Week One has provided some excellent rugby, dodgy refereeing and unfortunate injuries.
I think we can all unite around Uruguay as WC champions.
Other competitions are also starting up, so cancel all engagements and be prepared to spend your entire weekend and parts of the midweek glued to the screen. Hopefully not literally.
For those of you who lack rugby preparation skills, let me remind you to order in adequate supplies of booze, fags and possibly food.
Exciting rugby on the telly this week
Friday 27th September
| Cheetahs 48 – 14 Glasgow | 18:05 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Ulster 38 – 14 Ospreys | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Leicester 27 – 7 Exeter | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
Saturday 28th September
| Argentina 28 – 12 Tonga | 05:45 | ITV |
| Japan 19 – 12 Ireland | 08:15 | ITV |
| South Africa 57 – 3 Namibia | 10:45 | ITV |
| Northampton 32 – 36 Wasps | 15:00 | BT Sport 3 |
| Munster 39 – 3 Drags | 15:00 | Freesports / TG4 |
| Southern Kings 27 – 31 Cardiff Blues | 15:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Scarlets 18 – 10 Connacht | 17:15 | PS2 / S4C / TG4 |
| Treviso 27 – 32 Leinster | 17:15 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Edinburgh 50 – 15 Zebre | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
Sunday 29th September
| Georgia 33 – 7 Uruguay | 06:15 | ITV |
| Australia 25 – 29 Wales | 08:45 | ITV / S4C |
Monday 30th September
| Scotland 34 – 0 Samoa | 11:15 | ITV |
Wednesday 2nd October
| France 33 – 9 USA | 08:45 | ITV4 |
| New Zealand 63 – 0 Canada | 11:15 | ITV4 |
Thursday 3rd October
| Georgia 10 – 45 Fiji | 06:15 | ITV4 |
| Ireland 35 – 0 Russia | 11:15 | ITV |
Ovally Balls 
We look knackered.
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Yards and yards and yards every time.
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Navidi has ben heroic in defence.
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Wales are getting murdered here. Australia coming home with a wet sail
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Toomua pen closes the gap to 1 point.
25-26
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Wales have the ball!
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Cue a lineout stuff up
# pessimism
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Another classic between these two with 10 to go.
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So close.
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North so close from a cross kick, but can’t get more than fingers on it. Back for a pen.
Tomos Williams on.
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Patchell gets it and the lead is back to 4.
25-29
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Dont, please dont, kick it to Beale
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A Wales 10 called Rhys kicking to Kurtley Beale, only one way this will end…
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Big scrum.
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That was so predictable.
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That was superhuman by Williams.
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Big lineout
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All that good work and then Toomua makes a key mistake like that.
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What a turnover!
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Watkin has now made two massive turn overs.
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Great game
Well done Wales
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Wales win! Wales win!
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Fantastic game. Well done Wales.
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Fuck me. Verge of a heart attack
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Really enjoyed that.
Well done Wales, good fight back from Aus, just not quite enough
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Great win. Well done Wales.
Australia were superb in that 2nd half
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Talk about doing just enough.
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Gosh.
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We used to lose those games, so even though it is very bad for my health, I’ll take it.
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How am I meant to go about the rest of the day? I’m a wreck and I haven’t even drunk anything
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Great win – dare i say it, but Wales now closing out these kinds of games?
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Apologies, but
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Thought we’d ship 40 points at one stage.
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Dyn hynod ysbrydoledig
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@CMW arwr
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@FBC – I had to start tidying the kitchen and watch it with one eye after the second Oz try. Shredded nerves DOMINATING shredded wheat.
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Can we talk about Tomos Williams’ skillz in keeping that penalty kick in play?
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I can’t spake, Yosoy, it was so critical.
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sgillz.
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Who got man of the match? Think I’d go for Gareth Davies or Navidi.
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Well done Wales for holding out (just). The last minutes of the first half when 10 points were cheaply shipped by Australia felt significant at the time and so it was to prove. Excellent game too watch with a revitalised second half for Oz .
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Yosoy. Even the commentators called that a significant turnover in the match
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@CMW
I believe it was Gareth Davies. Back row the stand out for me, enormous shifts.
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Well done, Wales. Brilliant attacking in the first half, superb dogged defence in the second. And kudos to Oz for never giving up.
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Erm. The software seems to allow you to like your own posts… I apologise for the clumsy clicking which led to mine.
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I should think so too Brookter. Giving kudos to Aus. 🙄😄
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Brookter – you can un-like it by clicking on the star.
And big congratulations to Wales!!
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Don’t care what Alfie says, Shanks is funny.
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That pic is priceless. Live you could see it was a mistimed peck on the cheek, but a little saucy nonetheless. Think AWJ was commending North on his lovely tackle.
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