UK Time kick off.

SA were very lucky......same old them really, no where near as good as they were 4 years ago : they sit back, absorb pressure and wait for people to make mistakes...same tactic as in the last world cup.....they will not win it again on that performance....if only Wales had just put over a couple of those missed penalties...unlucky .....

"if only Wales had just put over a couple of those missed penalties"



You winding me up ????? :-)

Dil: I presume the Welsh team have booked their early flights home on night of 2nd October after Fiji game, I have a friend looking for some cheap hotel accomodation in Hamilton that night, should be lots of empty rooms available !

I see Scotland won earlier. Rugby World Cup 2011 Pool B: Scotland 15-6 Georgia

I heard Tindall scored.

Our quarter final opponents will come from the Aus v Ire match , lets see if we got anything to worry about given we are the only home nation with a realistic chance of going further than the quarter finals.

Well not much to worry you so far. The Paddies could win this yet - tempted to have a punt on them.

Got them at evens with a 11.5 start .... but I've got everything wrong so far :-)

Nice one Ginge !!!!

COME ON U PADDIES !!!!

Layed the Ireland bet and gone long The Ozzies with the profit.

Hmmm maybe should have been happy with the profit!

Mines 1.01 to lay but Aussies need to score 22pts for me to lose :-)

Or could back it at 1000 :-)

:)

We got Ireland in the quarters .... bring it on !!!!!

Well done the Paddies a famous victory.

That blind English tw*t did us a favour ... we'll murder Ireland.

All we need now is France to win and the draw is likely to be :

Wales v Ireland
France v Arg/Scotland


England v NZ (I'll even cheer for England)
Australia v S Africa



.... or we could just lose to Samoa or Fiji and come home.

"England v NZ (I'll even cheer for England)" - Dil, 17 Sep 2011.

Just capturing this for adding to Dil's monumental engraving. :)

Well 6 tries can't be bad but the first half was again littered with penalties and in the end the score flattered England. Will need to up their game if they are to have any chance against the stronger teams in the later stages.

Did not see the Wales game but from the score it looks like it was a tight game and Samoa are no push over.

Most of the favoured Nations are stuttering in these opening games. Nerves or the opposition rising to the occasion? Who knows!