Well Dil lets hear it then !!!

Paddy Power current odds:

New Zealand 6/4
England 4/1
South Africa 5/1
Australia 8/1
Ireland 10/1
France 18/1
Wales 20/1
Argentina 66/1
Scotland 100/1
Italy 300/1
Fiji 600/1
Samoa 750/1
Japan 1000/1
Georgia 1000/1
Tonga 1000/1
Canada 1000/1
Romania 2500/1
USA 5000/1
Russia 5000/1
Namibia 5000/1

Oh Decisions, decisions .......

I can't back a team who's supporters have such a long history of racism ... so it will have to be South Africa for me.

Lol .... you know you'll all be supporting us.

Heading out not confident but with a growing air of optimism , crowd could swing it for us.

COME ON WALES !!!!

Now that was a bizarre experience - I was the only Wales supporter in a room full of passionate bokkies.

Time to start the 6 Nations thread? Mind you with Wales back to full strength by then not sure I am looking forward to that too much.

Phew.

Wales unlucky, but SA deserve the win.

Don't think I have seen a game played at such a pace and with such commitment before.

Well played both sides!

Some of our players are out til next season guys so don't worry guys your in with a chance.

We played 3 good teams in this world cup and beat the only team that outplayed us.







Can't believe I'm home this early .... fecking Cardiff City arseh&les :)

Feck me who's coat's this jacket .... M and Bullie will understand :)

Gausie .... u know you love us xxxx

:-)

Dil; Hope you have recovered from the problems last night:-)

Great game to watch but far too much kicking of the ball.

As many S Africans at Twickers as Welsh but vocally Welsh won hands done

What bad luck for Scotland to lose by just the odd point out of 69 of them in what was a truly exciting fantastic game with loads of brilliant tackles.

Australia 35 Scotland 34

In the Southern Hemisphere our equivalent of the 6 nations is The Championship Cup. It'll be nice to now see it played as a proper knockout cup,

Yes.

The standard of Rugby in the whole competition has been brilliant.


It makes you wonder what they could do if they were really fit?



<]8-)

An amazing weekend of Rugby, can it get any better?


M

RFU have announced their England review panel, how on earth did Ben Kay get chosen his first name is not Ian:-)


The five-man panel features:
Ben Kay, ex-England forward with 62 caps and 2003 World Cup winner
Sir Ian McGeechan, former Scotland and British and Irish Lions coach
Ian Ritchie, RFU chief executive
Ian Metcalfe, Professional Game Board chairman
Ian Watmore, England Rugby 2015 board member and former Football Association chief executive

That is the three-quarters.

Where are the forwards?

No shit Sherlock! - Referee Joubert 'may have sensed hostility'

well, the crowd were throwing bottles at him but they couldn't see to aim properly through their tears of despair.

Scotland led Australia 34-32 with two minutes to go when Joubert ruled Jon Welsh was deliberately offside, awarding a penalty that Bernard Foley kicked to earn the Wallabies a place in the last four.

However, replays suggested Australia's Nick Phipps touched the ball back to Welsh and Joubert could have awarded a scrum rather than a penalty.

Scotland coach Vern Cotter and captain Greig Laidlaw believe Joubert should have consulted the television match official, although tournament regulations only allow the officials to use video replays to rule on foul play, or whether tries and kicks at goal are legitimate.

Here's a clip of added explanation about some of what you might not yet know about:



The ref' sprinted off the field at the close of play. Perhaps it was actually a 'bottling out'?

I'm particularly looking forward to the play-offs for fifth place.

Or, as its more commonly known, 'the six nations'.

If you go back a minute or two, before the said "infringement", there was what I think a deliberate shoulder charge late tackle on the Scottish full-back after he made his kick.

It would have been a sending off offence.

That incensed the Scots crowd and started the booing.

I thought the linesman would have drawn attention to the deliberate foul.

C'est la vie!