Thanks for the catch up on the state of play.
Sports Rugby World Cup 2023
- Thread starter tyrael
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If we make the qtrs. Imagine if we don't secure bonus points in each of the next remaining pool games and the France send out there C team to give Italy the bonus
Point win and qualify ahead of us ..
That would be a disaster, and would be quite poetic to end Fosters coaching reign!
Even if we get to the quarters I can see us getting kicked out first game anyway.
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I don't follow union in great detail but it amazes me they have kept Foster on. Does Razor take over after the World Cup? They need a coach like him to get our mojo back.
From what Ive heard, they were ready to ditch Foster a year ago but Razor turned it down until next year, as it was a hospital pass with too short a lead up to the World Cup.
Matiunz
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Heard this come through a few times but it doesn’t really stack up
First of all It doesn’t really affect France if we make it or not, we wouldn’t meet again until the final anyway.
Plus if France ‘Threw’ the game they’d risk knocking themselves out in the process, it’s fairly unlikely we don’t get a bonus point against Uruguay and Namibia if both France and Italy do.
And again the result between NZ and Italy will likely be the decider regardless of what France does.
Just the weird doom merchants coming out
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Matiunz
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Comp kinda starts again in the finals. Our likely opponents Ireland whilst in form have never won a finals game and if you take out the last game we have had the wood on South Africa for some time so it’s not necessarily the slam dunk out that people are predicting
Yep Razor and his breakdancing ways will be the coach after the World Cup. I am excited to see who he selects and what type of style he wants the All Blacks to play.
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Didnt expect us to beat Argentina especially with 14 men. No idea how it's deemed a 2 match ban, but that's the game nowadays with the whole head contact. From one extreme to the other
So in the first week of the rugby World Cup there have been 11 yellow or red cards in 8 games played.
What a diabolical sport.
What a diabolical sport.
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France are wishing they coukd play NZ every week.
Matiunz
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Scoring 4 tries or more or losing by 7 or less
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Be curious to see what sort of a difference it actually makes over the course of the pool stages. Guess it separates teams on even comp points and moreso rewards those that have had a tight loss and helps those that have dominant wins to finish top etc.
Works better in a longer tournament such as super rugby, gives teams something to work towards if they are losing but won’t win etc.
Only change I’d have in NRL is 1 point if game finishes a draw/ additional point if you win in golden point.
When the NRL refs actively try to make games close and have tight score lines, giving bonus points for finishing within a try wouldn’t be fair.
We trialled it in the UK in the lower divisions for a year or two.
3 points for a win
1 point if you lose by less than 12.
It didn't work.
3 points for a win
1 point if you lose by less than 12.
It didn't work.
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The idea is to get more tries scored.
Dumb bastards should just drop the penalties to 2 points
They can't do that Bruce,why not Bruce?
Because league did it first!!!
The standard + 1 per game
