Men's Rugby WR World Cup 2023

[konig 1,510]

Clearly victory with Chile, logical one, i hope, it wont be the only participation of them in a world cup.

[rafalgorka 1,634]

Go Fiji!!!

[konig 1,510]

What are you doing Fiji? ..........

[rafalgorka 1,634]

That was a tough one for Fiji.

Glad they’ve won but TV here says a penalty before the kick for 10-9 was not correct. And this moment was gamechanger.

 

anyway, looks like Flying Fijians will go to QFs!!!

Edited September 30, 2023 by rafalgorka

[mpjmcevoy 363]

  On 9/30/2023 at 3:33 PM, konig said:

Clearly victory with Chile, logical one, i hope, it wont be the only participation of them in a world cup.

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Don't think it will be - I think it's VERY likely we're going to some form of 24 team world cup, possibly with plate and shield competitions

 

And the extra 4 places, I think Americas get 2, Africa and Asia get 1/2 each and probably Europe gets 1

 

I honestly think world rugby would be VERY keen, prior to the first World Cup in the Americas to get as many Americas teams as possible - Arg, Uru, Chi, USA and Can

[Thagard 62]

May 30th 1995: South Africa - Romania 21-8 (Pool A)

 

Even though a loss, this is the closest result of Romania with the rugby union giants.

 

I could only hope sometime in the future we could get there again.

This generation is compromised....

[SalamAkhi 323]

  On 10/3/2023 at 7:14 PM, Thagard said:

May 30th 1995: South Africa - Romania 21-8 (Pool A)

 

Even though a loss, this is the closest result of Romania with the rugby union giants.

 

I could only hope sometime in the future we could get there again.

This generation is compromised....

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Future generations are not particularly promising either ...

 

U20 Championship 2022 : 5th/8 with a loss to Belgium 18-6, wins against Czechia 33-10 and Poland 34-9.

U18 Championship 2022 : 8th/8 with losses to Spain 102-0 (no typo here), Germany 27-17 and Czechia 10-8.

And their exposition to pro rugby will be way less than what used to be for Romanian players back in the days, like, just a decade back.

 

Foreign(French)-based Romanian players in RWC squads :

	1st tier	2nd tier	3rd tier	4th tier	5th tier	Total
2011	4	2	3	0	1	10/31
2015	5	6	0	0	0	11/31
2023	0	4	3	2	1	10/33

 

[hckošice 15,126]

Samoa

[hckošice 15,126]

I see England is doing everything they can to lose this match failing to kick the penalty shot in time is the latest component

[hckošice 15,126]

Fun game this was In the end was rooting for Samoa, sadly no history for them tonight, well done to England, winning a WC match while playing at some 30% is quite impressive