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That's better. What do the tier 2/3 nations get?

This thread is pure gold.

That's crazy. I just checked - all teams got a $1.5 million participation bonus at the 2014 soccer world cup. Runners-up got $25 million and the winners got $35 million. Total prize money was $576 million. EDIT: And the teams eliminated from the group stages got $8 million. So basically...

Why? Is he taking advice from Bryce Lawrence? Seriously though, I have honestly not seen him in the 6 nations - does he have a tendency to do this there? I think he's grown a lot since 2007 and has become one of the top referees in the world on a consistent basis. Even though we were on the...

They can actually just give it to him now. He's been one of the best - next to Owens - at this world cup and his team definitely won't be in the final.

Righto. Next time we wanna discuss something we'll run it by you first to see if you're OK with it - or otherwise, if you have your inhaler nearby.

Since you understand Afrikaans(hopefully):

He's putting the bribe that he has just received to lose against Wales in his pocket. It might have been the crown jewels...

Just when I thought the scars were healed. :(

On a positive note...

Disagreed.

That's only because there's no Aussie refs nearly good enough to reach that level. The TMO will be Ayboob though. ;)

:eek:

Lol. We lost our last game to them.

Seconded! It's cynical, it's no better than, for example, what Genia did vs. Wales, and that was an immediate yellow.

To be fair, that's like comparing syphilis and gonorrhea. Kidding. Garces is almost international quality.

Good points. Also interesting to note that we also only conceded 3 tries in 4 pool matches, and 2 of those were in the lacklustre performance against Japan. The other was from an intercept by Seymour. Hope that continue. Don't expect too many tries in the Wales game.

I honestly can't call this. If it were a friendly, I'd put up a draw. But since it isn't, we might see extra time, which won't be good for whoever faces the All Blacks* the next week. *or France

I'm gonna go with De Allende.

So looks like I'm alone in thinking this is 50/50, at best, if not Wales' to lose. We've had 3 decent games in a row - 2 more than at any time in the last 3 years - so I'm inclined to think the house is about to fall down very soon.