RWC Week 2 - thread for matches without a match thread*

[Up the Guts]

No try. It’s all over.

 

[Tex]

Vamos!

 

[Dctarget]

The bastards actually did it. Great game. Well done Uruguay.

 

[Dctarget]

Amazing, great to get an upset. Suck it Fiji. John McKee is going to be one unhappy boy.

 

[The_Brown_Hornet]

Holy snapping duck shit, that's a massive boilover!

 

[Bobby Sands]

Happy for Uruguay, but absolutely infuriating watching that Fijian side.

Can't understand how this is even possible, and it doesn't bode well for South Pacific Island rugby.

Money can't be the excuse as Uruguay are mostly amateurs.

 

[Derpus]

Haha what the fuck that's brillo.

More of that please. Is that Uruguay first ever world cup win?

 

[Dctarget]

Haha what the fuck that's brillo.

More of that please. Is that Uruguay first ever world cup win?

Apparently they've beaten Spain and Georgia before.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Thanks for the updates, y'all!

 

[Dctarget]

Fiji just looked wrecked after their game against Australia. 4 day turn around really did them dirty.

 

[Derpus]

^^^^
Not sure I buy that.

 

[Dctarget]

^^^^
Not sure I buy that.

They had wholesale changes, like 10 of them. But their reserves came on and offered nothing. By the end of the game no body had anything left.

 

[Strewthcobber]

Happy for Uruguay, but absolutely infuriating watching that Fijian side.

Can't understand how this is even possible, and it doesn't bode well for South Pacific Island rugby.

Money can't be the excuse as Uruguay are mostly amateurs.

It's pretty much Fiji B isn't it?
The schedule is pretty tough on them

 

[Dctarget]

If you want a little Wednesday pick me up, go watch the Uruguayan captain's post match interview and celebrations. Good bloke, very emotional.

 

[Braveheart81]

It's pretty much Fiji B isn't it?
The schedule is pretty tough on them

From the Wallabies game they retained 3 starters and had 5 other starters on the bench. 6 of the bench started against Uruguay and the 2 other bench players remained on the bench.

So it involved 16 of the same 23 players (just about the minimum given there are only 8 other players in the squad) but was just about as much change to the starting XV as possible.

 

[Bobby Sands]

Scheduling aside, they were extremely complacent.

All of Fiji side bar one of two are European professionals.

Uruguay makes South America very interesting, imagine how good Brazil could be when you factor in population and the fact they dominant combat sports. They are naturally/habitually combative.

 

[Brumby Runner]

Yep, I reckon the 4 day turn around was very instrumental. The second XV were quite undisciplined and the bench players who had played against the Wallabies looked cooked. But Uruguay played above out expectations, especially in defense.

 

[Brumby Runner]

Scheduling aside, they were extremely complacent.

All of Fiji side bar one of two are European professionals.

Uruguay makes South America very interesting, imagine how good Brazil could be when you factor in population and the fact they dominant combat sports. They are naturally/habitually combative.

Think I heard in commentary that Uruguay have only 6000 registered players.

 

[Show-n-go]

4 day turnaround is shocking but fiji bombed 5000 try scoring opportunities. Stupid attempts at offload, not passing, passes way behind the player.....

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

^ Missing four conversions obviously didn't help, either.