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 
who said by 45?
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Daly misses a possible scoring chance, as the ref has called play back, rightfully, for an injury to Hooley.
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That looks horrible.
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Why does Daly hate his wingers so?
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…………self centered
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mmmm, Elliot.Got a side bet on wingers not scoring tries?
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Nobody beats USA 45-0
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Those last two minutes were like under 8s rugby. Great fun.
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well done usa but very poor again from Daly
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A period of absolute madness, after the gong has gone, results in the USA breaking down field. England get the ball back, then get turned over before Campbell flops over the line to score.
Final score 45-7.
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Brilliant finish.
Hope Hooley is OK, looked really nasty.
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What happened to Hooley?
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Landed badly trying to take a high ball. And looked in a terrible state as he was being attended to before the camera moved away.
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Ulster team to play Ospreys, Guinness PRO14 Round 1, Friday 27 September 2019 at Kingspan Stadium (kick-off 7.35pm):
(15-9): Matt Faddes; Craig Gilroy, Luke Marshall, James Hume, Rob Lyttle; Billy Burns, John Cooney;
(1-8): Jack McGrath, Rob Herring (Capt), Tom O’Toole, Kieran Treadwell, Sam Carter, Matthew Rea, Jordi Murphy, Sean Reidy.
Replacements: John Andrew, Eric O’Sullivan, Ross Kane, Alan O’Connor, Greg Jones, David Shanahan, Michael Lowry, Louis Ludik.
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Cheers CMW.
Oh, I missed the Francis thing at the start o& the game, that could well be another citing
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I’m a big fan of Faddes, Larry, not sure I’ve seen him at fullback right enough
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Ospreys:
Jones, Parry, Botha
Ashley, King
Lydiate, Evans, Cracknell
Aubrey
Price
Giles, Williams, Allen, Morgan
Evans
R: Otten, Thomas, Gajion, Cross, Baker, Morgan-Williams, Evans, Thomas-Wheeler
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Ticht, not sure where he’ll spend most of his time playing for us. Sharing the 13 shirt with Luke Marshall and the 15 with Will Addison, most likely. We’ve a boat load of wingers.
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I’m confident that Price and Aubrey will run the show.
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On the rare occasions we had the ball we actually looked like we could do something with it, but England starved us of possession and territory. With the amount of both they enjoyed I am actually relieved the score was not much higher.
A few harsh decisions went against us. I thought the tackle on Hooley from the opening kick off was a clear shoulder to his head area and should have been a yellow.
Stupid from Quill. Only mitigation is that he possibly switched off attempting the tackle when Farrell fumbled and then stuck out a shoulder when Farrell ran into him. At least Farrell now knows 100% what a no arms shoulder charge looks and feels like.
Looks like Quill will be banned for remainder of the USA involvement. Ainu’u and Hooley look crocked. Lamositele was limping and Brache was clutching his hamstring. This is all shit.
Germishuys looked lively at the end and can replace Quill.
Te’o (the tubby FB with the pony tail) was really good, I thought. Made yards in contact and made USA’s only real clean break of the match. Him in at 15 to replace injured Hooley gives us more speed and X factor there.
Campbell, the try scorer, could do with more involvement too.
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‘we’
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@Craigs
I have just as much involvement and relevance to the US team as you do to England.
Just being born inside invisible lines on the surface of the earth isn’t a big thing for me. In fact it’s been an embarrassing inconvenience since midsummer 2016.
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I think if I supported the US I wouldn’t be able to resist referring to them as we.
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Weedge
1.Kebble, 2. Grant Stewart, 3. D’arcy Rae 4. Andrew Davidson 5. Tim Swinson 6. Rob Harley 7. Callum Gibbins (c) 8. Matt Fagerson (48)
9. Nick Frisby 10. Brandon Thomson 11. Rory Hughes 12. Huw Jones 13. Nick Grigg 14. Kyle Steyn 15. Glenn Bryce
16. Johnny Matthews 17. Alex Allan 18. Adam Nicol 19. Bruce Flockhart 20. Chris Fusaro 21. Jamie Dobie 22. Ruaridh Jackson 23. Robbie Nairn
Dobie one of the few plus points from the U20s this year, Nicol a mighty young Tighthead
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Actually, I live in England so probably have greater ties to the team than you do to the USA.
