Rugby World Cup 2023

[ShorehamCitizen]

Quilter Autumn Internationals in Rugby, all called that to distract us from the fact they are really friendlies.

Time for a Nations League type tournament to fill in that gap.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Nah, Webb will pull out all the stops today, expect Brentford to be down to 10 before the kickoff is even taken and every touch of the ball to result in a rag set piece and Brentford card.

Noel was right. Howard is shite.

 

[aguero93:20]

If Georgia could cut out the silly errors. Wales have been very slow since their second try.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

If Georgia could cut out the silly errors. Wales have been very slow since their second try.

Yeah, Wales started well but then went miles off the boil.
Georgia have done okay, but nothing special and have 3 tries.

Sadly, they'll be packed off back to Tier 2 purgatory and will be allowed to play a Tier 1 side in about a year. Nice piece in inews today about how Samoa are at a similar disadvantage.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Very flattering scoreline in the end, lots of points as Georgia tired.

 

[aguero93:20]

Yeah, Wales started well but then went miles off the boil.
Georgia have done okay, but nothing special and have 3 tries.

Sadly, they'll be packed off back to Tier 2 purgatory and will be allowed to play a Tier 1 side in about a year. Nice piece in inews today about how Samoa are at a similar disadvantage.

You'd have to think they'll do something in Europe soon with the likes of Spain and Georgia.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

You'd have to think they'll do something in Europe soon with the likes of Spain and Georgia.

And Portugal now.

The article basically says they're setting up some kind of (ghastly, self-congratulatory) Nations League - Six Nations, the old Rugby Championship four, Fiji, Japan - to play two years after each World Cup. This is being set up by the 6N and southern big boys, and not by World Rugby.

That means everybody else get treated even worse, and the likes of England will play them even less often and will never catch up as they barely play top level sides. There's a suggestion that World Rugby may try to set the second tier competition up, but presumably that will require money to be provided by the big boys...

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Didn’t that Samoan tap the ball forwards before their try there?

 

[aguero93:20]

What a try

 

[discopop]

Fucking embarrassing effort so far.