hell:

**Londoner** · 09-10-2011, 06:52 AM

just seeing highlights of the scotland game, seems like a classic.

**El Capitano Gatisto** · 09-10-2011, 07:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Team Sheep

Gonna go out on a limb and say Italy knock out Ireland on the last day of group games. Haven't been impressed with the Irish this year unless they're holding something big back for the RWC...

Some of the play in the 6 Nations was great, but inconsistent, looked like it was just waiting to click properly and it did in the last game vs. England. But in the summer series warm-up games it looks like they went backwards rather than forwards, so not holding out much hope. Still, I don't think we'll lose to Italy.

Gutted for David Wallace. I was at that England and that was easily the worst part of a very shit day.

**Sting Fan** · 09-10-2011, 07:13 PM

First off a lot of these big Teams will be having opening game jitters.

I think next weekend a lot of bigger teams will do a number on the smaller teams by bigger margins. Also the depth in bigger squads is a lot better and I think a few smaller teams (Romania, Japan) played there finals yesterday. They left it all out on the field and might struggle to match that intensity again.

That said I think cricket scores against smaller nations may be a thing of the past, a lot of the smaller nations have players from Heineken cup, Super 15 etc so there conditioning and professionalism is so much higher than 10 or even 4 years ago when a lot of the smaller teams were at sometimes 90% amateurs playing pros.

Its an awesome progression for the sport.

**Razzamajazz** · 09-10-2011, 09:56 PM

fucking pissed i can only watch these games on pay per view

**Bad Company** · 09-11-2011, 12:23 AM

or on stream? http://www.vipstand.net or http://myp2p.eu

Italy v Australia on right now, 6-6 at half time. Hope Quade Cooper gets killed.

09-03-2011, 01:08 AM	#1
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Rugby World Cup 2011 Thread With less than a week to go until the big kick off, I thought this deserved its own thread. Really can't wait for this, and if it's anything like as unpredictable and exciting as 2007, we're in for a hell of a 6 weeks. I love how the groups are set up this year, with Pool A being the only one where it's clear who's going through. From a personal stand point it's great to see Wales hitting some form going into a World Cup for once. I can't see anyone stopping New Zealand this time though. It's been said time and again and they've choked, but on their home turf they'll surely put their World Cup demons to bed. Pool A: Canada France Japan New Zealand Tonga Pool B: Argentina England Georgia Romania Scotland Pool C: Australia Ireland Italy Russia USA Pool D: Fiji Namibia Samoa South Africa Wales

09-06-2011, 06:13 PM	#6
Bad Company Mad Posts: 26,228	Rugby World Cup 2011 With 2 days to do, I thought it was time to make this thread. Will anyone else be watching besides me, newstead, and dowunder? Australia looking strong, South Africa, England and France area always there or there abouts. NZ at home will be tough to beat. Thoughts on what's about to unfold? badassmofo HALL OF FAME Heyman Inducted 05-08-07 YOUR Hero Inducted 08-08-07 The Naitch Inducted 04-10-07 Pepsi Man Inducted 25-11-07 RIP Funky Fly Inducted 10-12-07 FakeRazor Inducted 14-12-07 DMI Inducted 20-02-08 Vietnamese Crippler Inducted 21-02-08 Weapon X Inducted 20-06-08 Anybody Thrilla Inducted 04-06-11 Kapoutman Inducted 04-06-11 Sixx Inducted 04-06-11 Downunder Inducted 16-06-12 Zelda Inducted 16-06-12

09-03-2011, 03:29 AM	#2
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	gonna be a huge thread this

09-03-2011, 12:14 PM	#4
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Shhh. Some of us do actually talk about rugby here!! I remember back in the day there was a RWC 2003 thread and it was huge. WTF happened?!

09-03-2011, 12:20 PM	#5
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Also being in America, I got really excited when NBC announced they had the rights to the World Cup. Then they released the schedule of matches and all they're showing is the opening game and then all the USA games What a great way to promote the sport over here... ITV Player on my laptop in the middle of the night it is for me then.

09-06-2011, 06:14 PM	#7
Bad Company Mad Posts: 26,228	http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/fi...poolstage.html Draw for pool stage.

09-06-2011, 06:19 PM	#8
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	already a thread

09-06-2011, 08:14 PM	#9
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	The Kiwi can host the thread if he likes, I guess it's rather fitting Someone delete one or merge them or whatever.

09-07-2011, 03:29 PM	#10
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	you just don't want to be the idiot who created a thread no one cares about.

