Knockout Stage - General Discussion

[benchmark00]

English sports fans are always good value.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I mean just look at that offside. Absolutely ****ing pathetic.

 

[wpdavid]

The precedent was set years ago when Johnson kept rushing back players who showed absolutely atrocious indiscipline. Freeze the tossers out until they learn.

You do not win World Cups giving away regular soft penalties.

Nope. Nor any match unless you're playing 3rd division outfits.

Do you remember the game against SA a few WC's back when we were drop-goaled out of the tournament by some bloke whose name escapes me and they just didn't have a clue how to stop him? Seems similar, in a way.

 

[benchmark00]

C'est tres confortable pour Francois!!!!!!!!!

 

[atisha_ro]

Wales team is beautiful, they deserved to beat the Boks too. Lovely outsiders for the trophy.

England seems to miss Armitage badly, but they didn't look that impressive in the group anyway.

And just as I'm typing, 2nd try. Lol.

 

[Scaly piscine]

The referee's right arm will drop off at this rate.

Line the ****ers up at Gatwick. I'm sure the French will supply some fruit.

 

[wpdavid]

Long way to go in this match for the English fans here at CW

Not a cheery thought, tbh

 

[Smudge]

I still remember how much Steve Thompson pissed me off 8 years ago when we'd lose half our line-ups. .

Your what?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Nope. Nor any match unless you're playing 3rd division outfits.

Do you remember the game against SA a few WC's back when we were drop-goaled out of the tournament by some bloke whose name escapes me and they just didn't have a clue how to stop him? Seems similar, in a way.

Yea I do remember that, think it was quite a high-scoring game by Rugby KO standards, something like 40odd-20 and he hit 3-4 drop goals at least. Hit them from miles out.

 

[wpdavid]

English sports fans are always good value.

I know. Can't quite bring ourselves to pat them on the head and say well done when they 'perform' like this though.

 

[Uppercut]

Some beautiful stuff from France here tbf.

 

[wpdavid]

Some beautiful stuff from France here tbf.

Once they were gifted a big lead. It's not hard to play with confidence when your opponents do what England have done this morning

 

[Howe_zat]

Well this cup was fun while it lasted I guess.

Why couldn't the **** France have turned up today?

 

[Hurricane]

England need to just run it now.

No more drop goal attempts.

 

[Smudge]

Nope. Nor any match unless you're playing 3rd division outfits.

Do you remember the game against SA a few WC's back when we were drop-goaled out of the tournament by some bloke whose name escapes me and they just didn't have a clue how to stop him? Seems similar, in a way.

Jannie De Beer. Also holds the record for being the ugliest person to kick five drop goals in an international.

 

[Hurricane]

Why the hell did England get the throw to the lineout when it came off the Englishman's back

 

[Uppercut]

Once they were gifted a big lead. It's not hard to play with confidence when your opponents do what England have done this morning

Dunno, that first try was pretty special. Actually, both tries were. It's demonstrated the difference between giving away a lot of penalties against Argentina or Ireland in a warm-up match and giving away a lot of penalties against France.

 

[Scaly piscine]

It's like the rugby team has inherited all the traits of the football side.

You've got overpaid prima donnas, aging players not performing being picked on what they did years ago, yob behaviour, appealing to the referee to get decisions, soft laughably inept collapses, total lack of discipline.

 

[Hurricane]

Well this cup was fun while it lasted I guess.

Why couldn't the **** France have turned up today?

I hope for England's sake that they didn't expect the poor France -

 

[Howe_zat]

Nothing more depressing than knowing we should be in this, but we're quite literally throwing everything away.