Here comes the World Cup! Oh, and an English Premiership Cup match too.
Exciting rugby on the telly this week
Friday 20th September
| Japan 30 – 10 Russia | 11:45 | ITV / S4C |
Saturday 21st September
| Australia 39 – 21 Fiji | 05:45 | ITV |
| France 23 – 21 Argentina | 08:15 | ITV |
| New Zealand 23 – 13 S Africa | 10:45 | ITV |
| Exeter 28 – 14 Bath | 15:15 | BT Sport 3 |
Sunday 22nd September
| Italy 47 – 22 Namibia | 06:15 | ITV |
| Ireland 27 – 3 Scotland | 08:45 | ITV |
| England 35 – 3 Tonga | 11:15 | ITV |
Monday 23rd September
| Wales 43 – 14 Georgia | 11:15 | ITV / S4C |
Tuesday 24th September
| Russia 9 – 34 Samoa | 11:15 | ITV4 |
Wednesday 25th September
| Fiji 27 – 30 Uruguay | 06:15 | ITV4 |
Thursday 26th September
| Italy 48 – 7 Canada | 08:45 | ITV4 |
| England 45 – 7 USA | 11:45 | ITV |
Ovally Balls 
Hmm. I’ve got Scotland in the office sweepstake.
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Jesus fucking Christ. An Irish supporter in the crowd just thrusted his crotch at the camera. Horrible enough but worse was he was holding a toy leprechaun over his privates. Haunting.
‘pro displeasing catch and drive for the score.
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looked generous to me…….
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Not a fan of this giving Ireland a big early lead game plan
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Just getting bullied at the moment, haven’t really woken up.
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At least it was a dynamic catch and drive. Shifted and went at (relative)speed. Was really well done (even if it was nearly stripped)
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“Generous”
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Wee Greig would probably do better to be facing the attacking players, rather than allowing them to run into his back.
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Nah, Best had the ball and put it down. Perfect.
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Japan’ll be looking at Conway there and thinking we can kick to them.
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The big question of the day is how much are the Irish players smiling? Out at a dog park for my sins.
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On the basis of what we’ve seen so far I’m not.convinced Uncle Joe has been keeping some secret revolutionary game plan under wraps in the 6N/warm up but the gameplan is doing what’s needed at the moment.
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Aki, learning that tackling like Faz is harder than it looks.
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At least we won’t get nilled
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Schmidt’s very good at coming up with smart plays for the big games.
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Sexton getting some relief from the physio. This match is in–yer-face homoerotic,
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12-3 at this stage, after a slow start isn’t too bad. Good field position here, too.
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Schmidt’s very good at coming up with smart plays for the big games.
Yep they’ll be ready for some great set play moves in the big pool game against Russia
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Japan’ll be looking at Stockdale there and thinking we can kick to them.
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Well, that hexed it.
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Scottish bounce on to the post.
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There is a lucky thing (for Ireland) that I’ve never seen before: the ball bouncing off the post.
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Oh Scotland.
Cunning work by Uncle Joe to replace one of the posts with Big Dev Toner
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Good night Vienna
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Murray taking the kick as Johnny gets more relief from the physio. Worrying. And now POM’s gone off!
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Ffs
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Remember Twickenham, Scotland fans.
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Japan’ll be looking at Murray there and thinking we can kick to them.
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Japan will be looking at Scotland and thinking we can run at them
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Just far too easy for Ireland
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Scottish players really feeling it, 3 or 4 on their haunches.
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Aargh
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Fantastic read by Stockdale.
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Stockdale finally times one of those right…
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The patented Stockdale Bounce.
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Desperately seeking positives, Taylor is looking the part again
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Oh shit, Watson looks really hurt.
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Nooo, Not the Mish.
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Oh shite, Mish is done
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No not the mish
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Am I missing a celebration of adventurous running rugby full of long range attacking intent?
Or should I stay on the beach?
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I don’t really want to see his knee go in super slo-mo
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@Pro – Larmour, Stockdale, Hogg and Treacle-toes are all giving it fair whack.
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Plus Stander and Henderson, both with long range line breaks…
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Ireland fans clapping Hamish off – I like that.
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Bit of a sickener that off-the-post patch of play for Scotland. Then they start getting back into it, and now Watson is crocked. Rough old half for them and the break can’t come quickly enough.
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Healy collapses, pen Ireland, terrific
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Conway totally did maitland there
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You’ve missed Russell cleaning out Sexton at a ruck, ‘pro.
Scotland are trying but nothing is working. Ireland pretty dominant. Not just kicking and chasing. Once in the 22, they’re going for the pick and go but it’s working pretty well for them.
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I’ve noticed it has been a ‘feature’ of the coverage in general when someone gets injured, Piperboy.
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