Rugby

absolute Howitzer - 45m?

Good half that, shame no Yellow for repeatedly bringing the maul down and then the attack dissipated, 3 up at HT would have been juicy.

Same again in the next 40 please

Hogg looking really good, looking forward to him coming down here and playing for the chiefs...

Not a bad replacement for Santiago Cordero, no idea why Argentina haven't chosen him.

Pleeeeeaaaaaassseeee look after him, we need him back for the 6N.

To be fair, one thing Baxter is very good at is rotating his team, so he should be in good shape. Looking forward to him and Nowell ripping some teams to shreds.

I want to see wee George Horne come on now.

I'll take that our finishing could have been more clinical but we got the BP and almost as importantly we nilled them which I really wasn't expecting.

USA are looking good here.

But France have woken up now.

Watched only small parts throughout the game but wasn't very pleased with the content, so much knock-ons and players that did not know where to go/what to do. Parts i've seen showed Raka to be Rakatastrophic ha ha ha but hey. Bonus point and victory is all of what's important

Much more important is a report on your debut Saturday?

Tiles: tiler going to rip out mosaics and re-tile starting with a half so there's no attempt to line up the grout lines

It was going quite well until my old man balls slid down between my legs shortly before I sacked a lineout jumper bringing a maul down on my legs and crushing my balls. Queue high pitched screaming and me being unable to explain to the physio what was wrong for about 10 minutes.

Are you paying him?

I won't - I'll likely give him a drink on top for good karma and at least some recognition, if only to myself, that he's done the right thing!

Hope your wife tended to your old man balls with appropriate consideration and you're for the weekend

This is getting ugly for Canada.

Yes, 3 figures I reckon. Was reading pre-tournament that Canada are very much the weakest team and lost their recent test (pre-WC) to Brazil

It's a real shame what has happened to Canadian rugby, Squidge rugby has done a video that explains it better, and more humourously than I ever could

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My favourite bit: "At the moment watching Canada play rugby is like watching a kid jump in the pool, shit himself, then drown because he can't swim and no one wants to strip off and jump in the pool to save the kid who droped his kids off at the pool, at the pool."

Is anyone else getting really annoyed by Nigel Owens poor acting skills in those shite adverts?

https://youtu.be/cm4dvKiKNNM

I think I just about like Nigel Owens still but I just can't help but think he's getting worse as a ref and missing more and more, as well as being more of an irritant.

So Australia to obliterate Uruguay and England by 20 vs Argentina

Playing today

Don't like England's weird 'fuzzy' looking shirts.

Happy with my view for the game...

Shame the first half wasn’t as pretty

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That looks amazing. Where are you?
Can't believe the game is so poor against 14 men.

Mykonos (the quiet bit).

I don’t understand why we’re not stretching them. We seem to be content going through phases. It looks like there’s opportunities for quick balls wide but we’re not taking them.

Lovely - was there earlier in the summer.

Expected the 2nd half to kick on, but it's been dire. Oh - now a try to them as well.

It was a bit worrying from England today. They had obviously decided on their tactics and the type of game they wanted to play then once the card came they were either unable or told not to alter their play to take advantage.

I also found it slightly ironic that the card was issued against a hit on Farrel for the type of tackle he's got away with in the past.

https://youtu.be/eI56y1avY6c

Not sure it will happen but I think Samoa are capable of beating Japan. So this match could make group A even more interesting.