Its ridiculous that England is the only European team left.
It's all about the draw being favourable. We did beat Argentina and Fiji. That is not nothing. Yet we a clearly a level below the best four teams in the world.
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AdaXI · 41-45, T
Hehe yeah I think we was on about the favourable draw in another post as Fiji were probably the weakest team in the quarter finals and the two strongest teams from Europe got drawn against the two strongest team from the southern hemisphere.
Although I think half the issue is also the fact that teams like Ireland have never got very far so and it's almost like a curse only one northern hemisphere team has ever won the rugby world cup and once again it's looking like either New Zealand or South Africa will win it this time even though they both finished second in their groups to European teams.
And I wouldn't put it past England to fluke it to the final. I mean we've done that on couple of occasions in recent times, knocked out far bigger better teams in the semis just to then get pretty easily beaten in the final, lolz.
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Although I think half the issue is also the fact that teams like Ireland have never got very far so and it's almost like a curse only one northern hemisphere team has ever won the rugby world cup and once again it's looking like either New Zealand or South Africa will win it this time even though they both finished second in their groups to European teams.
And I wouldn't put it past England to fluke it to the final. I mean we've done that on couple of occasions in recent times, knocked out far bigger better teams in the semis just to then get pretty easily beaten in the final, lolz.
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@AdaXI We are 6/1 with the bookies to beat SA. Those are long odds but it feels about right.
I think NZ would run rings around us. The one thing that might give us a chance is that arguably we have the right game to beat SA because of a similar playing style. But yeah, we would need everything to go right and they would need a really bad day.
It is ridiculous that Ireland have never been to a semi ever. Italy is the only other one of the ten test nations to share that record. And with all due respect to Italy. they are shit 😂.Since the mid-00s Irleand has had a pretty good rugby team. In the last twenty years, they have won multiple Six Nations Grand Slams, had numerous victories over southern hemisphere sides and even won a tests series in New Zealand. All of that but still no semi-final. Its crazy.
I think NZ would run rings around us. The one thing that might give us a chance is that arguably we have the right game to beat SA because of a similar playing style. But yeah, we would need everything to go right and they would need a really bad day.
It is ridiculous that Ireland have never been to a semi ever. Italy is the only other one of the ten test nations to share that record. And with all due respect to Italy. they are shit 😂.Since the mid-00s Irleand has had a pretty good rugby team. In the last twenty years, they have won multiple Six Nations Grand Slams, had numerous victories over southern hemisphere sides and even won a tests series in New Zealand. All of that but still no semi-final. Its crazy.
AdaXI · 41-45, T
@Burnley123 I know it's crazy like England can't win a six nations for sh!t in recent times. I think we finished 4th in the last one so we weren't even close but we always seem to get to the business end of the world cups. I think we've been in 3 of the last 5 finals which is pretty good the last two we really were not expected to be there.
Yeah would be a tall order for us to beat South Africa, particularly since they are one of our bogey teams, I think the only time we've ever beaten them at the world cup was when we won it and we really did have the best team in the world around 2003. Other than that one they've always beaten us at the World Cup when ever we've played them.
That said the last two finals we've been in we did play Australia and New Zealand in the semis and both games we really weren't expected to win. So we seem to have a strange knack of magicking our way to the final, but yeah on paper and the way RSA play they probably going to kill us 40-12 or something along that scoreline. Like lets be honest South Africa are the first decent world class team we've played this tournament and they've already played Ireland and France like the two best ranking teams in the world, so yeah I'm really expecting England to get hammered quite convincingly next weekend, lolz.😅
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Yeah would be a tall order for us to beat South Africa, particularly since they are one of our bogey teams, I think the only time we've ever beaten them at the world cup was when we won it and we really did have the best team in the world around 2003. Other than that one they've always beaten us at the World Cup when ever we've played them.
That said the last two finals we've been in we did play Australia and New Zealand in the semis and both games we really weren't expected to win. So we seem to have a strange knack of magicking our way to the final, but yeah on paper and the way RSA play they probably going to kill us 40-12 or something along that scoreline. Like lets be honest South Africa are the first decent world class team we've played this tournament and they've already played Ireland and France like the two best ranking teams in the world, so yeah I'm really expecting England to get hammered quite convincingly next weekend, lolz.😅
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