Rugby World Cup 2015

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Tomous** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:26 pm

Oh look, an injury. Liam Williams out of World Cup.

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Mini E** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:10 pm

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Photek** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 4:46 pm

The Nerves... :dread:

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **chalkitdown** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:00 pm

Lucky for Ireland that France are terrible at kicking so far.

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Dowbocop** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:02 pm

Dat silence

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **chalkitdown** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:24 pm

strawberry float strawberry float strawberry float, losing Sexton is a huge blow. This is such a tense game.

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **chalkitdown** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:33 pm

strawberry floating christ, not O'Connel too! :dread:

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Photek** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:40 pm

Tense first half, we're having Wales style injuries.

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Tomous** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:42 pm

No QF for O'Brien when that gets cited either.

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Photek** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:50 pm

CATCH THE BALL!

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Photek** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:00 pm

GET IN!

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Mini E** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:08 pm

Dear Ireland, welcome to our world

, Love Wales.

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Dowbocop** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:13 pm

There's a joke about Brian O'Driscoll's cousin being Arsenal's team doctor here somewhere...

Sexton looks like he could potentially come back, it depends how bad that tweak is. The other two lads look done for this tournament unfortunately. The replacement kicker with the awful haircut has done pretty well though.

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Photek** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:19 pm

Owens asking Henry "what's my name to assess concussion" :lol:

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Photek** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:28 pm

YEEEEEES!

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **chalkitdown** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:33 pm

What a strawberry floating performance from Ireland :wub:

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Photek** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:39 pm

Amazing stuff by Ireland! :wub:

An hour away to Poland match, nerves building again... :fp:

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Lotus** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:11 pm

135 players at Rugby World Cup were not born in country they represented

The pool stages may be over but the debate over player eligibility at the Rugby World Cup looks likely to rumble on ahead of the next tournament in 2019.

Statistics compiled at the start of the tournament by website Americas Rugby News showed that 135 players were not born in the country they represented – a total of almost 22%.

Samoa had the most, with 13 of their squad born in New Zealand, while Tonga were not far behind with 12 and 11 each for Wales, Scotland and Japan. Argentina, who will face Ireland in the quarter-finals, are the only competing nation not to boast players born outside the country.

Unsurprisingly, New Zealand is the most represented nation at the World Cup, with 39 turning out for other nations than the All Blacks, while 10 different countries have South Africa-born players in their squads. Wales, who will face the Springboks in the quarter-finals courtesy of beating England at Twickenham, have nine players who were in fact born in England.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/o ... p-overseas

Thoughts? How much does this matter?

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Drumstick** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:41 pm

It might matter to some, but for not for me. Same with the cricket team.

PostRe: Rugby World Cup 2015 by **Tomous** » Mon Oct 12, 2015 3:30 pm

I don't think birth country matters, but I think the residency rules should be longer than 3 years.

No problem with a player being born somewhere but growing up somewhere else and wanting to represent that country. But 3 years seems too short to me. I'd make it at least 5, if not longer, so it's more meaningful.

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