Official Rugby Thread

[Jamee999]

Originally Posted by Jono

Jeez, Australia huge favourites tonight hey?

Yup.

[marc71178]

Originally Posted by Jono

CHOKE!

Aust were 1.10

Except when I put everything in my account on them at 100-30 in running

[Uppercut]

Originally Posted by Pup Clarke

Are you the defending team actually allowed to run straight up to the kicker before a conversion?. I've seen it before but never right to his face basically. Just seemed a tad unsporting IMO.

Originally Posted by Pup Clarke

There's putting pressure - and then there's literally being in his face.

Sounds like something my mother would say.

[Pup Clarke]

Good one

[Jono]

Originally Posted by Jamee999

Yup.

Not sure if that's a crack at me, cos I know nothing about union, but they were really short. 1.10 is ridiculous.

How can there be that much difference at international level?

[Voltman]

Originally Posted by Pup Clarke

There's putting pressure - and then there's literally being in his face.

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

That's kinda the point tho. Hard to charge down a kick if you aren't in his face. Defenders are allowed to charge from when the kicker starts his run-up, so he's got no-one to blame but himself if he fart-arses about.

Yep. BB has got it, Pup Clarke hasn't. The faffing about that many kickers do deserves a charge-down attempt. It happens in league as well (although less regularly).

[social]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Honestly don't know how the Wallabies contrived to lose that; butchered three tries (although Elsom more blameless than Moore's horrible body position and Cooper's twattish forward pass) and Giteau's place kicking just horrible throughout. Huge choke with the final conversion.

Heroic defending from the Scots, but they were beaten up front and offered v little in attack.

Pretty much sums it up

Felt sorry for the 90% who played very well but were let down by disgracefully poor execution at the end

I was going to post this last week - having watched the 4 Nations Rugby League Final, how much better is Darren Lockyer (and Andrew Johns before him) than any stand-off produced in rugby union during their careers?

Tragedy for Oz rugby that they wouldnt convert as games like yesterday's would've been out of sight before half-time with those guys calling the shots

[Voltman]

Originally Posted by social

I was going to post this last week - having watched the 4 Nations Rugby League Final, how much better is Darren Lockyer (and Andrew Johns before him) than any stand-off produced in rugby union during their careers?

We have no idea, and it's ridiculous to compare. Never mind the fact that Lockyer and Johns have more space than their league predecessors used to have thanks to the 5-metre rule becoming the 10-metre rule.

Until Lockyer or Johns played union, it's a spurious comparison and to even suggest they might have been "better" is drawing a very long bow.

[Top_Cat]

Haha @ OZ. Especially since Edinburgh has historically been very friendly to OZ in terms of big wins.

EDIT: Aus vs Scotland H2H at Murrayfield;

http://stats.scrum.com/statsguru/rug...eam;view=match

[Uppercut]

Originally Posted by Pup Clarke

Good one

You think I'm joking?

I guess it probably just hasn't clicked how stupid your suggestion was. It's kinda like watching a football match and saying "why are all the players allowed to stand in front of the kicker while he's trying to shoot from a free kick? Seems terribly unsporting..."

[Burgey]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Honestly don't know how the Wallabies contrived to lose that; butchered three tries (although Elsom more blameless than Moore's horrible body position and Cooper's twattish forward pass) and Giteau's place kicking just horrible throughout. Huge choke with the final conversion.

Heroic defending from the Scots, but they were beaten up front and offered v little in attack.

We're ****, that's how we lost it.

Worst Australian international sporting team by quite some margin.

No shortage of irony in a forward pass being (rightly imo) called in rugby though.

[Marcuss]

If somebody had to name two Wolrd XVs what would they be?

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Originally Posted by Marcuss

If somebody had to name two Wolrd XVs what would they be?

I wouldn't name either the "Wolrd XV", that's for sure.

EDIT: And don't think that I don't realise why you're after peoples thoughts on their World XV. Lewis Moody wouldn't be in either.

[Top_Cat]

Originally Posted by Uppercut

You think I'm joking?

I guess it probably just hasn't clicked how stupid your suggestion was. It's kinda like watching a football match and saying "why are all the players allowed to stand in front of the kicker while he's trying to shoot from a free kick? Seems terribly unsporting..."

Yet, in cricket, it's all good. You're not allowed to block the stumps with your legs to stop bowlers from bowling you because it's unsporting and will be punished for it. Find the LBW rule the most bizarre sporting rule I've ever encountered.

HTFU, bowlers.

[Uppercut]

Originally Posted by Top_Cat

Yet, in cricket, it's all good. You're not allowed to block the stumps with your legs to stop bowlers from bowling you because it's unsporting and will be punished for it. Find the LBW rule the most bizarre sporting rule I've ever encountered.

HTFU, bowlers.

Haha, you're weird. Might as well not even bring a bat to the crease in that case if you want to bat the match out.