Something resembling first-choice teams have been named. Let’s hope they all survive the weekend.
International rugby on the telly this weekend
Friday 6th September
| Scotland v Georgia | 19:30 | Premier Sports 1 |
| England v Italy | 19:45 | Sky Sports Action / Sky Sports Main Event |
Saturday 7th September
| New Zealand v Tonga | 3:35 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Australia v Samoa | 10:30 | Sky Sports Arena |
| Ireland v Wales | 14:00 | Channel 4 / RTÉ Two |
Ovally Balls 
Oh fark, have to pick up my daughter from a sleepover on Sunday morning.
Flipping kids.
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Mrs Craig’s has suggested going to a pub after picking her up. Crisis averted.
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Well that’s a relief I can tell you.
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Chimpie – it’s up there.
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Looking forward to the RWC. I’ve got a wall chart and everything.
My wife bought a Sunday Times the other day and there is was, huge pics of Super Maro and AWJ.
Some stats from it
Biggest world cup win Australia 142 – 0 Namibia (also most tries in a game, Aus – 22)
Most points in a match Japan 17 – 145 New Zealand
Most world cup tries – this is tied, guess who they are?
No peaking on Google now, the same players share the “most tries in a tournament” too
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lomu must be one
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Habana?
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Campese?
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Nah. Lomu and Habana. Has to be. Thought about wee Shane but Wales always get knocked out early so can’t be. Those two went deepest into tournaments and were prolific.
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I don’t think there’s be any scores like that this time. Even the minnows seem to be getting to a standard where they wont get 100 points put on them. Cant see any upsets mind (unless we can call Japan beating Scotland and Ireland an upset?)
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Give that man a ceegaar – yep Lomu and Habana, Dova
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Upsets?
I am going for Fiji beating Wales, USA beating France and Japan beating either Ireland or Scotland would be epic.
Namibia could push a pretty naff Canadian side too.
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Most tries in one RWC game?
No cheating.
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Ahem, just look above you, pro
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Nah, I mean which player scored the most tries in one RWC game
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The Japan Scotland game could indeed be epic, both teams are capable of scoring or conceding 40 points or more, Japan at home with a seven day turnaround from their previous game, Scotland with three days recovery. Hot and humid conditions, only three places between the teams in the rankings.
I’d be disappointed to lose, but not because I don’t think Japan are worthy, they can play terrific rugby, I’d be disappointed because it will almost certainly mean we are out of the world cup
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Lomu
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I happen to know that one too, pro, it on my wallchart.
I’ll leave it to someone else, but I will say it’s an appropriate name
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Didn’t a US winger score 4 in a match once?
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Most points in an RWC game is Gav Hastings vs Ivory Coast, I think. Not sure if that holds for tries, too. He certainly dotted down a few in that game.
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Actually it’ll be from one of those 100 odd point wins so likely a Kiwi or an Ozzy.
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@Chek
It doesn’t hold for tries. Hastings got 4 in that game.
In the same tournament someone bagged 6.
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I can’t look up anything as Wikipedia is blocked here.
Once you start with suspending parliaments and kicking people out your party the next step is blocking websites and locking up teachers and journalists.
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Nick Easter.
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A kiwi in the 145-17 game against Japan. Cant remember his name, its too long ago.
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Henshaw oot, but Ron, His Most High Keithness and Carbery available for Sunday.
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Marc Ellis – 6.
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Keith Earls? The bang average winger with a grumpy demeanor?
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That’s the fella.
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Do we have to have another International Keith Earls Day to correct your faulty assumption?
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What does one eat on International Keith Earls Day? Spam?
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Taytos probably
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Taytos and spam. As a float onna pint of Guinness.
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Covered in gravy.
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Song for the day?
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Evening all! Which nation was nilled in a World Cup Final? Rugby World Cup. Rugby Union. Men’s. Before the pedants pitch up.
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I might have guessed Kirwan?
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France, Deebeedeebeedo?
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@Deebee: eh? An age group final? None of the senior finals have ended with a nilling, have they?
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@Tim (NSFW)
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England ,Deebee, you minx.
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The ‘nation’ is New Zealand. No-one born there scored a point in the ’95 Final. Mertens was born in Durban. Useless bastards. In fact in the 3rd place playoff in ’99 Merts scored all their points so you had to wait for a post-Staaldraad shattered Bok side before a true Kiwi-born player scored a point against the Boks in the World Cup. Glory daze.
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How England, TomP?
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7z, Deebee.
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Hang on to those glory daze DeeBee. You are going to need them.
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Watching Olympiakos vs Spurs – the Greek fans have a big banner saying ‘PYRGOS’. Never knew Henry was a Greek legend? Perhaps a Greek leg end. Or maybe its just their word for someone sssssllllllooooowwwww.
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This is amazing
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrewMerson/status/1172881823686373376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1172881823686373376&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld-asia-49724801
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Ah I hoped it would embed, it’s a time lapse of a conversion of The Sapporo Dome baseball stadium into a rugby/football venue, the bring the grass pitch in from outside
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So’s this:
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So….
Juve vs Atletico?
PSG vs Real?
Shakhtar vs Man City?
Hmmm. I think those Fine Upstanding Italians will be the ones.
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