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The Rugby World Cup is just about to get underway with France taking on Argentina.

Anyone else going to be watching, your thoughts about the game/whole world cup in general.

I also thought it better to just pop everything about the world cup in one thread rather than create individual threads per game as it would make this forum rather cluttered just about one subject.

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I also thought it better to just pop everything about the world cup in one thread rather than create individual threads per game as it would make this forum rather cluttered just about one subject.

There was a Rugby World Cup thread.

I'm going watch last 2 games of Portugal. The others are broadcasted on weekends, when I'm working.

Tomorrow we're going to kick some Scottish ass. :p

Yeah England do need to step it up a gear or 3 when we play South Africa or we will lose, badly.

Not really a great result especially considering our opponents, but at least we won. Should of got a scoreline more like towards the numbers that New Zealand and Australia managed against their opponents.

Yeah England do need to step it up a gear or 3 when we play South Africa or we will lose, badly.

Not really a great result especially considering our opponents, but at least we won. Should of got a scoreline more like towards the numbers that New Zealand and Australia managed against their opponents.

What do you mean we will....we did and we got pwned...it was pretty awful.

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If anyone isnt aware - England just beat Australia!!!!

Most of it was defense work on the England side, saw Australia constantly trying to penetrate our defence. The last 20 mins was bloody intense - so many close calls on either sides!

All in all, im going to be grinning all day now :D

England played really well that game. Australia looked very dangerous a lot of times but couldn't really do anything about it. France <b>or</b> New Zealand - neither would be nice; but that's the way it goes. Preferably France to be honest lol nobody likes going against NZ!

England FTW! :)

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