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Sun 30 Oct: RLWC: Samoa v France KO 17:00

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Who will win?  

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  1. 1. Who will win?

    • Samoa by 13 points or more
      22
    • Samoa by 7 to 12 points
      17
    • Samoa by 1 to 6 points
      1
    • France by 1 to 6 points
      10
    • France by 7 to 12 points
      13
    • France by 13 points or more
      1

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gingerjon

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3 minutes ago, tim2 said:

There was a time when they could have matched England in Cricket. They'd certainly beat the rest of the G7!

Also, they beat most of them in the 100m, 4x100m, 200m in Athletics...

Without heritage players, England don’t win the cricket World Cup and Ireland and the Netherlands don’t also beat England.

But in all of those cases, the game is stronger with those heritage players involved.

People looking for easy solutions or too simple causes are nearly always wrong.

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DavidM
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Some of the comments on the ref are way over the top 

SydneyRoosters
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I posted this in another thread but thought I’d post it here also Looking back at the Samoa vs Greece game none of Samoa’s tries came through structure and they were all made through sheer physic

Dunbar
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It is.  But the quarters will be full of intrigue.  Can England continue their run, can New Zealand avenge the 2017 shock against Fifji, can Lebanon give Australia a game and who will win the blockbus

JimBronco

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Just now, my missus said:

I was at the Lebanon v Tonga game earlier and the atmosphere was fantastic is it the BBC that kills the sound?

 

Ref's mic always seems turned up to absolute full max so it's hard to hear the crowd and any atmosphere 

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gingerjon

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2 minutes ago, Big Picture said:

Union going pro helped destroy Wales too.

The Wales that have massively improved for this tournament, have had their best year in PDRL and are coming on strong in the women’s game as well.

That Wales?

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Futtocks

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1 minute ago, gingerjon said:

People looking for easy solutions or too simple causes are nearly always wrong.

But, by God, they're noisy.

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gingerjon

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1 minute ago, Futtocks said:

Unfortunately, some people are too enraged by posts like that to just choose not to engage/encourage, which ruins every match thread.

I feel seen 

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Just Browny

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2 minutes ago, Derwent said:

 

It was a try under the laws of the game. A clash of heads is not foul play. That was first contact. Milford’s arm was not raised at any point nor was it swung at the French player. 

If Milford's arm isn't raised at any point that makes it a shoulder charge, no?

Genuinely cannot see how KO-ing someone with your head, as the defender, can be a fair shot.

I can confirm 30+ less sales for Scotland vs Italy at Workington, after this afternoons test purchase for the Tonga match, £7.50 is extremely reasonable, however a £2.50 'delivery' fee for a walk in purchase is beyond taking the mickey, good luck with that, it's cheaper on the telly.

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tjhrads93

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Thought that was slightly harsh on France.

I have booked tickets for the quarter final at Warrington watching Tonga and Samoa and frankly cannot wait. Should be a great game with two nations that bring a culture and an aura well beyond the 80 minutes. Should be a belter.

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SydneyRoosters

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1 minute ago, Dunbar said:

Nothing has changed in the last 3 weeks apart from you not seeing the results you want.

You can't decide what rules and eligibility you want based on the results.

We can’t act like the results don’t matter, the fact is having 60-90 point wins every 1 or 2 games is not good for our sport and does no favours. It just makes it more of a mockery when we have a team of 96% Domestic born players getting destroyed by a team with 8% Domestic born players. All it does is make a mockery of our game, Imagine if a union fan saw this result, they would be laughing there ass off.

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Man of Kent

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11 minutes ago, JimBronco said:

I had £5 on France. I'll just go and take a long hard look at myself in the mirror.

The bookies are rarely wrong though to be fair they did underestimate England.

They were 16-1 fifth favs before the start of the tournament. That was worth a £5 bet and I regret I didn’t. 

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Just now, SydneyRoosters said:

We can’t act like the results don’t matter, the fact is having 60-90 point wins every 1 or 2 games is not good for our sport and does no favours. It just makes it more of a mockery when we have a team of 96% Domestic born players getting destroyed by a team with 8% Domestic born players. All it does is make a mockery of our game, Imagine if a union fan saw this result, they would be laughing there ass off.

I'm not interested in any way what Union fans think.  I just want to enjoy our World Cup.  I have enjoyed it so far and I think the next 3 weeks of the men's competition plus the Women and Wheelchair World Cup will be exceptional.

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Futtocks

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3 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

I feel seen 

Always a risk with a hi-viz hair colour...

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3 minutes ago, Dunbar said:

I'm not interested in any way what Union fans think.  I just want to enjoy our World Cup.  I have enjoyed it so far and I think the next 3 weeks of the men's competition plus the Women and Wheelchair World Cup will be exceptional.

Ok well you do you, but the overall perception of the tournament from the public is very negative.

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Harry Stottle

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Kept off this thread for the whole game, I should imagine there are quite a few who will have red faces with not only with their predictions but the quality they gave these respective teams and some of the individuals on show, no names but the same person said that Milford was finished and Lui was just a show pony.

This was effectively a select SL v NRL clash, the French lads could not live with the power, speed, organisation and skills of their opponents.

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1 minute ago, SydneyRoosters said:

Ok well you do you, but the overall perception of the tournament from the public is very negative.

I’ve talked to people who don’t watch our game but have watched games on bbc and they talk about the physicality , ferocious tackling , pace of the game and great skill . And how it’s superior to the Union they’ve seen . But that’s just anecdotally from my experience. 

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2 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

Kept off this thread for the whole game, I should imagine there are quite a few who will have red faces with not only with their predictions but the quality they gave these respective teams and some of the individuals on show, no names but the same person said that Milford was finished and Lui was just a show pony.

This was effectively a select SL v NRL clash, the French lads could not live with the power, speed, organisation and skills of their opponents.

Your very much correct about the other stuff but don’t try turn this into a debate about SL V NRL. This was France Vs Samoa, it has nothing to do with that debate.

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13 minutes ago, SydneyRoosters said:

We can’t act like the results don’t matter, the fact is having 60-90 point wins every 1 or 2 games is not good for our sport and does no favours. It just makes it more of a mockery when we have a team of 96% Domestic born players getting destroyed by a team with 8% Domestic born players. All it does is make a mockery of our game, Imagine if a union fan saw this result, they would be laughing there ass off.

Glad you tipped the under dog?  

So much for Samoa will be lucky to score 1 or 2 trys 

Like I said..... Parody account.  Time to call it a day.

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4 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

Kept off this thread for the whole game, I should imagine there are quite a few who will have red faces with not only with their predictions but the quality they gave these respective teams and some of the individuals on show, no names but the same person said that Milford was finished and Lui was just a show pony.

This was effectively a select SL v NRL clash, the French lads could not live with the power, speed, organisation and skills of their opponents.

You mean just like this same team of NRL superheroes couldn't live with England a couple of weeks ago?

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26 minutes ago, Big Picture said:

I didn't say beating, I said thrashing.  Jamaica would never thrash any G7 country in any major sport and neither would any other tiny little island country.  And Jamaica's a lot bigger country than Samoa.

Samoa thrashed Russia in RU

Fiji thrashed Canada a couple of times 

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