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 
Just heard the ref say ‘sous le mont’ (under the mountain) instead of ‘seulement’ (only). Unless he was talking about being buried under the forwards.
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Red card for Nche.
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Oh my god, the Glaws change strip is doing horrible things to the colour balance of one of the TV cameras.
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Gladys Pugh RIP
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Came back from dog-walking for the second half of Clermont v Stormers, which is very entertaining. Seems the first half was poor, with a HT score of 3-14. It’s now 13-14.
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And Clermont win 24-14!
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Fine comeback win for Gloucester – Big Ben played the full 80!
Willis had a fine game for Bordeaux. Fijian Tuisue maro of the match for a great 2nd half.
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Glaws win with a try in the 77th minute to take the lead. tuisui is mom for coming on as a sub and injecting a bit of heavyweight go forward, but Val R-R again looked superb. Best moment for me was a no look pass from Ben Morgan that led to a great line break, Ugo described it as pure filth.
Willis ( Jack ) played really well for Bordeaux. Frazer Balmain stretchered off with his leg in a blow up brace, hope its not as serious as it looked.
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Watched Glaws instead of Morrocco because I couldn’t bare to see Ronaldo slither his way to a semi. Well done Morocco, first African team to make the world Cup semis, I would have had Portugal as favourites to get thru to the final. Morocco Croatia final anyone ?
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Willis (Tom )
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Thaum, any reason I have to sign in for every comment ?
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SBT – maybe you haven’t ticked the ‘Remember Me’ box?
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The dog’s just had to do her third try-five for Cardiff. 19-0 at 23 mins.
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No change at HT.
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Cliché alert. S4C have ads for pre-lambing sheep feed. Enhances the quality of colostrum, apparently.
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Saints getting absolutely hammered, in a very foggy Northampton. 46-0 after 50 mins.
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Cardiff get the BP try and Brive are still nilled at 49 mins.
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LAR seem to have taken their foot off the pedal and Saints have pulled back two tries in the last 15 mins of the match. Final score 12-46.
(I missed that they were playing in France, so it was a foggy night in LAR.)
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Still-scoreless Brive down to 14 for the last 4 mins. You have to feel sorry for them.
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And Cardiff get their 6th try.
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Refit – there are some strange things going on with the colour in this match, too, and there is no outrageous kit to blame.
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And a 7th as the clock goes red!
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41-0 as the whistle blows.
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I got bored with football after the one half of the World Cup I’ve watched so far.
Now on Castres v Exeter
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You’ve missed some great halves of football then, Ticht. (There have been some shite halves too, but then the same could be said of a lot of rugby games).
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great halves of football
This must be a relative of great country and western tunes. Invisible to the naked eye (or ear).
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Well to be honest, the second half of England against France is better than the first half of Castres against Exeter.
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I’ve just noticed Exeter seem to have brought a small child on, as their replacement 9.
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Reft, I was wondering if his mother knows where he is tonight?
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Good job he’s a very good player, then……..
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Good BP win for Exeter -Kokott continues to be a twat and new boy Becconsall did well to completely ignore him
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Slade, the young laddie did really well.
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Watched the football tonight.
Commiserations English fans. IMO, England could’ve and should’ve gone through. France lucky there. England were beaten by a more experienced team but they’ll get there. Sooner than later.
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Congratulations Flair! A very even game. France took their chances, England didn’t.
Fucking hell.
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I’d forgotten how much Billy Burns looks like Lord Percy, from Blackadder.
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Fuck’s sake.
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Red?
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Not even a penalty.
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Not even a penalty!
If Sale want to complain, then we should have another look at Hume getting clobbered in the head.
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Well, that was the worst half of rugby I’ve seen Ulster play in a long time.
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Dire.
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Ooops…………
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10 all at HT in Thomond Park.
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The fog is so thick in Munster that it’s very hard to see what’s going on.
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I just flicked over from the Sarries game – you’re not wrong Thaum. It’s like watching through cataracts.
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Hope the players see the ball better than we do.
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That’s a very good description.
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Ramos just kicked- and missed- a penalty not far from the touch line. Am not sure he could see the sticks.
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See Edinburgh are succeeding in grasping defeat from the jaws of victory again. Failed to score a breakaway try. then blew an overlap, then McInally threw straight to Sarries from his own lineout.
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Well, Toulouse were very good as usual, but I’m sure they were off-side all the time.
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