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Post by Panda on Sept 10, 2007 10:32:54 GMT 1
Results from today: Wales 42-17 Canada (Canada were apparently leading with 25 minutes to go!) South Africa 59-7 Samoa Scotland 56-10 Portugal Ireland 32-17 Namibia Canada lead 12-9 at half-time and extended that to 17-9 at the start of the 2nd half before running out of steam. Namibia managed to outscore Ireland in the 2nd half of their game...
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 12, 2007 0:03:26 GMT 1
Result from Group D:
Argentina 33-3 Georgia
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 12, 2007 17:15:45 GMT 1
Group A: United States 15-25 Tonga
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 13, 2007 10:40:07 GMT 1
Group B:
Japan 31-35 Fiji
Group C:
Italy 24-18 Romania
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Post by Panda on Sept 13, 2007 13:12:08 GMT 1
Good to see some close games... Fitness seems to be the main difference between a lot of the teams. The weaker teams just seem to fade in the last 30 minutes or so.
England v South Africa tomorrow... I can see them totally destroying us...
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Post by Tom on Sept 14, 2007 13:16:22 GMT 1
Havent seen this so far but watching the England-S Africa game tonight (probably in fear lol but hoping we'll lose by no more than 10 pts and possibly picking up a bonus point along the way). For some reason I thought the France-Argentina match would be close, games between the two sides aren't normally that one sided. Still expected France to win by 10 points though. Expected England to win by 50 pts, so a 28-10 win is rubbish, and agree with mrh without an improvement we're going to struggle to qualify New Zealand's win over Italy was very impressive, Italy aren't a bad side. Thats the kind of result I'd expect against someone like Samoa.
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Post by Panda on Sept 14, 2007 14:12:57 GMT 1
I read that some bookies are giving England a 17 point start for the game tonight...
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Post by Tom on Sept 14, 2007 21:52:35 GMT 1
England 0 South Africa 36
Complete waste of time. The most interesting thing about the scoreline is that South Africa had a 52 point winning margin over Samoa, who England play next. On this performance that match could be rather close..
Also, Australia have apparently made a complaint about their match against Wales tomorrow being played in Cardiff. Does seem a little unfair, but i've got a good feeling that Wales will put up a decent showing, and maybe pick up a bonus point along the way.
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Post by Si. on Sept 14, 2007 21:57:40 GMT 1
that england performance was the worst that i have ever seen, no penetration, no speed, no variation and no passion. I doubt it if i'll watch us play again and wouldn't be disappointed if we lose to samoa. Changes need to be made with the management, every decision was wrong.
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Post by Panda on Sept 15, 2007 15:14:12 GMT 1
Also, Australia have apparently made a complaint about their match against Wales tomorrow being played in Cardiff. It's a bit late now... Stupid t**ts. As for last night, completely hopeless. Jason Robinson was the only England player to come out of the game with any credit. It was heartbreaking to see him pull up like that, knowing it was probably the end of his career.
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 15, 2007 17:26:43 GMT 1
Pool B: Wales 20-32 Australia Pool C: New Zealand 108-13 Portugal
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Post by frag on Sept 15, 2007 17:34:07 GMT 1
Decent comeback from Wales for a while... both teams certainly looked like they'd beat England in the QF, if England get that far.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Sept 15, 2007 20:09:32 GMT 1
we did well to get zero
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 15, 2007 22:39:02 GMT 1
Pool D: Ireland 14-10 Georgia
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Post by Panda on Sept 16, 2007 17:50:06 GMT 1
That was a great game...
Meanwhile, today Tonga beat Samoa 19-15! That throws the 2nd place spot in England's group wide open...
Fiji made it 2 wins out of 2 by beating Canada 29-16.
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 16, 2007 21:47:55 GMT 1
at Tonga's win. Unsurprisingly France have beaten Namibia 87-10.
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Post by Tom on Sept 17, 2007 11:01:11 GMT 1
Also, Australia have apparently made a complaint about their match against Wales tomorrow being played in Cardiff. It's a bit late now... Stupid t**ts. As for last night, completely hopeless. Jason Robinson was the only England player to come out of the game with any credit. It was heartbreaking to see him pull up like that, knowing it was probably the end of his career. Should have said, that was earlier in the week. Reasonable result for Wales, as expected. Quite sad that i actually enjoy watching Wales more than England ( i do have some Welsh blood through my dad anyway). He scoffed at my suggestion before the tournament that they could go further than England, but it could happen on present form. It would certainly be a shame if England got to the quarters and Wales didnt. Saw Portugal's try early in the 2nd half to make it 52-10 against New Zealand, it seemed to fire the All Blacks up as they scored more points in the final half an hour than in the rest of the match.
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 20, 2007 18:39:54 GMT 1
Pool C results from the last couple of days:
Scotland 42-0 Romania Italy 31-5 Portugal (confirms Portugal's exit)
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 20, 2007 23:37:47 GMT 1
Wales 72-18 Japan (confirms Japan's exit).
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Post by paulgilb on Sept 21, 2007 22:43:59 GMT 1
France 25-3 Ireland
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