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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,771
    edited October 2023
    Watching the France v South Africa game, which I thought was the best of a fantastic bunch, I didn't fancy either but over the course of the game I edged towards wanting us to play South Africa. We have a chance, not a great one but a chance all the same. We are definitely improving.
  • billysboots
    billysboots Posts: 1,596
    Hopefully SA have just played their final …. Like us in 2019
  • Wellred
    Wellred Posts: 1,118
    4 of us heading out there in a camper only £192 on the ferry return 
    Booked into camp de Paris can't wait 
    Anyone else heading out ?
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    SA unchanged
    Smith out and Stewart back at 15, no suprise
    More of a suprise Joe Marler and George Martin return in the pack in place of vice-captain Ellis Genge and Ollie Chessum.

    This could be redemption for Dan Cole.
  • Wellred
    Wellred Posts: 1,118
    Was going to have a bet but PP 
    Only given evens on a England win 
    Got to be 2/1 surely 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,862
    Wellred said:
    4 of us heading out there in a camper only £192 on the ferry return 
    Booked into camp de Paris can't wait 
    Anyone else heading out ?
    In Paris now!





    shame it’s the airport and waiting for a flight to Colombia!
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,721
    edited October 2023
    Wellred said:
    Was going to have a bet but PP 
    Only given evens on a England win 
    Got to be 2/1 surely 
    That’s with a +13pts handicap.
  • Wellred
    Wellred Posts: 1,118
    guinnessaddick said:
    Wellred said:
    Was going to have a bet but PP 
    Only given evens on a England win 
    Got to be 2/1 surely 
    That’s with a +13pts handicap.
    Cheers didn’t see that got to worth a decent bet now
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,971
    Wellred said:
    guinnessaddick said:
    Wellred said:
    Was going to have a bet but PP 
    Only given evens on a England win 
    Got to be 2/1 surely 
    That’s with a +13pts handicap.
    Cheers didn’t see that got to worth a decent bet now
    Save your money its a one horse race.
  • Bods64
    Bods64 Posts: 475
    I find it difficult to see anything other than a Boks win but not by the 20 point margin recorded at the 2019 RWCF. We are in the semi final which in itself is no small achievement.
     “We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the rugby fields. We will never surrender”

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  • Wellred
    Wellred Posts: 1,118
    bolloxbolder said:
    Wellred said:
    guinnessaddick said:
    Wellred said:
    Was going to have a bet but PP 
    Only given evens on a England win 
    Got to be 2/1 surely 
    That’s with a +13pts handicap.
    Cheers didn’t see that got to worth a decent bet now
    Save your money its a one horse race.
    What even with a 13 point lead 
    I have stuck £50 easy money IMO
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,834
    3/1 in a handicap double with NZ at +18
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,862
    Will be watching both semi-finals in a sports bar in Bogotá - there will be lots of Argentinians today so should be a good atmosphere. Hopefully some ex-pats around tomorrow and a few Boks.
  • flyingkiwiDK
    flyingkiwiDK Posts: 5,725
    Can anyone recommend a good streaming site for the rugby please? I’m traveling currently and don’t have access to ITV
  • Bods64
    Bods64 Posts: 475
    flyingkiwiDK said:
    Can anyone recommend a good streaming site for the rugby please? I’m traveling currently and don’t have access to ITV
    I’m watching it on ITV1 via a vpn. It’s also available on Peacock in the USA but unless you have a vpn I think you’re snookered 
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,515
    Realise I'm in a minority, but the Haka makes me cringe
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,223
    flyingkiwiDK said:
    Can anyone recommend a good streaming site for the rugby please? I’m traveling currently and don’t have access to ITV
    Download the ITV app and VPN. 

    I’m in Spain and tried to watch England and Fiji match. The stream kept cutting out. It was after that I found out it was the VPN that was causing the problem and all I had to do was select another UK destination. live and learn. 
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,264
    Gribbo said:
    Realise I'm in a minority, but the Haka makes me cringe
    The ones they do now are very cartoony 

    However, the proper ones, the mental ones are brilliant you can see the more interesting ones still on YouTube 
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,002
    Looks like this one is over already, NZ in a different class to Argentina unfortunately.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,827
    edited October 2023
    Argentina were keeping that close for a while I thought and was hopeful of a tense second half but it got away from them in the five minutes before half time. Too many penalties conceded...



    20-6 lead for NZ at half time.

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  • Bods64
    Bods64 Posts: 475
    I hope the other semi final is less one sided than this
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,130

  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,881
    Shame it’s not a great contest but this was always likely to happen the way the draw panned out. 

    Hopefully England can make more a game tomorrow 
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 6,002
    It's a shame we ended up with a one sided semi final. 

    Unfortunately the NZ v Argentina game has gone that way too. 
  • Bods64
    Bods64 Posts: 475
    Not quite a whitewash but certainly a blackwash
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,953
    Bods64 said:
    I hope the other semi final is less one sided than this
    I'd be very comfortable with a one sided England win  ;)
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,264
    Don't be surprised if South Africa set up to stop us playing rather than to be as exciting and expensive as they were against France. They won't want Tuilagi, May, Smith or any of our backs being allowed the ball for any period of time anywhere near their 22. 

    I could be and often am wrong, I just hope they try and kill the game as that will suit us rather than them look to run the ball all the time 
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,084
    Carter said:
    Don't be surprised if South Africa set up to stop us playing rather than to be as exciting and expensive as they were against France. They won't want Tuilagi, May, Smith or any of our backs being allowed the ball for any period of time anywhere near their 22. 

    I could be and often am wrong, I just hope they try and kill the game as that will suit us rather than them look to run the ball all the time 
    Therefore you could argue why would they bother to play in a way that would suit us more?
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,818
    Gribbo said:
    Realise I'm in a minority, but the Haka makes me cringe

    https://youtu.be/emJyEa4z2Ec?si=jsrrSLrG9kPS0ovq
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,264
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Carter said:
    Don't be surprised if South Africa set up to stop us playing rather than to be as exciting and expensive as they were against France. They won't want Tuilagi, May, Smith or any of our backs being allowed the ball for any period of time anywhere near their 22. 

    I could be and often am wrong, I just hope they try and kill the game as that will suit us rather than them look to run the ball all the time 
    Therefore you could argue why would they bother to play in a way that would suit us more?
    Yeah definitely, if I was the South African head coach I'd be working with them all on doing what they did v France as that could well blow us away. It is a high risk game to play as I reckon that game will have taken a big toll on their forwards. That is my only rationale as to why they might change to be a bit more park the bus and kick at every chance to make us reset and then invariably kick lots as well. 

    Either way, we need a few of them to have an off day and our whole squad to have a good day, a really good day to beat them. Definitely not impossible though and not in any way comparable to the two sides who played yesterday 

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