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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread 22:00 - Aug 16 with 45520 viewsKeithHaynes

Our very own RWC thread.

Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England will join 16 other nations as they compete for the ultimate prize in rugby – the Webb Ellis Cup – which was last won by the Springboks in 2019. The opening match of Rugby World Cup 2023 will see hosts France face three-time winners New Zealand on Friday 8th September. The final will take place seven weeks later on Saturday 28th October.

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 23:12 - Sep 10 with 2006 viewstheloneranger

Our scrum was solid, only lost 1 lineout 10/11 - and we won 11 turnovers.

We would have lost this match under Pivac!!

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 06:25 - Sep 11 with 1943 viewswaynekerr55

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 23:12 - Sep 10 by theloneranger

Our scrum was solid, only lost 1 lineout 10/11 - and we won 11 turnovers.

We would have lost this match under Pivac!!


What were the WRU thinking 4 years ago??

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:15 - Sep 11 with 1892 viewsunion_jack

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 06:25 - Sep 11 by waynekerr55

What were the WRU thinking 4 years ago??


Hindsight is 20/20 vision. Had the Scarlets playing a good brand of rugby. Sometimes things don’t go as they should.

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:27 - Sep 11 with 1880 viewsonehunglow

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:15 - Sep 11 by union_jack

Hindsight is 20/20 vision. Had the Scarlets playing a good brand of rugby. Sometimes things don’t go as they should.


Social media lively today,mainly England fans and a few bitter Fijians .
Well xxxx em
Yep,we were fortunate,and that’s a novelty for us. Wales lucky!
As for cheating and gamesmanship…Bokke and All Blicks have always done that to perfection.McCaw spent his career offside and the assaults deemed as part of the game
Just xxxxoff.

Biggar. My Gid,a real warrior who wants to win. He swears and shouts at his teammates . Wow.

Jack Morgan no captain for me though

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:10 - Sep 11 with 1858 viewsunion_jack

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:27 - Sep 11 by onehunglow

Social media lively today,mainly England fans and a few bitter Fijians .
Well xxxx em
Yep,we were fortunate,and that’s a novelty for us. Wales lucky!
As for cheating and gamesmanship…Bokke and All Blicks have always done that to perfection.McCaw spent his career offside and the assaults deemed as part of the game
Just xxxxoff.

Biggar. My Gid,a real warrior who wants to win. He swears and shouts at his teammates . Wow.

Jack Morgan no captain for me though

Fantastic entertainment


Hard to disagree with any if that. Wales were very lucky to keep the full 15 on at the end with the number of transgressions. No one could have argued against a penalty try. Thankfully Wayne Barnes wasn’t the main man last night I’d say😁

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:22 - Sep 11 with 1851 viewsonehunglow

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:10 - Sep 11 by union_jack

Hard to disagree with any if that. Wales were very lucky to keep the full 15 on at the end with the number of transgressions. No one could have argued against a penalty try. Thankfully Wayne Barnes wasn’t the main man last night I’d say😁


It’s about time Wales had some luck.
Having witnessed refereeing decisions at Anfield (77) and that night in CRdiff when Stein died, we are well overdue .
Fiji will cause Australia much trouble and I believe they will beat them.

Meanwhile England fans laud their win by the boot over a mysterious Argentina .

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 12:42 - Sep 11 with 1798 viewswaynekerr55

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 09:15 - Sep 11 by union_jack

Hindsight is 20/20 vision. Had the Scarlets playing a good brand of rugby. Sometimes things don’t go as they should.


There's a degree of truth to that but we learnt the hard way in 2007 in similar circumstances. We've no doubt. Paid out more than if we'd just given Shaun Edwards a 4 year deal

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 16:17 - Sep 11 with 1713 viewsKilkennyjack

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:22 - Sep 11 by onehunglow

It’s about time Wales had some luck.
Having witnessed refereeing decisions at Anfield (77) and that night in CRdiff when Stein died, we are well overdue .
Fiji will cause Australia much trouble and I believe they will beat them.

Meanwhile England fans laud their win by the boot over a mysterious Argentina .


This is true.

Warburton sent off in semi-final another.
Ben and Rambo banned for semi in Euro16.

Yes we deserved a little good fortune for once.


PS. Feck ‘em 👍

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 17:22 - Sep 11 with 1691 viewsonehunglow

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 16:17 - Sep 11 by Kilkennyjack

This is true.

Warburton sent off in semi-final another.
Ben and Rambo banned for semi in Euro16.

Yes we deserved a little good fortune for once.


PS. Feck ‘em 👍


F me .
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 18:12 - Sep 11 with 1658 viewsshingle

It is always the Refs fault when we lose and now its the Refs fault when we win lol but he was one of the reasons this game was a barnburner, glad it was him in charge.
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 15:24 - Sep 13 with 1450 viewstheloneranger

Wales v Portugal ...


Wales starting XV:

Leigh Halfpenny; Louis Rees-Zammit, Mason Grady, Johnny Williams, Rio Dyer; Gareth Anscombe, Tomos Williams; Nicky Smith, Dewi Lake (c), Dillon Lewis, Christ Tshiunza, Dafydd Jenkins, Dan Lydiate, Tommy Reffell, Taulupe Faletau.

Replacements: Ryan Elias, Corey Domachowski, Tomas Francis, Adam Beard, Taine Basham, Gareth Davies, Sam Costelow, Josh Adams.

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 21:56 - Sep 14 with 1332 viewsKeithHaynes

What a fantastic Uruguay performance, however rugby is eating itself with pathetic law changes.

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 23:29 - Sep 14 with 1296 viewsmax936

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 21:56 - Sep 14 by KeithHaynes

What a fantastic Uruguay performance, however rugby is eating itself with pathetic law changes.


