Rugby World Cup 2015

[Leyton Gooner]

Teams from just the two hemispheres compete in every world event.

I imagine the Northern hemisphere won in Brazil, mainly thanks to Germany thrashing the hosts 7-1 then beating the argies in the final

[officepest]

'Japan' beat SA, bit of a shock apparently.

Didn't realise we lent SA Wenger for the day.

[northbank123]

Japan beating South Africa is utterly dumbfounding. Tremendous gusto to turn down the kick for a draw and opt to gamble for the win.

The usual pastings being handed out to the minnows of Uruguay, Canada etc.vThe line-out and rolling maul against these countries is just cheating really.

[casgooner]

Next Saturday. Eight o' clock. Winner takes all (Well maybe second place, who knows)

England v Wales

[Step]

After the end of this weekends 'titanic engagements' the current score is

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE 255 pts SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE 136 pts

Don't write off the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE yet, there's a long way to go (unfortunately).

Maybe the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE need to invoke the 'exceptional circumstances clause!!

[mcdowell42]

Ye we should all follow the cricket

[REB]

great to see a small country like ireland take on and beat a huge country like canada

[DB10GOONER]

Ra ra ra, Twickers, ra ra ra, scrum, knock-on, the all blacks, ra ra ra, ba-bas, lions, haka or something, the boks, ra ra ra, fuzzie wuzzies or whatever, bollox to the lot of the Barbour jacket wearing toss-pot *word censored*.

That could actually be the dictionary definition for rugby union.

[DB10GOONER]

Can't believe this load of old tosh is upon us once again.
Be prepared for a load of Brown Shoe Billies pontificating about the importance of this tournament as essentially 6 Nations (that tournament's bollocks as well) take on 26 villages.
Can someone take it upon themselves to carry out a HEMISPHERE count. How many times will that word find its way into conversations from the so called experts? Why does no other sport see the significance of it? Probably because there is none. It's just an intelligent sounding word which fits in with the whole public school ethos.

Get ready for Ian ('I can't believe they waste Old Trafford on football' ) Robertson to spout his middle class drivel ably abbetted by his equally irksome side kick Chris Jones.

The pubs will be full of quaffing Sebastions and Marcus's have a jolly good beer up and singing all sorts of hilarious rude rugger ditties! As I've said before even the bloody trophy has a double barrelled name!

In my opinion they should reduce the whole thing down to one play off match- THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE Vs THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE and spare us the 3+ weeks of irrelevant thrashings.

And please God don't let England win or we will have months of the likes of Blue Peter and The One Show (adult version of the same show) thrusting Rugger down our throats in a vain attempt to convince the public that it is an important/popular sport.

The cúnt count in Dublin over the weekend must have set a world record. Never seen so many jumped up arseholes with their shirt collars turned up!

But seriously, if I hear one more cúnt yapping "Drive!" or "Engage!" or "Second phase, guys!" out of them, there will be a spree killing.

One of the very few intelligent things Noel Gallagher ever said was that rugby was "a nonsense of a sport".

[officepest]

Ye we should all follow the cricket

Well yeah, anybody who is anybody knows this.

Glad to see you're a convert, Mc.

[mcdowell42]

Ye we should all follow the cricket

Well yeah, anybody who is anybody knows this.

Glad to see you're a convert, Mc.

Is it even a sport,cricket that is

[casgooner]

I feel sorry for Wales, they've had a lot of injures to key players.

[northbank123]

I feel sorry for Wales, they've had a lot of injures to key players.

That's the main difference between the England and Wales rugby set-ups. Not a lot to pick between the full-strength line-ups but whilst England have the luxury of leaving players like Luther Burrell out of the squad Wales probably only have 4 or 5 players outside of their strongest starting XV who can comfortably step in at this level.

Whilst Wales have been unlucky with injuries they notoriously have absolutely brutal training camps and whilst this has paid dividends in previous tournaments perhaps they have just got things wrong this time.

[storrmin571]

The final warm up against Italy was the biggest set back. Unnecessary game purely for the money.

England are not that good - Wales can beat them even with an understrength team. Australia not getting the bonus point yesterday made it even more interesting.

[Step]

Not sure what happened to my Hemisphere thread but just to keep you up to date after today's match the current standing is

Northern Hemisphere 368 pts Southern Hemisphere 303 pts.

The Southerners are striking back. Who knows what this weekend will bring and frankly who really cares.