World Cup Rugby 2007

[noone]

The samoan 'haka' is pretty cool, I rekon its better than the Kiwi's

[JAS]

The samoan 'haka' is pretty cool, I rekon its better than the Kiwi's

Yep those 'war dances' always add something special to a game. Hope Tonga and Fiji get to perform theirs too

21 minutes

SA 9
Samoa 7

No surprise at SA getting out the handbags when the Samoans get the better of them

Go Samoa

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JAS

[JAS]

Half time

SA 21
Samoa 7

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JAS

[JAS]

Full time

SA 59
Samoa 7

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JAS

[JAS]

Full time

Scotland 56

Portugal 10

Congratulations to Portugal on a superb debut in the tournament...the score really doesn't do them justice

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JAS

[JAS]

Half time

Ireland 20
Namibia 3

Lots of silly errors by Ireland...not throwing straight, fumbling the ball

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JAS

[JAS]

Full time

Ireland 32
Namibia 17

I guess a win is a win but it was a shocking performance...they would have struggled to catch a cold let alone the ball...seen better skills from school teams Need a big improvement to get out of the pool of death.

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JAS

[TroyGFC]

Better than Nambibias score against wallabies last world cup in Adelaide!!

[JAS]

Better than Nambibias score against wallabies last world cup in Adelaide!!

Now that was a score we would have been happy with

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JAS

[JAS]

Half time in the second game for the pool of death.

Argentina 6
Georgia 3

Georgia seem to be making a very impressive debut in the tournament.

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JAS

[JAS]

Full time

Argentina 33
Georgia 3

Once again the score doesn't do justice to a fantastic effort by a debutant side who scared the bejeezus out of Argentina in the first half

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JAS

[heater31]

Once again the score doesn't do justice to a fantastic effort by a debutant side who scared the bejeezus out of Argentina in the first half

Georgia played at the WC in 03 JAS they also didn't win a game. 11 of their starting 15 are playing in thier 2nd tournament

[JAS]

Once again the score doesn't do justice to a fantastic effort by a debutant side who scared the bejeezus out of Argentina in the first half

Georgia played at the WC in 03 JAS they also didn't win a game. 11 of their starting 15 are playing in thier 2nd tournament

Of course they did...my mistake...I stupidly went by the fact that the eejits in the tv studio refered to them as debutants and also said it on their web site...it's a fair cop heater31

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JAS

[JAS]

Todays games begin with another great war dance made even better by the incredible hairstyles of some of the players

2 minutes in

USA 0
Tonga 7


Still to come
Japan v Fiji
Italy v Romania

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JAS

[Dirko]

Yeehaa

Tonga have knocked off US of A
25 - 15...

[JAS]

Congratulations Tonga on your glorious victory over the capitalist forces..... oooops Will this make Tonga part of the axis of evil

USA 15
Tonga 25

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JAS

[Dirko]

More overnight results;

Italy 24 def Romania 18
Fiji 35 def Japan 31

Every team has now played at least one game. Pools are starting to take shape.
POOL A
South Africa, England & Tonga are separated by points difference with one win a piece
POOL B
Australia, Wales & Fiji as above
POOL C
New Zealand & Scotland in the box seat here.
POOL D
Argentina on top with 2 wins, followed by Ireland. This is the "Group of death" and will probably be decided by the Argentina/Ireland & Ireland/France games....

[JAS]

More overnight results;

Italy 24 def Romania 18
Fiji 35 def Japan 31

Every team has now played at least one game. Pools are starting to take shape.
POOL A
South Africa, England & Tonga are separated by points difference with one win a piece
POOL B
Australia, Wales & Fiji as above
POOL C
New Zealand & Scotland in the box seat here.
POOL D
Argentina on top with 2 wins, followed by Ireland. This is the "Group of death" and will probably be decided by the Argentina/Ireland & Ireland/France games....

The end of the Fiji v Japan game is worth watching if you can. Japan managed to keep the ball in play for more than 5 minutes after full time...nail biting stuff

There will be some very very sore bodies in both the Italian and Romanian camps today...wasn't perfect ...heaps of errors by both sides but a real hard fought game...joy to watch

Don't remind me about the Pool D fixtures...I'm already getting ready to watch from behind the sofa...I admit it...I'm afraid, very afraid

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JAS

[MagicKiwi]

Having watched every single match of this Game They Play in Heaven World Cup 2007 so far due to the delights of having Foxtel and a VCR, I have come up with the following observations:

1. The "minnows" are now scoring tries. As in not one but more. There is not the occasional penalty anymore, but tries. I predict that by RWC 2011 in the Shaky Isles, they will be converting them more than the 40-50% they're doing now.

2. The draw once again appears to be flawed and in favour of the rugby super powers when it comes to the first two weeks of pool matches.

3. The Japanese are clearly the most courageous team so far this Cup.

4. England played a player who was instrumental in their last world cup, who has been retired over a year and went to the Bin in their first game. Although they have dropped Delaglio for this week, England are gone.

5. The French, Scottish and Welsh need to be very wary of the lower ranked teams in their pools.

6. The French have done up their grounds beautifully with every stadium and pitch looking in peak condition, congratulations to them (observation courtesy of Mr MK).

7. Stadiums are packed out showing how much the RWC has grown and how big it's becoming for the most wonderful game ever to be played with a ball.

8. My boys did the right thing, reputation, sanity and breathing intact going into the second game.

8. Mr MK and myself are in rugby heaven and we thank Robran that we have Foxtel.

Next big one - Poms V RSA Saturday morning. 5am.

[Dirko]

Nice summary there MK, what about the Aussies ? How did you view there form over the Cherry Blossoms?