Japan must be a nightmare to coach against. Their patterns of play are ridiculous and inconsistent.
Love the flair. Its like watching a team of Tim Horans
Love the flair. Its like watching a team of Tim Horans
Rugby World Cup 2019 aka Squishy McSquish goes into a meltdown thread
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Electric stuff.
Come on Japan!
Matsushima has been magnificent under the high ball.
This is unreal.
Barnes is insufferable.
Wow
Absolutely fantastic by the Japanese scrum.
Surely SA are gonna be knackered second half.
Love to watch Japan!
So many mistakes - this is going right to the end. Can’t see either running away with it
This non-stop offloading is so much fun to watch.
Japan are amazing to watch but they don’t half pass the ball forward. They’re getting away with it, mind.
Fortune favours the brave?
SA totally sucked into Japan's game here.
It’s like watching a Pep team vs. a José team.
What terrible pass
They were in there.
I think the mini half times at every scrum and lineout may end up saving South Africa here. Without those breaks they'd be dead on their feet already.
On the other hand, it'll mean that Japan can keep the pace up right to the end.
True.
De Allende has been nothing short of magnificent for South Africa. He's saved them 4 or 5 times with massive hits and relentless jackling.
Japan need a score though. Really need to go into halftime ahead after all this effort.
Not sure about that call there
Yep. Another one where they could have taken a second look.
Right call against de Allende.
Barnes is retiring after this, right? Doing his best to undo all the recent goodwill he's built up with one of his vintage awful performances.
No I think that was the right call in fairness. De Allende needed to release the ball while he was on the floor. You see the Japanese ball carriers do it all the time - show you are making an effort to release it and the ref will let you away.
As soon as he crawled on his knee without releasing, he was playing the ball on the floor.
As soon as he crawled on his knee without releasing, he was playing the ball on the floor.
WTF is Barnes up to??
The James Lowe-style one? It probably could have been looked at again though. It's a courtesy that's been given to teams in every other game that Barnes is denying them.
Dangerous again. Will the TMO say something this time? Is there a TMO today?
Ridiculous. The fact that he just refuses to go to it, and that they don't intervene!
I have a problem with this because the precedent has been set in loads of other games of Refs referring or TMOs intervening to ask the Ref to look again. Barnes is out of step here.
Butchered another chance!!
Japan their own worst enemy now. Should be trying to play the game in our half.
By the way, it's pretty safe to say on current evidence that Ireland would have massively struggled against SA even if they were on this side of the draw.
Hmmmm are Japan fading a bit, like against Scotland?
Why don’t more team
Keeping that tempo up 80 minutes is tough work.
Our physicality is just too much for Japan.