howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Certainly caught the imagination of the public this weekend with Japan beating South Africa which must rank as one of the biggest shocks in any sport let alone Rugby. Now we have the Argentine leading the All Blacks by a point at half time.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Certainly been very successful so far with large and enthusiastic crowds filling the stadia, big one tonight - England V Wales, a match neither team can afford to lose.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Wales won
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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England did not play so well in the second half +they should have gone for a goal in the last few seconds and got a draw out of it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Epic match throughout but we have to beat Australia next Saturday to stay in the competition.
Brian Dixon
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I hope they play better than they did last night...a dismal performance from the England squad.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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I agree Brian .Young Farrell played his socks off .however the rest did not play well as a team.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I wish I could understand the rules more but was highly entertained by the Wales against Fiji game earlier and the current live match between France and Canada is very watchable.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They were saying on the TV even some of the players do not know all the rules and like yourself I do not know them and the off side one gets me all the time ,when is a player offside in Rugby .?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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A good thing about the game is the that the referee can call upon TV replays to check on the validity of a try. Sometimes impossible for anyone to judge with the naked eye, there must have been many wrong decisions in the past before they had the facility.
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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Too much of going for replays spoils the game, a close decision yes but a good referee should not need to keep going for replays.
The game is stop start enough with all the penalty decisions, line ups and scrums, so much so I did not bother watching yesterdays game, can not get my head round it, the game appears to be more about how many penalties you can get rather than "try's" which is what used to make the game exciting.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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when a player is in front of the ball carrier.
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There's a little more to it than that Brian and it's not always true to say - for example, in a maul, players are in front of the ball carrier but not off-side provided they are bound in.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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thank you neil,but here is a wikipiedia version of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Rugby_UnionBrian Dixon- Location: Dover
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I hope the above post #14 clariefies the rules.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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which world in union version do you like.this one or the current one.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Watched the South Africa/Scotland game, very entertaining and the Scots after a disasterous first half gave the Springboks a bit of a scare.
Not looking forward to the next match there will too much pressure on the hosts to perform.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Read earlier that the head coach for England gets paid £.400,000 a year with a years rolling contract so he will be walking soon with best part of a million, the players must be on a fair whack.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Highly entertaining game earlier between Samoa and Scotland, lovely open attacking Rugby but yet again the match was won and lost from penalty kicks.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Enjoyed the earlier game between Wales and South Africa, Wales gave everything they could but just not enough. Only 2 tries so the penalties decide again.