Rugby Discussion Thread

[NaBUru38 218]

Australia and Argentina keep losing matches to European teams.

[Dragon 2,026]

 0-49

 17-5

 

Edited November 17, 2018 by Dragon

[hckošice 15,519]

10 minutes ago, Dragon said:

 0-49

 

Bullies

[SalamAkhi 330]

W 30-27 W

First ever win for the french women team against the current world champs

Extremely pleasing match, women's rugby union is gaining more and more interest 

[OlympicIRL 5,660]

Ireland beat the All Blacks 16-9 . A very special day for our sport! I'm still bouncing round the room 

First time since 1995 that a team from the northern hemisphere has kept the All Blacks try-less in a match. That stat blew my mind. Just shows how awesome the All Blacks are.

 

[Monzanator 4,768]

Watched the second half on TV. Looks like Irish D forced some key stops to prevent at least two try drives from NZ. I have no idea how strong the NZ team was, maybe they send some back-ups for this Tour?

 

 

[Dragon 2,026]

So the world rankings at the moment

 

1

2  

3

Best 3 teams in the world = Population of just 14 million people

 

Edited November 20, 2018 by Dragon

[NaBUru38 218]

Uruguay defeated Romania 27-20 for the first time ever.

[OlympicIRL 5,660]

So with today's 27-10 victory against Hong Kong in Marseille, Canada becomes the 20th and final nation to book their place at next year's 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. In doing so, Canada maintain their record of appearing at every single edition of the Rugby World Cup .

 

And we now know the make-up of each of the Pools for the World Cup. There are no debutants, with each qualified nation having made at least 3 previous appearances at the World Cup. The notable absence is Romania, who will miss the World Cup for the very first time having appeared in each of the previous 8 editions.

Pool C is the group of death this time but Pool D is very interesting too.

 

 

Pool B

New Zealand

South Africa

Italy

Namibia

Canada

Pool A

Ireland

Scotland

Japan

Russia

Samoa

 

 

Pool D

Australia

Wales

Georgia

Fiji

Uruguay

Pool C

England

France

Argentina

United States

Tonga

 

 

 

Edited November 24, 2018 by OlympicIRL

[bestmen 2,903]

France is weak this year

today Fiji 21-14 france