Look how happy Joe Schmidt is.
Rugby Union 23/24 Discussion
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@T00lsh3d I should have made a post saying England would win as I've successfully cursed England and Ireland against New Zealand.
Ireland lost to England at Twickenham. Australia beat England at Twickenham. Australia>Ireland.
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I thought we would and to be honest there was a lot about our performance that I liked.
Pleased for Australia though, you’ve been underwhelming for far too long and we want to see Australia competitive. It’s unhealthy to expect an Aussie side come over here and get whooped, you should be expecting that they might pull your pants down at any moment
Thanks mate. It's the best win the Wallabies have had in ages and clearly the best performance this year. It doesn't get any easier for England next week against the Springboks.
We’ll win that one in an underserved manner.
Should have won last week, should have won this week. Got feck all. Well deserve to lose next week and win
Turns out that was a good game for the neutral
feck me, architects of our own downfall there
Yep. England having it 99% in let it slip away.
How wasn't that a knock on then?
Just watched the highlights of England Australia. Looks like the Aussies have loads of speed in that team. Excellent win for them.
Fun fact: Fiji coach Mick Byrne didn't play rugby at a professional level, he made his name playing Aussie Rules instead as a ruckman for the Hawthorn club in Melbourne winning the 1983 VFL (Victorian Football League) premiership.
Scotland playing some great stuff at the moment.
Unfortunately that game sort of sums us up. We were absolutely brilliant in that 20 minute period of the second half but could only come away with 3 points. The Boks soak it up and score points at will whenever they reach our 22.
So much talent there and we are so good to watch and I’m forever grateful for that (there was once a time where we’d score 3 tries in a six nations). We just forever seem to be lacking that ruthlessness that could actually get us across the trophy threshold.
So much talent there and we are so good to watch and I’m forever grateful for that (there was once a time where we’d score 3 tries in a six nations). We just forever seem to be lacking that ruthlessness that could actually get us across the trophy threshold.
South Africa first team still better than the second string then
I thought it was mad to kick the three at that point against 14 men. When else were Scotland going to have a better chance to score a try.
Yeah it was conservative. Don’t really know what the logic was either. Maybe just the fear of coming away with nothing as we’d already knocked it on a couple of times prior to that.
I missed the first half and have only just seen the red. That’s PL level refereeing and application of TMO.
I didn’t see the sending off either but replays looked really harsh. It’s a good advert for the 20 minute yellow card in that the game wasn’t completely ruined. However I do wonder if it’s going to be a bit of a cop-out for refs to give the 20 minutes, rather than leave at a yellow.