Just being born inside invisible lines on the surface of the earth isn’t a big thing for me. In fact it’s been an embarrassing inconvenience since midsummer 2016.
Then stop moaning about project players pro. You can’t have it both ways.
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“Weedge”
Now Ticht’s at it as well.
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Sorry, Soapdodgers
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Themdge.
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I thought that players such as Cole, Marler, the Launch and Kruis, supported by Curry, Ludlum really crushed any threat from the USA during the 1st half.
As the game evolved I though England’s passing became poor, even allowing for the slippery conditions. Most of the spills were the result of poor passing rather than poor catching.
Ford is a bully in these types of match-ups.
JJ was good and Farrell injected energy into the squad when he came on.
Lawes looked crocked even as he came on to replace the Launch and big Joe did pretty well, receiving a lot of poor quality passes.
Daly has dropped down the list and looks like he knows it. Can he tough it out and get his head back up? That’s what squad tours are all about.
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p.s. well done to USA for toughing it out…………..lousy experience for them. Hope the injured guy is ok and the guy who got the red card realises what he has done to himself and the squad for the rest of the Tourni.
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So, did we embarrass ourselves?
Score looks okay.
Maybe Faz dived to get someone sent off or something., There’s no way it’s all gone smoothly.
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I still feel like England are playing at 1/4 final, semi final level at best. I hope that they are just gearing up for the big matches later in the pool stage.
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Dov – I’m still embarrassed.
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I’m debating whether or not I can say “we” about the USA, seeing as Mrs Cat is Half ‘Merican and FEFH holds a US passport.
Course, if Brazil had qualified I’d definitely be saying We. Cos Mrs Cat and FEFH also holds a Brazilian passport.
But Papaya Pol Pot is souring the whole thing for me.
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What’s England’s potential path like? If it’s, say, the Boks or the Darkness in the QF then ouch, out we go.
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Beat Wrwgwai in the quarters, get beaten by NZ in the semis.
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Cat – how many fecking passports do you guys have? Do you know hbhs dad?
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I’m sure I remember someone getting awfully het up about team tweets saying “your team”? Or am I misremembering?
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Dova, not a bad showing. Red card deserved. Francis may well be cited for borderline high tackle from initial kick off. Lots of early penalties, a fair amount of dropped balls, but looked organised both in defence and attack.
Daly squandered two clear try scoring opportunities by not passing to an open winger who would have walked in, Machonnachie didn’t do much, Joseph and Watson looked really sharp, Ludlam put in a really good shift, everyone else acquitted themselves well.
And Genge, been training with the back, lovely blindside break from a maul, nice little in out on the defence, followed by two bulldozing tackle busts. 40m run. Superb.
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Erds – maybe Daly is just filling in for Mike Brown.
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Yeah, That was the Mike Brown play. I’ve never liked Daley at full back. They just love that left boot option I think otherwise he’d be on the bench.
At least no injuries?
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Swap Daly with Watson. Solved.
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@Craigs. I have one. Going to be 2 when Hypocrite father of Cat gets his Irish one back. FEFH has 3 currently, going to be 4 when hypocrite father of Cat gets his Irish one back. Mrs. Cat has 3- although I do need to check if her Brazilian one hasn’t expired.
I’m pretty certain US citizens aren’t meant to be able to do that, but nobody really checked.
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Cat – if we win the pool we get the pool d runners up. So let’s cheer on Wales this weekend….
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Cat – yeah, you aren’t allowed to do that. Which means you’ll have loads of spare passports to sell.
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Mrs. Cat has had the two all her life. Dual nationals are a thing. Periodically she gets a tax demand from the US, but ignores it.
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I’m thinking I need a Yharnam passport. Given how much time I’ve spent there.
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Craigs, as far as US is concerned, multiple passports is fine, if you have a US one, that is all that counts, and you are liable for tax in US on income earned anywhere.
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“if you have a US one, that is all that counts, and you are liable for tax in US on income earned anywhere.”
Doesn’t sound like a good thing to have. Is a Yharnam one any better?
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You are, in theory, liable for tax no matter where you earn it. But we’ve asked around ‘merican expat facebooks and nobody has ever heard of them actually coming for it.
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