Topic: General Rugby Union Thread

[Crosby Nick]

Haha fucks sake Australia just catch the restart you shit twats.

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

A minute to go

[IgorBobbins]

Great test

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

One of the great test matches that

[Crosby Nick]

One of the great test matches that

Still not sure you can say that until they revert back to full contact Rugby with tackling allowed.

Not much competition for you down in the South, do you want to join the Six Nations?

[Ray K]

Amazing match. How Australia lost that after scoring 5 tries and being in that position is beyond me.

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

Still not sure you can say that until they revert back to full contact Rugby with tackling allowed.

Not much competition for you down in the South, do you want to join the Six Nations?

I'm looking forward to the games against Sth Africa. I think this AB side has problems and the Saffas look resurgent.

[Crosby Nick]

Amazing match. How Australia lost that after scoring 5 tries and being in that position is beyond me.

Was like our Norwich game with the Lallana winner.

Great game, how many times did that lead change hands there? Think NZ had the belief, knew that if they got the ball back they'd get one more chance.

[sinnermichael]

Aviva Premiership back tonight. Hard to see anyone other than the usual suspects up there in the end.

[FlashGordon]

Pro 14 back as well. I love this time of year 

[Mr Mingebag Squid]

It's going to be a long and unsuccessful season ....again

[Crosby Nick]

Lots of high scoring games in the opening round, is that just a combination of hard ground, players at various stages of fitness and a few depleted squads? Made for good entertainment anyway.

[sinnermichael]

Dan Biggar to Northampton next season is a strange one as it'll no doubt affect his Wales chances in the future.

[sinnermichael]

Manu Tuilagi out for 12 weeks with a knee injury.

I give up.

[sinnermichael]

Argentina all over the All Blacks here.

[FlashGordon]

You don't want to say it cause you sound like a conspiracy theorist but fuck me they get some 'leeway' from the officials. Clear obstruction from Retallick on thier try and then Gardiner and his touch judge didn't want anything to do with going upstairs for a pass that was clear as day forward.

[sinnermichael]

Sam Warbuton out for up to 4 months.

[sinnermichael]

England playing the All Blacks next year. Finally. First time in 4 years.

[sinnermichael]

All Blacks on another planet.

[Red Bird]

That starting 15 for All Blacks is just awesome. It helps though that the Springboks seems to have 14 on the pitch for all the help which poor old Rhule is/was offering.

[The North Bank]

Every time I watch the all blacks I get more impressed with what the lions done this summer. There is no more dominant team in sport. No one can live with them, especially at home.

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

England playing the All Blacks next year. Finally. First time in 4 years.

Good timing. The money in the northern hemisphere leagues has so significantly eroded the quality in Sth African and Australian competitions that it is now the northern hemisphere sides that the All Blacks need to test themselves against.

Every time I watch the all blacks I get more impressed with what the lions done this summer. There is no more dominant team in sport. No one can live with them, especially at home.

Which leads on to this post. The All Blacks will have to be wary, in future, as to where they really sit. Probably not as far ahead of England/Ireland as many make out.

[Ray K]

Sean O'Brien: The Lions should have beaten the All Blacks "comfortably enough"
He thinks the coaching team made some mistakes in New Zealand...

When Leinster and Ireland star Sean O'Brien looks back at the summer's Lions tour, he believes that the British and Irish selection should have won the series and that the coaching panel made a number of mistakes.

"To be honest with you I’d be pretty critical of it. I think we probably should have won the tour and we probably should have won it comfortably enough. I think there’s a lot of learning to take from the tour in terms of the coaching setup as well and from a player's point of view in terms how we dealt with things, but it’s a weird one I suppose, drawing a series" he told Off The Ball.

"I think the first week we definitely over-trained on the Thursday - maybe the coaches were maybe panicking a little bit about getting the information into us and the workload.

"I think we did nearly a similar thing on the last week. Maybe it’s more of a coaching point of view in terms of taking lessons. Maybe less is more sometimes on a tour like that," he added, speaking to Oisin Langan.

The Irish forward said that he raised his concerns regarding the squad's preparation with coaching staff during the tour.

"With the squad we had, we probably should have beat them," the Tullow man continued, noting that he still enjoyed the tour and that the team can be proud of a number of their performances.

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

Is O'Brien usually that stupid?

[Ray K]

@BBCSportWales:
Ospreys hooker Scott Baldwin missed defeat by Cheetahs in South Africa this evening after being bitten by a lion while attempting to pet it

[Crosby Nick]

@BBCSportWales:
Ospreys hooker Scott Baldwin missed defeat by Cheetahs in South Africa this evening after being bitten by a lion while attempting to pet it

The modern pampered rugby player has gone far too soft.

[Ray K]

The modern pampered rugby player has gone far too soft.

A Welsh player of another age would have attempted to take the lion off on a pub crawl in a golf buggy. Game's gone.

[Crosby Nick]

Saffers 10-8 up on NZ early in the 2nd half at Newlands.

[FlashGordon]

Is there a different rule book for the All Blacks? Has there ever been a good ref from France?

[sinnermichael]

Gift.

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

Is there a different rule book for the All Blacks? Has there ever been a good ref from France?

Well the Lions and their supporters think French refs are good, no?

Good to see correct accidental offsides called 

[Crosby Nick]

Well the Lions and their supporters think French refs are good, no?

Good to see correct accidental offsides called 

Wayne Barnes and his willingness to let forward passes go is my favourite.

Remember you marking Mackenzie down as a punchable twat in the summer Trumps. Confirmed it there with that try. Did nothing wrong bar turn a possible defeat into yet another likely win for you.

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

Wayne Barnes and his willingness to let forward passes go is my favourite.

Remember you marking Mackenzie down as a punchable twat in the summer Trumps. Confirmed it there with that try. Did nothing wrong bar turn a possible defeat into yet another likely win for you.

Whatever the result, have enjoyed this. Like Bok v AB tests of old

[FlashGordon]

Worst decision I've ever seen from him and that's saying a lot. My god it's Rugby not Badminton.

[sinnermichael]

Never a red. Yellow at worst.

[Crosby Nick]

My channel automatically changed to the Super League Grand Final for some reason, what happened?

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

Rules are rules. The idiot had an age to pull out of the challenge and then to compound the folly by leading with an elbow into the gob? Stupid

[FlashGordon]

My channel automatically changed to the Super League Grand Final for some reason, what happened?

Sky Sports Main Event (shudders having to type that out) is showing the Grand Final.

[FlashGordon]

Rules are rules. The idiot had an age to pull out of the challenge and then to compound the folly by leading with an elbow into the gob? Stupid

Haha fuck off, maybe in super slow motion he had an age. He didn't hit him in the gob and Sapoaga went down like a sack of spuds. Hope there's justice for the Saffers here.

[FlashGordon]

Garces conveniently missing the high tackle there. Shock.