Rugby

france are starting to believe. kiwis starting to choke......

could go either way

Is everyone too wrapped up to post on the final?

Pretty good game so far. Dusautoir and Conrad Smith of all people putting in the hits.

Paddy Power paid out all bets on New Zealand this week (about £600K). That could look very silly in 20 mins.

rougerie and menard has been fantastic. id put the money on france now. decisions have been going all nz's way. ive slightly jumped ship just because there have been a few cheap shots by the kiwis. mccaw being the main culprit

pre empting the drop goal

cheap shots? I've seen McCaw accidently catch Parra when entering a ruck, not much else though..

he always gets 'accidently' in the way in the rucks.

Phew

Whaka yeah!

Wibble was hella too compelling to be posting up during.
France were immense, competed for every ball, played most of the rugby, trying to win the game as the kiwis tried not to lose it. Feel so bad for them, they came so close, all the critics who wrote them off, need to take a look at themselves...

New Zealand just wanted it more and had enough players and Enough strength in depth to overcome the obstacles France put in their way.. Best team won. Probably won't have to wait another 24years for another one..

Plus they have never and will never lost at that stadium.

:( rugby sucks anyway. Polo's better.

poor cedywedy

Plus they have never and will never lost at that stadium.

We're tough to beat there for sure, but the last time we were, it was by the French!

rougerie and menard has been fantastic. id put the money on france now. decisions have been going all nz's way. ive slightly jumped ship just because there have been a few cheap shots by the kiwis. mccaw being the main culprit

Talking of cheapshots. Check out Rougerie headbutting and then eye gouging McCaw just before the end. No wonder there was so little interaction between the teams at the end. Nasty ugly business!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-FQkwYfqDnU

Talking of cheapshots. Check out Rougerie headbutting and then eye gouging McCaw just before the end. No wonder there was so little interaction between the teams at the end. Nasty ugly business!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-FQkwYfqDnU

i think i best retract my last comments. its ridiculous that this still happens at this level.

thought this was quite interesting

RWC Final - 23rd Oct 2011 - Refereeing discussion from The Breakdown - YouTube

Has anyone ever ordered anything direct from Optimum? I am getting worried as stuff I've ordered from them seems to be taking a long time to get here. Is this normal?

What kind of thing did you order? Never ordered specifically from them but they're a decent sized company and well known in rugby so they can't be that dodgey. Have a look at their delivery policy and give them a call?

Ordered some of last season's shoulder pads at a hefty discount seeing as I am now (possibly) the world's thinnest amateur front row player! So they should have had them in stock but its been over a week.

#tousedtotheefficiencyofamazon

Tindall fined £25K and removed from Elite squad..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15693399.stm

He was behaving like he was on a stag do rather than competing at a world cup..

And he played like shit..

That article doesn't state what he did that was so wrong.. just vague mentions of his behaviour & that he misled the management about his actions on one night.

He called the Kiwi bar girl an Aussie

I'm surprised he wasn't deported on the spot!

That article doesn't state what he did that was so wrong.. just vague mentions of his behaviour & that he misled the management about his actions on one night.

I imagine the RFU panel had good cause to impose the fine and ban...