Rugby World Cup 2015: No haters please, I've heard it all already

Fuck fuck fuck. Roll on the Six Nations though, England and Italy fighting it out for the wooden spoon.

nv was maybe right

Greig Laidlaw tells ITV Sport that the referee should have gone upstairs to review the final penalty decision.

And, by golly, he should have.

It looks clearly like Nick Phipps - the Australia scrum-half- got the final touch on the ball before offside Scotland prop Jon Welsh instinctively grabbed it.

That should have been an accidental offside and a scrum-down Australia.

that is an even bigger sickener

radio commentators were pretty livid, especially when Joubert hightailed it off the pitch at the final whistle

ireland deserved to lose. scotland so unlucky tho

So sad. We missed our most aggressive players, and their intensity. Still. Awful.

theres no discounting the importance of the missing players tbf, think any one of them could have made the difference today despite the large final deficit. was full sure that wed come back to win after narrowing it to three.

Sounds like Folau, Pocock, and Sio might all struggle to make the semi. Might make it a pretty tight game to call - Argentina looked good against Ireland. Solid forwards as always, but their backs are getting more creative and there's some real pace out wide.

All Blacks should beat South Africa if they play near their potential.

That game nearly gave me a heart attack. A deserved win though I think.

It was surprisingly close for a two tries to zero victory. That first NZ try was a forward pass, right? I instantly thought it was, like blatantly. Everyone seemed to agree this on Twitter but not one person on TV even raised the question.

TV3 pundits mentioned it but didn't make a big deal of it. It looked like a forward pass to me too. Obvious forward pass. More people seem to discussing this McCaw elbow rubbish today.

WHAT ABOUT THAT FINAL

great final, best world cup ever

Makes up for the cricket, I guess, and I'll be glad when I can get news from home that isn't 80% rugby or fretting over what the Aussie & UK papers are saying.

http://thespinoff.co.nz/29-10-2015/sports-a-patriotic-heros-quest-to-survive-a-day-on-only-official-all-blacks-products/

rugby is a niche sport, nobody cares guys

and I'll be glad when I can get news from home that isn't 80% rugby or fretting over what the Aussie & UK papers are saying.

i don't care about rugby but thursday i got a pang of ex-pat patriotism and decided to watch it. great game.

but i never want to hear or read sonny fucking bill fucking williams' name again. it seems like he's in stuff.co's news feed every day for the last several years at least. as well as a dozen other sports stories relating to rugby.

i missed the last 10, best, minutes though bc i got a phone call that my nana had passed away :(

That's horrible sorry to hear.

As for me I couldn't catch it but enjoyed the highlights.

Biggest disappointment was France. I very enjoyed watching them play over the years, haven't kept watching it so don't know why they've declined.

otoh it probably wouldn't have mattered if France were at their best or Wales had a fully fit squad as the All Blacks always seem to have had the answers to anything their opponents threw at them.

i have the height of respect for how rugby officiates vs other team sports generally but wayne barnes is a corrupt prick

Ireland are playing well despite being 6-0 down.

No excuses.

NZ are playing better now. Terrific try.

What a solo effort. Come on

Just toe to toe trading punches this half

nz being very very efficient with their effort

too easy

if we aren't going to perform in the breakdown or the lineout they will pick us apart

Losing it at the lineout xxp

Lineouts have been poor, but they struggled with that against SA for a good chunk of the match too

as SA did themselves that night i thonk i remember?

we turned them over a lot too which is being reversed tonight

10 minutes to exert some pressure now

barnes is an honourable man ans an excellent official always said it

lol

in fact hes also really handsome ive just noticed

but srsly i do think all blacks have been getting away with interference all game so hes just calling it straight now

great half but if we play like this in the second i think we'll be left well behind by the whistle

xp I get the feeling Sexton doesn't have the greatest faith in him either from earlier interactions, none of this "yes sir" shite

ireland has a rich and tragic history and wayne barnes is about 1% of it all by himself

been a fantastic battle and starting the same way this half

oh dear from a fuckin lineout

ball never looked straight mind

Brilliant kick too

yep nerveless

Ireland going too far too fast and losing nerve I think...

And Sexton misses it..

couple of poor decisions, trying to force the game far too early i thought

that was close to a turnover, which nz have done brilliantly all night

Good time to win a lineout

Ooh shit and a yellow for NZ

definitely Ireland need to put the squeeze on now rather than looking for those Hollywood passes

wéan na bearnaí

xp keenan and lowe not *quite* penetrating with their runs like in other games and i think it is showing that we dont quite have the backup plan we thought

Come on ffs