09-08-2011, 12:40 AM	#11
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	There'll be plenty of activity once it kicks off trust me

09-08-2011, 02:54 AM	#12
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	I've actually just checked the schedule finally on itv and seen that there's 4 games in a row in the morning. I'm actually looking forward to it now! Though its a football weekend so how long i stay up for it we shall have to see! lol

09-08-2011, 09:53 PM	#13
Bad Company Mad Posts: 26,228	Weren't you ragging on rugby last time? Anyway, All Blacks Tonga tonight, well in 6.5 hours, should be some massive hits!

09-08-2011, 10:16 PM	#14
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Can't wait for the opening ceremony and first kick off. 4:30am for me, but well worth it.

09-09-2011, 02:17 PM	#16
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Typical All Blacks vs minnow game, boring blow out. Watched the first half before I retired to bed. Fucking ITV online is doing my head in. Awful.

09-09-2011, 10:08 PM	#17
Ogen Posts: 16,220	We should finish 2nd in our group, which then means we play South Africa more than likely followed by New Zealand in the semi-finals and Australia again in the final...so that won't be happening.

09-09-2011, 10:43 PM	#18
Downunder God Bless America Posts: 37,905	Bloody Jocks are being taught a lesson by Romania

09-09-2011, 11:48 PM	#19
Sting Fan Blander Than Ever Posts: 3,092	Wish I had bet on Romania now, I thought they might run them close (Within 20 points).

09-10-2011, 02:50 AM	#20
Bad Company Mad Posts: 26,228	Romania were awesome. Even Namibia leading Fiji for a bit was awesome. Enjoying the Japan v France game right now, if Japan can keep the ball in hand a bit more then they will do fine. Game last night was horrible. All Blacks looked like they'd never heard of set piece. Was schoolboy rugby. Looking forward to England v Argentina tonight, and South Africa v Wales tomorrow should be awesome too. Pretty much gonna watch every game I can.

09-10-2011, 03:29 AM	#21
Bad Company Mad Posts: 26,228	Holy shit Japan v France. 20mins to go!

09-10-2011, 05:37 AM	#22
El Vaquero de Infierno Sisukas Mies Posts: 15,655	There is a rugby world cup!?

09-10-2011, 05:44 AM	#23
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	johnny's lost it lol

09-10-2011, 05:45 AM	#24
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Come on you Argies!!!

09-10-2011, 05:46 AM	#25
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Come on you Argies!!

09-10-2011, 05:50 AM	#26
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	streaker

09-10-2011, 05:59 AM	#27
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	Good thing i've only just woken up and not caring too much about this score atm

09-10-2011, 06:03 AM	#28
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	"panic" over

09-10-2011, 06:20 AM	#29
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	lucky lucky england!

09-10-2011, 06:28 AM	#30
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Hah. That's how England do when they don't have a guaranteed goal kicker. Jonny needs to get his head out of his ass if they hope to go beyond the quarters. Of course they'll just be happy with the opening game win and move on. Horrendous performance by England but such an epic game. Felt like a knock out game already Love it. Awesome full day of games though. Watching the Scotland game with a Scot was hilarious, and loved Japan's spirit, genuinely thought they and Romania could pull it off at one point.

09-10-2011, 06:37 AM	#31
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	Didn't see the other games but i assume scotland won? Oh i remember seeing that the japan/france score was close at one point...

09-10-2011, 06:42 AM	#32
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	Gonna go out on a limb and say Italy knock out Ireland on the last day of group games. Haven't been impressed with the Irish this year unless they're holding something big back for the RWC... Tomorrow's game is huge for Wales. Pretty much decides whether we're going further than the quarter finals or not. Can't wait to find out if we can finally beat those South African bastards after coming so close countless times. Always suspected Gatland's had something up his sleeve for the World Cup and here's the time to see it. The warm up games have gone great and the fitness is incredible, and for once there's some strength in depth with the squad as the bench looks superb. The young guys have delivered and even the ones that lack quality make up for it with their work rate. Quietly confident but nervous as hell. Don't think I can stumoch another agonising loss to them.

09-10-2011, 06:47 AM	#34
Londoner One Of A Kind Posts: 22,178	Ha, atleast we weren't the only big team struggling.

09-10-2011, 06:51 AM	#35
Team Sheep T�m Defaid Posts: 6,646	This has lightened my mood and given me a nice chuckle Doubt any of you will get much of it but what the hell: