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 
Arse. Blockquote, not quote.
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Serin in.
France are amazing. Tries from all over the field. England should be quaking.
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Floodgate alert!
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Card alert!
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Serin has made a huge difference since he came on, he made the first try through his breaking runs off the base and now he scores the BP try
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Thrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrretttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttoooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Paaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmooooooooooooo is on the field.
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One of those was CJ. Either the Napoleon or the viking.
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Wasn’t it Obelix rather than a ‘Viking’?
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Idiot! De Haas was haring up his outside!
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Knowing CJ, he is probably in tweed.
*Googles tweed kimono*
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Threttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn PPPPPPPPaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmoooooooooooooooooooooo is in da house.
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https://www.lovesewingmag.co.uk/uncategorised/sewing-news/item/454-love-sewing-issue-19/attachment/tweed-kimono/
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Not fat enough for Obelix. Possibly Bastareuatemylunchix.
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Ah well it looked promising for a while there.
France v Tonga with the short turnaround could be interesting…
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This could be good. Normally the French start playing well after their wc implosion so hopefully they’ll save that till after they play us.
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The Americans are reinventing the offside line. Ref doesn’t give a monkey’s.
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Whilst the scoreboard has been close at times it was only because France were playing very poorky, USA never looked capable of doing what France did for their scores
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McGinty has the air of someone who always realises just a second too late that he’s playing in an international rugby match,
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*Massive rage building.*
(I am actually more bothered by our unenergetic hour rather than dodgy reffing at the weekend, but I’m bored and need something to chat shit about)
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French salauds. I had France by 16 on the ‘bru. They can’t even get that right.
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Larry, give that up. You’ve got your bunnies in the quarter finals. Unless Scotland fuck it up for you.
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@Ticht – that’s true, but maybe slightly negative? USA a decent side in several ways. They do lack firepower, though.
I saw slightly negative, but it’s the same issue that very much sets Japan and Fiji apart from other Tier 2 sides (and is why Italy are firmly at the foot of T1).
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Why do I get the feeling that France are going to clown someone in this RWC?
Probably us.
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@tomp – mildly worried that Samoa could have one performance in them. We need ten points from the next two.
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France hold the Americans tryless. Far far better than England managed.
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I think the Eagles will look back at what might have been after this match. A few wrong options, kicking instead of going through phases and it may have been a different result. France also stepped up a gear with the replacements. Better looking outside backs too.
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Say slightly…
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Next game will not be so interesting.
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Bayfield had me checking there, it was was “bucketloads of errors” he said
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Poor old Canada.
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Oh Canada, they play South Africa on Sunday, too.
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‘mildly worried that Samoa could have one performance in them. ‘
Pffffft
Can’t underdog that game, lazza
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No they don’t I can’t read.
Tuesday
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You can pre-order FD’s new book on the Cambridge University Press website. Due to be published in March.
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@OT,
And so it is… His CV doesn’t mention his leading role in AoD though — that’s got to hurt sales, surely?
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Goodhue still hasn’t done anything about that mullet by the looks of things
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@OT – but do I want to read it?
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You don’t read it. You luxuriate in it.
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@brookter
Typical ivory tower academic. Not understanding his core audience.
@enzom
Tell you what, you read it and do a review so we don’t have to.
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What’s the book, isn’t FD in international relations or summat?
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@ticht
exactly that.
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If it’s his first book, it’ll just be his Phd thesis but with nicer pictures and a swanky cover, no?
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I’m expecting some VERY poor choice of charts to illustrate his data.
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My mistake. It’ll be full of groundbreaking research and a significant intervention in IR.
I hope he gets to do one of these: http://www.theory-talks.org/
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@tomp
And all references to his now-ex girlfriend in the acknowledgements have been removed.
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Send me the link. I’ll do a book review.
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My daughter’s best mate, who is almost another daughter to us has just started her masters in international relations
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Cj should write a piece on it. Then we can say it’s properly peer-reviewed.
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Read is playing in Japan after this is all over, apparently
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Storm Troopers doing the Haka
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