Can you elaborate on that, in my opinion the French player should have been red carded, his teammate had tackled the Uruguayan player and he came in with no intention of wrapping his arms around the tackled player and smashed him in the chops, red card all day.



From around 1,12 in he extends his arm out which smashes the top half of his arm and shoulder bang into the chops of the player, there's little doubt that, that's red

Ref and TMO got it wrong.
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 13:30 - Sep 15 with 1221 viewsKeithHaynes

Not the decision making on the pitch, the rule changes such as kicking out from a ruck or mail or the disqualification of the Uruguay try for one step out of place in the build up. Penalising for not immediately releasing the ball in the tackle is another game spoiler.

It’s nonsense.

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread (n/t) on 13:36 - Sep 15 with 1217 viewsmax936

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 13:30 - Sep 15 by KeithHaynes

Not the decision making on the pitch, the rule changes such as kicking out from a ruck or mail or the disqualification of the Uruguay try for one step out of place in the build up. Penalising for not immediately releasing the ball in the tackle is another game spoiler.

It’s nonsense.


Oh! I see what you mean now and yes you are right!
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread (n/t) on 13:41 - Sep 15 with 1211 viewsonehunglow

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread (n/t) on 13:36 - Sep 15 by max936

Oh! I see what you mean now and yes you are right!
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 14:28 - Sep 15 with 1203 viewsFireboy2

Just watched the incident, definite red card for a tackle to the head with his shoulder, no attempt to use his arms.

These are the sorts of tackles in both codes that need eradicating from the game, RL are all over it and it seems that RU don't seem to have a clue.
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:01 - Sep 16 with 1123 viewsSullutaCreturned

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 22:52 - Sep 10 by onehunglow

Tremendous advert for the game
Great win but make no mistake we were lucky
Last 15 mins again could have ended up like that Australia capitulation
Gatland right not to be happy
Tomkins outstanding but not rated by many
He is utter class and why he is not captain beats me
Jac is too quiet
Biggar still thinks he is

Nice to see set pieces solid and both hookers go well
Faletau looked like he's not played in months and Wainwright blown off too many times

Fiji might well beat the convicts


As long as we beat the Aussies it won't matter.

Biggar was brilliant and if he gets mouthy because his team mates make silly mistakes or very poor decisions then good on him for having high standards.
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 11:09 - Sep 16 with 1099 viewsunion_jack

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:01 - Sep 16 by SullutaCreturned

As long as we beat the Aussies it won't matter.

Biggar was brilliant and if he gets mouthy because his team mates make silly mistakes or very poor decisions then good on him for having high standards.


Agree in your Biggar comment though we seem to be in the minority.

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 12:04 - Sep 16 with 1084 viewsonehunglow

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 11:09 - Sep 16 by union_jack

Agree in your Biggar comment though we seem to be in the minority.


Anyone who has played a team sport knows yiu have to have a Biggar in the ranks,a hobby,confrontational,warrior who won’t lie down or accept mistakes especially dumb ones like running the ball from under the posts when no need.

You can be in a minority of one and be right

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 12:07 - Sep 16 with 1083 viewsonehunglow

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 10:01 - Sep 16 by SullutaCreturned

As long as we beat the Aussies it won't matter.

Biggar was brilliant and if he gets mouthy because his team mates make silly mistakes or very poor decisions then good on him for having high standards.


Not confident we would beat the convicts ,it’s why I feel uncomfortable wanting them to beat Fiji as it would help us .
There again,the Fiji love in is tiresome.
I’m away for the Oirish v Saffa game and hitherto would want the Bokke to beat them as they are insufferable ( to me) but being on a Facebook site ( just for @ wind up) the Bokke fans really are super arrogant eclipsing even the precious all blicks,never knowingly genuinely beaten fairly .

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 13:17 - Sep 16 with 1063 viewsTogg

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 12:07 - Sep 16 by onehunglow

Not confident we would beat the convicts ,it’s why I feel uncomfortable wanting them to beat Fiji as it would help us .
There again,the Fiji love in is tiresome.
I’m away for the Oirish v Saffa game and hitherto would want the Bokke to beat them as they are insufferable ( to me) but being on a Facebook site ( just for @ wind up) the Bokke fans really are super arrogant eclipsing even the precious all blicks,never knowingly genuinely beaten fairly .


Yes a little bit of perspective. We played well against Fiji but at the end of the day it was Fiji. Ranked higher than us and very dangerous but still Fiji. The Aussies will be a different kettle of fish. They have some extremely talented players. They will beat Fiji.
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 13:26 - Sep 16 with 1061 viewsSullutaCreturned

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 13:17 - Sep 16 by Togg

Yes a little bit of perspective. We played well against Fiji but at the end of the day it was Fiji. Ranked higher than us and very dangerous but still Fiji. The Aussies will be a different kettle of fish. They have some extremely talented players. They will beat Fiji.


But what if they don't? Sometimes the unthinkable does happen.
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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 13:43 - Sep 16 with 1059 viewsmax936

The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 14:28 - Sep 15 by Fireboy2

Just watched the incident, definite red card for a tackle to the head with his shoulder, no attempt to use his arms.

These are the sorts of tackles in both codes that need eradicating from the game, RL are all over it and it seems that RU don't seem to have a clue.


Similar tackle last night in NZ v Namibia game and the yellow dished out to the NZ prop was rightly upgraded to a Red.

The game doesn't need inconsistencies in these sort of instances its madness, and unfortunately there was a Welshman involved in that decision the night before, typically

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The 2023 Rugby World Cup Thread on 17:29 - Sep 16 with 1025 viewslifelong

I’m attempting to watch this game, it’s dreadful, hoofing the ball 50 yards in he air every other minute.
Turning it over to the Newcastle Brentford game.
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