RWC SF: England v Springboks
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@sparky said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
Good. Get it sorted and put to bed rather than let it rumble on.
@Victor-Meldrew by Friday would be good. But not before then.
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@nostrildamus said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
@Billy-Webb said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
Relief.
But if that level of performance is repeated in the final we are going to see our backsides against the ABs.I hope not, for your sake and my eyes. Forgive me but the SA 23 don't bear any resemblance to Charlize Theron. Besides, you are defending RWC World Champions and number one, play in the NH, and had some good matches to tune up and reach match fitness. We are definitive underpups.
Steady on there! No claiming underdog status for the AB's.
You're bookie favourites (I say so with zero empirical evidence - which is the Fern way of course) :face_with_tongue:@Billy-Webb 4 years under the worst AB coach in professional rugby history up against a battle hardened Bokke that are potentially the greatest rugby side ever with back-to-back RWC's and a series win over the Lions?
There can only be one plucky underdog in that mismatch
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@sparky said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
Good. Get it sorted and put to bed rather than let it rumble on.
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I had to go to google translate. Funny though and none of it what I first thought.
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Yeah, played around with Google Translate yesterday. Lyk 'n redelik redelike verduideliking.
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Relief.
That was my overwhelming emotion after that game.
I was concerned that the Boks were coming off that epic battle against France and would be flat.
And they were. They were at least 10% down on individual performance across the park.Having said that, I give immense credit to England for blunting the Boks in almost every facet of the game - bar the scrums once Ox and Koch came on. They kicked and chased well, were excellent in the lineouts and the loose and their defence was heroic. They suffocated the Boks virtually out of the game. In the end, it was immensely unlucky and almost cruel for them to lose the game in the 78th minute.
On the (one tiny) plus side for the Boks, they showed enough character to win ugly when they really were well outplayed. I'll take that. But if that level of performance is repeated in the final we are going to see our backsides against the ABs.
@Billy-Webb said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
Relief.
That was my overwhelming emotion after that game.
I was concerned that the Boks were coming off that epic battle against France and would be flat.
And they were. They were at least 10% down on individual performance across the park.Having said that, I give immense credit to England for blunting the Boks in almost every facet of the game - bar the scrums once Ox and Koch came on. They kicked and chased well, were excellent in the lineouts and the loose and their defence was heroic. They suffocated the Boks virtually out of the game. In the end, it was immensely unlucky and almost cruel for them to lose the game in the 78th minute.
On the (one tiny) plus side for the Boks, they showed enough character to win ugly when they really were well outplayed. I'll take that. But if that level of performance is repeated in the final we are going to see our backsides against the ABs.
I also felt relief. But it was more the kind of ecstatic satisfaction that follows a tough night of spadework with an aloof smokeshow with her motherhen constantly trying to cockblock you and a constant stream of dickheads with no real hope of scoring trying to interfere. And then when you finally get back to her place you’re regretting all those brandy & cokes and the nagging doubts start rolling through. But when you step up to the tee, in the swirling wind and the driving rain with the hostile crowd booing and BOK struggling, you know you were designed by god for this moment. And the rapture sweeps you away as you drive it straight home.
At least, that’s how it felt from where I was sitting on the halfway, up where the air was thin amongst the sour French, glib kiwis and at first disbelieving, then hopeful and as KLH knocked it on, gloating, English.
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@Billy-Webb said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
Relief.
That was my overwhelming emotion after that game.
I was concerned that the Boks were coming off that epic battle against France and would be flat.
And they were. They were at least 10% down on individual performance across the park.Having said that, I give immense credit to England for blunting the Boks in almost every facet of the game - bar the scrums once Ox and Koch came on. They kicked and chased well, were excellent in the lineouts and the loose and their defence was heroic. They suffocated the Boks virtually out of the game. In the end, it was immensely unlucky and almost cruel for them to lose the game in the 78th minute.
On the (one tiny) plus side for the Boks, they showed enough character to win ugly when they really were well outplayed. I'll take that. But if that level of performance is repeated in the final we are going to see our backsides against the ABs.
I also felt relief. But it was more the kind of ecstatic satisfaction that follows a tough night of spadework with an aloof smokeshow with her motherhen constantly trying to cockblock you and a constant stream of dickheads with no real hope of scoring trying to interfere. And then when you finally get back to her place you’re regretting all those brandy & cokes and the nagging doubts start rolling through. But when you step up to the tee, in the swirling wind and the driving rain with the hostile crowd booing and BOK struggling, you know you were designed by god for this moment. And the rapture sweeps you away as you drive it straight home.
At least, that’s how it felt from where I was sitting on the halfway, up where the air was thin amongst the sour French, glib kiwis and at first disbelieving, then hopeful and as KLH knocked it on, gloating, English.
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Remember folks, you heard it on The Fern first...
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@Rancid-Schnitzel are you as willing to accept that curry might have made it up ?
@W32 said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
@Rancid-Schnitzel are you as willing to accept that curry might have made it up ?
Yeah sure. For shits and giggles during the middle of the game Curry decided to make up a story about hearing a racial slur. He even planned it out with Marler and Farrell in advance. They made a pact to do it.
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@nostrildamus so you're not talking about what Mbonambi said? Because it sure as heck seemed that's what you were saying.
@Bones said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
@nostrildamus so you're not talking about what Mbonambi said? Because it sure as heck seemed that's what you were saying.
?? I said apparently. I didn't say Mbonambi said it. I said apparently the ref heard the same thing Curry heard.
He didn't say he WOULD deal with it if it conditionally happened. But maybe that is what he meant. If only they were more precise with their grammar! -
@Bones said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
@nostrildamus so you're not talking about what Mbonambi said? Because it sure as heck seemed that's what you were saying.
?? I said apparently. I didn't say Mbonambi said it. I said apparently the ref heard the same thing Curry heard.
He didn't say he WOULD deal with it if it conditionally happened. But maybe that is what he meant. If only they were more precise with their grammar! -
https://twitter.com/jaredwright17/status/1716573535341039619
Just listening to the audio.... As an Afrikaans person really think it is Wyd Kant.... And English player assumed it was aimed at him.... Wyd kant means wide side .... I.E not the blind side
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And even the tone of it suggests it is shouted at the team and not to a specific person... Or at least that is what it sounds like to me
Also if it was aimed at the English it would have had a fluffy bunny prefix
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And even the tone of it suggests it is shouted at the team and not to a specific person... Or at least that is what it sounds like to me
Also if it was aimed at the English it would have had a fluffy bunny prefix
@thelemmning70 so we're back to Curry is a moron. Quelle surprising
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@thelemmning70 so we're back to Curry is a moron. Quelle surprising
@Bones said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
@thelemmning70 so we're back to Curry is a moron. Quelle surprising
No.... Think he has just made wrong assumptions. And you know what they say about assumptions.
Did you listen to the clip? What is your opinion.... Especially the afrikaans in it?
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@Bones said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
@thelemmning70 so we're back to Curry is a moron. Quelle surprising
No.... Think he has just made wrong assumptions. And you know what they say about assumptions.
Did you listen to the clip? What is your opinion.... Especially the afrikaans in it?
@thelemmning70 said in RWC SF: England v Springboks:
Think he has just made wrong assumptions.
Yeah it wasn't even directed at him, it was being shouted repeatedly like an instruction and he decides it's for him and follows up by going up to the ref in the middle of the match with a very serious accusation that he knows will be heard on the mic.
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