Being short of time as I’m travelling tomorrow, I have shamelessly stolen Deebee7‘s prognostications.
But first, I’m sure we can all rejoice that Stuart McCloskey has kept his starting place on the Ireland team with Aki relegated to the bench.
Your results for the weekend:
Tonga v Uruguay: Tonga by 14 – Tonga are enjoying playing against Spanish speaking sides, and will dish the pain once again!
Italy v South Africa: South Africa by 4 – Boks have had two narrow losses and will look to get their tour on the board, with four straight losses for the two sides so far. Bench to haul them over the line.
Wales v Georgia: Wales by 19 – good win for Wales last week and they’ll look to build on that (and cement their place in the 6N at Georgia’s expense).
Romania v Samoa: Samoa by 6 – just because I don’t have a clue, but Samoa seem to better at the moment.
Scotland v Argentina: Argentina by 3 – Did Scotland blow a gasket against the Kiwis last week? Argentina have some good scalps this year and will look to take a Scottish one on their own turf.
England v New Zealand: New Zealand by 9 – don’t think it’ll be a shellacking, but the Kiwis are cruising this November tour after a dodgy start against Japan.
Ireland v Australia: Ireland by 8 Aussies are one from three, but all their matches have been single point affairs so far. Ireland will put a bit of distance on the scoreboard, but not that much.
France v Japan: France by 24 Japan won’t be as bad as they were against England, but they also don’t have the ability to step up and close the gap that much either. France for win 13 on the trot and getting within touching distance of some serious records.
Onna telly this week
Friday 18th November
| Sale v Harlequins | 19:30 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 19th November
| Italy v South Africa | 13:00 | Amazon Prime |
| Wales v Georgia | 13:00 | Amazon Prime |
| Scotland v Argentina | 15:15 | Amazon Prime |
| England v New Zealand | 17:30 | Amazon Prime |
| Ireland v Australia | 20:00 | Amazon Prime |
Sunday 20th November
| France v Japan | 13:00 | Amazon Prime |
Ovally Balls 
Words Thaum.
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… Almost all Deebee’s!
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Ticht, is the right arm that the twelve holds back to protect his elbow and forearm as he drives his shoulder into Danty an obvious attempt to wrap in the clearout ? He then follows thru with the upper arm to finish the job. In mitigation tho, if he hadn’t driven into Danty with his shoulder, perhaps PSdT would have killed him with his hit. Still, two reds.
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SBT, I’m not arguing that de Allende didn’t deserve a red, and maybe if he hit Danty on his own he would have been, maybe.
What I’m saying is that the law is an ass, you see those hits in every game. From the gif I failed to post yesterday it didn’t look like de Allende made contact with Danty’s head so he wouldn’t have been sent off, no matter how dangerous his actions were
If there was definite head contact then yes, but wouldn’t the citing person have looked at it?
We gave to get rid of this action of 120kg players launching themselves into rucks, just because de Allende didn’t hit Danty in the head doesn’t mean it wasn’t extremely dangerous
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@Ticht – I note as well that my favorite, Le Roux, shows himself a twat after the event.
I don’t like it.
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Forza Azzuri!
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That Capuzzo fella’s not bad.
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18 mins gone in the Wales / Georgia game and Georgia are 0-3 up.
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Good game in Italy. Plenty to comment for Rassie.
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13-18 with 5 minutes left before HT.
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Late tackle on Leroux surprisingly not reviewed.
Ht: 13/18.
Good game.
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Wales woke up. 12-3 at half time, two tries for Morgan.
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Don’t think Italy have enough in the tank – and on the bench- to resist SA but hey have made amazing progress. Their win in Wales and vs Australia seem to have given them lots of confidence. They’ve counterattacked from their own 22s at every opportunity including at restarts for SA.
The next 6N should be quite tasty.
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SA turned on the power now, 16-37.
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Italy get a try back. 21-42 now, conversion to come. Great try as well, from inside their own 22.
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Yep, game over in Genoa.
Switched to Wales. 64th minute: Georgia miss an easy penalty when the score is only 12/10.
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Low quality in Cardiff but tense.
Wales just had a try denied for a knock-on.
Penalty scrum for Georgia in their 22. Millenium gloomy and silent. Sad state of affairs.
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And yet another scrum penalty for Georgia, but this time just beyond the 40 m line.
And it goes over! 13/12 for G.
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SA have hit 60! And without playing particularly well. Italy have done some good things too, but 3 tries in about 10 second half minutes killed the game.
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And another scrum penalty, 30 seconds before FT.
Georgia will win this!
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Wonderful win for Georgia!
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And Georgia have won it!
Wales oot! Georgia in!
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Good heavens!!
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Holy fuck!
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Wow!
Well done Georgia
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Gloating may or may not commence later.
Well done to Georgia though. That’s massive!!!!
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‘Mon Scotland!!!!!
Let’s see if we can have an 80 minute performance today.
No?
Well how about 70 minutes then.
OK, maybe 60 minutes. Please?
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*Sigh*
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Try! Lovely run from Tuipolotu. And strength to get the ball down.
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Excellent game in Murrayfield.
7/8 after 15minutes
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That looks like a red, for Kremer.
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Arm straight to Ricthie’s head? If so, then red.
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Yes. Rightly so.
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Maybe a surprise it wasn’t Lavanini?
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McDuhan with the juggle and the try!
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Russell not adding anything to Scotland
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Harris a relieved man – gives a pass to Darcy who manages to get the ball down, but Harris nearly butchered a two man overlap.
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Deserved RC, followed by two quick tries. Game over. Almost a shame as it promised to be an entertaining tussle. Finn having a great day.
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Slade – seriously? Or am I missing the sarcasm?
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Try Argentina. All came from Darcy running when he should have kicked.
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BB – Don’t be daft – I would never have dropped him. You can see how all the other players look to and respond to him.
Having said that, I think Argentina will win – for the good of their tour.
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I did wonder. I believe that is what the youngsters call a ‘whoosh’ moment for me. And if Argentina beat us from here with 14 men, I think I’ll just give up.
And these Sage adverts on Prime are feckin’ awful.
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I’m watching via Brave = no adverts
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Russell offload, Hogg pass, Graham finish. That Hogg’s a greedy bastard, sin’t he….
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Another great try launched by Finn. When Hogg plays as a team player, he’s irresistible.
BB, Argentina won’t win this.
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Cheika may bring creativity to his teams, but he doesn’t bring intelligence.
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Yellow now for Argentina. And still Lavanini is on the pitch. Daft.
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And now Lavanini is off! Argentina down to 12! We’ll still probably find a way to bollox this opportunity up.
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Argentina 3 players down now. Not undeserved but a bit ridiculous.
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