Comments on: Rate the match: Wales vs Australia, RWC 2015

By: Don P

Don P — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:14:55 +0000

You obviously weren’t at the NZ v Argentina game then? And you can only ‘speak’ for yourself, not others.

By: Don P

Don P — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 14:12:20 +0000

You may need to ask the Aussies whether they were confident @ the time. Personally I doubt it. Not with having to withstand c.15 minutes of constant bombardment of their try line!

Bit like Rourke’s Drift in reverse, but by the law of averages Wales should have scored. However it wasn’t to be & IMO, Oz would have been unlucky to have given it up, especially with the ref’s binning of TWO almost immediately following each other!? 1 maybe, but 2? It was only a line out misdemeanour for the 2nd after all.

Anyway it was what it was, but again IMO, shouldn’t Wales have also varied it & also gone wide, running straight & then inwards before offloading outside? I mean it was a straight numbers game with the extra 1 in their favour?

No point in keeping on with something that’s not working. Thinking under pressure?

By: Don P

Don P — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:53:06 +0000

Owwowcher!

In the words of ‘Queen’, ‘Another 1 bites the dust’!

By: brighty

brighty — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:25:20 +0000

I thought Anscombe was ok but I have been forcibly corrected by some friends (and they are honestly not biased because of the way he was parachuted into Wales, not at all….).

His kicking was wayward, some nice kick returns and catches, joined the line nicely a few times. Not a game really for a full back to shine as the front 8 had the ball up their jumper for most of it.

By: AlexD

AlexD — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 13:22:13 +0000

Most Englishmen’s responses on here to the losses to Wales and Oz disprove the ARROGANT tag. It was always merely a psychological tool to wind us up! No more no less. Bit like calling the Welsh sheep sh…..s or the Scots dress wearing haggis-eaters. We’re all man enough really to not let our emotions get the better of us!

By: stroudos

stroudos — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:16:13 +0000

Overheard at the weekend, re England fans feeling an obligation to pick one of Wales, Ireland or Scotland to support:
“It’s like having three sisters and having to decide which one to f***”.

By: stroudos

stroudos — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 12:12:00 +0000

I believe Big Gav is still available…
https://twitter.com/UnrealGavHenson/status/653155380223016960

By: Welsh patriot

Welsh patriot — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 23:53:50 +0000

Well, they may not have won but the Welsh looked dominant for a good part of the match. Bring on the Boks!

By: Col

Col — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:25:02 +0000

quite an website, it’s ok to slag off the England Team & say anything you like, a prediction of the likely match result is classed as welsh bashing & when correctly called are classed as pathetic. Spent most of the Wales game talking to an under 20 Scotland player discussing their game which I still maintain was a fantastic game to watch with lots of attacking skilful play rather than boring power based stuff.
I support a good game of rugby & will cheer whichever team provides that for the rest of the RWC – mostly delivered by SH teams with the exception of France.
If that makes me an arrogant Englishman then I am proud to be so labelled

By: Banastre

Banastre — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:03:37 +0000

I think that defeat shows what Wales are/have been/always will be in the Gatland era, very successful against European teams, poor against SH teams, saying that it was a very good game and though I didn’t know who I would root for when it actually came down to it, I found myself supporting wales quite passionately. Well played Wales, still through to the quarter finals and I hope you can beat the Springboks, you have a chance but with yet another injury it just makes it that bit tougher.

Enoch I was most surprised to find you remark on another article that you had a friend of 30 years. 1. I’m surprised you have a friend. 2. That must make you at least thirty years old…surely not? Or it might just have been a typo and you meant 3 years and you are in fact a 12 year old sitting in your bedroom punching away on the keyboard.

Did it piss anyone else off to see Hooper grinning in the crowd?

By: Anarky

Anarky — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:50:51 +0000

We need wing cover tho don’t we? I’m guessing he’ll play North in the centre again for SA due to lack of options.

Thoughts on anscombe? Not watched it back and am remembering through a beer haze, but I thought he started off shaky but grew in to the game.

By: brighty

brighty — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:26:07 +0000

In case it looked otherwise Roy, I also agree with your thoughts on a bit of wind up between fans. Mostly funny and good natured. There are a couple on here struggling to cope like an adult with their grief so they are pulling an “anyone but Wales” but they are in the minority thankfully.