STOP Burger Win the breakdown Be first to the ball Don’t drop our passes No scrums Take our catches (looking at you K Read) Get the ball to Mulder Sculley and Julian Put pressure on du Preez so he can’t kick us round the park Ben at the Back catch every ball and join into … Read more
On the day the boys are beginning their tour of Australia (and what will prove to be an absolute triumph of a tour and leave Australians crying into their VBs and XXXXs looking for a new national past-time), I’ve spotted this on the cyber net. It’s the cricket version of Monopoly. Collect grounds from around … Read more
What’s red and green and croaks?A frog invited to the quarter final of the RWC. Having chosen to try this game, the ABs turned up and sliced, diced, cut, hacked, smashed, and eviscerated the Frogs in a worldwide first, the live vivisection of a rugby team. Superb stuff and you couldn’t take your eyes off … Read more
The final pool matches were mostly epic as teams threw everything into last ditch qualification and attempts to avoid the big teams in their coming quarter final. Scotland vs Samoa (36-33) will live long in the memory. That first half was mega-frenetic like a multi-ball pinball game. Quite how Scotland got up to win under … Read more
After all that last games of the pool match stress stuff over the weekend, here’s something to lighten the mood. Everybody’s favourite Australian (and in fact, the only nice Australian in the world ever, apart from maybe Kylie, and Olivia Newton John, and maybe Hugh Jackman, ok, there’s a few nice ones, but no rugby … Read more
Our final game in Pool C was against Tonga and as follows every game we’ve played so far in this tournament was a very difficult watch. While there’s no doubt that the teams outside the top 10 have improved hugely since the previous word cup, that doesn’t explain the highly elevated amount unforced errors. We … Read more
For most of this game it was 22-10. Despite not looking like scoring at all, Georgia hung tough, played hard, tackled their lives out and generally upset our rhythm and balance. 18 handling errors says it all, after we threw hospital pass after hospital pass through the backs and the forwards couldn’t catch a cold. … Read more
Rather than just post a bunch of WorldRugby’s highlights videos, I’ve been on a trawl through the cyberweb to find a few fan videos of the matches. So, here’s the crowds point of view and reactions at home from those great moments. First up, the greatest upset in Rugby history ever. Japan beat South Africa … Read more
Samoa have just been spanked 46-6. By South Africa…. The same South Africa that lost 34-32 to Japan… The same Japan that lost to Scotland 45-10… So did Japan actually beat South Africa or did we imagine it? Or are Scotland the best side in the world? So many questions. Just weeks to go to find out. … Read more
How good was Japan’s victory over the old enemy South Africa? Thank goodness that didn’t happen to us. Here’s the last minute or so captured at a fan zone in Cardiff (I think). Epic celebrations.