Sat 16 Nov: RLWC Qual: USA v Cook Islands KO 10pm (UK Time)

[Pulga]

Some of the body shapes in the USA squad....

It's bush league stuff.

[flyingking]

HT and all to play for 6-12

[welshmagpie]

7 minutes ago, Pulga said:

Some of the body shapes in the USA squad....

It's bush league stuff.

That one prop they have!

[Pigeon Lofter]

Well, 6-12 at half time....USA back in it and playing very well in the last 20 minutes. Should be a good second half!

Apparently, cold and windy over there in the Sunshine State.

[Pigeon Lofter]

1 minute ago, welshmagpie said:

That one prop they have!

Stubbs (USA #10)...a front row all by himself.

USA#13 Pettybourne a monster too.

[Pigeon Lofter]

Wow!

[Pigeon Lofter]

Cook Island players encroaching on the kicker as the conversion was attempted.....maybe learning from GB earlier today where they moved towards the kicker before the ball was struck a la union. No sanctions of course...as if.

[welshmagpie]

USA back in it.

10-12

Their unorthodox approach (I.e the tap penalty in their own 20) is catching the Cooks off guard.

[The 4 of Us]

Will the last one out please turn the light on. 

[Pulga]

The USA should not be in this really but they are.

Cook Islands are giving away too many penalties.

[welshmagpie]

Judging by the Instagram stories of a few of their players I don’t think they really prepared.

Most of their videos have been of a driving range, a dessert place, a shopping mall and them sat around in a hotel.

[westside]

Cooks score with a man in the bin, 16-10

[Pigeon Lofter]

1 minute ago, welshmagpie said:

Judging by the Instagram stories of a few of their players I don’t think they really prepared.

Most of their videos have been of a driving range, a dessert place, a shopping mall and them sat around in a hotel.

A winter holiday in Florida!

[Pigeon Lofter]

USA #15 (another Pettybourne) is the most unfit looking rugby player I've ever seen!

[flyingking]

Nothing petty about him

[westside]

And another, 20-10 with the kick to come. That should do it.

[westside]

This will make the Oceania Cup more interesting. Hopefully Cooks send their best squad.

[welshmagpie]

4 minutes ago, Celt said:

from that botched restart, the Kukis lose a try, and then incredibly boot the ball dead from their own kickoff.

Clearly a bunch of guys on the ######, or at best on holiday as welshmagpie says.

You almost wish the Americans had the talent to roll them.

They never saw this as a ‘contest’ just 80 minutes to get through to what they deemed to be an inevitable place in the World Cup.

[westside]

38-16 FT

[Tex Evans Thigh]

That was a low quality game. Cook Islands didn’t look interested, they should have won by 50.

[eal]

Hard to believe this fixture was one game removed from the World Cup. Looked like a bunch of boozers playing in the local park.

[Tex Evans Thigh]

25 minutes ago, eal said:

Hard to believe this fixture was one game removed from the World Cup. Looked like a bunch of boozers playing in the local park.

That’s what it was.